If you actually read the first chapter of Genesis and actually apply some basic reading comprehension you will find that in the beginning God creates the heavens and earth, then at some point later he says let their be light, and then after that at some indeterminate period of time he separates the the light from the dark and there is day and night.
What that means is he could have spent 10 billion years creating the heavens and the earth if he wanted, we have no way whatsoever of knowing, as the bible has *NOTHING* to say on the subject.
All this six/seven day and 6000 year nonsense is from a bunch of illiterate morons.
Even better take a X4500 and add some software to turn it into a VTL and watch the price go through the roof. UK academic pricing is like 18k GBP for a 48GB X4500, with VTL software it is 80k GBP...
Why bother with a piston steam engine, when a turbine is way more efficient.
Once you have decoupled the power generation from the drive using electricity and placed some batteries or other electrical storage in between you have overcome the main limitation of turbines that they don't rev well.
You have also overcome the main limitation of steam, then need to get a head of steam up before you can move.
That is the biggest pile of rubbish I have ever heard. A cup of tea that has fallen below 80 Celsius is frankly cold. Any colder than 60 Celsius and it is undrinkable.
Tea as it comes out the put is in excess of 95 Celsius, and millions of people drink it all the time without getting burnt.
It helps if you don't put it between your legs, drive off, spill it all over yourself, and then proceed to sit in it for over a minute.
I would point out that tea is routinely served much hotter than her cup of coffee was served. I would also like to say I find that most coffee served is luke warm and not hot. Though maybe that is because I am primarily a tea drinker and expect my tea to be close to boiling when served.
I am not a motorcyclist myself, but if some idiot driver is going to look right through a motorcyclist or bicycle user what on earth makes Honda think they are going to hear some computer tell them they are approaching. There are enough idiot drivers out there that don't see cars approaching and just pull out.
Personally I am in favour of taking away the driving license for life of any driver who knocks a motorcyclist or cyclist down, and their excuse is they didn't see them.
Or you could just buy a modern motherboard with ISA slots. A bit more pricey but they do exist. You are not going to get much traction replacing that seven figure to replace production line controlled by an ISA card because the controlling computer has gone south.
Or one could buy a PCI to ISA bridge... Heck they even do USB ones if you want.
I want to know who in their right mind would even trust ext4 the brand new kid on the block over say JFS/XFS that have been round the block many times.
ext4 is frankly an utter waste of time. The whole ext2/3/... series is well past it sell by date and going for another upgrade is a pointless waste of effort, that would be better spent fixing any issues with JFS/XFS (the primary one being the inability to shrink them).
Er, that limitation of XFS has long been fixed. Now 4GB of RAM is good for something like a 100TB file system. If you have a larger file system then it would not be unreasonable to have more RAM.
The only issue with XFS is the inability to shrink it at the moment.
Perhaps the best solution is to create a market in IP address spaces. If there is a monetary incentive for HP to take one if it's class A blocks break it into a bunch of class B blocks and sell them on the open market I am quite sure they would.
I would point out that RedHat now offer seven years support on their OS, for at least RHEL5 if not RHEL4 as well.
I would also point out that *any* computer hardware that is over seven years old is on it's last legs. Many of the components within will be well beyond their design life, and the whole thing could go tits up at any moment.
I take it that you have never seen any actual Roman plumbing then?
Roman plumbing was very inefficient. Firstly they had no concept of a tap, the water just flowed continuously 24/7, so huge quantities of water was simply wasted.
Secondly it was largely done in lead piping. yeah way to go there.
Thirdly there was a great deal of corruption. The amount you paid for your water depended on the diameter of the pipe coming into your property. However it was common place to bribe the local water inspector to fit a larger pipe than it said on the records.
Yes it was another 1400 years after the Romans left before plumbing became widespread again in Great Britain. However that does not mean that the Roman plumbing was some paragon of efficiency.
Because the University as a whole will have almost certainly entered into a site license agreement with Research Thompson. It is the only realistic way to license the software at a University, because it is so much cheaper than buying lots of individual licenses. At the last two Universities I have worked (in life sciences), around 50% of academics and postdocs use the software, and higher percentages for postgraduates.
Most Universities (at least here in the UK) have a site license that covers unlimited installations of the software.
However Thompson's the owner of EndNote and Reference Manager the main products in this market, are a bunch of assholes.
Try using EndNote on a multi user machine. I make my own reference style, where do I save it. Of course not under c:\Program Files\Endnote with all the default reference styles because that would be silly, and of course my friendly administrator has prohibited normal users writing their so they don't mess it all up.
So I change it to somewhere in my home directory or profile. But now I cannot see any of the default styles as shipped with the product.
I complained about this back when Endnote 8 was current. A well behaved application would look in both the default location for all the shipped styles, and some directory in either my profile or home directory and merge the two.
It is now EndNote 11, and they still have not fixed this brain dead bit of coding, and expect you to have write permissions to the install directory.
Why would anyone want a built in 3G modem? That means two SIM cards and two mobile phone plans or constant swapping between the two.
All you need is a bluetooth connection to your perfectly good 3G handset that in difficult conditions can be placed in a good signal area away from the netbook.
Or is this a USA thing, where due to brain dead mobile carriers you don't get data on your mobile plan along with Bluetooth tethering?
Indeed, but it is a classic example of a bad patent. The idea of vortex effects for filtering even in vacuum cleaners was not new. The only innovation Dyson had was to take an existing product and make it smaller and portable.
It's a bit like getting a patent on email over a wireless network...
You might thing so but you would be wrong. I would appear that the Scottish Parliament and Welsh Assembly already see this as an issue and are making have made the investment to fix the problem to at least some extent.
What day was that? Or do you mean after the Second World War, when the UK was right royally shafted by the USA, and we have just finished pay our debt of on.
Explain to me how South Ossetia differs from Chechnya?
Russia has shown itself to have complete double standards. Either Chechnya can break away and so can South Ossetia or neither can. As the Russian position on Chechnya has been made clear, then South Ossetia is the same, it's Georgian and anything happening in it is an internal Georgian affair.
Finally the reaction of Russia has been disproportionate and beyond what you claim.
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If you actually read the first chapter of Genesis and actually apply some basic reading comprehension you will find that in the beginning God creates the heavens and earth, then at some point later he says let their be light, and then after that at some indeterminate period of time he separates the the light from the dark and there is day and night.
What that means is he could have spent 10 billion years creating the heavens and the earth if he wanted, we have no way whatsoever of knowing, as the bible has *NOTHING* to say on the subject.
All this six/seven day and 6000 year nonsense is from a bunch of illiterate morons.
Thin provisioning is a nasty hack for Windows boxes, or something that does not have the equivalent of LVM.
Even better take a X4500 and add some software to turn it into a VTL and watch the price go through the roof. UK academic pricing is like 18k GBP for a 48GB X4500, with VTL software it is 80k GBP...
That's because IBM rebadge some OEM stuff (mostly MSI from what I can make out)
That said their pSeries stuff is reliable, though very expensive.
Why bother with a piston steam engine, when a turbine is way more efficient.
Once you have decoupled the power generation from the drive using electricity and placed some batteries or other electrical storage in between you have overcome the main limitation of turbines that they don't rev well.
You have also overcome the main limitation of steam, then need to get a head of steam up before you can move.
That is the biggest pile of rubbish I have ever heard. A cup of tea that has fallen below 80 Celsius is frankly cold. Any colder than 60 Celsius and it is undrinkable.
Tea as it comes out the put is in excess of 95 Celsius, and millions of people drink it all the time without getting burnt.
It helps if you don't put it between your legs, drive off, spill it all over yourself, and then proceed to sit in it for over a minute.
I would point out that tea is routinely served much hotter than her cup of coffee was served. I would also like to say I find that most coffee served is luke warm and not hot. Though maybe that is because I am primarily a tea drinker and expect my tea to be close to boiling when served.
I am not a motorcyclist myself, but if some idiot driver is going to look right through a motorcyclist or bicycle user what on earth makes Honda think they are going to hear some computer tell them they are approaching. There are enough idiot drivers out there that don't see cars approaching and just pull out.
Personally I am in favour of taking away the driving license for life of any driver who knocks a motorcyclist or cyclist down, and their excuse is they didn't see them.
Or you could just buy a modern motherboard with ISA slots. A bit more pricey but they do exist. You are not going to get much traction replacing that seven figure to replace production line controlled by an ISA card because the controlling computer has gone south.
Or one could buy a PCI to ISA bridge... Heck they even do USB ones if you want.
ISA is far from dead yet.
I want to know who in their right mind would even trust ext4 the brand new kid on the block over say JFS/XFS that have been round the block many times.
ext4 is frankly an utter waste of time. The whole ext2/3/... series is well past it sell by date and going for another upgrade is a pointless waste of effort, that would be better spent fixing any issues with JFS/XFS (the primary one being the inability to shrink them).
Er, that limitation of XFS has long been fixed. Now 4GB of RAM is good for something like a 100TB file system. If you have a larger file system then it would not be unreasonable to have more RAM.
The only issue with XFS is the inability to shrink it at the moment.
Perhaps the best solution is to create a market in IP address spaces. If there is a monetary incentive for HP to take one if it's class A blocks break it into a bunch of class B blocks and sell them on the open market I am quite sure they would.
I would point out that RedHat now offer seven years support on their OS, for at least RHEL5 if not RHEL4 as well.
I would also point out that *any* computer hardware that is over seven years old is on it's last legs. Many of the components within will be well beyond their design life, and the whole thing could go tits up at any moment.
I take it that you have never seen any actual Roman plumbing then?
Roman plumbing was very inefficient. Firstly they had no concept of a tap, the water just flowed continuously 24/7, so huge quantities of water was simply wasted.
Secondly it was largely done in lead piping. yeah way to go there.
Thirdly there was a great deal of corruption. The amount you paid for your water depended on the diameter of the pipe coming into your property. However it was common place to bribe the local water inspector to fit a larger pipe than it said on the records.
Yes it was another 1400 years after the Romans left before plumbing became widespread again in Great Britain. However that does not mean that the Roman plumbing was some paragon of efficiency.
Because the University as a whole will have almost certainly entered into a site license agreement with Research Thompson. It is the only realistic way to license the software at a University, because it is so much cheaper than buying lots of individual licenses. At the last two Universities I have worked (in life sciences), around 50% of academics and postdocs use the software, and higher percentages for postgraduates.
Most Universities (at least here in the UK) have a site license that covers unlimited installations of the software.
However Thompson's the owner of EndNote and Reference Manager the main products in this market, are a bunch of assholes.
Try using EndNote on a multi user machine. I make my own reference style, where do I save it. Of course not under c:\Program Files\Endnote with all the default reference styles because that would be silly, and of course my friendly administrator has prohibited normal users writing their so they don't mess it all up.
So I change it to somewhere in my home directory or profile. But now I cannot see any of the default styles as shipped with the product.
I complained about this back when Endnote 8 was current. A well behaved application would look in both the default location for all the shipped styles, and some directory in either my profile or home directory and merge the two.
It is now EndNote 11, and they still have not fixed this brain dead bit of coding, and expect you to have write permissions to the install directory.
Bunch of incompetent morons.
Why would anyone want a built in 3G modem? That means two SIM cards and two mobile phone plans or constant swapping between the two.
All you need is a bluetooth connection to your perfectly good 3G handset that in difficult conditions can be placed in a good signal area away from the netbook.
Or is this a USA thing, where due to brain dead mobile carriers you don't get data on your mobile plan along with Bluetooth tethering?
I think you will find that a dual core Cortex A9 ARM at 1GHz will run rings around the Atom.
I would like to see the above mentioned ARM coupled with one of the screens of a XO-1, complete with the build quality of the XO-1.
The closest thing was the Palm Foleo, had it been boosted with some more flash storage.
Indeed, but it is a classic example of a bad patent. The idea of vortex effects for filtering even in vacuum cleaners was not new. The only innovation Dyson had was to take an existing product and make it smaller and portable.
It's a bit like getting a patent on email over a wireless network...
You might thing so but you would be wrong. I would appear that the Scottish Parliament and Welsh Assembly already see this as an issue and are making have made the investment to fix the problem to at least some extent.
What day was that? Or do you mean after the Second World War, when the UK was right royally shafted by the USA, and we have just finished pay our debt of on.
Funny it improves the speed on my DS4400's DSs4500's and DS4800's....
While I don't consider myself a frequent flyer, I can assure you that Heathrow is *INSIDE* the M25, and built up all around it for several miles.
Explain to me how South Ossetia differs from Chechnya?
Russia has shown itself to have complete double standards. Either Chechnya can break away and so can South Ossetia or neither can. As the Russian position on Chechnya has been made clear, then South Ossetia is the same, it's Georgian and anything happening in it is an internal Georgian affair.
Finally the reaction of Russia has been disproportionate and beyond what you claim.
And exactly how much is 1 trillion dollars worth is the USA fails to honor it...
Also should the USA stop buying Chinese goods or a significant proportion, it would cause far more problems in China than the USA.
The two are tightly linked and neither can rock the boat too much without a lot of disruption on either side.