For an example of the risk of new genes, you should look to California's grasslands. California's grasses used to be green year round. Imagine no brown California summers! Now, 99% of the golden rolling hills of California are covered in annual grasses from the barnyards of Spain! California's green perennial, native grasses have been replaced by Spain's annual grasses over the past few hundred years.
I had heard that Mac OS X's Inkwell technology had evolved directly from Newton. In fact, there are recent rumors that Apple is creating their own Tablet PC: Evidence for the Mac Tablet
I think the Supreme Court ruling said cross burning is only a crime when "used to intimidate." Of course, that is still a gray area. If I burn crosses in my own front yard, am I "intimidating" my neighbors or do I just have bad taste in landscaping?
My personal concern is that as this occurs the cost of Social Security will skyrocket (due to all those retiring folks), and if our federal budget keeps going the way it is we're going to end up with very high taxes that could offset the benefits of higher wages.
I think most people would agree that the US's current Social Security program is non-sustainable. I pay Social Security, but I don't expect to see any of that money when I retire in 30+ years. Fortunately, I am a pessimist and I'm planning for retirement without Uncle Sam's "help". Many of my coworkers are not US citizens. They must pay Social Security too, but they are not legally allowed to collect it (unless they become US citizens).
Does anyone here think that the US can or will phase out Social Security within our lifetimes? I understand that current Social Security recipients need to get paid, but I hope we can phase out this "benefit" so I can keep more of my paycheck each month. We could significantly increase Joe Sixpack's take-home pay without cutting "taxes"! We wouldn't need cuts in "taxes" or budgets (except Social Security). I'm not calling Social Security a "tax" because, supposedly, I will later get my money back, though the government will get to keep my compounded interest.
You can find more information about the US federal budget at federalbudget.com. The US spends more on Social Security that it does on the Department of Defense! Social Security spending is #2, close behind Health and Human Services at #1.
Solaris is highly POSIX-compliant, as is linux. This means that most software ports from one to the other with few if any problems, as long as you haven't used the private extensions of either. This isn't a conjecture; I and many others have tested this with our software. Portability between linux and Solaris is easy, almost as easy as between linux and *BSD.
I think this is particularly interesting as Sun says that future versions of Solaris will be LSB compliant. I think this is an interesting spin opportunity. Sun is vulnerable to Linux on the low-end, but if they "embrace and extend" Linux on Solaris, they can support Linux but spin it as "training wheels" for Solaris.
I would like to see a comparison of Linux 2.4, Linux 2.5, FreeBSD 4.8, and FreeBSD 5.0 on the same hardware. FreeBSD fanatics like to toot their horns, but where are the benchmark results?
btw, LinuxHardware.org is nearly slashdotted, so their Linux server knowledge must not be so great after all..;-)
I'm currently reading Clayton Christensen's "The Innovator's Dilemma". His hypothesis perfectly describes Sun's predicament. Successful established companies will pursue higher end, higher margin markets and ignore smaller markets that have smaller margins and more competition. Eventually, an underpowered underdog (say, Linux) captures the smaller markets. Through gradual improvements, the underdog is eventually powerful enough to meet the requirements of the established company's customers. The established company is then left holding nothing. This pattern of "lousy but cheap (or smaller)" eventually beating "good but expensive" can be seen in many industries.
If oil is the big key, why did the United States go into Afghanistan? There's no oil there.
Afghanistan might not have a lot of oil, but for years the US has been trying to install oil pipelines through Afghanistan to carry oil from the Caspian Sea (sitting on 200 billion barrels of oil).
"The pipeline was to run from Turkmenistan via Afghanistan to the Port of Karachi. However the Taleban refused. Until now America has not been successful in persuading the Taleban to change its mind."
And if you donate to the "ACLU Foundation" (instead of the "ACLU"), then your donation is tax deductible!
ACLU and ACLU Foundation, What is the Difference? Gifts to the ACLU Foundation are fully tax-deductible to the donor; membership dues and gifts to the ACLU are not tax-deductible. This is because the ACLU engages in substantial legislative lobbying, which cannot by law, be supported by tax-deductible funds. The ACLU Foundation, on the other hand, conducts our litigation and communications efforts, and contributions to it are tax-deductible.
You can be detained, without being charged, indefinitely, having been investigated under a sealed warrant, an unsigned warrant, or no warrant at all, and then be denied access to a lawyer.
but why would the police or FBI need to give you a lawyer or trial if they already have proof of your guilt? Why waste my tax dollars?
where are all those Linux TPC results? oh, wait.. there don't seem to be any. So Linux is winning no TPC contests for either max performance or price/performance.
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and now SCO is hocking Linux as their new product, too!
For an example of the risk of new genes, you should look to California's grasslands. California's grasses used to be green year round. Imagine no brown California summers! Now, 99% of the golden rolling hills of California are covered in annual grasses from the barnyards of Spain! California's green perennial, native grasses have been replaced by Spain's annual grasses over the past few hundred years.
Perennial Native Grasslands in California: An Ecological Murder Mystery
Evolution itself is evolving. The old evolutionary methods were slow and unstable. Perhaps genetic engineering is Evolution 2.0.
Astronomers may be suppressing the dangerous research about extraterrestrials living among us!
Why do you need to reinvent the wheel. There are plenty of other high-performance web/application servers that connect to databases.
Don't worry, he is. The problem is, do you know how long it takes for him to visit infinite parallel universes? Just be patient..
Didn't the newton have hadwriting regognition?
maybe the problem was user error?
I had heard that Mac OS X's Inkwell technology had evolved directly from Newton. In fact, there are recent rumors that Apple is creating their own Tablet PC: Evidence for the Mac Tablet
If this thing is as slow as IBM's microdrive, $100 for a slow 1.5GB CF is nothing spectacular against $200 for a fast 1GB CF.
So 150% the storage for 50% is not interesting? There are some price/performance points where price and size are more important than raw speed.
I think the Supreme Court ruling said cross burning is only a crime when "used to intimidate." Of course, that is still a gray area. If I burn crosses in my own front yard, am I "intimidating" my neighbors or do I just have bad taste in landscaping?
no, those are real AOL screen names. AOL is just running out of unique names!
My personal concern is that as this occurs the cost of Social Security will skyrocket (due to all those retiring folks), and if our federal budget keeps going the way it is we're going to end up with very high taxes that could offset the benefits of higher wages.
I think most people would agree that the US's current Social Security program is non-sustainable. I pay Social Security, but I don't expect to see any of that money when I retire in 30+ years. Fortunately, I am a pessimist and I'm planning for retirement without Uncle Sam's "help". Many of my coworkers are not US citizens. They must pay Social Security too, but they are not legally allowed to collect it (unless they become US citizens).
Does anyone here think that the US can or will phase out Social Security within our lifetimes? I understand that current Social Security recipients need to get paid, but I hope we can phase out this "benefit" so I can keep more of my paycheck each month. We could significantly increase Joe Sixpack's take-home pay without cutting "taxes"! We wouldn't need cuts in "taxes" or budgets (except Social Security). I'm not calling Social Security a "tax" because, supposedly, I will later get my money back, though the government will get to keep my compounded interest.
You can find more information about the US federal budget at federalbudget.com. The US spends more on Social Security that it does on the Department of Defense! Social Security spending is #2, close behind Health and Human Services at #1.
Solaris is highly POSIX-compliant, as is linux. This means that most software ports from one to the other with few if any problems, as long as you haven't used the private extensions of either. This isn't a conjecture; I and many others have tested this with our software. Portability between linux and Solaris is easy, almost as easy as between linux and *BSD.
I think this is particularly interesting as Sun says that future versions of Solaris will be LSB compliant. I think this is an interesting spin opportunity. Sun is vulnerable to Linux on the low-end, but if they "embrace and extend" Linux on Solaris, they can support Linux but spin it as "training wheels" for Solaris.
doesn't Michael Jackson own 50% of the Beatles song rights?
too bad Apple is no longer using the rainbow apple logo!
that's too bad because I always thought "Solaris Seven" (like "Oracle Eight") sounded like a cool name.
I would like to see a comparison of Linux 2.4, Linux 2.5, FreeBSD 4.8, and FreeBSD 5.0 on the same hardware. FreeBSD fanatics like to toot their horns, but where are the benchmark results?
btw, LinuxHardware.org is nearly slashdotted, so their Linux server knowledge must not be so great after all..
I'm currently reading Clayton Christensen's "The Innovator's Dilemma". His hypothesis perfectly describes Sun's predicament. Successful established companies will pursue higher end, higher margin markets and ignore smaller markets that have smaller margins and more competition. Eventually, an underpowered underdog (say, Linux) captures the smaller markets. Through gradual improvements, the underdog is eventually powerful enough to meet the requirements of the established company's customers. The established company is then left holding nothing. This pattern of "lousy but cheap (or smaller)" eventually beating "good but expensive" can be seen in many industries.
and maybe this new SlashCode dupe finder can use gzip to find these similarities?
True embedded systems will be running Linux or another RTOS.
Sorry, but Linux is not "another" real-time OS. Or did you mean "another RTOS" than Windows CE, which is, in fact, a hard real-time OS?
If oil is the big key, why did the United States go into Afghanistan? There's no oil there.
Afghanistan might not have a lot of oil, but for years the US has been trying to install oil pipelines through Afghanistan to carry oil from the Caspian Sea (sitting on 200 billion barrels of oil).
Afghanistan + Oil = "Crusade against terrorism"
"The pipeline was to run from Turkmenistan via Afghanistan to the Port of Karachi. However the Taleban refused. Until now America has not been successful in persuading the Taleban to change its mind."
of course, there are no Christian leaders declaring jihad and asking all Christian men to suicide bomb the US.
And if you donate to the "ACLU Foundation" (instead of the "ACLU"), then your donation is tax deductible!
ACLU and ACLU Foundation, What is the Difference?
Gifts to the ACLU Foundation are fully tax-deductible to the donor; membership dues and gifts to the ACLU are not tax-deductible. This is because the ACLU engages in substantial legislative lobbying, which cannot by law, be supported by tax-deductible funds. The ACLU Foundation, on the other hand, conducts our litigation and communications efforts, and contributions to it are tax-deductible.
You can be detained, without being charged, indefinitely, having been investigated under a sealed warrant, an unsigned warrant, or no warrant at all, and then be denied access to a lawyer.
but why would the police or FBI need to give you a lawyer or trial if they already have proof of your guilt? Why waste my tax dollars?
Where are the performance benchmarks demonstrating FreeBSD (4 or 5) dominance? I haven't seen FreeBSD used in any big time benchmarks..??
where are all those Linux TPC results? oh, wait.. there don't seem to be any. So Linux is winning no TPC contests for either max performance or price/performance.