And exactly what spyware does windows install? Do you still believe that ol BillyG has a backdoor to all your personal info? Microsoft already spreads enough FUD around, there is no need to add to it?
I really like this level of professional analysis. It's in-depth in a way I could never do. Having groups the size of Sun on board makes this possible. I think that is going to have a major impact on the advance of non-MS GUIs over the next few years.
Of course, the obvious question is why MS, with their size, hasn't produced the perfect GUI.
"The few things that only we can do because of our physical location we'll do, and we'll do it well," says Ryan Lackey, a former MIT student who now serves as HavenCo's Chief Technical Officer.
This is the crux of HavenCo's problem. There are only currently a few customers who both need this service and can afford their steep price. It is very likely that gross income will never make this a good financial gamble, as there are so many other little states getting in on the "liberal laws" hosting business.
One does not need a business license to start, or fight, or win an economic revolution......
That is exactly the problem. I don't need "small companies to do big things anymore". I can do it for myself now. I thank Napster for pointing the way to a new way of thinking; I really do. But corporations in the music is the problem now. Big or small, we no longer need an intermediary between us and the music, telling us what to like, think, know, feel,...
What are the steps needed to be taken until we have solar energy run cars in our cities ?
There isn't enough solar energy striking an area the size of a car to power one effectively. These races are more in the way of promotional and helping research.
Boosted fission bomb designs that use tritium (12 year half-life) instead of deuterium, on the other hand, are probably a real pain to maintain.
No, not really, just gotta keep up the records accurately. It keeps a lotta people busy, but routine maintenance would come up every four years anyway.
Polonium has a half-life of only 138 days. So, even though the plutonium itself decays very slowly, it is the initators that must be regularly
replaced.
None of the LLCs (limited life components) on a nuclear warhead are that short in the USA. We use neutron generators for that purpose, which are mounted to the side of the pit and are replaced about every 12 years.1Alpha7
Not really. Once you have the enriched uranium (for an ordinary fission device), all you really have to do is to merge it beyond critical mass in a short amount of time.
Fortunately, you're grossly wrong, having left out essential stuff. Unfortunately, the Web provides all this info to the interested reader willing to do a gbit of research.
. . . the reason the price has risen this much, is that americans are using so much gasoline that they have to import extra from europe, making *our* prices rise due to your excessive demands
This is so laughably wrong to begin with. Then to see it marked "insightful"!?! Petrol prices in EU are almost all taxes. For the USA to "Take" European oil, US prices would have to be higher than European ones.
What would the impact be, compared to the fact that Oracle would soon be running on Linux and also Informix (acquired by IBM) and DB2
would soon be running on Linux clusters?
Oracle and DB2 are horribly expensive. There is no competition there. Presumably they expect to beat out MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc. based on features and support.
Well, the article said they had increased their R&D spending. I just didn't think that meant something as mundane as a database. Oh, well, maybe they're hiding the exotic stufff behind this cover . ..
It completely removes any sort of leverage the ccTLDs could have over ICANN.
You are assuming that ICANN is amenable to change from within. If ICANN becomes irrelevant to the ccTLDs due to these maneuverings, then they have no more problem.
I thought they would never get around to noticing they're getting reamed w/o vaseline. ICANN is never really going to get out of bed with Network Solutions. The only "Solution" will be ICANN marching alone..
It's only a matter of time before the furor over ICANN's crap, and the current congressional interest, turns their house upside down. Every self-serving decesion they've made, especially keeping the new, at-large, members outside, is likely to be found invalid eventually.
How many bits do our current crypto systems need to be safe when running a 10Ghz chip?
It doesn't work like that. Custom chips specialized for crypto are already faster than a generalized 10GHz CPU would be. Chip operating speed is not the major indicator of performance. Very powerful CPUs for high-end servers and mainframes run below 1 GHz, for instance. A well-designed (imagine that) CPU at 1.2 GHz could easily outperform a mediocre 2 GHz chip on many tasks. Chip pathways, caches, pipeline structure all contribute to performance.
But if a 128 bit key can be broken in an average of 1 month, then a 129 bit key would average 2 months, and so forth. Even very old versions of PGP will do 2048 bit keys, and my old 386 would generate one in half an hour, so don't worry about picking the right one; it's ALWAYS the highest bit size available.
About time. They're only doing it because the cat's out of the bag. The other tier one providers are starting to move that way, and since they peer with the others, they'll get the traffic either way. They nearly screwed a good chunk of the Internet when they did this, as I recall, and now they tell us how wonderful they are for un-screwing their own mess.
Every time a solution to my HTML problems comes out, it takes years to get supported, it's inconsistent (style sheets), and by the time it's actually reliable, it's darn near irrelevant. I, at least, need a faster method of implementing solutions. Waiting on the browser gang is like waiting on Death.
I wonder what "monitoring" needs to take place in an orange grove that a fixed sensor couldn't handle?
Lots. I live near USF, and we are "blessed" with lots of groves. They need soil testing, disease/pest watching, stupid trespasser watching, sucker removal (no, not the trespassers, the little shoots), fertilizing, pesticide spraying, roundup spraying, etc. If the beastie could take over any part of this, it wuld be wonderful. But, personally, I think he'd get more juice out of photovoltaics. Hope his efficiency improves.
so you rip the powerpoint out of the wall and have to wait for an electrician?
No, a proper installation of a twistlock, receptacle, and box, won't rip out of the wall. They are more expensive, especially when also isolated ground (the orange ones), but are essential to running hardware. I can't belive the number of people talking about accidents. This stuff was standard thirty years ago.
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And exactly what spyware does windows install? Do you still believe that ol BillyG has a backdoor to all your personal info? Microsoft already spreads enough FUD around, there is no need to add to it?
It's called Win XP. Hardly FUD.
1alpha7
But wouldn't that make GNOME just like windows?
Let's see . . .
- Doesn't crash daily.
- Doesn't install spyware on my system.
- Doesn't break all standards so I can only travel in their domain.
- Doesn't cost a fortune for an office-full of licenses.
No, I don't think it will.1Alpha7
I really like this level of professional analysis. It's in-depth in a way I could never do. Having groups the size of Sun on board makes this possible. I think that is going to have a major impact on the advance of non-MS GUIs over the next few years.
Of course, the obvious question is why MS, with their size, hasn't produced the perfect GUI.
1Alpha7
"The few things that only we can do because of our physical location we'll do, and we'll do it well," says Ryan Lackey, a former MIT student who now serves as HavenCo's Chief Technical Officer.
This is the crux of HavenCo's problem. There are only currently a few customers who both need this service and can afford their steep price. It is very likely that gross income will never make this a good financial gamble, as there are so many other little states getting in on the "liberal laws" hosting business.
1Alpha7
One does not need a business license to start, or fight, or win an economic revolution......
That is exactly the problem. I don't need "small companies to do big things anymore". I can do it for myself now. I thank Napster for pointing the way to a new way of thinking; I really do. But corporations in the music is the problem now. Big or small, we no longer need an intermediary between us and the music, telling us what to like, think, know, feel, ...
1Alpha7
What happened to jokes about "Internet reliability" and the total lack thereof? Does Internet time apply to peoples memories about it, too?
1Alpha7
The external neutron sources cause predetonation before high supercriticality is achieved. When the warhead is armed, they are removed.
Not on American nukes. I've built plenty of them.
1Alpha7
What are the steps needed to be taken until we have solar energy run cars in our cities ?
There isn't enough solar energy striking an area the size of a car to power one effectively. These races are more in the way of promotional and helping research.
1Alpha7
Boosted fission bomb designs that use tritium (12 year half-life) instead of deuterium, on the other hand, are probably a real pain to maintain.
No, not really, just gotta keep up the records accurately. It keeps a lotta people busy, but routine maintenance would come up every four years anyway.
1Alpha7
Polonium has a half-life of only 138 days. So, even though the plutonium itself decays very slowly, it is the initators that must be regularly replaced.
None of the LLCs (limited life components) on a nuclear warhead are that short in the USA. We use neutron generators for that purpose, which are mounted to the side of the pit and are replaced about every 12 years.1Alpha7
Not really. Once you have the enriched uranium (for an ordinary fission device), all you really have to do is to merge it beyond critical mass in a short amount of time.
Fortunately, you're grossly wrong, having left out essential stuff. Unfortunately, the Web provides all this info to the interested reader willing to do a gbit of research.
1Alpha7
Tritium has a half-life of 12 years, so has to be changed from time to time.
About 12 1/3 years and it's swapped out every four years, max, usually about 40-45 months in practice.
1Alpha7
What's the purpose of this contest? It seems like a competition to come up with extremely short and witty quips.
Frankly, I've seen much more clever prose generated much more quickly in the early stages of a new slashdot article.
No, the point is indeed to create such total, overblown crap.
1Alpha7
. . . the reason the price has risen this much, is that americans are using so much gasoline that they have to import extra from europe, making *our* prices rise due to your excessive demands
This is so laughably wrong to begin with. Then to see it marked "insightful"!?! Petrol prices in EU are almost all taxes. For the USA to "Take" European oil, US prices would have to be higher than European ones.
1Alpha7
What would the impact be, compared to the fact that Oracle would soon be running on Linux and also Informix (acquired by IBM) and DB2 would soon be running on Linux clusters?
Oracle and DB2 are horribly expensive. There is no competition there. Presumably they expect to beat out MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc. based on features and support.
1Alpha7
Well, the article said they had increased their R&D spending. I just didn't think that meant something as mundane as a database. Oh, well, maybe they're hiding the exotic stufff behind this cover . . .
1Alpha7
It completely removes any sort of leverage the ccTLDs could have over ICANN.
You are assuming that ICANN is amenable to change from within. If ICANN becomes irrelevant to the ccTLDs due to these maneuverings, then they have no more problem.
1Alpha7
I thought they would never get around to noticing they're getting reamed w/o vaseline. ICANN is never really going to get out of bed with Network Solutions. The only "Solution" will be ICANN marching alone..
1Alpha7
Great, a commercial version of Debian. The whole point of Debian is that it's not commercialized.
1Alpha7
It's only a matter of time before the furor over ICANN's crap, and the current congressional interest, turns their house upside down. Every self-serving decesion they've made, especially keeping the new, at-large, members outside, is likely to be found invalid eventually.
1Alpha7
How many bits do our current crypto systems need to be safe when running a 10Ghz chip?
It doesn't work like that. Custom chips specialized for crypto are already faster than a generalized 10GHz CPU would be. Chip operating speed is not the major indicator of performance. Very powerful CPUs for high-end servers and mainframes run below 1 GHz, for instance. A well-designed (imagine that) CPU at 1.2 GHz could easily outperform a mediocre 2 GHz chip on many tasks. Chip pathways, caches, pipeline structure all contribute to performance.
But if a 128 bit key can be broken in an average of 1 month, then a 129 bit key would average 2 months, and so forth. Even very old versions of PGP will do 2048 bit keys, and my old 386 would generate one in half an hour, so don't worry about picking the right one; it's ALWAYS the highest bit size available.
1Alpha7
About time. They're only doing it because the cat's out of the bag. The other tier one providers are starting to move that way, and since they peer with the others, they'll get the traffic either way. They nearly screwed a good chunk of the Internet when they did this, as I recall, and now they tell us how wonderful they are for un-screwing their own mess.
1Alpha7
Every time a solution to my HTML problems comes out, it takes years to get supported, it's inconsistent (style sheets), and by the time it's actually reliable, it's darn near irrelevant. I, at least, need a faster method of implementing solutions. Waiting on the browser gang is like waiting on Death.
1Alpha7
I wonder what "monitoring" needs to take place in an orange grove that a fixed sensor couldn't handle?
Lots. I live near USF, and we are "blessed" with lots of groves. They need soil testing, disease/pest watching, stupid trespasser watching, sucker removal (no, not the trespassers, the little shoots), fertilizing, pesticide spraying, roundup spraying, etc. If the beastie could take over any part of this, it wuld be wonderful. But, personally, I think he'd get more juice out of photovoltaics. Hope his efficiency improves.
1Alpha7
so you rip the powerpoint out of the wall and have to wait for an electrician?
No, a proper installation of a twistlock, receptacle, and box, won't rip out of the wall. They are more expensive, especially when also isolated ground (the orange ones), but are essential to running hardware. I can't belive the number of people talking about accidents. This stuff was standard thirty years ago.
1Alpha7