Hey, even back in 1988, the good'ole Amiga 2000 had a processor slot. I remember there were 286,386 and 486 cards available and PPC cards as well for the A4000. And it was *very* cool.
Man, running DOS or Windows in a window *without* emulation was über cool.
...the Open/Free/whatever *BSD way of doing things, with a "core" making decisions according to what others have to say is the right direction.
Many important people are afraid of Linux's development system, or lack of it. OTOH, *BSD is pretty widely accepted anywhere but Linux isn't as much as some would like it to.
The recent flames between Vero and Reiser just show that, maybe, the Linux way of doing things isn't good enough anymore. Now that it has reached a certain level, some organisation à la *BSD wouldn't be a bad thing.
Woops, didn't check enough. Indeed, UK customers *can* buy a RH preloaded workstation *without* paying the MS tax. But it's on ly in the UK, unfortunately...
Thanx for the info. Still, it only seems to be for the UK. For Switzerland, France, etc. they don't put Linux anywhere. AND YOU STILL HAVE TO PAY FOR A WINDOWS (98, NT, 2000) LICENSE!! If you scroll down, where there's the OS choice, it's all windoze...
Dell seems to be only offering Linux in the USA, not in Europe. You can check http://euro.dell.com and they *never* propose Linux, even for high end servers (only winblows and Netware).
Anyway, when you see the kind of monopoly M$ has over Europe, it isn't surprising. If you guys think M$ is a bully in the USA, come and have a look at it here... A friend of mine has a computer store and is an official MS reseller. One day, some MS marketing guy came over to look at how they were presenting their crap and noticed some Linux distros among the various software. The reaction was immediate: "If you want to keep being one of our official reseller, those penguin boxes have to disappear, etc...".
Now, no major PC manufacturer dares selling anything else than MS in Europe by fear of retaliation. Good thing I build all my PCs!
I like your post, really. Each time I have posted a somewhat not-pro-American comment, I got flamed to death, which hurts since I do belileve not all Americans are bad. Heck, I'm a European and I still consider most people on this planet are dumber than a bag of hair. The thing is Europeans usually don't try to take all the credit for everything *good* that's done on this small globe surfing around a medium star on the East side of the galaxy.
As to the privacy issue, it all depends on *how* your personal information is used. Recently, I was living and working in Finland (boy this country is wired, even wirelessly) and for everything they ask for your Social Security number, even for subscribing to magazines! Basically, half of the country has access to your record, at least parts of it. Now, I don't know what they actually do with all this, but they haven't tried to bother me for anything, nor they have to any of my Finnish friends.
I now live in Switzerland, where we had a huge scandal some 10 years ago about the Federal government filing nasty info about most citizens, like their political beliefs. Even though the system is no longer, officially, in use there are remnants of it coming to the surface every now and then. But then again, I have never been bothered even though I used to piss in parked police cars.
I have lived in France for 20 years (my whole childhood), and have discovered the French Army had a pretty thick pile of info about me (I happen to be a French citizen by mistake). Don't ask me *how* I knew about this, but I *do* know. Still, France has a powerful agency (with the set of laws that goes with it) that keeps checking if your personal info isn't misused. Legally, you can access your data and deny the spreading of it at any time. Pretty ironic when you know France is the least connected country in Europe.
As for my various European experiences, I have never been bothered by government agencies. I have travelled outside of Europe and found, for instance, that citizens of the USA actually have much less freedom than us 'poor Europeans'. Indeed, as some/. poster pointed out, 98% of Europeans have the right to grow up outside of poverty, violence and other things that plague 22% of young Americans. IMHO, this is one of the things that will guarantee your most fundamental freedom, your right to think freely with the educational background that will let you make a mind of your own.
In Europe, we might not enjoy the same economics burst the USA enjoy, but there are much less "fractures" in the society. Therefore, I suppose (I can be wrong here) our social-democrat model works better than the almighty American liberal system. The richest people are American, but the poorest ones are *also* American. I'd rather have a bit less money and be able to make my own sound opinions thanks to a rich educational background than being filthy rich and still be a moron à la Bill Gates who doesn't respect anybody.
Americans are, IMHO, stupidly nationalist by refusing to see that anything good can be made East of New York Fuckin'City and West of the L.A. warzone. In Europe, we take longer to do things but at least we try to make those things a bit more accessible to the common good.
I couldn't agree more. Here, in Switzerland, most trains have "quiet" carriages in which you're not even supposed to talk *at all*. Of course, mobile phones are banned. At first, when they introduced this regulation, I thought it was a bit too much. But with the explosion of the number of cell phones in Europe, I now find it a great relief.
Last week, I was in in for a 4.5 hrs train trip, and some mobile-addicted moron had the great idea to sit in the quiet area to call half the galaxy "because there was too much noise in the other carriages". Bah, after a while he was granted a $30 fine and had to go back to the noisy section... So I could finally sleep:)
I think it's just fair to be able *not* to hear the constant hummering of technology. And if security is at stake, there's no choice to be made even if the chances of electronics disruption are paper thin.
I promise to kill the first guy who makes my plane crash because he had to call his gf.
Exactly! And they also seem to think there's very few Net users *outside* the US of A either.
The truth being USA users merely represent 20-something percent of all Net users, and decreasing since more and more people access the Net all over the planet.
I'd be happy if the Net was no longer "ruled" (for whatever it means) by the US of A and its representative corporations. As usual, Americans (from the US of A) are against anything that doesn't come from them. They claim *they* officially have freedom of speech(tm) and are the only ones in the World, which is complete BS. They're just somewhat scared by something they don't know: The Outside(tm). Really sounds like a redneck attitude to me, sorry guys.
As a reminder, here in Europe we have freedom of speech, maybe even more than in the US of A. Local constitutions abide by the Univeral Declaration of Human Rights and anybody can appeal to the European Court of Human Rights (at no cost) if one thinks he/she's been/being repressed in his/her fundamental rights. At least, if we say something that upsets someone, we don't have the risk of getting shot for what we said. Freedom shouldn't be determined by the amount of guns you got. Eh, there's no guns here guys! And a debate here does not have to involve either guns or huge amounts of money.
It really pisses me off Americans *believe* they invented Democracy and Freedom. Heck, my country (Switzerland) has been a federal democracy for over 700 years!. And the French (as bad as they sometimes are) came up with the Declaration of Human Rights in 1791! In the meantime, the US of A were the last country to officially enforce slavery, and only abolished racial segregation in the 1960's. And I'm not talking about the US so-called half-democratic electoral system here.
Maybe Americans are just scared to lose their assumed ownership of the whole Internet. Bah, after all, the US of A only represent 260 million people... And the World has over 6 *billion* inhabitants. The European Union alone has something like 350 million people. Good thing some international agency tries to put things back to reality.
"When Switzerland will be finally forced to join the rest of Europe, all mail-order companies will move there"
Switzerland won't join the EU before at least another 10-15 years. We just voted a big YES (76%) in favor of bilateral agreements between our venerable country and the EU. Now (well, when the agreements are totally implemented), it's *almost* like being in the EU without having to give up our strong currency in favor of the Euro, which isn't worth jackshit. Hundreds of companies chose Switzerland for their European HQ's (less tax, central location, etc.). Sci/Tech companies already take many pages in the phone book here.
I dunno about mail-order companies, but my newest "neighbour" is Handspring, maker of the Visor PDA. There's also HP, Compaq, IBM, etc... Not talking about all the international organisations.
The French usually don't like Switzerland (jealous?), and tend to treat us like the black sheeps of Europe for being "that little rich country". So far, we have a stronger currency, the lowest unemployment rate (1.9% only) and *very* attractive wages (at least twice higher than in France) and some of the lowest VAT rate (7.5%). And pot is to be legalized at the end of the year, too! Beer is cheap as well...
Really, I don't see why we should join the EU... To get our tax levels doubled, have our currency basically cancelled and inherit an average 15% unemployment rate? No thanks...
And, IIRC, as of next year EU citizens will be able to live and work freely in Switzerland.
The proposal would require the companies to register at any EU country and pay tax at that country rate
You have to pay the VAT rate of the country you live in. For example, if you live in France and buy somehting online, you'll have to pay the 20-something % VAT the French Government steals from everything. As a customer, you have better time living where the VAT rate is the lowest.
Now, since I live in Switzerland, I have to pay the VAT (7.5%) when receiving the goods wether they're from the US or the EU, straight to the postie. It's the same thing here than in the EU, I suppose.
If a US company wants to sell goods in the EU, they don't necessarily have to pay any VAT themselves, but the customer in the EU does.
I saw it a couple of weeks ago on local TV (I live in Geneva, Switzerland), and was impressed. The concept is, AFAIK, you can add/remove/change "slices" of the computer, just by changing one or several credit-card sized slices that stack together. One of them being the screen, anoher one the CPU, then a GSM receiver or whatever you want. I guess the battery is another "slice".
Basically, the possibilities are quite huge... And you can build a dedicated PDA in a matter of seconds. One of the interresting applications is to "stack" your credit card (the ones with the chip, pretty much standard in Europe) in the PDA and be able to pay straight from it. Mix it with a WAP module and you got a perfect system for electronic buying.
Just a legal question here... It seems to me the DMCA should *only* apply to the US of A territory. If you're not American and your server is not in the US of A, the DMCA should normally take its way home (/dev/null).
What's whith those American laws being appliable everywhere? As far as I know, American laws ain't legal/enforcible anywhere else than the US of A. Hey, what would the Americans say if I came to the US of A and try to enforce a Swiss law? They'd laugh at me. Well, I laugh at the DMCA!!!
Seems to me the Yankees are once again doing their imperialist shit over the rest of the world. Sorry folks, but that ain't gonna work.
And I *know* eBay is based in the US of A. Now, feel free to flame me, for what I care...
An island on the internet, if you will, where nobody dares say anything about anyone else - or if they do, they prudently take their speech (and their money) offshore.
Well, isn't it one of the wonders the net brought us? If your country doesn't let you express yourself, you can still do it easily from another one and yet reach the same audience.
IMHO, it's only a matter of time before major British sites start migrating to offshore ISPs. After that is done, maybe the ISPs will start lobbying their MPs to change that stupid libel law because it harms their profitability. Hey, that's how it works nowadays... Your average Joe Government doesn't give a fsck about freedom of speech as long as he makes good business. Watch the USA and China... Who cares about freedom when you have a 1+ Billion potential customers...who might actually get forced to buy your stuff.
It's not running Linux. Its OS is not open-source. It doesn't use a Transmeta CPU. It doesn't have Ethernet. They don't even talk about it on Userfriendly, and Hubble hasn't spotted one near yet.
Really, I wonder why any slashdotter would be interrested into it...
Me and a bunch of friends decided to start a small company (web & music) a couple of months ago. Since we're in different cities at both opposite sides of the country (we're in Switzerland), telework was the only way. And it works great! I just have to travel once or twice a month to the other city where the others are.
I achieve a lot more work being comfy at home, and most of all I can start late and work late (all night sometimes). So I work when I feel best for it. If I need a break, the balcony is in front of me and I can just breathe fresh air and think about what I'm doing in a much more relaxed way. And I don't have to deal with a boss, either!Not having to wake up in the morning is great!
When I compare my efficiency to when I was working in an office, I think it 50/50 at worst. The good days, I think I achieve twice more work being at home than at the office. It's all a question of self-disciplin, otherwise you get easily lazy.
Hey, when working at the office, we were mostly communicating by email and ICQ even though we were next to eachother...
Let's GPL the genome, after all it's THE source code... Then, we can all start making cool changes! The CVS is available in any good library, under the author "Darwin".
We bearded people do not ever lose a single drop of the nectar. We just store some for later, for when the misus is menacing us with some hard object if our feet move pubwise.
Whilst the discoveries they did there are, IMHO, really great and important regarding our knowledge of Life, The Universe and Everything, some factors are hidden for the benefits of Big Science (tm).
The CERN uses a Large Electron Collider which is 27 kilometers in circumference. The nasty fact is the leukemia rate in the (populated) areas above and around the particle accelerator is no less than 19 times higher than in the rest of the region.
Why did they build the 3 accelerators/colliders (two circlar ones and one linear) in a very populated area? Gee, that's just like having a nuclear plant downtown... I think that something our dear big brains should think about before "ordering" the next super particle accelerator.
Does anybody have some kind of information regarding other big accelerators located in dense population areas and leukemia/cancer rates? Usually, this kind of info is angrily kept secret by the authorities, but who knows...
According to a poll I did on about 45 billion braincells in the East hemisphere of my skull, 99.9% of them don't like Microsoft at all. The remaining 0.1% disappeared in the effort of thinking.
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Hey, even back in 1988, the good'ole Amiga 2000 had a processor slot. I remember there were 286,386 and 486 cards available and PPC cards as well for the A4000. And it was *very* cool.
Man, running DOS or Windows in a window *without* emulation was über cool.
It's Viro and not Vero. Apologies for the typo.
...the Open/Free/whatever *BSD way of doing things, with a "core" making decisions according to what others have to say is the right direction.
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Many important people are afraid of Linux's development system, or lack of it. OTOH, *BSD is pretty widely accepted anywhere but Linux isn't as much as some would like it to.
The recent flames between Vero and Reiser just show that, maybe, the Linux way of doing things isn't good enough anymore. Now that it has reached a certain level, some organisation à la *BSD wouldn't be a bad thing.
Just my
Woops, didn't check enough. Indeed, UK customers *can* buy a RH preloaded workstation *without* paying the MS tax. But it's on ly in the UK, unfortunately...
Thanx for the info. Still, it only seems to be for the UK. For Switzerland, France, etc. they don't put Linux anywhere. AND YOU STILL HAVE TO PAY FOR A WINDOWS (98, NT, 2000) LICENSE!! If you scroll down, where there's the OS choice, it's all windoze...
Dell seems to be only offering Linux in the USA, not in Europe. You can check http://euro.dell.com and they *never* propose Linux, even for high end servers (only winblows and Netware).
Anyway, when you see the kind of monopoly M$ has over Europe, it isn't surprising. If you guys think M$ is a bully in the USA, come and have a look at it here... A friend of mine has a computer store and is an official MS reseller. One day, some MS marketing guy came over to look at how they were presenting their crap and noticed some Linux distros among the various software. The reaction was immediate: "If you want to keep being one of our official reseller, those penguin boxes have to disappear, etc...".
Now, no major PC manufacturer dares selling anything else than MS in Europe by fear of retaliation. Good thing I build all my PCs!
I like your post, really. Each time I have posted a somewhat not-pro-American comment, I got flamed to death, which hurts since I do belileve not all Americans are bad. Heck, I'm a European and I still consider most people on this planet are dumber than a bag of hair. The thing is Europeans usually don't try to take all the credit for everything *good* that's done on this small globe surfing around a medium star on the East side of the galaxy.
/. poster pointed out, 98% of Europeans have the right to grow up outside of poverty, violence and other things that plague 22% of young Americans. IMHO, this is one of the things that will guarantee your most fundamental freedom, your right to think freely with the educational background that will let you make a mind of your own.
As to the privacy issue, it all depends on *how* your personal information is used. Recently, I was living and working in Finland (boy this country is wired, even wirelessly) and for everything they ask for your Social Security number, even for subscribing to magazines! Basically, half of the country has access to your record, at least parts of it. Now, I don't know what they actually do with all this, but they haven't tried to bother me for anything, nor they have to any of my Finnish friends.
I now live in Switzerland, where we had a huge scandal some 10 years ago about the Federal government filing nasty info about most citizens, like their political beliefs. Even though the system is no longer, officially, in use there are remnants of it coming to the surface every now and then. But then again, I have never been bothered even though I used to piss in parked police cars.
I have lived in France for 20 years (my whole childhood), and have discovered the French Army had a pretty thick pile of info about me (I happen to be a French citizen by mistake). Don't ask me *how* I knew about this, but I *do* know. Still, France has a powerful agency (with the set of laws that goes with it) that keeps checking if your personal info isn't misused. Legally, you can access your data and deny the spreading of it at any time. Pretty ironic when you know France is the least connected country in Europe.
As for my various European experiences, I have never been bothered by government agencies. I have travelled outside of Europe and found, for instance, that citizens of the USA actually have much less freedom than us 'poor Europeans'. Indeed, as some
In Europe, we might not enjoy the same economics burst the USA enjoy, but there are much less "fractures" in the society. Therefore, I suppose (I can be wrong here) our social-democrat model works better than the almighty American liberal system. The richest people are American, but the poorest ones are *also* American. I'd rather have a bit less money and be able to make my own sound opinions thanks to a rich educational background than being filthy rich and still be a moron à la Bill Gates who doesn't respect anybody.
Americans are, IMHO, stupidly nationalist by refusing to see that anything good can be made East of New York Fuckin'City and West of the L.A. warzone. In Europe, we take longer to do things but at least we try to make those things a bit more accessible to the common good.
You can now switch the flamethrower on.
max
"And if the universe agrees with me, they will get what I think they deserve"
I just had a chat with the universe, and he does not agree with you. HAH!
I couldn't agree more. Here, in Switzerland, most trains have "quiet" carriages in which you're not even supposed to talk *at all*. Of course, mobile phones are banned. At first, when they introduced this regulation, I thought it was a bit too much. But with the explosion of the number of cell phones in Europe, I now find it a great relief.
:)
Last week, I was in in for a 4.5 hrs train trip, and some mobile-addicted moron had the great idea to sit in the quiet area to call half the galaxy "because there was too much noise in the other carriages". Bah, after a while he was granted a $30 fine and had to go back to the noisy section... So I could finally sleep
I think it's just fair to be able *not* to hear the constant hummering of technology. And if security is at stake, there's no choice to be made even if the chances of electronics disruption are paper thin.
I promise to kill the first guy who makes my plane crash because he had to call his gf.
Exactly! And they also seem to think there's very few Net users *outside* the US of A either.
The truth being USA users merely represent 20-something percent of all Net users, and decreasing since more and more people access the Net all over the planet.
I'd be happy if the Net was no longer "ruled" (for whatever it means) by the US of A and its representative corporations. As usual, Americans (from the US of A) are against anything that doesn't come from them. They claim *they* officially have freedom of speech(tm) and are the only ones in the World, which is complete BS. They're just somewhat scared by something they don't know: The Outside(tm). Really sounds like a redneck attitude to me, sorry guys.
As a reminder, here in Europe we have freedom of speech, maybe even more than in the US of A. Local constitutions abide by the Univeral Declaration of Human Rights and anybody can appeal to the European Court of Human Rights (at no cost) if one thinks he/she's been/being repressed in his/her fundamental rights. At least, if we say something that upsets someone, we don't have the risk of getting shot for what we said. Freedom shouldn't be determined by the amount of guns you got. Eh, there's no guns here guys! And a debate here does not have to involve either guns or huge amounts of money.
It really pisses me off Americans *believe* they invented Democracy and Freedom. Heck, my country (Switzerland) has been a federal democracy for over 700 years!. And the French (as bad as they sometimes are) came up with the Declaration of Human Rights in 1791! In the meantime, the US of A were the last country to officially enforce slavery, and only abolished racial segregation in the 1960's. And I'm not talking about the US so-called half-democratic electoral system here.
Maybe Americans are just scared to lose their assumed ownership of the whole Internet. Bah, after all, the US of A only represent 260 million people... And the World has over 6 *billion* inhabitants. The European Union alone has something like 350 million people. Good thing some international agency tries to put things back to reality.
Have a lot of fun...
"When Switzerland will be finally forced to join the rest of Europe, all mail-order companies will move there"
Switzerland won't join the EU before at least another 10-15 years. We just voted a big YES (76%) in favor of bilateral agreements between our venerable country and the EU. Now (well, when the agreements are totally implemented), it's *almost* like being in the EU without having to give up our strong currency in favor of the Euro, which isn't worth jackshit. Hundreds of companies chose Switzerland for their European HQ's (less tax, central location, etc.). Sci/Tech companies already take many pages in the phone book here.
I dunno about mail-order companies, but my newest "neighbour" is Handspring, maker of the Visor PDA. There's also HP, Compaq, IBM, etc... Not talking about all the international organisations.
The French usually don't like Switzerland (jealous?), and tend to treat us like the black sheeps of Europe for being "that little rich country". So far, we have a stronger currency, the lowest unemployment rate (1.9% only) and *very* attractive wages (at least twice higher than in France) and some of the lowest VAT rate (7.5%). And pot is to be legalized at the end of the year, too! Beer is cheap as well...
Really, I don't see why we should join the EU... To get our tax levels doubled, have our currency basically cancelled and inherit an average 15% unemployment rate? No thanks...
And, IIRC, as of next year EU citizens will be able to live and work freely in Switzerland.
Come and have fun in Geneva, man!
Max
The proposal would require the companies to register at any EU country and pay tax at that country rate
You have to pay the VAT rate of the country you live in. For example, if you live in France and buy somehting online, you'll have to pay the 20-something % VAT the French Government steals from everything. As a customer, you have better time living where the VAT rate is the lowest.
Now, since I live in Switzerland, I have to pay the VAT (7.5%) when receiving the goods wether they're from the US or the EU, straight to the postie. It's the same thing here than in the EU, I suppose.
If a US company wants to sell goods in the EU, they don't necessarily have to pay any VAT themselves, but the customer in the EU does.
Of course, I could be wrong all the way...
"I'm sure a watered down version of Aqua could be created"
:)
LOL
Reminds me of that guy who wanted to sell dehydrated water...
Sorry, couldn't keep it for myself...
Bah... Does it all really matter?
The new code and HDD's won't know me... I'll have to offer them new pearls, get to know them...
Ciao, old server. New box, beware!
Good night...
Knowing this message will be lost at server change, I offer myself a brief moment of sanity...
FIRST POST!!!!
Aaaahhhhhh......
I saw it a couple of weeks ago on local TV (I live in Geneva, Switzerland), and was impressed. The concept is, AFAIK, you can add/remove/change "slices" of the computer, just by changing one or several credit-card sized slices that stack together. One of them being the screen, anoher one the CPU, then a GSM receiver or whatever you want. I guess the battery is another "slice".
Basically, the possibilities are quite huge... And you can build a dedicated PDA in a matter of seconds. One of the interresting applications is to "stack" your credit card (the ones with the chip, pretty much standard in Europe) in the PDA and be able to pay straight from it. Mix it with a WAP module and you got a perfect system for electronic buying.
Cool.
max.
Just a legal question here... It seems to me the DMCA should *only* apply to the US of A territory. If you're not American and your server is not in the US of A, the DMCA should normally take its way home (/dev/null).
What's whith those American laws being appliable everywhere? As far as I know, American laws ain't legal/enforcible anywhere else than the US of A. Hey, what would the Americans say if I came to the US of A and try to enforce a Swiss law? They'd laugh at me. Well, I laugh at the DMCA!!!
Seems to me the Yankees are once again doing their imperialist shit over the rest of the world. Sorry folks, but that ain't gonna work.
And I *know* eBay is based in the US of A. Now, feel free to flame me, for what I care...
max
Of course, we have to fight. But being able to express yourself from the outside while fighting from the inside can really save us, methinks.
Well, isn't it one of the wonders the net brought us? If your country doesn't let you express yourself, you can still do it easily from another one and yet reach the same audience.
IMHO, it's only a matter of time before major British sites start migrating to offshore ISPs. After that is done, maybe the ISPs will start lobbying their MPs to change that stupid libel law because it harms their profitability. Hey, that's how it works nowadays... Your average Joe Government doesn't give a fsck about freedom of speech as long as he makes good business. Watch the USA and China... Who cares about freedom when you have a 1+ Billion potential customers...who might actually get forced to buy your stuff.
Humans really start making me puke sometimes.
max
It's not running Linux. Its OS is not open-source. It doesn't use a Transmeta CPU. It doesn't have Ethernet. They don't even talk about it on Userfriendly, and Hubble hasn't spotted one near yet.
Really, I wonder why any slashdotter would be interrested into it...
But... I WANT ONE!!!!
max
Me and a bunch of friends decided to start a small company (web & music) a couple of months ago. Since we're in different cities at both opposite sides of the country (we're in Switzerland), telework was the only way. And it works great! I just have to travel once or twice a month to the other city where the others are.
I achieve a lot more work being comfy at home, and most of all I can start late and work late (all night sometimes). So I work when I feel best for it. If I need a break, the balcony is in front of me and I can just breathe fresh air and think about what I'm doing in a much more relaxed way. And I don't have to deal with a boss, either!Not having to wake up in the morning is great!
When I compare my efficiency to when I was working in an office, I think it 50/50 at worst. The good days, I think I achieve twice more work being at home than at the office. It's all a question of self-disciplin, otherwise you get easily lazy.
Hey, when working at the office, we were mostly communicating by email and ICQ even though we were next to eachother...
Go for it.
Let's GPL the genome, after all it's THE source code... Then, we can all start making cool changes! The CVS is available in any good library, under the author "Darwin".
Don't even mention Beowulf here...
max
We bearded people do not ever lose a single drop of the nectar. We just store some for later, for when the misus is menacing us with some hard object if our feet move pubwise.
Cheers,
m.
I happen to live in Geneva, where the CERN is.
Whilst the discoveries they did there are, IMHO, really great and important regarding our knowledge of Life, The Universe and Everything, some factors are hidden for the benefits of Big Science (tm).
The CERN uses a Large Electron Collider which is 27 kilometers in circumference. The nasty fact is the leukemia rate in the (populated) areas above and around the particle accelerator is no less than 19 times higher than in the rest of the region.
Why did they build the 3 accelerators/colliders (two circlar ones and one linear) in a very populated area? Gee, that's just like having a nuclear plant downtown... I think that something our dear big brains should think about before "ordering" the next super particle accelerator.
Does anybody have some kind of information regarding other big accelerators located in dense population areas and leukemia/cancer rates? Usually, this kind of info is angrily kept secret by the authorities, but who knows...
Max
According to a poll I did on about 45 billion braincells in the East hemisphere of my skull, 99.9% of them don't like Microsoft at all. The remaining 0.1% disappeared in the effort of thinking.