> The 14,000 acre area is enough wind power for the enitre United States of America using today's most modern 2.5 megawatt turbines with syncronized directionality. The land below can usually be used for farming or grazing.
I can't help but wonder whether taking that much energy out of the atmosphere might have some undesirable side effect.
Nothing particular in mind; it's just a feeling that our profligate use of power isn't ever going to be a free lunch.
> If it turns out that SCO's claims against IBM have no validity, and that SCO insiders sold any significant amount of stock since ~April 6, 2003.... SCO will probably be in for some heavy shareholder lawsuits
Almost makes you wish you'd run out and bought some shares last week, donit.
MS gives stuff away to schools = EVIL!!! MS eases licensing plan and gives stuff away = EVIL!!! CEO diversifies his stock portfolio = EVIL and End of MS!!! MS loses a sale in Germany = End of MS!!! MS releases earnings = They are too successful. EVIL!!! Gates donates to India = EVIL!!
Jesus Christ!
I'd really like to know just what would be considered a positive for/from Microsoft around here.
It's called "reaping what you've sown". BG and his buddies have no one to blame for this but themselves.
> Did somebody forget to proofread this article before posting? That makes no sense - how in the fuck can you undercut a free product?
The point is that Microsoft can only maintain its monopoly in the for-pay sector if it maintains the illusion that it's the standard. This "offer" is exactly like the 90% discount for Munich: if word ever gets out that the free stuff is good enough for organizations, Microsoft is fuxored.
They aren't any more worried about loss of revenue in this market than they are about loss of revenues from Munich. They're worried about a paradigm shift in the way the world acquires its software.
> If it's anything like the OSS projects on sourceforge, open source music is just a click track and maybe a bass line. The rest of the tracks are "in development" or "coming soon" as soon as the project finds more volunteers.
Or just an idea for a song, and a list of all the technology it's going to use.
> The only evidence is a little bit of statistical evidence and a lot of faith. How is this so different from religion?
The statistical evidence.
> Finally, let's assume that a deity DID create the universe, and has a plan for us. It seems reasonable that He left clues about what He wants.
What makes you suppose that an agent capable of speaking universes into existence would "want" anything from the likes of us?
> In short, everybody has to take SOMETHING on faith (Goedel proved that).
Your math is as bad as your cosmology and theology...
> You can either take it on faith that there IS a God, and look for evidence or clues, or take it on faith that there is NOT a God, and try to postulate multiple unreachable universes to explain the impossible odds of having a universe with life.
What makes you suppose that we can't have God and multiple universes?
This isn't about God, it's about understanding the universe(s) we live in.
> At least the multiverse theory is not quite as absurd as the bifucating universe theory...
What makes you suppose that reality isn't absurd? Were relativity and quantum mechanics intuitively obvious?
> Turn off computers, lights, monitors and TVs when they're not being used. Yes, it will ruin your uptime, but most computers from the past few years dissipate 30-90 watts of heat. CRTs and TVs also generate a lot of heat. I had a room that I kept 10 degrees F warmer in winter just by leaving the computers (P3-866 and Athlon 1800+) and their monitors on all night.
And if you can't turn your computer(s) off for some reason, be sure you've got DPMS set to power off the monitor(s) when you get distracted and forget to hit the switch.
On UNIX it's easy as
xset dpms 600 1200 1800
for progressively cutting back on 10 minute intervals. Use xset q to make sure your favorite desktop isn't disabling it.
And lose the screensavers. They burn lots of CPU time and keep your OS from halting the processor as often as it would otherwise.
Someone forgot to order the golden parachutes while the company was in the black, and now they're desperate to drum up enough money to buy a few on short notice.
> I seriously do not understand this. Linux is and always has been of the hackers, for the hackers, and by the hackers. Who cares if Linux is adopted by the "enterprise" or not?
> Some people say there is a conspiracy and Microsoft is paying SCO to cast fear and doubt on Linux, and that this doubt is more valuable to them than winning the case. But this still does not explain why they don't reveal any of the code.
That's also why I believe that this is an anti-Linux FUD campaign. If they were really concerned with IP then they have nothing to gain by keeping the code secret. If they announce it now it will get removed now (which is what they want, right?) but they'll still be entitled to any legal remedy they'd be entitled to without announcing it (assuming any at all). There's simply no IP-based reason not to announce it.
But as for FUD-based reasons, well, it's only FUDworthy so long as everything is up in the air and businesses thinking about making the switch have something to worry about. Point to the code and the argument switches to the facts of the claim, or the code gets ripped out, and the FUD-bubble bursts overnight.
The IP motivation says "announce it", and the FUD motivations says "mum's the word".
> > What most likely happened is that early chimps and our early ancestors lived in slightly different eviornments and thus evolved into different species.
> Ah - the old Harvard man vs Yale man routine...
Except in this case it's the Harvard man vs. Party School man...
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> All Quiet on the Wester Front. (Not exactly a day-brightener, but should be required reading for all humans)
Then read the section about WWI in Robert Graves' half-autobiography, Good-Bye to All That.
*shudder*
> The 14,000 acre area is enough wind power for the enitre United States of America using today's most modern 2.5 megawatt turbines with syncronized directionality. The land below can usually be used for farming or grazing.
I can't help but wonder whether taking that much energy out of the atmosphere might have some undesirable side effect.
Nothing particular in mind; it's just a feeling that our profligate use of power isn't ever going to be a free lunch.
> The people who fall for this tactic are the same ones who keep forwarding email warnings about anti-perspirants causing cancer, etc.
And by strange coincidence, the G33k 3lit3 are immune to social engineering hacks based on the use of deodorant too!
> Measure Twice, Cut Once, Swear like a Sailor, buy another.
Ah, so you installed a new shower curtain rod last week too, eh?
> are you troubled that it is being used for copyright infringement? Pleased? Apathetic?
I can't resist pointing out that the same could be asked of the inventors of any layer of the standard networking protocols.
I.e., if I were in his shoes I might well not have any opinion on it at all.
> Man that rules. I would have loved to have seen that.
Heh. I think I just figured out the plot to Matrix III.
> If it turns out that SCO's claims against IBM have no validity, and that SCO insiders sold any significant amount of stock since ~April 6, 2003.... SCO will probably be in for some heavy shareholder lawsuits
Almost makes you wish you'd run out and bought some shares last week, donit.
First they accuse you of code theft,
Then they accuse you of IP theft,
Then they accuse you of contract violations,
Then they fold.
> My Windows XP box runs for at least a few months at a time.
The sad part is that MS users think that is something worth mentioning.
> Most of the time I reboot is only because some stupid software being installed wants it.
Why should anything short of a kernel upgrade require a reboot?
> We're getting open source alternatives lined up and mapping out our "Escape from Redmond" plan
Sounds like a fun movie. Will there be robots and lasers and stuff?
> Did somebody forget to proofread this article before posting? That makes no sense - how in the fuck can you undercut a free product?
The point is that Microsoft can only maintain its monopoly in the for-pay sector if it maintains the illusion that it's the standard. This "offer" is exactly like the 90% discount for Munich: if word ever gets out that the free stuff is good enough for organizations, Microsoft is fuxored.
They aren't any more worried about loss of revenue in this market than they are about loss of revenues from Munich. They're worried about a paradigm shift in the way the world acquires its software.
> If it's anything like the OSS projects on sourceforge, open source music is just a click track and maybe a bass line. The rest of the tracks are "in development" or "coming soon" as soon as the project finds more volunteers.
Or just an idea for a song, and a list of all the technology it's going to use.
Somehow I don't think this law will impress the people of Hong Kong when I show up to claim the keys of the city.
> just not try this on a true printer, and if you try plz use recycled paper
For your PostScript Turing Machine Simulator all you need is one infinitely long sheet of paper.
And if you compress the output you only need a sheet that's a small fraction of infinitely long...
> The only evidence is a little bit of statistical evidence and a lot of faith. How is this so different from religion?
The statistical evidence.
> Finally, let's assume that a deity DID create the universe, and has a plan for us. It seems reasonable that He left clues about what He wants.
What makes you suppose that an agent capable of speaking universes into existence would "want" anything from the likes of us?
> In short, everybody has to take SOMETHING on faith (Goedel proved that).
Your math is as bad as your cosmology and theology...
> You can either take it on faith that there IS a God, and look for evidence or clues, or take it on faith that there is NOT a God, and try to postulate multiple unreachable universes to explain the impossible odds of having a universe with life.
What makes you suppose that we can't have God and multiple universes?
This isn't about God, it's about understanding the universe(s) we live in.
> At least the multiverse theory is not quite as absurd as the bifucating universe theory
What makes you suppose that reality isn't absurd? Were relativity and quantum mechanics intuitively obvious?
> Creative Commons has a feature on an open source style music site
I've heard of jazz, grunge, and calypso, but what does "open source style music" sound like?
for progressively cutting back on 10 minute intervals. Use xset q to make sure your favorite desktop isn't disabling it.> Turn off computers, lights, monitors and TVs when they're not being used. Yes, it will ruin your uptime, but most computers from the past few years dissipate 30-90 watts of heat. CRTs and TVs also generate a lot of heat. I had a room that I kept 10 degrees F warmer in winter just by leaving the computers (P3-866 and Athlon 1800+) and their monitors on all night.
And if you can't turn your computer(s) off for some reason, be sure you've got DPMS set to power off the monitor(s) when you get distracted and forget to hit the switch.
On UNIX it's easy as
And lose the screensavers. They burn lots of CPU time and keep your OS from halting the processor as often as it would otherwise.
> You can get higher order functions in C++, just about (eg for_each in the standard library).
FWIW, there's a fairly elegant iterator in the Freeciv code, written in C.
(I think they've wrapperized everything for C++ now, but the iterator is pure C.)
> I seriously do not understand this. Linux is and always has been of the hackers, for the hackers, and by the hackers. Who cares if Linux is adopted by the "enterprise" or not?
Microsoft.
> Some people say there is a conspiracy and Microsoft is paying SCO to cast fear and doubt on Linux, and that this doubt is more valuable to them than winning the case. But this still does not explain why they don't reveal any of the code.
My take on that yesterday:
> The Open Group would like to remind everyone that SCO is only one of many in the Unix world.
And soon to be zero of many - 1 in the Unix world, if I read the tea leaves correctly.
> > What most likely happened is that early chimps and our early ancestors lived in slightly different eviornments and thus evolved into different species.
> Ah - the old Harvard man vs Yale man routine
Except in this case it's the Harvard man vs. Party School man...