You forgot 2008 R2. But I think their point was the Windows that are most current. Besides, MS has client and server go hand-in-hand so it's a little redundant to mention both. - 2000/2000 (obviously) - XP/2003/2003R2 - Vista/2008 - 7/2008 R2 - 8/2012
If you're going to say Ubuntu is more relevant, you'd have to include the qualifier of "currently". Given how distros rise and fall, for all we know, a Slackware distro could be what eventually brings the year of linux on the desktop. And I'd say Android has made a *much* bigger splash than Ubuntu.
Just start emailing copies of those documents to people on a regular basis and see how long before the government calls you a terrorist and arrests you for inciting revolt.
Some studies suggest that lobsters are effectively immortal and just keep growing larger and larger until they're killed by disease or predators, but generally never die of simple old age.
The difference is whether we can apply it to us. Flatworms are at least in the animalia kingdom, so it's a big step closer to being useful for humans compared to plantae.
An old thought experiment, I've heard it most repeated with cars, as well as by George Carlin. If you have a car and you replace a bolt, is it still the same car? Most people would say yes. What if you replaced another bolt? Most would still say yes. What if you replace every single part, one at a time? What if you then took all of those original parts and reassembled them into a new car. Which is the original?
Personally, I'd say none of your starfish are the "original" unless there's a core piece that you can point to and say that's what defines a starfish. The others would have to create a new core piece, and thus are no longer the original. If there is no core piece to make that individual unique, then all five are clones of the original.
I think he just picked a poor way of saying "if it was THAT useful, then we'd see regeneration-capable species outsurviving non-capable species". Since we don't see regeneration-capable species drastically outperforming non-capable species in the survival game, then it suggests that regeneration isn't the survival superpower that Wolverine would have us believe.
Or, as you said, he could just be anthropomorphizing evolution. Evolution hates when you do that.
"If you count every group of servers stashed in an office somewhere as a "data center", most big companies have thousands. "
My office is officially a data center. One of our legacy 2000 servers, with only fan fan still working (barely), has been in my office since January while the main and secondary server rooms undergo renovation. With the fans dead, it makes for a pretty quiet office mate. It also gives me an excuse to keep my office's a/c cranked down low.
We also have a couple of servers that we're not sure where they are. They're on the network, they work fine, we just don't know where they're physically located anymore...
It's not just cell phone chargers. I bought a couple of replacement power adapters for my Thinkpad from East Asia via eBay. Horrible construction, barely performed their advertised function, and surprisingly never caught fire.
My Android is old and was low-end even when it was new. And yet it still transfers data over USB just fine (and the USB cable is much sturdier than most of the Apple ones I've seen).
The whole "if it can fit, it should work" thing never works. Intel made a video adapter that looks identical to PCIe (although some ports can use PCIe as well, but not all). I've also had issues with some PCIe video cards not working with every motherboard with a PCIe port (most likely HP's crappy motherboards were to blame). USB-B will fit rather nicely in an Ethernet port, as if it belongs. PS/2 keyboard and mouse plugs are identical, but only interchangeable on some motherboards. My old Magellan GPS had a standard looking USB cable, but two of the pins were fused together; if it didn't detect the fused pins, it wouldn't charge properly. There's loads more examples of things that will fit, or in some cases are physically identical but still won't work.
By "hang out next to the entrance", I meant stay with your bag, to avoid someone stealing it as much as someone suspecting a bomb. It's pretty common for people to put their bag next to them while they stand waiting or talking on the phone. That way, your bag can be several feet closer to the target area than if you were wearing it, still without arousing suspicion.
I don't think you want an RFID-proof wallet so much as a radio frequency blocking wallet. An RFID-proof wallet would just be silly, because then where would you keep your RFIDs?
I believe it has to do with frequency. He's looking at the 125KHz range, which Wikipedia lists a range of about 10cm. The link you posted is for 860-928MHz, which Wikipedia lists as having a rnage of up to 12 meters.
"Long" is a relative term. When going from a few centimeters to a meter, that's a an increase of 20 or thirty times. A rifle is long range compared to a pistol. A mortar is long range compared to a rifle. A cruise missile is long range compared to a mortar.
More than plenty of places in the US where you would be crowded shoulder to shoulder. Or just hang out next to the entrance to a building with your bag resting on a potted tree, bench, windowsill, etc that's right next to the door... keeps you out of three foot range while still enabling your bag to be within it. Just be on your cell phone and people probably won't accuse you of loitering.
Up until Office 2003 (iirc), you could float most of the toolbars. However, I don't recall if you could dock them anywhere other than the top. That option went away with the ribbon, unless they've buried it somewhere in there.
Did you read more than just the first sentence I wrote? I pointed out that multiple visible windows is becoming common, especially with larger displays. And then I concluded that it would be best to make it an option so people can set it how they want.
Given that it's damn near impossible to find a 4:3 monitor larger than 17" and very hard to find even 16:10, it makes more sense to put in sidebars to use the abundant horizontal space rather than the vertical. Of course, once you get to around 24" monitors, it starts to become much more commonplace to have two apps side-by-side, in which case the argument goes back to having toolbars on the top and bottom.
Both at my current job and my previous job, we have a number of people who are semi-mobile. They spend part of their time at their designated office, part of their time at designated assigned locations and a bit of time walking between various floors or facilities. Being able to convert between a laptop for their office and a tablet for when moving about would be quite handy.
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You forgot 2008 R2. But I think their point was the Windows that are most current. Besides, MS has client and server go hand-in-hand so it's a little redundant to mention both.
- 2000/2000 (obviously)
- XP/2003/2003R2
- Vista/2008
- 7/2008 R2
- 8/2012
If you're going to say Ubuntu is more relevant, you'd have to include the qualifier of "currently". Given how distros rise and fall, for all we know, a Slackware distro could be what eventually brings the year of linux on the desktop. And I'd say Android has made a *much* bigger splash than Ubuntu.
Just start emailing copies of those documents to people on a regular basis and see how long before the government calls you a terrorist and arrests you for inciting revolt.
Some studies suggest that lobsters are effectively immortal and just keep growing larger and larger until they're killed by disease or predators, but generally never die of simple old age.
So that's the logic behind Highlander...
The difference is whether we can apply it to us. Flatworms are at least in the animalia kingdom, so it's a big step closer to being useful for humans compared to plantae.
An old thought experiment, I've heard it most repeated with cars, as well as by George Carlin. If you have a car and you replace a bolt, is it still the same car? Most people would say yes. What if you replaced another bolt? Most would still say yes. What if you replace every single part, one at a time? What if you then took all of those original parts and reassembled them into a new car. Which is the original?
Personally, I'd say none of your starfish are the "original" unless there's a core piece that you can point to and say that's what defines a starfish. The others would have to create a new core piece, and thus are no longer the original. If there is no core piece to make that individual unique, then all five are clones of the original.
I think he just picked a poor way of saying "if it was THAT useful, then we'd see regeneration-capable species outsurviving non-capable species". Since we don't see regeneration-capable species drastically outperforming non-capable species in the survival game, then it suggests that regeneration isn't the survival superpower that Wolverine would have us believe.
Or, as you said, he could just be anthropomorphizing evolution. Evolution hates when you do that.
"If you count every group of servers stashed in an office somewhere as a "data center", most big companies have thousands. "
My office is officially a data center. One of our legacy 2000 servers, with only fan fan still working (barely), has been in my office since January while the main and secondary server rooms undergo renovation. With the fans dead, it makes for a pretty quiet office mate. It also gives me an excuse to keep my office's a/c cranked down low.
We also have a couple of servers that we're not sure where they are. They're on the network, they work fine, we just don't know where they're physically located anymore...
It's not just cell phone chargers. I bought a couple of replacement power adapters for my Thinkpad from East Asia via eBay. Horrible construction, barely performed their advertised function, and surprisingly never caught fire.
My Android is old and was low-end even when it was new. And yet it still transfers data over USB just fine (and the USB cable is much sturdier than most of the Apple ones I've seen).
The whole "if it can fit, it should work" thing never works. Intel made a video adapter that looks identical to PCIe (although some ports can use PCIe as well, but not all). I've also had issues with some PCIe video cards not working with every motherboard with a PCIe port (most likely HP's crappy motherboards were to blame). USB-B will fit rather nicely in an Ethernet port, as if it belongs. PS/2 keyboard and mouse plugs are identical, but only interchangeable on some motherboards. My old Magellan GPS had a standard looking USB cable, but two of the pins were fused together; if it didn't detect the fused pins, it wouldn't charge properly. There's loads more examples of things that will fit, or in some cases are physically identical but still won't work.
An 8 second Google search (I'm on a slow connection) gives the following possibilities:
Member of Parliament
Military Police
Mounted Police
Mezzo Piano
Take a guess.
By "hang out next to the entrance", I meant stay with your bag, to avoid someone stealing it as much as someone suspecting a bomb. It's pretty common for people to put their bag next to them while they stand waiting or talking on the phone. That way, your bag can be several feet closer to the target area than if you were wearing it, still without arousing suspicion.
I don't think you want an RFID-proof wallet so much as a radio frequency blocking wallet. An RFID-proof wallet would just be silly, because then where would you keep your RFIDs?
I believe it has to do with frequency. He's looking at the 125KHz range, which Wikipedia lists a range of about 10cm. The link you posted is for 860-928MHz, which Wikipedia lists as having a rnage of up to 12 meters.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio-frequency_identification#Frequencies
"Long" is a relative term. When going from a few centimeters to a meter, that's a an increase of 20 or thirty times.
A rifle is long range compared to a pistol. A mortar is long range compared to a rifle. A cruise missile is long range compared to a mortar.
More than plenty of places in the US where you would be crowded shoulder to shoulder. Or just hang out next to the entrance to a building with your bag resting on a potted tree, bench, windowsill, etc that's right next to the door... keeps you out of three foot range while still enabling your bag to be within it. Just be on your cell phone and people probably won't accuse you of loitering.
Up until Office 2003 (iirc), you could float most of the toolbars. However, I don't recall if you could dock them anywhere other than the top. That option went away with the ribbon, unless they've buried it somewhere in there.
Did you read more than just the first sentence I wrote? I pointed out that multiple visible windows is becoming common, especially with larger displays. And then I concluded that it would be best to make it an option so people can set it how they want.
Given that it's damn near impossible to find a 4:3 monitor larger than 17" and very hard to find even 16:10, it makes more sense to put in sidebars to use the abundant horizontal space rather than the vertical. Of course, once you get to around 24" monitors, it starts to become much more commonplace to have two apps side-by-side, in which case the argument goes back to having toolbars on the top and bottom.
Or we could, you know, have both as options.
Both at my current job and my previous job, we have a number of people who are semi-mobile. They spend part of their time at their designated office, part of their time at designated assigned locations and a bit of time walking between various floors or facilities. Being able to convert between a laptop for their office and a tablet for when moving about would be quite handy.
That's been tried, in an umber of schools in the US and Europe.
Here's one article: http://stateimpact.npr.org/ohio/2012/02/14/cincinnati-school-pays-students-for-good-attendance/
You might want to clarify what you mean - presumably residential customers. After all, most businesses and colo facilities are ISP customers as well.
That last line should say "attendance" rather than "income". I hate Monday mornings.