Question - the lawsuit against the 7 year old girl, is it:
A. RIAA -v- Andersen or B. Atlantic Records -v- Andersen
I think you'll find the latter. The record companies themselves are doing the suing. If you want to hate someone for spamming the courts with lawsuits, hate the record companies themselves. They love it that the RIAA is catching all the shit (because the RIAA doesn't sell to the public so it doesn't matter if the RIAA has a horrible reputation amongst the public). However, if people understand that the record companies are the ones spamming the courts, maybe the right people will be the object of vilification.
Umm, I wasn't asserting that there was a "surge of religious sentiment" in the US, merely providing an anecdote to support the statement that British people generally like to avoid Jehova's Witnesses (and have done so for some time).
The real gain of cellulosic ethanol is you can use any old invasive weed as the feed stock. So you don't need fertilizer, and you can use land that's marginal for food farming.
Yes, Xen rocks. The difference is Xen is a lightweight hypervisor, and VMware Server is heavyweight, more like an emulator. I/O intensive loads in particularly suffer extremely badly under VMware Server (and User Mode Linux), but run almost as fast (i.e indistinguishable) as on the bare metal with Xen.
Actually, you've got it the wrong way around. The Xen authors did a study, and found that virtualization (either User Mode Linux, VMware or Xen) had very little impact on the performance when number crunching. VMware and UML had a very high performance penalty for I/O heavy workloads - i.e. funny videos and checking email. So yes, it will effect the noob the most if the server they are going to is using virtualization, because virtualization has a high performance impact on the sorts of things they do.
Paravirtualization has much less impact on heavy I/O workloads (not all virtualization si equal).
Why would the train slow down for a town? Unless the town was large enough to have a station where the train could pick up passengers, the train would just continue at full speed.
The Beatles were pretty formulaic in 1963 or 1964.
Their finest hour didn't come until after they stopped touring. Then they wrote good music, every bit as good as The Kinks or the Rolling Stones. They weren't writing catchy 3 minute ditties then (which is perhaps a giveaway this critic wrote this piece in about 1964 or 1965, or perhaps hasn't listened to much Beatles stuff) - they were writing entire albums.
One of the complaints about the Linux community is how people tell noobs to RTFM or use Google.
Interesting that the last post on this Microsoft Technet discussion is "learn to use Google". Seems that any fanboy whether it's a Microsoft fanboy or not is susceptible to giving people this treatment:-)
It's irrelevant, because the use of Ctrl-Alt-Del is no longer to reboot the machine, it's merely to send the Secure Attention Sequence to Windows. Therefore, it doesn't really matter if you hit it accidentally, because you just use Escape to go back. I doubt these devices will be sold with DOS, where it would matter.
The RIAA aren't suing 7 year old girls. The girl in question is named Andersen. Here's a question. In the lawsuit against Andersen, is the lawsuit:
a. RIAA -v- Andersen b. Atlantic -v- Andersen
So ask yourself this - why is the RIAA getting all the hatred, but not the record companies? The RIAA is working (in this instance) as designed - shielding the record companies from the bad PR, when it's the record companies actually suing the 7 year old girls and 90 year old disabled women.
The RIAA isn't even the one doing the suing, either - and indeed, the record companies love this, because the perception is that the RIAA are the bad guys.
But let's look closely. The 7 year old girl being sued.
Question? Is it:
A. RIAA -v- Andersen or: B. Atlantic -v- Andersen
It's actually B. So why is the RIAA getting all the hatred, but not Atlantic Records? The RIAA is merely a smokescreen in this.
The Mac is all open standards, apart from iTunes Music Store DRM - a Mac is *far* from vendor lock-in; certainly much further from vendor lock in than Microsoft's products. I have had absolutely no problems using things I have created on my PowerBook (such as videos, using the software that came with the PowerBook) on Linux systems. I have had no problems moving music from iTunes to my Linux system.
Multimedia applications are easy to use on Linux so long as you're not using media that has DRM (with some exceptions - DVDs are very easy). If you're running Fedora Core, you can install all the codecs and programs with patent issues simply by clicking on one link on rpm.livna.org, which will add the Livna software repository to your box (so you can just use the GUI software installer to install programs like the DVD player or Xine or VLC for playing MP3s, and also proprietary drivers such as nvidia and ATi graphics card drivers).
In some flight deck photos, there appears to be what looks like a normal PC running (gah!) Microsoft Windows built into the flight deck, complete with a full AT-style keyboard that can be pulled out. It's to the left of the captain, and the first officer has one also, to his right.
Now I wonder if anyone has run MS Flight Simulator yet on the flight deck PC of the A380? Or in an attempt at recursion, I wonder if anyone has run MS Flight Simulator on the flight deck PC of the Airbus A380 flight simulator:-) (The proper flight simulator, the thing they train the crew in).
The bigger the plane, the more the wings will flex. At one extreme, take a Cessna 140 - you won't see any wing flexing at all (until they actually break). Go a little bit bigger - say, a Cessna 310, and you'll see a tiny amount of wing flexing during taxi operations as you go over bumps in the ground.
Then at the other end, get in a Boeing 747. Watch the wings as you trundle off down the runway. The don't flex, they almost flap. When the pilot flying 'rotates' (brings the yoke back, lifting the nosewheel, increasing the angle of attack to make lift), watch the wings then. Before rotation, the wing tips on a B747 are actually drooping a little. But as the pilot rotates the aircraft, they bend upwards until the entire wing is a graceful curve. The wing tip moves up perhaps 15 feet as the plane starts making lift. In rough air, the wings almost flap again.
Go to an airshow where they are doing a demonstration with the B-52 bomber. In the low level turbulence, you can see the wings almost flapping on that ugly fucker, too.
Now that's cool:-) I've seen the Magic-1 (someone's implementation of their own architecture, completely in 74 series TTL). I always get a really nice feeling of satisfaction when I try a new piece of hardware I've made and it *works*; doing the same with an entire homebrew architecture...
Bill Gates was not the guy who introduced computers to the masses - certainly not in countries like Britain. It was really a combination of Clive Sinclair (with the Sinclair Spectrum) and the BBC (with the Acorn BBC Micro) who introduced computers to the masses in Britain, by providing an AFFORDABLE computer (when the Spectrum was on sale for £125, a Microsoft-based PC cost over £2000). Neither the Spectrum nor the BBC had a single byte of Microsoft code; the Spectrum ROM was written by a company called Nine Tiles (which still exists), and the BBC system software was written by Acorn. While in the United States, Microsoft was involved in the Commodore BASIC interpreter, people will remember Commodore et al. for introducing the masses to computers, not Microsoft.
Find new bands, perhaps? You don't have to give up music - just broaden out a bit. Musical talent is extremely common in the human population - it's really just the cult of the personality and the record companies that try and maintain a fiction that it is not. There are probably thousands of bands you will like if you take the time to look. eMusic and Magnatune are probably good starting places (and they don't use DRM either).
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The RIAA aren't issuing any lawsuits.
Question - the lawsuit against the 7 year old girl, is it:
A. RIAA -v- Andersen
or
B. Atlantic Records -v- Andersen
I think you'll find the latter. The record companies themselves are doing the suing. If you want to hate someone for spamming the courts with lawsuits, hate the record companies themselves. They love it that the RIAA is catching all the shit (because the RIAA doesn't sell to the public so it doesn't matter if the RIAA has a horrible reputation amongst the public). However, if people understand that the record companies are the ones spamming the courts, maybe the right people will be the object of vilification.
Umm, I wasn't asserting that there was a "surge of religious sentiment" in the US, merely providing an anecdote to support the statement that British people generally like to avoid Jehova's Witnesses (and have done so for some time).
The real gain of cellulosic ethanol is you can use any old invasive weed as the feed stock. So you don't need fertilizer, and you can use land that's marginal for food farming.
Yes, Xen rocks. The difference is Xen is a lightweight hypervisor, and VMware Server is heavyweight, more like an emulator. I/O intensive loads in particularly suffer extremely badly under VMware Server (and User Mode Linux), but run almost as fast (i.e indistinguishable) as on the bare metal with Xen.
Actually, you've got it the wrong way around. The Xen authors did a study, and found that virtualization (either User Mode Linux, VMware or Xen) had very little impact on the performance when number crunching. VMware and UML had a very high performance penalty for I/O heavy workloads - i.e. funny videos and checking email. So yes, it will effect the noob the most if the server they are going to is using virtualization, because virtualization has a high performance impact on the sorts of things they do.
Paravirtualization has much less impact on heavy I/O workloads (not all virtualization si equal).
...and then the Chinese will discover if they cut out the middle man and do the marketing themselves, they can have all the profit for themselves.
You can tell from this joke, which is well known in the UK (and has been around for years), that British people generally avoid Jehova's Witnesses...
Q. What's the difference between a Jehova's witness and a Lada [0]
A. You can shut the door on a Jehova's Witness.
[0] The Russian car company, Lada, used to sell cheap cars in Britain, and were noted for their appalling build quality.
Why would the train slow down for a town? Unless the town was large enough to have a station where the train could pick up passengers, the train would just continue at full speed.
The RIAA isn't doing these lawsuits - the record companies are. It was Sony-BMG doing the suing, not the RIAA.
Try http://oolite.aegidian.org/ .
You can always try Oolite, which is a remake for modern computers (and easily expandible):
http://oolite.aegidian.org/
http://wiki.alioth.net/index.php/Oolite_Main_Page
The Beatles were pretty formulaic in 1963 or 1964.
Their finest hour didn't come until after they stopped touring. Then they wrote good music, every bit as good as The Kinks or the Rolling Stones. They weren't writing catchy 3 minute ditties then (which is perhaps a giveaway this critic wrote this piece in about 1964 or 1965, or perhaps hasn't listened to much Beatles stuff) - they were writing entire albums.
One of the complaints about the Linux community is how people tell noobs to RTFM or use Google.
:-)
Interesting that the last post on this Microsoft Technet discussion is "learn to use Google". Seems that any fanboy whether it's a Microsoft fanboy or not is susceptible to giving people this treatment
Funnily enough, I just wrote about this:
http://slashdot.org/~Alioth/journal/167405 - includes a link to a major study of a piece of malware which went undetected by the AV companies for months.
Or just go to http://www.secureworks.com/research/threats/gozi/ if you don't want to read my crap.
I've personally witnessed two malware infections where the malware arrived up to a week before the AV companies had updated their definitions.
It's irrelevant, because the use of Ctrl-Alt-Del is no longer to reboot the machine, it's merely to send the Secure Attention Sequence to Windows. Therefore, it doesn't really matter if you hit it accidentally, because you just use Escape to go back. I doubt these devices will be sold with DOS, where it would matter.
The RIAA aren't suing 7 year old girls. The girl in question is named Andersen. Here's a question. In the lawsuit against Andersen, is the lawsuit:
a. RIAA -v- Andersen
b. Atlantic -v- Andersen
So ask yourself this - why is the RIAA getting all the hatred, but not the record companies? The RIAA is working (in this instance) as designed - shielding the record companies from the bad PR, when it's the record companies actually suing the 7 year old girls and 90 year old disabled women.
The RIAA isn't even the one doing the suing, either - and indeed, the record companies love this, because the perception is that the RIAA are the bad guys.
But let's look closely. The 7 year old girl being sued.
Question? Is it:
A. RIAA -v- Andersen
or:
B. Atlantic -v- Andersen
It's actually B. So why is the RIAA getting all the hatred, but not Atlantic Records? The RIAA is merely a smokescreen in this.
The Mac is all open standards, apart from iTunes Music Store DRM - a Mac is *far* from vendor lock-in; certainly much further from vendor lock in than Microsoft's products. I have had absolutely no problems using things I have created on my PowerBook (such as videos, using the software that came with the PowerBook) on Linux systems. I have had no problems moving music from iTunes to my Linux system.
Multimedia applications are easy to use on Linux so long as you're not using media that has DRM (with some exceptions - DVDs are very easy). If you're running Fedora Core, you can install all the codecs and programs with patent issues simply by clicking on one link on rpm.livna.org, which will add the Livna software repository to your box (so you can just use the GUI software installer to install programs like the DVD player or Xine or VLC for playing MP3s, and also proprietary drivers such as nvidia and ATi graphics card drivers).
Smoking pot is very popular amongst nerds, as is discussing the principles of democratic representation.
In some flight deck photos, there appears to be what looks like a normal PC running (gah!) Microsoft Windows built into the flight deck, complete with a full AT-style keyboard that can be pulled out. It's to the left of the captain, and the first officer has one also, to his right.
:-) (The proper flight simulator, the thing they train the crew in).
Now I wonder if anyone has run MS Flight Simulator yet on the flight deck PC of the A380? Or in an attempt at recursion, I wonder if anyone has run MS Flight Simulator on the flight deck PC of the Airbus A380 flight simulator
The bigger the plane, the more the wings will flex. At one extreme, take a Cessna 140 - you won't see any wing flexing at all (until they actually break). Go a little bit bigger - say, a Cessna 310, and you'll see a tiny amount of wing flexing during taxi operations as you go over bumps in the ground.
Then at the other end, get in a Boeing 747. Watch the wings as you trundle off down the runway. The don't flex, they almost flap. When the pilot flying 'rotates' (brings the yoke back, lifting the nosewheel, increasing the angle of attack to make lift), watch the wings then. Before rotation, the wing tips on a B747 are actually drooping a little. But as the pilot rotates the aircraft, they bend upwards until the entire wing is a graceful curve. The wing tip moves up perhaps 15 feet as the plane starts making lift. In rough air, the wings almost flap again.
Go to an airshow where they are doing a demonstration with the B-52 bomber. In the low level turbulence, you can see the wings almost flapping on that ugly fucker, too.
Now that's cool :-) I've seen the Magic-1 (someone's implementation of their own architecture, completely in 74 series TTL). I always get a really nice feeling of satisfaction when I try a new piece of hardware I've made and it *works*; doing the same with an entire homebrew architecture...
Good luck with your project!
There are better ways to do 'just chat' online though, than Second Life. IRC - which has very light requirements will fill this requirement fine.
Bill Gates was not the guy who introduced computers to the masses - certainly not in countries like Britain. It was really a combination of Clive Sinclair (with the Sinclair Spectrum) and the BBC (with the Acorn BBC Micro) who introduced computers to the masses in Britain, by providing an AFFORDABLE computer (when the Spectrum was on sale for £125, a Microsoft-based PC cost over £2000). Neither the Spectrum nor the BBC had a single byte of Microsoft code; the Spectrum ROM was written by a company called Nine Tiles (which still exists), and the BBC system software was written by Acorn. While in the United States, Microsoft was involved in the Commodore BASIC interpreter, people will remember Commodore et al. for introducing the masses to computers, not Microsoft.
Find new bands, perhaps? You don't have to give up music - just broaden out a bit. Musical talent is extremely common in the human population - it's really just the cult of the personality and the record companies that try and maintain a fiction that it is not. There are probably thousands of bands you will like if you take the time to look. eMusic and Magnatune are probably good starting places (and they don't use DRM either).