Bureaucracies fail all the time. Mostly they fail by being over complex and not changing with the times. KISS
The airforce isn't responsible for planes or noughts, is that not NASA. Greece doesn't have any space craft;-)
Officers are not reasonable, they're not trained to be reasonable, they're not paid to be reasonable, they're not promoted for being reasonable. Officers are managers in charge of workers who cannot resign.
Back in the mid 80s I was a jnr op on an old mainframe. Not much disk space so we used to save old audit trails to tape and remove them. Another pertinent fact is the DB starts UDX* and the audit trails start UDXA*
I wonder what might have happened if a certain jnr op had not being paying attention and thought he knew it all.
Yep, there goes the audit trails and the database:-( God knows why they kept me around.
Bollocks, there is no free access to basic medical care for all the population in the US. This would be a remarkable step forward for the US but it's not going to happen.
They were not arming to invade but to defend. Given what the US was up to I think it was the prudent thing to do.
Yes, they should have traded, yes they should have been more diplomatic. But hell the only president who tried to open diplomatic channels from the US was executed by his own side. That really sends warm welcoming signals doesn't it?
The question is not can Linux do something now, but rather, how long before Linux can do it? Or more accurately how long before Linux can do it on commodity hardware.
I'm pretty sure the new SGI runs without futzing, not sure if it's a 106 cpu box. Likewise the Stratus hardware allows for dynamic config. So maybe Linux can already do it, just not on commodity hardware.
In the enterprise sphere the question becomes does IBM want to do it? IBM seems committed to migrating all their servers to Linux. Z series on down. If IBM has the feature currently I'm guessing it will be in Linux in the next few years.
The worst thing Sun can do is throw mud at Linux, as Linux gains more features the mud gets thrown back. Where does Sun go if Linux gains all the features of Solaris?
If Sun suspects Linux is going to gain the features that sets Solaris apart Sun needs to embrace Linux now. Why would I want Sparc without Solaris? A nasty double whammy for Sun that, they lose their OS market share and as a result nobody wants their hardware.
In my mind the question is rapidly becoming what hardware should I run Linux on. The OS war is over and the damn hippies have won. The hardware thou is open, intel rules the low end, can they invade the high end or is Sun/IBM going to hold on?
What the fuck are you smoking. This may have been the case in the past, but I doubt it. I'm pretty sure most European countries have at least as free speech as the US. Read the Patriot Act parts I & II, if you ever had free speech it's long since departed for sunnier climates.
Free speech is only going to happen if people are willing to pick up arms and over throw the goverment. The US public defaulted on that right during the Mcarthy era and have yet to reclaim it.
I swear there are none so blind as those that will not see.
The UN is not anti US, but I believe the member states are extremely pissed off at the recent US foreign policy.
A beneveloent dictator is how the US used to behave, usually pretty decent about most things. Of course it fucked up now and again, Cuba, Vietnam, Panama etc. but, hey who doesn't.
Now it a raging bull in a china shop. A loose cannon if you will. If I were a small, non jewish/christian, non white country I'd be extremely worried as to the US next move. Afghanistan, Iraq who's next?
The UN like the league of nations before it tries to sort problems out diplomatically, when this fails it asks that military force be used. It has no standing army and has to rely on the member nations to do anything.
IMHO A world goverment would be bad(tm) But a central place to discuss and barter is a good thing(tm).
People are people the world over, it's just a pity the sick fucks like Bush, Chenney and Ashcroft get into the positions of power.
MRSA is a problem precisely becsuse of the sterility in a hospital. Hospitals word wide have this problem.
Now the above sounds crazy, sterile environment causes problems. But think about evolution, in a normal environment these resistant germs might not be prevalent because they cannot compete with other germs. But if something removes the other germs then voila MRSA. They have nothing controling their spread.
When I lived in the UK I viewed the BBC as very biased, the education system as decrepid and the NHS out of control.
Now I live in the US I see the BBC as the paragon of unabised reporting, the UK public education system as an ideal and the NHS as a very vital piece of public infrastructure.
Where is the US liberal media I read so much about? Why does a country that prides education so much have a high illiteracy rate? You have many doctors but hardly any public healthcare.
In short, it's better to have a large unwiedly public healthcare system than not have one at all.
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Nice troll :-)
;-)
Bureaucracies fail all the time. Mostly they fail by being over complex and not changing with the times. KISS
The airforce isn't responsible for planes or noughts, is that not NASA. Greece doesn't have any space craft
Officers are not reasonable, they're not trained to be reasonable, they're not paid to be reasonable, they're not promoted for being reasonable. Officers are managers in charge of workers who cannot resign.
Simple physics indeed.
You've estimated the lag for communicating with a sat, not for communicating with the down link.
So is lag on the order of 1 second with these things?
Bit like th FA cup final except the viloence is on the pitch and not in the stands.
Just like /. only they can spell
Sure send a letter of intent to spooks@nsa.gov
Try an OOBE
It would appear Las Vegas is a mirage then?
Simple, don't mention religon.
Back in the mid 80s I was a jnr op on an old mainframe. Not much disk space so we used to save old audit trails to tape and remove them. Another pertinent fact is the DB starts UDX* and the audit trails start UDXA*
:-( God knows why they kept me around.
I wonder what might have happened if a certain jnr op had not being paying attention and thought he knew it all.
Yep, there goes the audit trails and the database
Most likely they're right and you're wrong.
...anyone else catch the file :-)
Bollocks, there is no free access to basic medical care for all the population in the US. This would be a remarkable step forward for the US but it's not going to happen.
This is where I show my ignorance and not for the first time, I might add.
ECC is just error correcting ram is it not.
Rendering is adding light to an image that is going to be displayed for a small part of one second.
Most ram is pretty good only one or two errors per year as I recall.
My question is why is ECC so gosh darn important if the chances of an error is minimal and the consequences of the error is neglegable?
I always speak a loud near the farm when I'm allowed near the farm.
Another language and still no progress. When will CompuSci people stop re-inventing the wheel and go out and invent something.
I'm for the screwing with people in the past idea :-)
:-)
"Buy all the SCOX stock you can"
"Bush is a noble leader, vote for him"
"Liver and kidneys every day increase lifespan 300%"
That's the sort of stuff I'd be sending
That was one hell of a long front, were would you put yor static armour to defend it ?
Wasn't the bear a response to the B52?
Go back and check that Hitler election, hardly a good example of democracy that. In fact it was very similar to the Florida debacle.
Canada invest in Canada, it's not as if they're next to a country with....cancel that.
So that's why they're ramping up the Selective Service. I hadn't put two and two together. 2005 is shaping up to be a most interesting year :-)
They were not arming to invade but to defend. Given what the US was up to I think it was the prudent thing to do.
Yes, they should have traded, yes they should have been more diplomatic. But hell the only president who tried to open diplomatic channels from the US was executed by his own side. That really sends warm welcoming signals doesn't it?
The question is not can Linux do something now, but rather, how long before Linux can do it? Or more accurately how long before Linux can do it on commodity hardware.
I'm pretty sure the new SGI runs without futzing, not sure if it's a 106 cpu box. Likewise the Stratus hardware allows for dynamic config. So maybe Linux can already do it, just not on commodity hardware.
In the enterprise sphere the question becomes does IBM want to do it? IBM seems committed to migrating all their servers to Linux. Z series on down. If IBM has the feature currently I'm guessing it will be in Linux in the next few years.
The worst thing Sun can do is throw mud at Linux, as Linux gains more features the mud gets thrown back. Where does Sun go if Linux gains all the features of Solaris?
If Sun suspects Linux is going to gain the features that sets Solaris apart Sun needs to embrace Linux now. Why would I want Sparc without Solaris? A nasty double whammy for Sun that, they lose their OS market share and as a result nobody wants their hardware.
In my mind the question is rapidly becoming what hardware should I run Linux on. The OS war is over and the damn hippies have won. The hardware thou is open, intel rules the low end, can they invade the high end or is Sun/IBM going to hold on?
What the fuck are you smoking. This may have been the case in the past, but I doubt it. I'm pretty sure most European countries have at least as free speech as the US. Read the Patriot Act parts I & II, if you ever had free speech it's long since departed for sunnier climates.
Free speech is only going to happen if people are willing to pick up arms and over throw the goverment. The US public defaulted on that right during the Mcarthy era and have yet to reclaim it.
I swear there are none so blind as those that will not see.
The UN is not anti US, but I believe the member states are extremely pissed off at the recent US foreign policy.
A beneveloent dictator is how the US used to behave, usually pretty decent about most things. Of course it fucked up now and again, Cuba, Vietnam, Panama etc. but, hey who doesn't.
Now it a raging bull in a china shop. A loose cannon if you will. If I were a small, non jewish/christian, non white country I'd be extremely worried as to the US next move. Afghanistan, Iraq who's next?
The UN like the league of nations before it tries to sort problems out diplomatically, when this fails it asks that military force be used. It has no standing army and has to rely on the member nations to do anything.
IMHO A world goverment would be bad(tm) But a central place to discuss and barter is a good thing(tm).
People are people the world over, it's just a pity the sick fucks like Bush, Chenney and Ashcroft get into the positions of power.
In a similar vein Cannon AE1, 70s camera. Has basic metering if you want it. Dirt cheap, indestructable, Hundreds of lenses that are also cheap.
I gave mine to my Dad when I stepped up to the Nikkon 801, also a great camera, but more useless do hickies than the AE1.
I've stopped doing most of my art photography so I'll probably pick up a digital cheapie in the next year or so.
MRSA is a problem precisely becsuse of the sterility in a hospital. Hospitals word wide have this problem.
Now the above sounds crazy, sterile environment causes problems. But think about evolution, in a normal environment these resistant germs might not be prevalent because they cannot compete with other germs. But if something removes the other germs then voila MRSA. They have nothing controling their spread.
When I lived in the UK I viewed the BBC as very biased, the education system as decrepid and the NHS out of control.
Now I live in the US I see the BBC as the paragon of unabised reporting, the UK public education system as an ideal and the NHS as a very vital piece of public infrastructure.
Where is the US liberal media I read so much about? Why does a country that prides education so much have a high illiteracy rate? You have many doctors but hardly any public healthcare.
In short, it's better to have a large unwiedly public healthcare system than not have one at all.