the article (i read the readers disgest version) said it would have to be at the equator.. my guess is that a 22,000km cable no matter what it's made of will be heavy... the only way to keep it up would be to use the force of centrepedal(sp?) acceleration of an anchor to counteract the gravity of the situation...
i didn't think the new ibm mainframes were using "pc" components... from what i recall they were based on the new power4 cpus.. i could be wrong though
television is known as a medium for it is neither rare nor well done:
on the plus side if they can pump that much bandwidth through those things maybe those cheap cable modem services will stop harking on you for wanting to split you connection between your home lan?
my win2k box needs to be rebooted like once a week to once every other week... it really doesn't matter what the cause is.. if it is bad drivers then ms and the hardware vendors need to get together and fix it, because linux drivers don't ever seem to be that bad (just hard to find and sometimes less features)
overall wouldn't it depend on what you needed it for? i would imagine that the linux cluster would be good for some uses and the mac better at others (this would be more based on which software worked better on which os)
i'm probably wrong, but i would think that $30,000 or so would be neglegable for most companies who would even consider running clusters... and they would be more concerned about which cluster will get them the most work done...
i think the comparason would be:
linux unstable/development (2.odd) == windows beta
linux "beta" == windows gold
linux stable == windows after 3 service packs
Its the next leg of evolution, where we actually manage to amble our way across lightyears to get there. THAT... may take a significant fraction of the rest of civilization as we know it. And while it may take thousands of years to make that next huge step, the planet will be around for billions more yet. travel all those lightyears, ten thousand years to get there and about 10 or 20 more years to utterly devistate the indiginous peoples, and another 500 years to pollute the kaka out of it?
heck by then maybe we'll have terraforming or dyson spheres and we can just make new places to live
"In general, you cannot protect one natural right by withholding another, which is something that even our own ACLU doesn't quite understand [aclu.org]."
kind of reminds me of something i used to say a while back:
"We will NOT tolerate intolerence."
my point is where do you draw the line? Is it right to defend the basic rights of a group who wishes to take away another's "right to life?" Anytime you take a stand on something you will be faced with hypocracy. There has to be some kind of pragmatic middle ground somewhere and limits to how far an idology is allwed to tread...
*umm*ohyeah*umm*ohueah*
ooops sorry, i was trying to tell the difference between natural and civil rights...
but you are correct... technically all "natural" rights only exist as rights because someone is strong enough to defend those rights... only problem is sometimes your proverbial monkey's ego get's bigger than it can handle and it needs to be spanked
Microsoft responding to this new market has announced an IIS enabled lego brick. The IIS Lego Brick mesures 8"x5"x1", features a special edition of WinXP for Lego, and is fully.net enabled.
It's estimated reatil price is going to be $688.95 and will be available q3 of this year.
Inside sources at Microsoft reveailed a new "bumb" schema for "MSLego(tm)" that adds new "features," but may make it incompatable with industry standard Lego "bumps."
these large companies seem to think that they can use their lage banks to tie down smaller companies with vapor lawsuits *cough*ms*cough*
i remember the game company fasa used to have a board game called "battledroids" and lucas films sued them claiming that they owned the rights to the word "droid"
I propose that we lobby Congress to shut down the Internet altogether. Most of what takes place online is illegal, anyway (software/media piracy and pornography).
what? shut down porn??? *scream*
now there is something that will get people up and fighting for...
because while right now it is a bunch of online geeks fighting it (Read: A small minority). the scary part is even many of my "online geek" friends don't know or care much about it. most people in this country are suffering from ignorance and apathy that let's these large companies get away with murder
one of the things i'd be currious to know is how many copies were sold to the us? and if elcomsoft had any type of verification system to check if purchasers were us based or not.
i could not get to the link for this one.. but apparently the desk involved glue and paint.. isn't that cheating? here's the last thing i ever made out of lego many years ago.)
actually i was not specifically refering to people who lack computer skills as "the masses." it's just in this example it pointed that way.
i meant just a general tendency for large groups of people to be more prone to bad judgement. it doesn't matter what "types" of people are involved either...
i think it comes down to basic laziness. in a large groups it's much easier to NOT make a decision and go along with what the next person says. hence it is much easier for a bad idea to propegate this way, as opposed to when everyone is thinking for themselves.
i apologise if my post sounded like a jab at someone technical prowess... that is completly non-intended (especially if you realise that i'm one of the least technically profficient people who might post here)
maybe i'm getting convervative lately, but i plan on waiting till i give xp a try... (either that or i've been influcenced by too much anti-ms news)
the way i look at it is my employer will be testing xp soon and then i'll give it a look and decide if it's for me.
i don't have many stability problems with 2k and other than the multiple login thing, i don't see any distinct advantages to buying xp
and so just how long will it be before they have a release product? the article says they promise to have it all working by then... just what has lindows discovered that the wine project has not, that gives them such confidence...
i would actually preffer them to make a working version of wine that can be installed on your existing distro... (do we really need another distro?)
that's a great idea, but i don't think it's possible to teach the masses to be stupid... from my observation, the intelegence of a group of people is inversely proportional to it's size.
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the article (i read the readers disgest version) said it would have to be at the equator.. my guess is that a 22,000km cable no matter what it's made of will be heavy... the only way to keep it up would be to use the force of centrepedal(sp?) acceleration of an anchor to counteract the gravity of the situation...
i didn't think the new ibm mainframes were using "pc" components... from what i recall they were based on the new power4 cpus.. i could be wrong though
well it wouldn't surprise me if the ms compound had sams and machine gun bunkers... heck you saw "anti-trust" right?
television is known as a medium for it is neither rare nor well done: on the plus side if they can pump that much bandwidth through those things maybe those cheap cable modem services will stop harking on you for wanting to split you connection between your home lan?
my win2k box needs to be rebooted like once a week to once every other week... it really doesn't matter what the cause is.. if it is bad drivers then ms and the hardware vendors need to get together and fix it, because linux drivers don't ever seem to be that bad (just hard to find and sometimes less features)
i was thinking something similar... and if the datacenter was critical enough and big enough why not just use one of those ibm linux mainframes?
overall wouldn't it depend on what you needed it for? i would imagine that the linux cluster would be good for some uses and the mac better at others (this would be more based on which software worked better on which os) i'm probably wrong, but i would think that $30,000 or so would be neglegable for most companies who would even consider running clusters... and they would be more concerned about which cluster will get them the most work done...
i think the comparason would be:
linux unstable/development (2.odd) == windows beta
linux "beta" == windows gold
linux stable == windows after 3 service packs
or something like that
Its the next leg of evolution, where we actually manage to amble our way across lightyears to get there. THAT... may take a significant fraction of the rest of civilization as we know it. And while it may take thousands of years to make that next huge step, the planet will be around for billions more yet.
travel all those lightyears, ten thousand years to get there and about 10 or 20 more years to utterly devistate the indiginous peoples, and another 500 years to pollute the kaka out of it?
heck by then maybe we'll have terraforming or dyson spheres and we can just make new places to live
"In general, you cannot protect one natural right by withholding another, which is something that even our own ACLU doesn't quite understand [aclu.org]."
kind of reminds me of something i used to say a while back:
"We will NOT tolerate intolerence."
my point is where do you draw the line? Is it right to defend the basic rights of a group who wishes to take away another's "right to life?" Anytime you take a stand on something you will be faced with hypocracy. There has to be some kind of pragmatic middle ground somewhere and limits to how far an idology is allwed to tread...
*umm*ohyeah*umm*ohueah*
ooops sorry, i was trying to tell the difference between natural and civil rights...
but you are correct... technically all "natural" rights only exist as rights because someone is strong enough to defend those rights... only problem is sometimes your proverbial monkey's ego get's bigger than it can handle and it needs to be spanked
Microsoft responding to this new market has announced an IIS enabled lego brick. The IIS Lego Brick mesures 8"x5"x1", features a special edition of WinXP for Lego, and is fully .net enabled.
It's estimated reatil price is going to be $688.95 and will be available q3 of this year.
Inside sources at Microsoft reveailed a new "bumb" schema for "MSLego(tm)" that adds new "features," but may make it incompatable with industry standard Lego "bumps."
you forgot the all time most sexually suggestive line:
"Pull out Wedge! You can't do anymore good back there!"
these large companies seem to think that they can use their lage banks to tie down smaller companies with vapor lawsuits *cough*ms*cough*
i remember the game company fasa used to have a board game called "battledroids" and lucas films sued them claiming that they owned the rights to the word "droid"
I propose that we lobby Congress to shut down the Internet altogether. Most of what takes place online is illegal, anyway (software/media piracy and pornography).
what? shut down porn??? *scream*
now there is something that will get people up and fighting for...
because while right now it is a bunch of online geeks fighting it (Read: A small minority).
the scary part is even many of my "online geek" friends don't know or care much about it. most people in this country are suffering from ignorance and apathy that let's these large companies get away with murder
one of the things i'd be currious to know is how many copies were sold to the us? and if elcomsoft had any type of verification system to check if purchasers were us based or not.
and with any luck this will get that law thrown out somewhere in the process
i could not get to the link for this one.. but apparently the desk involved glue and paint.. isn't that cheating? here's the last thing i ever made out of lego many years ago .)
and apparently so is the ability to type/spell (which i never claimed to have)
actually i was not specifically refering to people who lack computer skills as "the masses." it's just in this example it pointed that way.
i meant just a general tendency for large groups of people to be more prone to bad judgement. it doesn't matter what "types" of people are involved either...
i think it comes down to basic laziness. in a large groups it's much easier to NOT make a decision and go along with what the next person says. hence it is much easier for a bad idea to propegate this way, as opposed to when everyone is thinking for themselves.
i apologise if my post sounded like a jab at someone technical prowess... that is completly non-intended (especially if you realise that i'm one of the least technically profficient people who might post here)
maybe i'm getting convervative lately, but i plan on waiting till i give xp a try... (either that or i've been influcenced by too much anti-ms news)
the way i look at it is my employer will be testing xp soon and then i'll give it a look and decide if it's for me.
i don't have many stability problems with 2k and other than the multiple login thing, i don't see any distinct advantages to buying xp
and so just how long will it be before they have a release product? the article says they promise to have it all working by then... just what has lindows discovered that the wine project has not, that gives them such confidence...
i would actually preffer them to make a working version of wine that can be installed on your existing distro... (do we really need another distro?)
that's a great idea, but i don't think it's possible to teach the masses to be stupid... from my observation, the intelegence of a group of people is inversely proportional to it's size.
2k maybe, but not xp... the drivers for xp are not yet mature enough for me and not to mention the wpa scheme...*sigh*