DeBeers can only keep prices stupid via monopoly, they basicly buy all of the diamonds mined in the world, control the the cutters in antwerp, and have all of the importers by the balls. Only diamonds from the US, Canada, and Russia are able to escape DeBeers clutches.
DeBeers has huge vaults filled with diamonds, and if their supply exceeds their storage and market demands, they'll grind'em up into diamond paste, rather than let the market price sag a bit. It's easy for a trained pro to tell a lab-grown from a dirt-grown, the lab-grown is flawless. Figure out a way to make a lab-grown with natural looking flaws and DeBeers is toast.
My first encounter with spybot was on recomendation of a MS tech rep; it wouldn't suprise me that MS had a channel to spybot and was feeding them malware defs on the QT. If so, that source has dried up now that MS antispy is distributed and security is something they are officialy admiting to be in need of improvement.
If MOG's info is correct, she is far outside the Liunx enthusiast demographic that I had imagined. Open source is quite bit like neighbor's helping neighbors, some neighbors are IBM pumping a billion dollars worth of code into the community, and some are six-pack joes sending in a bug report, PJ is between the two extreems.
Rei I know we've had a flamefest is the past, but this is serious shit, not like a couple of geeks argueing about mass vs. volume. There are a lot of wacko's out there, if a couple of them decide to take out everybody on your list how would you feel? My guess is the Maureen O'Gara in question has an unlisted home phone and isn't even on your list. People do get assasinated, and sometimes it's mistaken identity.
Everyone, open your eyes! It's so obvious that the Mormon Church, Brigham Young University and the Salt Lake City Olympic Committee are behind the SCO actions! The Mormon church is one of the world's largest genealogical information repositories; and a majority of that information sits inside an IBM S390 running a thousand instances of Linux. Personaly I think its more likely that McBride would be excommunicated from the church rather than acting in it's behalf.
My experience has been that not even microsoft office opens microsoft office docs with 100% formatting accuracy 100% of the time. try opening and editing back and forth between two differant versions and see for your self!
GMT does produce publication quality graphs, the install is a bit more than fiddly, I'd grade cranky, about 3 tries, but well worth the effort. The learning curve is steep, because it will do just about anything you can think up. If GMT can't do it, i'd think about some serious hacking on POVRAY.
Considering the age of the system, I'd say they was lucky they still had the source code. More than one company found that their source had disapeared during the Y2K conversions
repeat offender's: Sure I'll clean your system and reconnect you to the network but remember, I'm doing this on a volunteer basis, and that my own study time and personal life takes first priority. ; call for an appointment, I should have some time after Finals. Of course give serious babes preferential treatment
The way I understand it is CAR and CDR refer to registers on an IMB 360, the CAR register contained the pointer to the first part of the list and the CDR register the pointer to the rest of the list, it makes sense to people used to programming in IBM 360 asembly language.
The spacecraft propulsion would be an ionic drive, just heat the crystals in space and the intense electical fields would strip electrons from the ambient gasses and repell the ions and thus propelling the spacecraft. This would be perfect for keeping satelites in orbit by countering atmospheric drag induced orbital decay.
this story was the Free as in beer and speech version; yestredays' linked to nature, not-free as subsciption required, and msnbc as in Microsoft not free
how about putting one of these things inside a fissionable shell, inside a berillium neutron reflector, and you could engineer a fision reactor that was non-sustaining in it's natural state; turn off the electricity and the reactor stops, rather than trying to jam control rods in a heat warped core.
neutrons are a lot better for producing radiographs, for instance if you X-Ray a bullet you can see the bullet itself, the cartrige caseing, and a bit of the primer, with neutrons, you can easily see everything the X-Ray saw, but even the gun-powder grains grains inside the bullet's cartrige.
The difference is enough to tell the difference between a CD player boom-box, and a bomb inside a boom-box even when the explosive are hidden inside the batteries or capacitors.
A far as detecting fissile material I doubt that they need any help; when I had a thallium stress test, there was a sign telling us not to cross the border for a couple of days, without telling customs we had just had a stress test because they'd detect the radiation we were giving off.
I suspect that this technology will actualy scale up rather well, I imagine that they be made like computer chips, reaction unit photolithographicaly etched on to the Lithium Tantalate crystal wafer, they are all ready found in pyroelectric sensors ( they "see" heat and generate charge).
The only tricky part would be figuring out the reaction unit density, too many you would get a thermal run-away and the thing would melt, too few and the heat output wouldn't be self-sustaining.
I think you under estimate the fact that the world as we had known it is forever changed, the mere fact that hydrogen fusion has actualy occured in an apparatus that isn't as big as a warehouse and at insanely high temperates and presures, is all it took.
Sure maybe a few years to a decade to find the right combinations to get a net energy output, but now it is going to happen because now it's real.
Then students would pursue projects with this in mind, instead of developing with military applications in mind. Highly reliable and easy-to-repair water pumps, improved farming tools constructable from local materials, simple and effective water filtration devices, etc.?
You say that like those aren't military applications, I think perhaps your out of touch with what modern military actualy does. Demonizing anything military is easy, and the people who do it the most are the people who don't realize that it's the military's infrastructure that make most humanitarian relief operations possible. Next time you think somebody needs 10,000 tons of relief supplies ask FedEx what the going rate is, and if they drop it off in a hostile fire zone.
Not being able to do things like that would mean that we'd have to use a boot disk everytime we upgraded a kernel in Linux. We'd never be able to even do an windows online upgrade.
Just rename it, I don't see why you'd have to redo the server. How pissed did he get when you did that LOL
I find the tarpit patches to be appealing on an emotional level; hit a tarpitted port and your stuck, hit the next one, and you sink a little deeper, sooner or later the poor l33t hax04 is out of ports to get out on
In a case like this why they are or aren't on the privileged list may be more important than if they exists or not. Because it's about IP ownership, we know that there is code in unix SVR5 and Linux that's the same, big chunks of it; what's important to the case is things like how the code got in both places because some are infringing and some are not.
Actualy they treatd us pretty good, we had a app that ran on SCO xenix, a dental office management program, well eventualy we ran out of disk space, and our VAR quoted some seemingly ridiculaous price to upgrade the system, I asked "Why can't you just slap in a SCSI disk in the machine, and move the full directory over to it and clear up the problem" and there answer sounded like BS to me so eventualy I call SCO Tech support about it. They asked who we were, and the system serial number. It turned out the the serial didn't match our liciense, but belonged to a doctor in an other town near the VAR. They contacted the VAR and it turns out that they "lost" our operating system disk set, and during a rebuild, they "borrowed" a disk set from the other practice to get us going. Well the VAR almost lost their reseller license over this, and SCO sent us a box containing a properly licensed version of SCO xenix, and gave the answer that xenix wouldn't allow both IDE and SCSI busses on the same system.
Y2K was a different story, we were had to down load the Y2K patches to a windows machine, slap in a linux cd to raw-right them onto a floppy disk, then load the patches onto the unix machine ( no networking installed on the machine). SCO at that time was basicly a building with the lights on but nobody home.
The thought occurred to me is that if SCOX, seems to have removed 16209 files from their privilege logs without reason, most likely clerical errors ect.; how is anyone ever going to trust them to maintain anything as complicated as a source tree?
I fail to see how using Linux will give me an edge How about you've got a website, with a nice clean design, no excessive graphics ect. but those.asp page are loading slower than shit! Maybe some apache/linux would run better, OBTW the images on the Newman's own dog food page are broken; the more I think about it the more I think something is seriously wrong on your website, I'm not a windows expert or anything but those pages should be loading much faster, either something is miss-configured, and there is way to much resources used on the back-end, or your on over-shared hosting and the DogDude is definately not the alpha male in the pack.
leave the financial app on windows unless you're ready for oracle
Reusing lumber, on the other hand, could save a few. Especially hardwood. I remember reading an article about people diving in rivers in the Carolinas and up in lake superior for sunken "dunder heads", logs so dense that they would sink out of the log packs. Imagine logs so dense they can sit in the mud for a century, and are still stronger and denser than the wood growing now.
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DeBeers can only keep prices stupid via monopoly, they basicly buy all of the diamonds mined in the world, control the the cutters in antwerp, and have all of the importers by the balls. Only diamonds from the US, Canada, and Russia are able to escape DeBeers clutches.
DeBeers has huge vaults filled with diamonds, and if their supply exceeds their storage and market demands, they'll grind'em up into diamond paste, rather than let the market price sag a bit. It's easy for a trained pro to tell a lab-grown from a dirt-grown, the lab-grown is flawless. Figure out a way to make a lab-grown with natural looking flaws and DeBeers is toast.
My first encounter with spybot was on recomendation of a MS tech rep; it wouldn't suprise me that MS had a channel to spybot and was feeding them malware defs on the QT. If so, that source has dried up now that MS antispy is distributed and security is something they are officialy admiting to be in need of improvement.
If MOG's info is correct, she is far outside the Liunx enthusiast demographic that I had imagined.
Open source is quite bit like neighbor's helping neighbors, some neighbors are IBM pumping a billion dollars worth of code into the community, and some are six-pack joes sending in a bug report, PJ is between the two extreems.
Rei I know we've had a flamefest is the past, but this is serious shit, not like a couple of geeks argueing about mass vs. volume. There are a lot of wacko's out there, if a couple of them decide to take out everybody on your list how would you feel?
My guess is the Maureen O'Gara in question has an unlisted home phone and isn't even on your list. People do get assasinated, and sometimes it's mistaken identity.
Bad form.
Everyone, open your eyes! It's so obvious that the Mormon Church, Brigham Young University and the Salt Lake City Olympic Committee are behind the SCO actions!
The Mormon church is one of the world's largest genealogical information repositories; and a majority of that information sits inside an IBM S390 running a thousand instances of Linux. Personaly I think its more likely that McBride would be excommunicated from the church rather than acting in it's behalf.
My experience has been that not even microsoft office opens microsoft office docs with 100% formatting accuracy 100% of the time. try opening and editing back and forth between two differant versions and see for your self!
GMT does produce publication quality graphs, the install is a bit more than fiddly, I'd grade cranky, about 3 tries, but well worth the effort. The learning curve is steep, because it will do just about anything you can think up. If GMT can't do it, i'd think about some serious hacking on POVRAY.
Considering the age of the system, I'd say they was lucky they still had the source code. More than one company found that their source had disapeared during the Y2K conversions
repeat offender's: Sure I'll clean your system and reconnect you to the network but remember, I'm doing this on a volunteer basis, and that my own study time and personal life takes first priority. ; call for an appointment, I should have some time after Finals. Of course give serious babes preferential treatment
The way I understand it is CAR and CDR refer to registers on an IMB 360, the CAR register contained the pointer to the first part of the list and the CDR register the pointer to the rest of the list, it makes sense to people used to programming in IBM 360 asembly language.
The spacecraft propulsion would be an ionic drive, just heat the crystals in space and the intense electical fields would strip electrons from the ambient gasses and repell the ions and thus propelling the spacecraft. This would be perfect for keeping satelites in orbit by countering atmospheric drag induced orbital decay.
this story was the Free as in beer and speech version; yestredays' linked to nature, not-free as subsciption required, and msnbc as in Microsoft not free
how about putting one of these things inside a fissionable shell, inside a berillium neutron reflector, and you could engineer a fision reactor that was non-sustaining in it's natural state; turn off the electricity and the reactor stops, rather than trying to jam control rods in a heat warped core.
neutrons are a lot better for producing radiographs, for instance if you X-Ray a bullet you can see the bullet itself, the cartrige caseing, and a bit of the primer, with neutrons, you can easily see everything the X-Ray saw, but even the gun-powder grains grains inside the bullet's cartrige.
The difference is enough to tell the difference between a CD player boom-box, and a bomb inside a boom-box even when the explosive are hidden inside the batteries or capacitors.
A far as detecting fissile material I doubt that they need any help; when I had a thallium stress test, there was a sign telling us not to cross the border for a couple of days, without telling customs we had just had a stress test because they'd detect the radiation we were giving off.
I suspect that this technology will actualy scale up rather well, I imagine that they be made like computer chips, reaction unit photolithographicaly etched on to the Lithium Tantalate crystal wafer, they are all ready found in pyroelectric sensors ( they "see" heat and generate charge).
The only tricky part would be figuring out the reaction unit density, too many you would get a thermal run-away and the thing would melt, too few and the heat output wouldn't be self-sustaining.
I think you under estimate the fact that the world as we had known it is forever changed, the mere fact that hydrogen fusion has actualy occured in an apparatus that isn't as big as a warehouse and at insanely high temperates and presures, is all it took.
Sure maybe a few years to a decade to find the right combinations to get a net energy output, but now it is going to happen because now it's real.
Then students would pursue projects with this in mind, instead of developing with military applications in mind. Highly reliable and easy-to-repair water pumps, improved farming tools constructable from local materials, simple and effective water filtration devices, etc.?
You say that like those aren't military applications, I think perhaps your out of touch with what modern military actualy does. Demonizing anything military is easy, and the people who do it the most are the people who don't realize that it's the military's infrastructure that make most humanitarian relief operations possible. Next time you think somebody needs 10,000 tons of relief supplies ask FedEx what the going rate is, and if they drop it off in a hostile fire zone.
Not being able to do things like that would mean that we'd have to use a boot disk everytime we upgraded a kernel in Linux. We'd never be able to even do an windows online upgrade.
Just rename it, I don't see why you'd have to redo the server. How pissed did he get when you did that LOL
I find the tarpit patches to be appealing on an emotional level; hit a tarpitted port and your stuck, hit the next one, and you sink a little deeper, sooner or later the poor l33t hax04 is out of ports to get out on
In a case like this why they are or aren't on the privileged list may be more important than if they exists or not. Because it's about IP ownership, we know that there is code in unix SVR5 and Linux that's the same, big chunks of it; what's important to the case is things like how the code got in both places because some are infringing and some are not.
Actualy they treatd us pretty good, we had a app that ran on SCO xenix, a dental office management program, well eventualy we ran out of disk space, and our VAR quoted some seemingly ridiculaous price to upgrade the system, I asked "Why can't you just slap in a SCSI disk in the machine, and move the full directory over to it and clear up the problem" and there answer sounded like BS to me so eventualy I call SCO Tech support about it. They asked who we were, and the system serial number. It turned out the the serial didn't match our liciense, but belonged to a doctor in an other town near the VAR. They contacted the VAR and it turns out that they "lost" our operating system disk set, and during a rebuild, they "borrowed" a disk set from the other practice to get us going. Well the VAR almost lost their reseller license over this, and SCO sent us a box containing a properly licensed version of SCO xenix, and gave the answer that xenix wouldn't allow both IDE and SCSI busses on the same system.
Y2K was a different story, we were had to down load the Y2K patches to a windows machine, slap in a linux cd to raw-right them onto a floppy disk, then load the patches onto the unix machine ( no networking installed on the machine). SCO at that time was basicly a building with the lights on but nobody home.
The thought occurred to me is that if SCOX, seems to have removed 16209 files from their privilege logs without reason, most likely clerical errors ect.; how is anyone ever going to trust them to maintain anything as complicated as a source tree?
Lighten up he runs a pet supply store; those systems probably cost more in monthly service contracts, then his whole operation is worth.
I fail to see how using Linux will give me an edge .asp page are loading slower than shit! Maybe some apache/linux would run better, OBTW the images on the Newman's own dog food page are broken; the more I think about it the more I think something is seriously wrong on your website, I'm not a windows expert or anything but those pages should be loading much faster, either something is miss-configured, and there is way to much resources used on the back-end, or your on over-shared hosting and the DogDude is definately not the alpha male in the pack.
How about you've got a website, with a nice clean design, no excessive graphics ect. but those
leave the financial app on windows unless you're ready for oracle
Reusing lumber, on the other hand, could save a few. Especially hardwood.
I remember reading an article about people diving in rivers in the Carolinas and up in lake superior for sunken "dunder heads", logs so dense that they would sink out of the log packs. Imagine logs so dense they can sit in the mud for a century, and are still stronger and denser than the wood growing now.