"Man made climate change is the effect on top of normal cycles." Maybe. Really we have such a small amount of accurate direct observation data to go on that to say that we know for sure it complete arrogance.
As I said we now that we are in a warming trend because we can see the data. We know that CO2 levels are higher than we have observed in the resent past. So decreasing co2 emissions or reversing them should slow the change no matter the cause. Stop. Science is science, what is driving me nuts is when people think it proof of their great rationality to make science into their religion. You can tell them right away when any of their great truths are questioned.
I am pretty sure that TitanIIIc was actually man rated or was in the process to be. http://www.airliners.net/uf/44100/phpX0sCIF.jpeg Is a picture of it flying the one and only Gemini/MOLE test fight. Since it was supposed to be manned I would say it was manned rated or well on the way to be. The Falcon9 was built to be man rated from the start has it passed yet? I am not sure about that but that is the intention.
Fool. You live in a tiny little world of your choosing and only deal for the most part with people that think like you. Those that disagree you dismiss as stupid. Typical. People will see that they can not log onto Sony because of a hacker, there bank account info was stolen because of a hacker, their government threatened by a hacker. PBS is the best example they where attacked because somebody didn't like what they reported. The average person on the street is actually going to be right. The will see these people as nothing more than tugs and will want them stopped. The politicos will take that mandate and use it the help the entertainment industry. You do know President Obama is supporting a law that will make "illegal" streaming a crime that can punished by up too five years in jail! Next they will make console mod chips punishable by death. The thing is that most people don't have mod chips in their consoles or even know what illegal streaming is but if the hackers support it then it must be bad. I find it borderline insane that so many people on Slashdot are so dim that they fail to understand this simple concept.
Yes and no. Yes it is intended for medium and heavy lift but it is also man rated like the Titan III was and the Saturn V. You know they flew the Dragon Capsule on it didn't you? They Titan III was supposed to be used for the X-20 and the MOLE as well as other projects. It was supposed to replace the Saturn Ib for a lot of manned leo missions. It could have been used to resupply are even expand Skylab had it been funded. The Saturn V flew a few times unmanned and was used to launch Skylab. I still wonder what would have happened if we had kept improving that Saturn line like the Russians did with their Soyuz launchers.
Yea sure what ever. What it will do is show the average person that they need to government to protect them from the "evil hackers". Ewwww they took down Sony... So a lot of kids didn't get to play videogames. Ewwww they hacked the senates front facing Website and PBS.... They even hacked the CIA. To the average person do you know what message that sends? Probably not since you are dumb enough to think that it is a good thing. To the average voter it means that we have criminals. When a bank gets robbed do you blame the police or the bank? No you hunt down the criminals and spend more on the police and give the banks more authority to secure themselves and more police protection. When script kiddies attack PBS, Sony, and front facing websites for Congress and the CIA you pass stronger antihacking laws and spend more time and efforts to take out those criminals. Oh and while you are at it you might as well crackdown on those evil movie and music sharing sites that the hackers love so much. And those Hacking websites like HakADay, Slashdot, and HAK5 where all those evil hackers hang out really need to be policed and blocked at schools. You are a fool if you think Anon and Lutzsec are a threat to the people that want to crack down. They are gift. They are a god send. They are the greatest excuses I mean reason for the big corps to push for tighter anti-hacking laws that will cover everything from P2P to mod chips on consoles. They will become the reason for the cybercops and aid the thought police.
Funny but yea it is kind like being a hero that beats the crap out of jay walkers while the a serial killer is taking out a kindergarden. They do not pick on any really bad people just the safe ones like video game makers and front facing websites. Ewww they are soo worth looking up too. Wikileaks MODIFIED by adding emotionally manipulative video to the gunship footage to aid in fund raising. That right their makes them an outlet for propaganda. Instead of letting you decided for yourself they set you up to feel the way they wanted you too. Odds are that you will not see it or even believe it but that just shows how good of a job they did at manipulation. Truth? Anon picks on the disabled and children and those that they don't agree with. They do not produce the truth they produce ego trips. They harassed a kid that put a website to discourage kids from using foul language just for the LOLs. That is anti-freedom of speech folks. Sure stand up for the truth. Thing is no one stands up for the truth by hiding. You know that whole Stand up and be counted thing?
Because Sun developed SPARC and if for no other reason than PR. The worlds fastest computer is powered by SPARC makes a great lead in for selling SPARC based servers.
It is an ego trip. Notice they are not targeting China or North Korea or even Israel. The reason is those and some other nations wouldn't think twice about a few accidents happening. Yes this little ego trip will end up convincing the average voter and politico that they need to have the capital punishment for possession of packet sniffers. Books on TCP/IP will become classified and computer programers will have to show that they need to know those skills before they are allowed to own documents on APIs. All software will have to be signed and all programmers will have to be registered. Gee thanks thanks you creeps for spoiling all the fun. Hope you like the LOLs kids.
The Falcon 9 isn't safe. But then again I doubt that any rocket will ever be "safe". It will be a long time before you strap a human into any thing that then goes from 0 to 18,000+ MPH and well over 100 miles up in anything that a reasonable person calls safe. Space travel is not safe or fool proof. Heck the only reason that we can strap people in to aluminum tubes and fly them around at 500+mph and 7 plus miles up and make it reasonable safe is around 100 years of mistakes and many many flights. Of course Valador is using the oldest trick in the book. The best lie starts with a truth. I doubt that SpaceX would take unnecessary risks. If they need a test pilot I am willing to go. But as Q said in Star Trek "If you can't take a little bloody nose, maybe you oughtta go back home and crawl under your bed. It's not safe out here. It's wondrous, with treasures to satiate desires both subtle and gross; but it's not for the timid." The Falcon 9 isn't safe, being safe is for children. Adults make a trade off between the risks and the befits and then takes those risks.
It is using Sparc CPUs and no GPUs. I wonder if Oracle is watching? It will be interesting to see since they now own the Zombie formally known as Sun. So when are we going to see nVidia get into this game with ARM+GPU based super computer?
Why does this always have to fall into politics.Frankly the global warming faithful are getting annoying. Before anyone has a freaking stroke let me lay out the facts as I seem them. 1. CO2 is a greenhouse gas. 2. Over all we have been seeing a warming trend. Conclusion: even if the warming trend is not caused solely by the increase in CO2 gases reducing emissions is a good thing. There is is minus the politics and religion. I would even bet that CO2 is the primary cause of the warming trend. It is really that simple. Now for the true believers that are blaming global warming for everything from Hurricane Katrina to it snowing in Iran... Please learn the difference between climate and weather.
This article sounds as bad in it's way as crap from FOX news does the other way. Here is nice little bow for yourself. "1) Claims of an imminent global ice age are at best exaggerated." Probably but that is opinion and not science. But then I have seen heard some pretty stupid things from the Church of Global Warming. "2) The link of global cooling to an extended solar magnetic minimum is tenuous, and almost certainly needs something else to force it to occur (like lots of volcanoes)," Gee that sounds just like what the anti climate change people are saying. Yet when there are fewer sun spots the earths climate does cool. "This is from the very same piece" "Having said all that, the sunspot cycle may have a very small effect on climate. You might think that since the spots are cooler than the solar surface we’d see a drop in light from the Sun and a corresponding cooling of the Earth during solar max. However, it’s actually the opposite! Sunspots are surrounded by a rim called faculae, and in this region the temperatures are actually higher than the average solar surface. This more than compensates for the cooler area of the spot; sunspots are about 1% dimmer than the solar surface, but faculae are 1.1 to 1.5% brighter. On top of that, faculae emit more UV than the solar surface does, and that wavelength of light is preferentially absorbed by the Earth’s atmosphere, increasing the efficiency of heating. So, bizarrely, sunspots tend to warm the Earth. That jibes with the idea of a cooling trend during solar minimum; fewer spots means fewer faculae, so the Sun emits less Earth-warming radiation. But when you look at the numbers, again, it’s not so simple. The effect from faculae is very small, not enough to significantly change the Earth’s temperature on their own." Except that little ice age did seem happen during that time. That is a fact. They may be unrelated but a change in the sun and the climate being unrelated seems like a very bad bet in my book. You see the conclusion I find odd. We have seeing a MASSIVE decrease in sunspot activity. We have never seen such an change in modern times. I really question just strongly he is pushing that conclusion. We are also seeing other changes in the suns magnetosphere as well. Since we have never seen such such a thing when we could study it as well I think he is making some massive leaps and throwing in "probables" here and there. This actually seems like a knee jerk reaction. It is probably a reasonable fear that some people will say "well lets burn more coal to stop this" but that doesn't stop it from being bad science. I think we are going to learn a not about the Sun in the next few years and I wouldn't be so sure about the outcome as this author seems to be. I wouldn't panic but then I never do.
They do address this but I am going to suspect that their will always be room for high end GPUs or at least there will be for a long time. APUs are going to target the good enough category first. If they are good enough for 1080p video and gaming they will be good enough for 90+% of the market. This will hopefully raise the bar on integrated graphics up to the usable level. For high end users the APU could be used for things like trans-coding, physics modeling, and other GPU friendly tasks while the graphics cards can be used for the display. In theory the APU will be good enough for even light CAD work and none enthusiast gaming. There is always an an option to add GDDRx to the system as well for the APU if more performance is needed.
Maybe should just use a virtual-box like system for browsers. Just run the browser with some minimal version of Linux or BSD in a virtual machine on what every OS. Make a downloads and a config directory shared and be done with it.
Why not virtualize it? Create a virtual video space that is just limited to the browser's display? Seems like a good way to secure it.
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First of all do you really think IBM in the US has much control over what happened at IBM Germany and Poland after the war started? Poland was occupied by Germany very quickly and I am pretty sure they didn't let money or information flow from Poland to the US really easily. I am sure any communication was completely halted by December 7th. Also These where Census tracking systems do you really think they where any different than the off the self ones in use for the Census and other systems like the ones used in the military to track who was where? As people like to point out you better line up every farmer that sold fold to the camps that used to feed the guards, the companies that made the trucks and the tires they rolled on. The companies that made the trains and the rails, and the trees that where used to make the buildings. And of course vast majority of the people living in Europe except the for the people in the UK, Ireland, Sweden, and some of the Swiss. The didn't raise much of a fight to stop the Nazis from taking the Jews. Of course that would be really harsh and unfair since few of use have ever had to take such risks or make such choices.
And the Alpha found a home in servers, super computers, and so on. The 68k ran into a brick wall because it didn't have the PC money pump to allowed Intel to make the X86 the fast pig that it is now. Yea I know about the H11 which is why it is so sad. Imagine if DEC had expanded the memory space and built in a display and keyboard interface for the same price as the PC. It would have been a much better system than a PC running MS-DOS.
Linus popularized it. Before Linus if you asked the average person what free software was they would have told you it was. a. A copy from a friend. b. That public domain junk like lemon aid stand. c. What I can download from the Pirate Chest BBS.
I actually remember hearing about GNU Unix way back then. I was so excited and could hardly wait for it to show up. Even giving RMS the credit for coming up with the idea of free software is a big stretch. People had been passing around the source for programs for a very long time. Things like the games like Adventure, Star Trek, Lunar Lander and Rouge are prime examples. What he did was come up with the GPL and then sprinkle it was an extremest philosophy that all software must be free or we are all slave to the man. RMS did write EMACS and GCC which are vital FOSS to this day well at least GCC is. But even giving RMS all the credit for FOSS is short changing all the history of programmers sharing code that happened for decades before and thinks like BSD. I will say that they are right on the money with statement that Linus popularized FOSS. If he hadn't I think people would have long since forgotten the GPL and the GNU project and we would all be arguing over FreeBSD vs OpenBSD, and NetBSD.
Get over it. Really same thing happened to the 68K as well. It was so much better than the 8086 and the 80286 at that time but people didn't buy it. Heck you could even buy them in inexpensive computers like the Amiga and Atari ST that had far better and more advanced OSs then MS-DOS at the time. Heck the Amiga had real multi-tasking and stereo sound when PC users where trying to get their software to run with TSRs and got a bleep now and then. Dude best doesn't really win all that often, marketing does. I would have loved to have access to an inexpensive Alpha in the day. Thing is that never really happened. I have to wonder if Alpha might not have become a great mobile ISA like ARM did. VMS? Yes it still is a great and very secure OS. Too bad that DEC didn't push it down market. But then DEC was always kind of blew that. Imagine if DEC had released a PDP-11 running RSX-11 for the same price as the PC? Then imagine if they had sold single chip PDP-11 CPUs and RSX-11 to other companies so they could have made clones all the while paying DEC money. The PC would have had some trouble and might have even flopped. Thing is DEC didn't want to cut into the sales of it's really expensive professional computers. Over all it didn't really work out well for them.
that is a dangerous rule. I have used password crackers on my own server passwords to see how secure my users are. I have used tools that check for exploits to check my owner servers as well. Sure I would love to not have hackers but those tools can be used for as a way to test servers as a way to exploit hacks.
Germany invent? You are believing your own myths. The English invented the Jet engine. The US invented the liquid fueled rocket. The V2 was a scaled version of Goddards work. Germans just weaponized it. Even things like the swept back wing where in broadly known. It is funny but the US had such an odd inferiority complex after the war that it boasted the importance of the German contributions. Probably justify bringing any scientists or engineers to the US after war and just trying every man and women in German for genocide. If you look at other fields the US Invented the transistor and integrated circuit. As far as renewable energy Hydro and Windmills have been around so long that it is in the who knows. Solar well that was France and the US. http://inventors.about.com/od/sstartinventions/a/solar_cell.htm
I will give you the internal combustion engine, cars, and a lot of chemistry but other than that... Not so much. I will be kind and leave out the other "inovations" that Germany has contributed to the 20th century.
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"Man made climate change is the effect on top of normal cycles."
Maybe.
Really we have such a small amount of accurate direct observation data to go on that to say that we know for sure it complete arrogance.
As I said we now that we are in a warming trend because we can see the data. We know that CO2 levels are higher than we have observed in the resent past.
So decreasing co2 emissions or reversing them should slow the change no matter the cause.
Stop. Science is science, what is driving me nuts is when people think it proof of their great rationality to make science into their religion. You can tell them right away when any of their great truths are questioned.
I am pretty sure that TitanIIIc was actually man rated or was in the process to be. http://www.airliners.net/uf/44100/phpX0sCIF.jpeg
Is a picture of it flying the one and only Gemini/MOLE test fight. Since it was supposed to be manned I would say it was manned rated or well on the way to be.
The Falcon9 was built to be man rated from the start has it passed yet? I am not sure about that but that is the intention.
Fool. You live in a tiny little world of your choosing and only deal for the most part with people that think like you. Those that disagree you dismiss as stupid.
Typical.
People will see that they can not log onto Sony because of a hacker, there bank account info was stolen because of a hacker, their government threatened by a hacker. PBS is the best example they where attacked because somebody didn't like what they reported.
The average person on the street is actually going to be right. The will see these people as nothing more than tugs and will want them stopped. The politicos will take that mandate and use it the help the entertainment industry. You do know President Obama is supporting a law that will make "illegal" streaming a crime that can punished by up too five years in jail! Next they will make console mod chips punishable by death. The thing is that most people don't have mod chips in their consoles or even know what illegal streaming is but if the hackers support it then it must be bad.
I find it borderline insane that so many people on Slashdot are so dim that they fail to understand this simple concept.
Yes and no. Yes it is intended for medium and heavy lift but it is also man rated like the Titan III was and the Saturn V.
You know they flew the Dragon Capsule on it didn't you? They Titan III was supposed to be used for the X-20 and the MOLE as well as other projects. It was supposed to replace the Saturn Ib for a lot of manned leo missions. It could have been used to resupply are even expand Skylab had it been funded.
The Saturn V flew a few times unmanned and was used to launch Skylab.
I still wonder what would have happened if we had kept improving that Saturn line like the Russians did with their Soyuz launchers.
Yea sure what ever. What it will do is show the average person that they need to government to protect them from the "evil hackers".
Ewwww they took down Sony... So a lot of kids didn't get to play videogames. Ewwww they hacked the senates front facing Website and PBS.... They even hacked the CIA. To the average person do you know what message that sends? Probably not since you are dumb enough to think that it is a good thing.
To the average voter it means that we have criminals. When a bank gets robbed do you blame the police or the bank? No you hunt down the criminals and spend more on the police and give the banks more authority to secure themselves and more police protection.
When script kiddies attack PBS, Sony, and front facing websites for Congress and the CIA you pass stronger antihacking laws and spend more time and efforts to take out those criminals.
Oh and while you are at it you might as well crackdown on those evil movie and music sharing sites that the hackers love so much. And those Hacking websites like HakADay, Slashdot, and HAK5 where all those evil hackers hang out really need to be policed and blocked at schools.
You are a fool if you think Anon and Lutzsec are a threat to the people that want to crack down. They are gift. They are a god send. They are the greatest excuses I mean reason for the big corps to push for tighter anti-hacking laws that will cover everything from P2P to mod chips on consoles. They will become the reason for the cybercops and aid the thought police.
Funny but yea it is kind like being a hero that beats the crap out of jay walkers while the a serial killer is taking out a kindergarden. They do not pick on any really bad people just the safe ones like video game makers and front facing websites. Ewww they are soo worth looking up too. Wikileaks MODIFIED by adding emotionally manipulative video to the gunship footage to aid in fund raising. That right their makes them an outlet for propaganda. Instead of letting you decided for yourself they set you up to feel the way they wanted you too. Odds are that you will not see it or even believe it but that just shows how good of a job they did at manipulation.
Truth? Anon picks on the disabled and children and those that they don't agree with. They do not produce the truth they produce ego trips. They harassed a kid that put a website to discourage kids from using foul language just for the LOLs. That is anti-freedom of speech folks.
Sure stand up for the truth. Thing is no one stands up for the truth by hiding.
You know that whole Stand up and be counted thing?
Because Sun developed SPARC and if for no other reason than PR.
The worlds fastest computer is powered by SPARC makes a great lead in for selling SPARC based servers.
It is an ego trip. Notice they are not targeting China or North Korea or even Israel. The reason is those and some other nations wouldn't think twice about a few accidents happening.
Yes this little ego trip will end up convincing the average voter and politico that they need to have the capital punishment for possession of packet sniffers. Books on TCP/IP will become classified and computer programers will have to show that they need to know those skills before they are allowed to own documents on APIs. All software will have to be signed and all programmers will have to be registered.
Gee thanks thanks you creeps for spoiling all the fun. Hope you like the LOLs kids.
The Falcon 9 isn't safe. But then again I doubt that any rocket will ever be "safe". It will be a long time before you strap a human into any thing that then goes from 0 to 18,000+ MPH and well over 100 miles up in anything that a reasonable person calls safe. Space travel is not safe or fool proof. Heck the only reason that we can strap people in to aluminum tubes and fly them around at 500+mph and 7 plus miles up and make it reasonable safe is around 100 years of mistakes and many many flights.
Of course Valador is using the oldest trick in the book. The best lie starts with a truth. I doubt that SpaceX would take unnecessary risks. If they need a test pilot I am willing to go. But as Q said in Star Trek
"If you can't take a little bloody nose, maybe you oughtta go back home and crawl under your bed. It's not safe out here. It's wondrous, with treasures to satiate desires both subtle and gross; but it's not for the timid."
The Falcon 9 isn't safe, being safe is for children. Adults make a trade off between the risks and the befits and then takes those risks.
It is using Sparc CPUs and no GPUs. I wonder if Oracle is watching? It will be interesting to see since they now own the Zombie formally known as Sun.
So when are we going to see nVidia get into this game with ARM+GPU based super computer?
I have to wonder how much email could be replaced by IM
No but stability is good.
Why does this always have to fall into politics.Frankly the global warming faithful are getting annoying. Before anyone has a freaking stroke let me lay out the facts as I seem them.
1. CO2 is a greenhouse gas.
2. Over all we have been seeing a warming trend.
Conclusion: even if the warming trend is not caused solely by the increase in CO2 gases reducing emissions is a good thing.
There is is minus the politics and religion. I would even bet that CO2 is the primary cause of the warming trend.
It is really that simple.
Now for the true believers that are blaming global warming for everything from Hurricane Katrina to it snowing in Iran... Please learn the difference between climate and weather.
This article sounds as bad in it's way as crap from FOX news does the other way.
Here is nice little bow for yourself.
"1) Claims of an imminent global ice age are at best exaggerated."
Probably but that is opinion and not science. But then I have seen heard some pretty stupid things from the Church of Global Warming.
"2) The link of global cooling to an extended solar magnetic minimum is tenuous, and almost certainly needs something else to force it to occur (like lots of volcanoes)," Gee that sounds just like what the anti climate change people are saying. Yet when there are fewer sun spots the earths climate does cool. "This is from the very same piece"
"Having said all that, the sunspot cycle may have a very small effect on climate. You might think that since the spots are cooler than the solar surface we’d see a drop in light from the Sun and a corresponding cooling of the Earth during solar max. However, it’s actually the opposite! Sunspots are surrounded by a rim called faculae, and in this region the temperatures are actually higher than the average solar surface. This more than compensates for the cooler area of the spot; sunspots are about 1% dimmer than the solar surface, but faculae are 1.1 to 1.5% brighter. On top of that, faculae emit more UV than the solar surface does, and that wavelength of light is preferentially absorbed by the Earth’s atmosphere, increasing the efficiency of heating.
So, bizarrely, sunspots tend to warm the Earth. That jibes with the idea of a cooling trend during solar minimum; fewer spots means fewer faculae, so the Sun emits less Earth-warming radiation.
But when you look at the numbers, again, it’s not so simple. The effect from faculae is very small, not enough to significantly change the Earth’s temperature on their own."
Except that little ice age did seem happen during that time. That is a fact. They may be unrelated but a change in the sun and the climate being unrelated seems like a very bad bet in my book.
You see the conclusion I find odd. We have seeing a MASSIVE decrease in sunspot activity. We have never seen such an change in modern times. I really question just strongly he is pushing that conclusion. We are also seeing other changes in the suns magnetosphere as well. Since we have never seen such such a thing when we could study it as well I think he is making some massive leaps and throwing in "probables" here and there.
This actually seems like a knee jerk reaction. It is probably a reasonable fear that some people will say "well lets burn more coal to stop this" but that doesn't stop it from being bad science. I think we are going to learn a not about the Sun in the next few years and I wouldn't be so sure about the outcome as this author seems to be.
I wouldn't panic but then I never do.
The Z8000 was terrible. It really sucked as a CPU and was segmented at that. Please the 68K was much better than any of them.
Yes
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/best-graphics-card-game-performance-radeon-hd-6670,2935-2.html
For $65 you can get a card with great 1680x1050 performance in most games.
In other words good enough for most people.
If they can get APUs up to that level which sounds possible it really will be great.
They do address this but I am going to suspect that their will always be room for high end GPUs or at least there will be for a long time. APUs are going to target the good enough category first. If they are good enough for 1080p video and gaming they will be good enough for 90+% of the market. This will hopefully raise the bar on integrated graphics up to the usable level. For high end users the APU could be used for things like trans-coding, physics modeling, and other GPU friendly tasks while the graphics cards can be used for the display. In theory the APU will be good enough for even light CAD work and none enthusiast gaming. There is always an an option to add GDDRx to the system as well for the APU if more performance is needed.
Maybe should just use a virtual-box like system for browsers. Just run the browser with some minimal version of Linux or BSD in a virtual machine on what every OS. Make a downloads and a config directory shared and be done with it.
Why not virtualize it? Create a virtual video space that is just limited to the browser's display? Seems like a good way to secure it.
First of all do you really think IBM in the US has much control over what happened at IBM Germany and Poland after the war started? Poland was occupied by Germany very quickly and I am pretty sure they didn't let money or information flow from Poland to the US really easily.
I am sure any communication was completely halted by December 7th.
Also These where Census tracking systems do you really think they where any different than the off the self ones in use for the Census and other systems like the ones used in the military to track who was where?
As people like to point out you better line up every farmer that sold fold to the camps that used to feed the guards, the companies that made the trucks and the tires they rolled on. The companies that made the trains and the rails, and the trees that where used to make the buildings.
And of course vast majority of the people living in Europe except the for the people in the UK, Ireland, Sweden, and some of the Swiss. The didn't raise much of a fight to stop the Nazis from taking the Jews.
Of course that would be really harsh and unfair since few of use have ever had to take such risks or make such choices.
And the Alpha found a home in servers, super computers, and so on. The 68k ran into a brick wall because it didn't have the PC money pump to allowed Intel to make the X86 the fast pig that it is now.
Yea I know about the H11 which is why it is so sad. Imagine if DEC had expanded the memory space and built in a display and keyboard interface for the same price as the PC. It would have been a much better system than a PC running MS-DOS.
Linus popularized it. Before Linus if you asked the average person what free software was they would have told you it was.
a. A copy from a friend.
b. That public domain junk like lemon aid stand.
c. What I can download from the Pirate Chest BBS.
I actually remember hearing about GNU Unix way back then. I was so excited and could hardly wait for it to show up. Even giving RMS the credit for coming up with the idea of free software is a big stretch. People had been passing around the source for programs for a very long time. Things like the games like Adventure, Star Trek, Lunar Lander and Rouge are prime examples. What he did was come up with the GPL and then sprinkle it was an extremest philosophy that all software must be free or we are all slave to the man. RMS did write EMACS and GCC which are vital FOSS to this day well at least GCC is. But even giving RMS all the credit for FOSS is short changing all the history of programmers sharing code that happened for decades before and thinks like BSD. I will say that they are right on the money with statement that Linus popularized FOSS. If he hadn't I think people would have long since forgotten the GPL and the GNU project and we would all be arguing over FreeBSD vs OpenBSD, and NetBSD.
Get over it. Really same thing happened to the 68K as well. It was so much better than the 8086 and the 80286 at that time but people didn't buy it. Heck you could even buy them in inexpensive computers like the Amiga and Atari ST that had far better and more advanced OSs then MS-DOS at the time. Heck the Amiga had real multi-tasking and stereo sound when PC users where trying to get their software to run with TSRs and got a bleep now and then.
Dude best doesn't really win all that often, marketing does. I would have loved to have access to an inexpensive Alpha in the day. Thing is that never really happened. I have to wonder if Alpha might not have become a great mobile ISA like ARM did. VMS? Yes it still is a great and very secure OS. Too bad that DEC didn't push it down market. But then DEC was always kind of blew that. Imagine if DEC had released a PDP-11 running RSX-11 for the same price as the PC? Then imagine if they had sold single chip PDP-11 CPUs and RSX-11 to other companies so they could have made clones all the while paying DEC money. The PC would have had some trouble and might have even flopped. Thing is DEC didn't want to cut into the sales of it's really expensive professional computers. Over all it didn't really work out well for them.
A German attempting humor? Now that is funny. Sorry I couldn't help myself.
that is a dangerous rule. I have used password crackers on my own server passwords to see how secure my users are. I have used tools that check for exploits to check my owner servers as well.
Sure I would love to not have hackers but those tools can be used for as a way to test servers as a way to exploit hacks.
Germany invent? You are believing your own myths. The English invented the Jet engine. The US invented the liquid fueled rocket. The V2 was a scaled version of Goddards work. Germans just weaponized it. Even things like the swept back wing where in broadly known. It is funny but the US had such an odd inferiority complex after the war that it boasted the importance of the German contributions. Probably justify bringing any scientists or engineers to the US after war and just trying every man and women in German for genocide. If you look at other fields the US Invented the transistor and integrated circuit. As far as renewable energy Hydro and Windmills have been around so long that it is in the who knows. Solar well that was France and the US.
http://inventors.about.com/od/sstartinventions/a/solar_cell.htm
I will give you the internal combustion engine, cars, and a lot of chemistry but other than that... Not so much.
I will be kind and leave out the other "inovations" that Germany has contributed to the 20th century.