dell is where it is for FAR more reasons than just being all-intel. Having an almost non-existent R&D is a primary factor, having parts manufactured by the cheapest offshore bidder for years is another (they were merely assembled here). using intel? Minor, minor factor.
I personally hope that dell never uses AMD. It would almost taint AMD, really. Not that I think dell sucks or anything...its just their desktops, servers, and laptops that have always been terrible. All their other computers are good.
kids these days have all the fun. Little beads that say what type of sex you're into - pull one off and get it? Oral sex dramatically more prevelent than even just 10 years ago? And geeze...the dreaded 2am approach to the girl's house...hey, lets sneak off in my loud-ass truck, what do you think? I would have killed for a silent car...
I hope today's male teens realize how lucky they have it. It was SO much harder for people 10 years ago to get STD's, or whatever else. Oh well.
In Linux land, there's a mindset that "I'm not going to pay a lot for this WHATEVER - otherwise I'd be sticking with MS!"
Err, no. I've been in "linux land" for 10 years now, and for me I either do linux for things that are low-budget, and sun for things that are high. MS doesn't come into the picture anywhere, mostly for security, stability, and usability reasons.
by 2001, we'll have a giant spaceship with a mental-case AI on board named HAL. It will be cool. By 2010, there will be big babies floating around jupiter (or where ever it was...sorry, its been a long while).
Really though, everything is going to cause the end of the world within 20 years these days. Did you know 15% of the world's methane comes from cow farts? And that methane is one of the worst greenhouse gases? And as Al Gore said back in the early 70's, we'll be dead by the late 90's if we don't stop driving cars. And everyone wants to blow everyone up nowadays anyway, so...screw it. Have a drink, sit back, get yourself a pretty friend, and get a perspective that takes things from scary to amusing.
I'd post a URL to the demo but the Mac I'm on has inadequate mousing abilities. It is on the front page of www.linspire.com in plain view, though. -jared
Robotic Psychiatry during my lifetime, I believed, would not be to program robots, but to ready the humans (though I always hoped that there would be patients that, like Susan Calvin, I could communicate verbally with and observe their behaviors within their environments).
some emerges take a while for me. On the other hand, it takes just a couple minutes to build my kernel. Happy tuning.
and by that, yes, I mean "make && make modules_install" takes less than 5 minutes. And its just a 1.8Ghz cpu, too...256Mb ram. *shrug*
use whatever suits you, man. If it suits you to use the same tired "wait, and wait 500 years for en emarge?!?!?!" line every time someone mentions the word Gentoo, then...hey. Me, I do indeed like having the control. Then again, when not using gentoo I just build from source on my own anyway.
"Corporate Partner site Duke Energy Corp., in Charlotte, N.C., for example, has a user base of 25,000 and benefits from Microsoft's volume licensing program. While open-source software suites are free, the ancillary costs associated with a move from Microsoft Office would be much higher for an enterprise of Duke's size than for a company like FN Manufacturing."
So, its the cost of changing that is important. However, if you were going to be starting a new 25,000 member org, OO would be a better choice. At that point, you don't have to worry about those "ancillary costs with a move," since you won't be moving.
Forward - thinking CIO's will look past that move cost, and also consider the security benefits.
no one said integrating a web browswer into the desktop was evil.
one company controlling the browser, the desktop, the OS, the applications, the server apps, and...whatever else...that is what is innappropriate. Not having a choice - that is what is wrong.
Don't want your browswer to be integrated? Use KDE, or the gnome fork that won't be integrated. Take the source and do it yourself, if you'd like. Not that you're making a serious question...
you do know that unix was tightly integrated with the internet (rather, the other way around...) long before MS, through Bill, decided that the internet was just a passing fancy? Were all versions of windows prior to win2000 not ready for the desktop? Because I was on the internet long before then, on linux. It wasn't until the broken standards with MS's net products hit the scene that I started having problems...
Of course, you're just trolling...which has nothing to do with a mystical creature, and is instead a fishing term...doesn't mean I won't bite anyway.
I could be wrong, but I think he was being sarcastic. Like, while p2p services have illegal things happen on them, people kill the p2p. Gosh, I guess I could be wrong...doubt it though.
I think you'll find $25billion to be a bit out of their price range. To get a grasp on reality, you might want to check out the federal budget, then combine the numbers for all 5 of those 3-letter agencies. Then ponder for a moment what a $25Bill whack would do.
I put it in there for fun. Actually, the research I've seen on that could have multiple uses. That, and the claim was that all we did was make bombs...which is funny.
I mean, we make mail sorters among other things. I guess you could mail someone a bomb, so we're definately to blame there. Timothy McVeigh rented a truck, and whomever rented it to him is a terrorist, right?
Its silly to suggest Lockheed is an ultra-secret company because it only makes bombs. Really. Its quite a small portion of what we do.
perhaps the writer should have said that if the higher changes are correct, then scientists have a less optimistic outlook on being able to alter the current course.;)
Unfortunately for us, if satellites can more precisely measure this rise of the Earth's temperature, they cannot cure this fever.
Wow, what an if-then!
So here's a question...if the satellites could NOT measure it more precisely, would they then be able to "cure" the problem? Because if X is true then fail, then that assumes that if X is false then don't fail.
Perhaps we should start sending sattelites up with really bad instruments, so that they aren't very good at measuring temp on earth, and then they'll be able to stop global warming!
the data is all in a proprietary database that no one has the source code for, written in a language that won't run on anything but a mainframe. Depending on what type of request you make, you get different results. It is really difficult to figure out what all is really in there.
That being said, things are slowly moving off the system. At least, the plan is in place. I'm hoping the systems don't get started on their third decade of service before they're replaced, though...
but yeah, its scary. About gota be 2 acres of raised floor, and it looks so lovely with so many humming AIX and Solaris boxes, then you stumble upon...a group of 3090's. I mean...really. They have these terminals hooked up to them that...I dunno, I swear they look like they're from the stone ages. I half expected 8.5" drives on them.
If I say any more though, I'll likely have an armed escort out of the building, never to be heard from again.;)
ethanol can easily be hydrolized. Use it for fuel cells. Its a step in the right direction, in my opinion. Imagine if we could pull a back-to-the-future, and turn trash into energy. Raise millions of birds back from the dead with one stone;)
that's funny, I work at a large Lockheed plant, and I have a decent clearance level...I don't know of any bombs being built here...
Helicopters, mail sorters for the US postal service, advanced targetting systems, a few other things...but bombs? Not really. At some plants, sure, but its definately not even a large portion of the company portfolio.
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I think you should take pride in the fact that as a developer, you're employed at all!
Good lord, people...
I personally hope that dell never uses AMD. It would almost taint AMD, really. Not that I think dell sucks or anything...its just their desktops, servers, and laptops that have always been terrible. All their other computers are good.
More importantly, we do all realize that the Volks Folks make more than 1 model, right? Are we talking bus, beetle...what?
I hope today's male teens realize how lucky they have it. It was SO much harder for people 10 years ago to get STD's, or whatever else. Oh well.
Err, no. I've been in "linux land" for 10 years now, and for me I either do linux for things that are low-budget, and sun for things that are high. MS doesn't come into the picture anywhere, mostly for security, stability, and usability reasons.
Really though, everything is going to cause the end of the world within 20 years these days. Did you know 15% of the world's methane comes from cow farts? And that methane is one of the worst greenhouse gases? And as Al Gore said back in the early 70's, we'll be dead by the late 90's if we don't stop driving cars. And everyone wants to blow everyone up nowadays anyway, so...screw it. Have a drink, sit back, get yourself a pretty friend, and get a perspective that takes things from scary to amusing.
once could have been excused. Fat-fingering happens, even to skinny folk. Oh well.
I'd post a URL to the demo but the Mac I'm on has inadequate mousing abilities. It is on the front page of www.linspire.com in plain view, though. -jared
A....mac...with "inadequate mousing abilities?"
I think I'll settle for a confused laughing.
Robotic Psychiatry during my lifetime, I believed, would not be to program robots, but to ready the humans (though I always hoped that there would be patients that, like Susan Calvin, I could communicate verbally with and observe their behaviors within their environments).
I am...
and by that, yes, I mean "make && make modules_install" takes less than 5 minutes. And its just a 1.8Ghz cpu, too...256Mb ram. *shrug*
use whatever suits you, man. If it suits you to use the same tired "wait, and wait 500 years for en emarge?!?!?!" line every time someone mentions the word Gentoo, then...hey. Me, I do indeed like having the control. Then again, when not using gentoo I just build from source on my own anyway.
...am glad to see that long-term research is dead. I mean, you hear about that so much here...
So, its the cost of changing that is important. However, if you were going to be starting a new 25,000 member org, OO would be a better choice. At that point, you don't have to worry about those "ancillary costs with a move," since you won't be moving.
Forward - thinking CIO's will look past that move cost, and also consider the security benefits.
eh, what do I know. I use dce or gnome. I think the point is still clear, though ;)
one company controlling the browser, the desktop, the OS, the applications, the server apps, and...whatever else...that is what is innappropriate. Not having a choice - that is what is wrong.
Don't want your browswer to be integrated? Use KDE, or the gnome fork that won't be integrated. Take the source and do it yourself, if you'd like. Not that you're making a serious question...
Of course, you're just trolling...which has nothing to do with a mystical creature, and is instead a fishing term...doesn't mean I won't bite anyway.
I could be wrong, but I think he was being sarcastic. Like, while p2p services have illegal things happen on them, people kill the p2p. Gosh, I guess I could be wrong...doubt it though.
I think you'll find $25billion to be a bit out of their price range. To get a grasp on reality, you might want to check out the federal budget, then combine the numbers for all 5 of those 3-letter agencies. Then ponder for a moment what a $25Bill whack would do.
I mean, we make mail sorters among other things. I guess you could mail someone a bomb, so we're definately to blame there. Timothy McVeigh rented a truck, and whomever rented it to him is a terrorist, right?
Its silly to suggest Lockheed is an ultra-secret company because it only makes bombs. Really. Its quite a small portion of what we do.
perhaps the writer should have said that if the higher changes are correct, then scientists have a less optimistic outlook on being able to alter the current course. ;)
Wow, what an if-then!
So here's a question...if the satellites could NOT measure it more precisely, would they then be able to "cure" the problem? Because if X is true then fail, then that assumes that if X is false then don't fail.
Perhaps we should start sending sattelites up with really bad instruments, so that they aren't very good at measuring temp on earth, and then they'll be able to stop global warming!
That being said, things are slowly moving off the system. At least, the plan is in place. I'm hoping the systems don't get started on their third decade of service before they're replaced, though...
but yeah, its scary. About gota be 2 acres of raised floor, and it looks so lovely with so many humming AIX and Solaris boxes, then you stumble upon...a group of 3090's. I mean...really. They have these terminals hooked up to them that...I dunno, I swear they look like they're from the stone ages. I half expected 8.5" drives on them.
If I say any more though, I'll likely have an armed escort out of the building, never to be heard from again. ;)
ethanol can easily be hydrolized. Use it for fuel cells. Its a step in the right direction, in my opinion. Imagine if we could pull a back-to-the-future, and turn trash into energy. Raise millions of birds back from the dead with one stone ;)
Helicopters, mail sorters for the US postal service, advanced targetting systems, a few other things...but bombs? Not really. At some plants, sure, but its definately not even a large portion of the company portfolio.