I'm not really sure what this has to do with climate prediction...lol.
however, I know you're fully aware that it says "total hostname and active sites," not webservers. The reason for that is that squatters (and that's all the increase is) tend to be MS kids - probably because squatting doesn't fit the OS community too well.
but I'm just a zombie due to it being 9am and me just getting home...you're just trolling and won't ever see this. lol
"Stepping into the spotlight to admit your guilt is probably not a sensible course for most people sharing music files online, especially since the RIAA doesn't control many potential sources of lawsuits," EFF Staff Attorney Wendy Seltzer said in the statement.
That's pretty much the sum of it. That, and the fact that they're not promising to/never/ prosecute, they're promising a reprive.
ummm...the EFF does QUITE a bit, considering the responsibilty it has to do anything at all (none). Just what are you suggesting?
probes die, shuttles die quicker
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every so often we send a shuttle up, and sometimes it explodes/etc. Why can't we just send some more probes like this? The whole crap with sending people up just doesn't work - we're not getting any better at it. We should instead just send unmanned flights. Imagine the cost savings.
Yeah, the ISS is a great dream...but...what's the point? Zero gravity labs can be mimiced here on earth far cheaper and safer. Sending one shuttle up has an extremely HUGE environmental impact. In mere moments a search brought up some decent points about further problems/inefficiencies. The technology of today is, in theory, much higher than what we had years and years ago. Its time we took our current system, did something like sell it to the chinese (they'll get it anyway, we might as well make the money), and build something with technology newer than 30 years ago. They still use 386 cpu's in the damn thing. Its time to put the entire fleet to rest, and stop paying to maintain it. Just because the cold war is over doesn't mean we don't need to do more than send people up and watch them explode - we need to still push the envelope.
but since that will get swamped, here's some cool details:
British summer holds the key as QinetiQ 1 balloon pilots prepare to fly to the edge of space UK balloon pilots Andy Elson and Colin Prescot are now looking for an opportunity to launch their manned helium balloon, QinetiQ 1, on a clear calm day between end-July and mid-September 2003. In particular, the high winds of the jetstream need to be benign for a successful mission. The pilots aim to break the 40-year-old, US-held world altitude record for a manned balloon by ascending to 132,000ft (25 miles).
Sponsored in their attempt by QinetiQ, Europe's leading science and technology research organisation, the pilots are working closely with the Met Office. They are monitoring mission-critical advanced metrological data, in particular stratospheric conditions, as wind direction is critical for the balloon's trajectory.
Mission Control Director, Brian Jones commented: "The QinetiQ 1 team is set for launch and is now just waiting for the right weather to go. A sea launch is crucial to the success of the mission and North Cornwall offers us an ideal venue, with QinetiQ's own trimaran ship, RV Triton, providing the launch platform. The St Ives bay offers sheltered anchorage for RV Triton during the pre-flight preparations."
When the conditions are suitable, the pilots will announce a 72-hour countdown to the launch of the world's largest manned balloon, setting off from the North Cornish coast on its journey to the edge of space.
The QinetiQ 1 flight will last around 9-12 hours. The launch crew and pilots will start filling the balloon with helium in the early hours of launch day. The 1.6 tonnes of polyethylene material that make up the balloon's envelope takes about two hours to fill and, at launch, will stand upright at a massive height of 1,250 ft - seven times as tall as Nelson's Column, or the height of The Empire State Building. The balloon will rapidly ascend to 85,000 feet, after which it will slow down to a more gradual pace.
People within a 600-mile diameter footprint beneath the flight, should get a glimpse of the enormous balloon rising up into the sky. This means that the UK and much of France should be able to view the flight with the naked eye, as well as being able to see live TV images from on board QinetiQ 1.
At target altitude, the pilots will carry out a series of experiments and collect more information about an area of the stratosphere dubbed the 'Ignorosphere' due to the lack of recorded scientific data on the region.
It is at this point that Zephyr 3, a revolutionary unmanned solar plane designed by QinetiQ scientists and controlled by the balloon pilots from onboard QinetiQ 1, will beam back the amazing pictures of the voyage to mission control. Once the flight data has been captured the pilots will begin their descent, which should take three to four hours, before controlled 'splashdown' into the Atlantic.
if all you needed in your diet was carbs and b vitamins
the fact that its drawing other nutrients out of your body is unimportant. You'll be too drunk to notice, and you'll be "healthy." Never mind that you can't get your fat ass off the couch - you're in top shape!
[sarcasm][taunt]And screw this "american beer" vrs "real beer" crap. Its all crap. Beer is crap. Real men drink liquor. You're all nuts.[/taunt][/sarcasm]
there's two major movements going on right now - we're in what I call the "age of reconcilation" where a few nut balls think that I need to pay for what my great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandfather did to someone else's great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandfather or whatever else nonesense crap brought on by liberal self-loathing due to feelings of guilt for things they personally did in the present, and then there's the "screw you all, I'll do what I want to" crowd that tries to justify any act, regardless if it is self-destructive or harms others, with nothing other than "I wanted to." Beer as food/a healthy part of your diet...whatever. Like I said in my last post - its getting harder and harder to tell if people are just being silly, or stupid, these days...
Then the OEM should replace the "Windows Restore" CD with a bootable "Hardware diagnostic" CD. You put in the CD. Reboot. Disk comes up and says everything is okay with the hardware. End of support call.
Didi I say they didn't make money on support? I don't remember saying that...
Problem with your proposal is that disks thus configured are actually sold, and for good amounts of money. As soon as Joe Average Public has those disks, they no longer need to do the 4 year extended warranty - they just stick in the disk, it tells them what's wrong, and they replace it.
Business, in many cases, relies upon keeping its customers as stupid as possible. Yes, support is an added cost. However - the companies are supposed to make a profit, right?
uhh...NO I've used linux since 95. Yes, I've noticed that to get a system with linux vrs one with XP/whatever is about the same price. I've even seen the linux price be more expensive. I'm all for not paying the MS "tax." Thing is, the difference is that the company (be it Dell, whatever) is not just selling a box with XP on it - they're seeling support for a box with XP on it. That support costs real money. Support for linux costs even more (esp if normal Joes are buying boxes with linux). Now, if they'd sell a computer with just hardware support...but that would be just as expensive, because through the OS the technical support can answer questions about the hardware, and can determine if its a hardware or software problem.
holy crap! well, I guess I'll have to make sure to tell all my biking buddies to make sure that all strain exerted on their bikes is "in the longitudinal direction," versus the normal strains that are put on bikes (twists, various directions, etc).
And next time I'm hit by an suv while riding a bike, I'll be sure glad the bike shattered into bits instead of staying in one relative piece!
Did the people who did this previous work in MS's "innovation" department???
5,000 customers a month, I'm reading. Well, seems the slashdot editors still don't realize how many people come here - they've gotten that many already this morning likely. Good job on letting someone advertize for free their business! Can I get some free advertizing too?
"Dear Slashdot...I'm starting my own business in a lousy job market, due to the fact that I had to move 2700 miles and it'll be a while before I find anything here in no-where-land. I sell {a href=blah.xyzthing.com} xyz thing {/a} and I'd really love it if you'd give me free advertizing to lots and lots of people...err...I mean, if people could tell me what they'd do in this situation."
You all had started getting better at not doing this...oh well
OH, and the most imprtant tool for quantum computing research is an NMR system (Nuclear Magnetic Resonance...used to "write" and "read" qubits, the basis for quantum computing), which we just happen to have here, and GUESS WHAT. The platform choices for the NMR console are:
Linux
IRIX
No windows to be seen. So again again...I'd REALLY like to know the name of a tool using in quantum computing research (or ANY high-end research, for that matter) that is windows-only. I dare ya to name one.
And yes, I know its confusing that at a lowly genetics research company we'd have an NMR machine, but we have different uses than a quantum computing researcher would. We still use the same software...we're just getting the data for different purposes. PLEASE tell me an NMR system manufacture that has ONLY windows support for their software. PLEASE.
I'd REALLY like to know what utilities the poster is using that are windows-only that are for quantum computing research. I'd REALLY like to know. I mean, that just sounds TERRIBLY unlikely to me.
I'm just a lowly sysadmin at a biotech (genetics research), and while we're not doing anything on the level of quantum computing research, its REALLY hard even with our stuff (which is more commercial, more prolific, and therefore more likely to be windows) to find anything that is not written for Solaris/Linux/Irix. Everything is written for unix. I could list a couple dozen tools that account for 95% of what is used in the industry for research in fact, and not one of them doesn't at least have unix as its primary devel platform.
So again, I'd REALLY like to know the names of some tools that he's using for quantum computing research that only work on windows. Cause M$ Word does NOT count as such a utility.
They have been working on this for at least four years, if not more.
NO
Good god, its so damn easy to get mod5 as "informative." Whatever. Anyway, the compat layer is for things that are almost completely owned by Solaris in the IP world...nfs, automounter, etc. Those are COMPLETELY Sun, and not even SCO is making claim to them. Think M$ gave money to Sun? Hell no - Sun is a linux ally. They're not trying to discredit Linux. Serves M$ no purpose.
Or, so that you can become somewhat informed on your own, go to M$ all on your own. How about checking out the MS "solution" itself, Services For Unix.
Here's what MS says about it: "Services for UNIX provides file sharing, remote access and administration, password synchronization, common directory management, a common set of utilities, and a shell."
File sharing is through a samba-like util and through nfs, password sync is through ldap-like stuff (as is the directory management), and the utilities have various "uses." Not one of these things has anything to do with SCO.
Of course, if SCO would just mention what is being infringed, that might help the clueless be less confused. Many of us know its bunk without their even bothering, though.
"computron" has been used since at least the mid-1980s, when I first heard it used by an MIT graduate.
From Jargon File (4.0.0/24 July 1996) [jargon]:
while people have found your post to be terribly informative, you might stop and notice the difference between "computon" and "computron." Any retort that the meaning has some degree of similarity will be met with the response that they both start with "compu," end with silimar roots, and will therefore both be related when assigned meaning anyway. I mean, you know.
Thanks for the wonderful info about what computron means, though...
states have income tax, and once you're done with state income tax you'd have almost no variance at all. We're talking half a percent here.
And know where the upper end would be? large cities. And guess what - what you lose on that point5%, you'd get back in volume:P
You're imagining a problem that doesn't exist. yes, there are problems rounding to a dollar, but sales tax variances aren't it, in regards to marketing campaigns and the prices printed. You'd simply say "$49-50, depending on state" in your national campaign, then print 2 sets of signs total for the nation (there's no way you'd need more than 2).
wouldn't that be nice? The amazing thing is how many of these "I patented the process for patenting the..." posts get modded up despite their trollish, offtopic, redundant nature.
I already have "funny" at a -1 anyway, because I generally disagree.
and that has nothing to do with my response, which was to someone who claimed libertarians could never pinpoint any particular thing. Want Cali $'s? Am I supposed to be well versed in the budgets of every level out there? Give me the budget, and I'll show you how to knock off 50% of it within an hour:P That is, if I can find an hour I'd devote to such a pointless exersize, since it should be obvious to anyone most levels of government have more bloat than MS's code...
I could give you a few hundred things, actually. For instance - we don't need to be the policemen of the world. We don't need to give a single dime to foreign governments for stupid things - sub examples: we paid the korean government blackmail money so they wouldn't make nukes. WHY? We paid china $600,000,000 for them to do their own population control stuff. Like I want to pay for forced abortions in china?!?!
you've been talkign to the wrong libertarians if you haven't gotten one that could tell you how to cut the budget 50% with ease. You also are understating the waste of the welfare system.
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I'm not really sure what this has to do with climate prediction...lol.
however, I know you're fully aware that it says "total hostname and active sites," not webservers. The reason for that is that squatters (and that's all the increase is) tend to be MS kids - probably because squatting doesn't fit the OS community too well.
but I'm just a zombie due to it being 9am and me just getting home...you're just trolling and won't ever see this. lol
That's pretty much the sum of it. That, and the fact that they're not promising to
ummm...the EFF does QUITE a bit, considering the responsibilty it has to do anything at all (none). Just what are you suggesting?
every so often we send a shuttle up, and sometimes it explodes/etc. Why can't we just send some more probes like this? The whole crap with sending people up just doesn't work - we're not getting any better at it. We should instead just send unmanned flights. Imagine the cost savings.
Yeah, the ISS is a great dream...but...what's the point? Zero gravity labs can be mimiced here on earth far cheaper and safer. Sending one shuttle up has an extremely HUGE environmental impact. In mere moments a search brought up some decent points about further problems/inefficiencies. The technology of today is, in theory, much higher than what we had years and years ago. Its time we took our current system, did something like sell it to the chinese (they'll get it anyway, we might as well make the money), and build something with technology newer than 30 years ago. They still use 386 cpu's in the damn thing. Its time to put the entire fleet to rest, and stop paying to maintain it. Just because the cold war is over doesn't mean we don't need to do more than send people up and watch them explode - we need to still push the envelope.
I don't think many people got your joke...
:)
ah well
very good point. I stand corrected.
what is term velocity at 100k feet?
The guy who jumped reached a speed of over 700 miles per hour for part of the fall.
Thats interesting, since terminal velocity for a skydiver is supposed to be like about 120ish mph...
not even a lead block would go 700Mph, I don't think. But EH, details.
sure, its available here
but since that will get swamped, here's some cool details:
British summer holds the key as QinetiQ 1 balloon pilots prepare to fly to the edge of space
UK balloon pilots Andy Elson and Colin Prescot are now looking for an opportunity to launch their manned helium balloon, QinetiQ 1, on a clear calm day between end-July and mid-September 2003. In particular, the high winds of the jetstream need to be benign for a successful mission. The pilots aim to break the 40-year-old, US-held world altitude record for a manned balloon by ascending to 132,000ft (25 miles).
Sponsored in their attempt by QinetiQ, Europe's leading science and technology research organisation, the pilots are working closely with the Met Office. They are monitoring mission-critical advanced metrological data, in particular stratospheric conditions, as wind direction is critical for the balloon's trajectory.
Mission Control Director, Brian Jones commented: "The QinetiQ 1 team is set for launch and is now just waiting for the right weather to go. A sea launch is crucial to the success of the mission and North Cornwall offers us an ideal venue, with QinetiQ's own trimaran ship, RV Triton, providing the launch platform. The St Ives bay offers sheltered anchorage for RV Triton during the pre-flight preparations."
When the conditions are suitable, the pilots will announce a 72-hour countdown to the launch of the world's largest manned balloon, setting off from the North Cornish coast on its journey to the edge of space.
The QinetiQ 1 flight will last around 9-12 hours. The launch crew and pilots will start filling the balloon with helium in the early hours of launch day. The 1.6 tonnes of polyethylene material that make up the balloon's envelope takes about two hours to fill and, at launch, will stand upright at a massive height of 1,250 ft - seven times as tall as Nelson's Column, or the height of The Empire State Building. The balloon will rapidly ascend to 85,000 feet, after which it will slow down to a more gradual pace.
People within a 600-mile diameter footprint beneath the flight, should get a glimpse of the enormous balloon rising up into the sky. This means that the UK and much of France should be able to view the flight with the naked eye, as well as being able to see live TV images from on board QinetiQ 1.
At target altitude, the pilots will carry out a series of experiments and collect more information about an area of the stratosphere dubbed the 'Ignorosphere' due to the lack of recorded scientific data on the region.
It is at this point that Zephyr 3, a revolutionary unmanned solar plane designed by QinetiQ scientists and controlled by the balloon pilots from onboard QinetiQ 1, will beam back the amazing pictures of the voyage to mission control. Once the flight data has been captured the pilots will begin their descent, which should take three to four hours, before controlled 'splashdown' into the Atlantic.
if all you needed in your diet was carbs and b vitamins
the fact that its drawing other nutrients out of your body is unimportant. You'll be too drunk to notice, and you'll be "healthy." Never mind that you can't get your fat ass off the couch - you're in top shape!
[sarcasm][taunt]And screw this "american beer" vrs "real beer" crap. Its all crap. Beer is crap. Real men drink liquor. You're all nuts.[/taunt][/sarcasm]
there's two major movements going on right now - we're in what I call the "age of reconcilation" where a few nut balls think that I need to pay for what my great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandfather did to someone else's great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandfather or whatever else nonesense crap brought on by liberal self-loathing due to feelings of guilt for things they personally did in the present, and then there's the "screw you all, I'll do what I want to" crowd that tries to justify any act, regardless if it is self-destructive or harms others, with nothing other than "I wanted to." Beer as food/a healthy part of your diet...whatever. Like I said in my last post - its getting harder and harder to tell if people are just being silly, or stupid, these days...
Holograms have a bit more depth than 2 layers, however.
was this a serious question? I can never tell these days if someone is just acting, or being...
Didi I say they didn't make money on support? I don't remember saying that...
Problem with your proposal is that disks thus configured are actually sold, and for good amounts of money. As soon as Joe Average Public has those disks, they no longer need to do the 4 year extended warranty - they just stick in the disk, it tells them what's wrong, and they replace it.
Business, in many cases, relies upon keeping its customers as stupid as possible. Yes, support is an added cost. However - the companies are supposed to make a profit, right?
uhh...NO
I've used linux since 95. Yes, I've noticed that to get a system with linux vrs one with XP/whatever is about the same price. I've even seen the linux price be more expensive. I'm all for not paying the MS "tax."
Thing is, the difference is that the company (be it Dell, whatever) is not just selling a box with XP on it - they're seeling support for a box with XP on it. That support costs real money. Support for linux costs even more (esp if normal Joes are buying boxes with linux).
Now, if they'd sell a computer with just hardware support...but that would be just as expensive, because through the OS the technical support can answer questions about the hardware, and can determine if its a hardware or software problem.
I wish I had a couple dozen points to give you right now...
holy crap! well, I guess I'll have to make sure to tell all my biking buddies to make sure that all strain exerted on their bikes is "in the longitudinal direction," versus the normal strains that are put on bikes (twists, various directions, etc).
And next time I'm hit by an suv while riding a bike, I'll be sure glad the bike shattered into bits instead of staying in one relative piece!
Did the people who did this previous work in MS's "innovation" department???
"Dear Slashdot...I'm starting my own business in a lousy job market, due to the fact that I had to move 2700 miles and it'll be a while before I find anything here in no-where-land. I sell {a href=blah.xyzthing.com} xyz thing {/a} and I'd really love it if you'd give me free advertizing to lots and lots of people...err...I mean, if people could tell me what they'd do in this situation."
You all had started getting better at not doing this...oh well
Linux
IRIX
No windows to be seen. So again again...I'd REALLY like to know the name of a tool using in quantum computing research (or ANY high-end research, for that matter) that is windows-only. I dare ya to name one.
And yes, I know its confusing that at a lowly genetics research company we'd have an NMR machine, but we have different uses than a quantum computing researcher would. We still use the same software...we're just getting the data for different purposes. PLEASE tell me an NMR system manufacture that has ONLY windows support for their software. PLEASE.
And yes, I guess I'm a bit onry tonight.
I'm just a lowly sysadmin at a biotech (genetics research), and while we're not doing anything on the level of quantum computing research, its REALLY hard even with our stuff (which is more commercial, more prolific, and therefore more likely to be windows) to find anything that is not written for Solaris/Linux/Irix. Everything is written for unix. I could list a couple dozen tools that account for 95% of what is used in the industry for research in fact, and not one of them doesn't at least have unix as its primary devel platform.
So again, I'd REALLY like to know the names of some tools that he's using for quantum computing research that only work on windows. Cause M$ Word does NOT count as such a utility.
hehe...well, at least I actually *was* being informative. I do think I'll just start posting anon, or making new accounts each week, though.
NO
Good god, its so damn easy to get mod5 as "informative." Whatever. Anyway, the compat layer is for things that are almost completely owned by Solaris in the IP world...nfs, automounter, etc. Those are COMPLETELY Sun, and not even SCO is making claim to them. Think M$ gave money to Sun? Hell no - Sun is a linux ally. They're not trying to discredit Linux. Serves M$ no purpose.
Or, so that you can become somewhat informed on your own, go to M$ all on your own. How about checking out the MS "solution" itself, Services For Unix.
Here's what MS says about it: "Services for UNIX provides file sharing, remote access and administration, password synchronization, common directory management, a common set of utilities, and a shell."
File sharing is through a samba-like util and through nfs, password sync is through ldap-like stuff (as is the directory management), and the utilities have various "uses." Not one of these things has anything to do with SCO.
Of course, if SCO would just mention what is being infringed, that might help the clueless be less confused. Many of us know its bunk without their even bothering, though.
From Jargon File (4.0.0/24 July 1996) [jargon]:
while people have found your post to be terribly informative, you might stop and notice the difference between "computon" and "computron." Any retort that the meaning has some degree of similarity will be met with the response that they both start with "compu," end with silimar roots, and will therefore both be related when assigned meaning anyway. I mean, you know.
Thanks for the wonderful info about what computron means, though...
And know where the upper end would be? large cities. And guess what - what you lose on that point5%, you'd get back in volume :P
You're imagining a problem that doesn't exist. yes, there are problems rounding to a dollar, but sales tax variances aren't it, in regards to marketing campaigns and the prices printed. You'd simply say "$49-50, depending on state" in your national campaign, then print 2 sets of signs total for the nation (there's no way you'd need more than 2).
I already have "funny" at a -1 anyway, because I generally disagree.
and that has nothing to do with my response, which was to someone who claimed libertarians could never pinpoint any particular thing. Want Cali $'s? Am I supposed to be well versed in the budgets of every level out there? Give me the budget, and I'll show you how to knock off 50% of it within an hour :P That is, if I can find an hour I'd devote to such a pointless exersize, since it should be obvious to anyone most levels of government have more bloat than MS's code...
The man - they is always holdin me down! :P
you've been talkign to the wrong libertarians if you haven't gotten one that could tell you how to cut the budget 50% with ease. You also are understating the waste of the welfare system.