Sorry, but I have to correct you on this one: "Cheaper" is not IBM's key argument; in fact, every presentation about IBM's software strategy stresses the fact that open standards and open source lie at the core of the strategy to eliminate dependencies and create freedom to act. Please read corporate strategies and look at the ongoing activities before posting a rant about them. Take a look at http://www-306.ibm.com/software/info/topic/ if you want to learn more, for instance in articles like "Beyond TCO - The Unanticipated Second Stage Benefits of Linux" focuses on business applications and mission critical workloads on Linux and the often unanticipated second stage benefits that leading edge Linux users enjoy today.
Wrong: "Cheaper" is not IBM's key argument; in fact, every presentation about IBM's software strategy stresses the fact that open standards and open source lie at the core of the strategy to eliminate dependencies and create freedom to act. Please read corporate strategies and look at the ongoing activities before posting a rant about them. Take a look at http://www-306.ibm.com/software/info/topic/ if you want to learn more, for instance in articles like "Beyond TCO - The Unanticipated Second Stage Benefits of Linux" focuses on business applications and mission critical workloads on Linux and the often unanticipated second stage benefits that leading edge Linux users enjoy today.
You are absolutely right:
At first it seems like a contradiction that the universe should be 14 billion years old, but 70 billion light years accross, with the speed of light being constant. You would not expect an expansion beyond 28 billion light years.
But please do consider the Inflation Theory which states the the universe went through a phase of rapid geometric expansion, and which had made a lot of predictions which were later found in WMAP data:
http://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/m_uni/uni_101inflation.ht ml
Funny thing Boeing does not seem to know about it
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Apart from some general fishy facts about this article (how do they build a suitable hangar and keep it hidden, how do they never have a crash with an private airplane which "did not see it" etc), there is the question why Boeing would buy into Cargolifter in order to develop lighter-than-air-vehicles:
They _should_ know what their major competition (Lockheed) is up to already and not invest in inferior foreign technology, right?:-)
If you guys want to know what lighter-than-air-technology means today, check out the Cargolifter web site (www.cargolifter.com) and have your babelfish ready.
The Beginner wrote that our basic instinct tells us that killing a retarded child is not correct.
However,
1. The basic instinct in fact does tell a mother to abandon her child if it proves not to be able to survive on its own. This holds true for most primitive tribes that have been studied so far (refer to Eibl-Eibesfeldt or the like).
2. It is one of the great achievments of civilisation that we don't kill when our instinct tells us to (when we catch our partner in bed with another person, when we encounter a tresspasser...). It's good to know what your basic instincts tell you to do - but you should control them and think civilized before acting!!!
As posted previously, it comes down to drawing the line between "fit to live" and "unfit to live". Maybe you are too frightened to draw the line... Maybe people who do just try to play god (although - has anybody seen him around lately?;-)
Apart from the very unlikely fact that the story holds any truth concerning code-breaking - What does the Sunday Times mean when saying "The European Banking System"??? There's more than a dozen of different national systems interconnecting various banks, there are networks between large banks across Europe, there's Eurocheque's network and and and... Get a clue, Sunday Times!!!
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Sorry, but I have to correct you on this one:
"Cheaper" is not IBM's key argument; in fact, every presentation about IBM's software strategy stresses the fact that open standards and open source lie at the core of the strategy to eliminate dependencies and create freedom to act.
Please read corporate strategies and look at the ongoing activities before posting a rant about them.
Take a look at http://www-306.ibm.com/software/info/topic/ if you want to learn more, for instance in articles like "Beyond TCO - The Unanticipated Second Stage Benefits of Linux" focuses on business applications and mission critical workloads on Linux and the often unanticipated second stage benefits that leading edge Linux users enjoy today.
Wrong: "Cheaper" is not IBM's key argument; in fact, every presentation about IBM's software strategy stresses the fact that open standards and open source lie at the core of the strategy to eliminate dependencies and create freedom to act.
Please read corporate strategies and look at the ongoing activities before posting a rant about them.
Take a look at http://www-306.ibm.com/software/info/topic/ if you want to learn more, for instance in articles like "Beyond TCO - The Unanticipated Second Stage Benefits of Linux" focuses on business applications and mission critical workloads on Linux and the often unanticipated second stage benefits that leading edge Linux users enjoy today.
You are absolutely right: At first it seems like a contradiction that the universe should be 14 billion years old, but 70 billion light years accross, with the speed of light being constant. You would not expect an expansion beyond 28 billion light years. But please do consider the Inflation Theory which states the the universe went through a phase of rapid geometric expansion, and which had made a lot of predictions which were later found in WMAP data: http://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/m_uni/uni_101inflation.ht ml
Apart from some general fishy facts about this article (how do they build a suitable hangar and keep it hidden, how do they never have a crash with an private airplane which "did not see it" etc), there is the question why Boeing would buy into Cargolifter in order to develop lighter-than-air-vehicles:
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:-)
http://www.boeing.com/news/releases/2002/q3/nr_
They _should_ know what their major competition (Lockheed) is up to already and not invest in inferior foreign technology, right?
If you guys want to know what lighter-than-air-technology means today, check out the Cargolifter web site (www.cargolifter.com) and have your babelfish ready.
The Beginner wrote that our basic instinct tells us that killing a retarded child is not correct.
;-)
However,
1. The basic instinct in fact does tell a mother to abandon her child if it proves not to be able to survive on its own. This holds true for most primitive tribes that have been studied so far (refer to Eibl-Eibesfeldt or the like).
2. It is one of the great achievments of civilisation that we don't kill when our instinct tells us to (when we catch our partner in bed with another person, when we encounter a tresspasser...). It's good to know what your basic instincts tell you to do - but you should control them and think civilized before acting!!!
As posted previously, it comes down to drawing the line between "fit to live" and "unfit to live".
Maybe you are too frightened to draw the line...
Maybe people who do just try to play god (although - has anybody seen him around lately?
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Apart from the very unlikely fact that the story holds any truth concerning code-breaking - What does the Sunday Times mean when saying "The European Banking System"??? There's more than a dozen of different national systems interconnecting various banks, there are networks between large banks across Europe, there's Eurocheque's network and and and... Get a clue, Sunday Times!!!