Your comment is funny, but it may also prove to be much more to the point than many others.
Many of the proposed "solutions" have one assumption entirely wrong : they assume we will always have electricity and(or ?) high technology, but this might not be the case for too long if we don't soon (like in the coming 200 years) find some way to use renewable energy in an efficient way.
I wouldn't bet on any highly technical storage solution to preserve datas for much more than 100 years, because this is about the only duration we have real and proven experience on (the first audio recordings). Before that it was mostly paper, and stone even before.
> but could someone please explain to me what harm comes to PEOPLE from treating cows with growth > hormone? It's not like a pesticide - it doesn't get concentrated up in the food chain. Hormones > are species-specific, and their effects are strictly physiological.
Here in France we are just having a big trial about people who extracted growth hormone from human cadavers (if I understand correctly, this was the "normal" way to do this at that time), and injected them into children with growth problems : children grew, but several died from Creutzfeld-Jakob disease as the result...
If only we could let cows eat grass, chicken wheat, and communist babies !
You seem to be missing the point that mainframes are the only ones to fill that particular huge computing/IO intensive niche. Windows is far from being alone in its own market, and it's far from being the best as well. As soon as major proprietary application providers (outside of MSOffice of course) begin to switch to other systems, Windows' death will come in much faster than decades.
Interesting to see how many IT people are angry about these pictures being available on Google, while at the same time criticizing security by obscurity as being ineffective.
I'm not from the USA, but I'd be glad to be allowed to see what is in these "super secret bases" that I as a citizen paid for.
I don't care if "terrorists" see them either, because the security of these "super secret bases" shouldn't rely on people not knowing what's in there.
Do you really think that a small group of determined people with a map of the place could attack such a base on land without being defeated in minutes ? If people can go at will in and out of your military bases, as one poster reported, then of course you've got other problems to solve... As for an attack coming from the sky, provided your plane contains sufficient bombing capabilities, there's no need for a map or pictures : just bomb everything (ask the people at Hiroshima for an example).
One key benefit would be not wasting resources on development where outside contributors could help you. If you pay your developers, then I think it's pretty clear you could save money, by having more development done for the same cost.
You can earn some money with entirely Free Software, although I can't live only on this for now.
What I do is give free access to subversion tree to everyone.
But I sell login accounts which allow people to download the software in packaged form (tar+gzip, Debian, Ubuntu, RPMs) including the compiled PDF and HTML documentation (vs SGML only from subversion), for a modest amount (25 EUROS or US$, and yes I know this is definitely NOT the same).
All people who pay to download such packages are allowed to redistribute them under the terms of the GNU GPL v3. In practice, to my knowledge nobody did. It would be interesting to know why...
In addition, I sell 8x5x365 technical support contracts.
Provided this is not a full time job, I think I do pretty well, equivalent to around 1/3 to 1/2 of my full time job's salary.
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The Key word is : "upcoming" :-)
> As opposed to European super heroes like the Frenchman that...
You mean this one ?
> How hard is it to sit down and run a simple test like the (excellent) one this guy did with his
> girlfriend for every release?
It's hard, because you're a nerd and you need a different (brand new, if possible) girlfriend each time...
Your comment is funny, but it may also prove to be much more to the point than many others.
Many of the proposed "solutions" have one assumption entirely wrong : they assume we will always have electricity and(or ?) high technology, but this might not be the case for too long if we don't soon (like in the coming 200 years) find some way to use renewable energy in an efficient way.
I wouldn't bet on any highly technical storage solution to preserve datas for much more than 100 years, because this is about the only duration we have real and proven experience on (the first audio recordings). Before that it was mostly paper, and stone even before.
> You might want to consider searching the page before you post.
You must be new here !
in the "Library of Congress" and "Football Field" units ?
In Soviet Russia the re-entry doesn't make the vehicule explode.
-20 Not funny.
Mutant Coconuts migrate even more easily : http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2005/03/24_octopus.shtml
> but could someone please explain to me what harm comes to PEOPLE from treating cows with growth
> hormone? It's not like a pesticide - it doesn't get concentrated up in the food chain. Hormones
> are species-specific, and their effects are strictly physiological.
Here in France we are just having a big trial about people who extracted growth hormone from human cadavers (if I understand correctly, this was the "normal" way to do this at that time), and injected them into children with growth problems : children grew, but several died from Creutzfeld-Jakob disease as the result...
If only we could let cows eat grass, chicken wheat, and communist babies !
(just joking)
You seem to be missing the point that mainframes are the only ones to fill that particular huge computing/IO intensive niche. Windows is far from being alone in its own market, and it's far from being the best as well. As soon as major proprietary application providers (outside of MSOffice of course) begin to switch to other systems, Windows' death will come in much faster than decades.
First I must say I don't understand anything about shares, as I don't own any, nor about "market".
But if you try to compare 5 years datas with 6 months datas and try to infer something from this, I think you're probably incorrect.
From now on, just avoid SugarCRM like the plague.
Interesting to see how many IT people are angry about these pictures being available on Google, while at the same time criticizing security by obscurity as being ineffective.
I'm not from the USA, but I'd be glad to be allowed to see what is in these "super secret bases" that I as a citizen paid for.
I don't care if "terrorists" see them either, because the security of these "super secret bases" shouldn't rely on people not knowing what's in there.
Do you really think that a small group of determined people with a map of the place could attack such a base on land without being defeated in minutes ? If people can go at will in and out of your military bases, as one poster reported, then of course you've got other problems to solve... As for an attack coming from the sky, provided your plane contains sufficient bombing capabilities, there's no need for a map or pictures : just bomb everything (ask the people at Hiroshima for an example).
Really great idea !
Well, if you've seen Idiocracy then they may be right, but it's just the other way around : Human intelligence will reach the level of toasters.
> Why do artists and government officials think that Copyright means 'money for forever?'
Let me guess...
Because they want this money I suppose !
Then maybe you could just deactivate the logs to save a lot on CPU and hard disk resources...
My companion girl is not a star, that's probably why I can't make her swallow...
You are joking, aren't you ?
Easy : just prove them wrong by going besides the tiger's wall...
> And no one fucks with them,
;-)
Just like with Slashdotters, unfortunately
> I would recommend against using Skype if security is an issue.
FYI, to the best of my knowedge, the use of Skype is forbidden on France's administrative and in particular higher education networks.
It is not filtered though, or not everywhere...
If only I could mod you up !
One key benefit would be not wasting resources on development where outside contributors could help you. If you pay your developers, then I think it's pretty clear you could save money, by having more development done for the same cost.
You can earn some money with entirely Free Software, although I can't live only on this for now.
What I do is give free access to subversion tree to everyone.
But I sell login accounts which allow people to download the software in packaged form (tar+gzip, Debian, Ubuntu, RPMs) including the compiled PDF and HTML documentation (vs SGML only from subversion), for a modest amount (25 EUROS or US$, and yes I know this is definitely NOT the same).
All people who pay to download such packages are allowed to redistribute them under the terms of the GNU GPL v3. In practice, to my knowledge nobody did. It would be interesting to know why...
In addition, I sell 8x5x365 technical support contracts.
Provided this is not a full time job, I think I do pretty well, equivalent to around 1/3 to 1/2 of my full time job's salary.