Uh, the core of Salon *is* open source software. It's built on the HTML::Mason toolkit, and they've released various odds and sods back to the community.
The uptake on the 320 over the 737 and 767 is quite impressive - the 737 has been around a lot longer than the 320, which is why there are currently more. Try having a look at new plane orders.
The problem with pricing on fossil fuels are that they suffer from massive externalities. The cost is the one of ripping them out of the ground.
If you want to see what happens in the scenario where your costs are externalised and you rip stuff out faster than it renews, you could examine collapsing fishing industries around the world - everything looks fine for ages, no-one wants to do anything about it, and then suddenly your fishery dissapears.
That's not too surprising, especially in Europe. There's not a whole bunch of places to put the waste, for one thing. No desert mountains to bury it under. New Scientist did a piece on the dump near Sellafield, which has the radioactive leavings stored up. It's a light concrete bunker containing enough waste that if a medium size plane were flown into it, it would release radioactive waste equivalent to hundreds of Chernobyls.
Europe's a small place. That kind of thing makes people very rationally concerned.
Oh, not to mention the ongoing problems in the Irish Sea, and the atypically high rates of cancer recorded around some of the existing plants...
I care for a different reason: the biggest curse of the PC BIOS is the fact it only works with attached heads and hands. I want it to work without requiring me to sit in front of the system.
I *hope* that's what the LAN access will achieve, and that we won't be left with a shitty, sit-in-the-machine-room experience with more colours.
Also, the LAN stuff, while potentially cool, could also be a pain in the arse from a security point of view. WOL has cause conniptions for come people in the past, and that's very simple indeed.
This is where the more strict regulation in the EU and other nations is a boon, although even here in NZ there's a lot of stuff that is public information for public policy reasons (voter rolls, land ownership registration and so forth).
CAD users have historically used different chipsets with different optimisation points than those used for games, though, so there's no guarantee that what is a win for specialist users will flow into the general market.
No, they should have done what Americans did - send Hitler birthday presents and make money selling arms and vehicles to the Nazi army. Much more morally correct.
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Sun's legacy servers (4500, 6500, e10k) were pretty amazing, but had some faults (Ecache failures, lack of true power redundancy, etc).
So what you're saying is, "Don't trust mission critical apps to dodgy Intel hardware, trust it to buggy Sun hardware"; after all, it isn't like Sun tried to cover up the data corruption and halting problems afflicting those systems, is it?
And who is going to provide the 1-hour onsite response time that comes with Sun's Platinum service for those flocking to cheap hardware?
IBM. They've been doing it for years, you know. Given the cost of Sun's platinum support, there are any number of companies who would provide excellent support for you.
So, Mr. Cringely, who exactly is going to fill this gap for Enterprise servers for mission critical apps if Sun tanks?
People used to say the same about SGI and the high end graphics market. IBM and HP both have products that slot into exactly the same area - and IBMs top end gear is a fuckload more reliable than Sun's.
You're the first person I have seen object to grabbing chunks of the WTC or the shuttle on the gounds of investigative necessity in an on-line forum. The bulk of complaints (and death threats, and what not) are from people outraged at others exploiting the tradgedy. Which is reasonable enough - but, oddly enough, many people in France werenn';t very fond of the Nazi regime, either.
...watching USanians get all pissy about France cracking down on Nazi symbolys, then screaming death threats at people trying to flog off bits of the WTC or Columbia on eBay.
This must be a different Paris Metro to the one I was on a couple of years back. In fact, the most noticable difference between London and Paris in general is that Londoners appear to enjoy wallowing in their own filth, while Parisians think it's worth cleaning up every weekend or so.
1/ Linux can rebuild RAID from on-disk information. NT 4 is deficient in this regard, it would seem.
2/ Problem is worse with hardware RAID, because if I lose the card, I'm fucked. I either have to have spares, or wait on a controller. Never mind what happens if the manufacturer goes out of business.
You sound like a sucker. You should never work an hour you aren't paid for, but you've bought into the myth that people should give employers something for free. It's a pernicious meme all to common in IT, and probably why employers love inexperienced 23 year olds over experienced staff - the older employees may have figured out what a crock it is.
With the exception of my name, I run a couple of sites that are no where near the top results for the categories people arrive with in their referers.
And as I was explaining to a friend last week, the photo of her at my wedding attracts desperate surfers looking for a similarly named Malaysian porn star.
The fatal flaw with communism is much the same as with libertarian thinking, and most other secular "isms" - that there is an identifiable class of persons (capitalists, Jews, welfare recipients, what have you) who are causing otherwise decent people to behave badly, and that if one only removed that class of persons, a utopia would flourish as people behaved in a socially and personally optimal way.
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Uh, the core of Salon *is* open source software. It's built on the HTML::Mason toolkit, and they've released various odds and sods back to the community.
The uptake on the 320 over the 737 and 767 is quite impressive - the 737 has been around a lot longer than the 320, which is why there are currently more. Try having a look at new plane orders.
The problem with pricing on fossil fuels are that they suffer from massive externalities. The cost is the one of ripping them out of the ground.
If you want to see what happens in the scenario where your costs are externalised and you rip stuff out faster than it renews, you could examine collapsing fishing industries around the world - everything looks fine for ages, no-one wants to do anything about it, and then suddenly your fishery dissapears.
That's not too surprising, especially in Europe. There's not a whole bunch of places to put the waste, for one thing. No desert mountains to bury it under. New Scientist did a piece on the dump near Sellafield, which has the radioactive leavings stored up. It's a light concrete bunker containing enough waste that if a medium size plane were flown into it, it would release radioactive waste equivalent to hundreds of Chernobyls.
Europe's a small place. That kind of thing makes people very rationally concerned.
Oh, not to mention the ongoing problems in the Irish Sea, and the atypically high rates of cancer recorded around some of the existing plants...
Pity the A320 already owns it.
I care for a different reason: the biggest curse of the PC BIOS is the fact it only works with attached heads and hands. I want it to work without requiring me to sit in front of the system.
I *hope* that's what the LAN access will achieve, and that we won't be left with a shitty, sit-in-the-machine-room experience with more colours.
Also, the LAN stuff, while potentially cool, could also be a pain in the arse from a security point of view. WOL has cause conniptions for come people in the past, and that's very simple indeed.
Right. So after the Oklahoma city bombing, the authorities were keeping watch for white, right-wing Christians who eat beef?
You could ask the British about them. You know, the ones who were blowing up hotels while the Poms were facing off with Hitler.
This is where the more strict regulation in the EU and other nations is a boon, although even here in NZ there's a lot of stuff that is public information for public policy reasons (voter rolls, land ownership registration and so forth).
Sure, but the 5600 is unlikely be competitive with the 9700, given that the 5800 only achieves parity (ahead in some, behind in others).
CAD users have historically used different chipsets with different optimisation points than those used for games, though, so there's no guarantee that what is a win for specialist users will flow into the general market.
No, they should have done what Americans did - send Hitler birthday presents and make money selling arms and vehicles to the Nazi army. Much more morally correct.
This is news?
So what you're saying is, "Don't trust mission critical apps to dodgy Intel hardware, trust it to buggy Sun hardware"; after all, it isn't like Sun tried to cover up the data corruption and halting problems afflicting those systems, is it?
IBM. They've been doing it for years, you know. Given the cost of Sun's platinum support, there are any number of companies who would provide excellent support for you.
People used to say the same about SGI and the high end graphics market. IBM and HP both have products that slot into exactly the same area - and IBMs top end gear is a fuckload more reliable than Sun's.
You're the first person I have seen object to grabbing chunks of the WTC or the shuttle on the gounds of investigative necessity in an on-line forum. The bulk of complaints (and death threats, and what not) are from people outraged at others exploiting the tradgedy. Which is reasonable enough - but, oddly enough, many people in France werenn';t very fond of the Nazi regime, either.
...watching USanians get all pissy about France cracking down on Nazi symbolys, then screaming death threats at people trying to flog off bits of the WTC or Columbia on eBay.
This must be a different Paris Metro to the one I was on a couple of years back. In fact, the most noticable difference between London and Paris in general is that Londoners appear to enjoy wallowing in their own filth, while Parisians think it's worth cleaning up every weekend or so.
1/ Linux can rebuild RAID from on-disk information. NT 4 is deficient in this regard, it would seem.
2/ Problem is worse with hardware RAID, because if I lose the card, I'm fucked. I either have to have spares, or wait on a controller. Never mind what happens if the manufacturer goes out of business.
Only if you're trying to add it to someone else's program.
(I kid! I kid because I love Perl...)
Please. Rain Man was *not* a better film that Last Temptation on any level, except acceptability to persons of a certain religious persuasion.
You sound like a sucker. You should never work an hour you aren't paid for, but you've bought into the myth that people should give employers something for free. It's a pernicious meme all to common in IT, and probably why employers love inexperienced 23 year olds over experienced staff - the older employees may have figured out what a crock it is.
With the exception of my name, I run a couple of sites that are no where near the top results for the categories people arrive with in their referers.
And as I was explaining to a friend last week, the photo of her at my wedding attracts desperate surfers looking for a similarly named Malaysian porn star.
Not getting any, huh?
Having sex does make you a better person. It makes you more relaxed and more pleasant to be around.
The fatal flaw with communism is much the same as with libertarian thinking, and most other secular "isms" - that there is an identifiable class of persons (capitalists, Jews, welfare recipients, what have you) who are causing otherwise decent people to behave badly, and that if one only removed that class of persons, a utopia would flourish as people behaved in a socially and personally optimal way.