You have to remember that MS employees are real human beings. They aren't idiots for the most part. This guy was being very candid about the shortfalls of a windows server, perhaps with hopes of seeing it improved it in the future. It's the higher ups in the corporate ladder and the marketers that candy-coat all things windows and belittle all things *nix.
Ironically, many of those (perfectly valid) reasons that *nix can make a better server are the same reasons I don't like it on my desktop. Text configuration is a blessing for server farms but a nightmare for newbies with a fresh install.
your analogy isn't quite fair. The Earth has warmed and cooled quite a bit throughout history. The last 10,000 or so years have been very stable, but it was in and out of ice ages for hundreds of thousands of years before that.
So anyway, it's not as much a cancer as a fever. And we're not quite sure what normal temperature should be, anyway.
Yeah I'm sure that would be a conern to the shipping. But it is manageable. Already North Atlanta Sea ice is monitored very actively in order to keep icebergs from hitting ships and oil rigs.
I believe the US Coast gaurd's International Ice Patrol takes care of most of the monitoring relevent to shipping.
Nope. The northern Icecaps are floating. Their melting does nothing to change the global water level. The frozen water is already displacing as much water as it would in liquid form.
Specifically, his whining about the commonly understood causes of cloud formation and greenhouse heating are extraordinarily nitpicky.
I'm sure he's correct in saying that clouds form because the rate of evaporation for h20 falls below it's rate of condensation. But he says it's horrible to link this to the temperature of the medium (air) that contains the h20 because the h20 would act similarly no matter what medium it is in. Um.. so what, in this case since the temperature is even across the whole medium (air) what's wrong with this slight simplification?
And worse is his whining over the analogy that the atmosphere works as a blanket to cause greenhouse effects. He says a blanket chiefly stops convection while an atmosphere enables it. (but a blanket also stops conduction and radiation effectively) He seems to miss the point that most people just associate a blanket with "something that traps heat" and I think that's just fine.
Does the atmosphere trap radiation? No, the atmosphere absorbs radiation emitted by the Earth. But, upon being absorbed, the radiation has ceased to exist by having been transformed into the kinetic and potential energy of the molecules. The atmosphere cannot be said to have succeeded in trapping something that has ceased to exist.
what!? that's rubbish. So what the energy has changed phase, it's still trapped! It's like saying a battery doesn't trap an electrical energy, because it's storing it as chemical energy.
Does the atmosphere reradiate? One often hears the claim that the atmosphere absorbs radiation emitted by the Earth (correct) and then reradiates it back to Earth (false). The atmosphere radiates because it has a finite temperature, not because it received radiation. When the atmosphere emits radiation, it is not the same radiation (which ceased to exist upon being absorbed) as it received. The radiation absorbed and that emitted do not even have the same spectrum and certainly are not made up of the same photons. The term reradiate is a nonsense term which should never be used to explain anything.
What?! so what if it's different photons at different wavelengths. The atmosphere is slowing the net flow of energy off of the earth's surface by absorbing radiation and returning some of that energy through radiation.
The author takes an amazingly condescending tone towards anyone who would use these horrible analogies.
And in fact, I think that his summary of this greenhouse issue is dead wrong
"The surface of the Earth is warmer than it would be in the absence of an atmosphere because it receives energy from two sources: the Sun and the atmosphere. "
Umm.. no. The atmosphere actually makes the daytime surface temperature much lower. It then helps maintain a nighttime temperature.
Read this guy's page and the faq's associated with them and you can see the amazing logical disconnects he makes to form some of his arguments.
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John Carmack personally posted on Slashdot to express his frustration with the leak of the Alpha, and Slashdot keeps advertising it and aiding it's distribution anyway? Who cares if it's illegal, it's extremely immoral to continue hyping an effectively stolen piece of software that the authors desperately don't want us to have yet.
And this is id! They're an unbelievably community minded company and this is how we pay them back?
Yeah this is the thing that blows my mind about all these competitions, and maybe I'm just an idiot... but without knowing the exact message you're looking for, how do you know when you've broken it? Even if you're looking for plain text, it seems like you could get so many false positives in the form of grammatically valid statements that it would be of no use.
People always (see 100 posts above) use these competitions to draw conclusions about when the government could break your emails with supercomputers or something to that effect, but even if they know how you encrypted it, and even if they know it's written in english plain text, how would they know when they've properly decoded a short message? Maybe I'm just missing something here...
This seems like the a great port for multiplayer reasons, but that's not mentioned anywhere on the page.
I guess modem play wouldn't work? Hmm... Well there has to be some way to port the multiplayer. Whether people would want to burn up their minutes to kill their friends on their phones is another story (I would)
I'm pretty sure having a 20 lb brick hit in the middle of your formation is better than having a working explosive land at you feet. I don't know what the wattage of the laser is (or if that's classified), but it could vaporize a significant amount of the material and this would also change its course significantly.
My guess is that it either disables the shell (good) or causes it to detonate shortly after launch (better)
I think the fact that the Microsoft materials can be cleaned up so easily is a bonus for them. Biodegradable chalk that doesn't dissappear for years is certainly still vandalism.
The number one cause of death in server room fires is toxic smoke inhalation...
What's your source for this? I mean... Sure it's probably true, but it's a bit like warning people that bleeding is the number one cause of death in emu attacks.
I attended a talk by Dr. Robert Zubrin of the Mars Society last year. He said that deep space radiation increases your cancer risk at roughly the same rate as smoking (this article seems to place it higher). Anyway his suggestion was to only recruit only chain smokers for missions to Mars, and make them quit smoking. He was a bit worried about the ability of the astronauts to perform well, though.
The time between when Columbus "discovered" the new world and Magellen circumnavigated the globe was 30 years. It has now been 30 years since Apollo 17, the last time man visited the moon, the last time man left low earth orbit. I think it's a great failure of our race that we've dragged our feet such.
To think that technological advance is blazingly fast in this day in age is misleading. We're not doing too well at hitting the important targets. NASA might just now be waking up to this, but it's yet to be seen if their budget wakes up to it. (Nasa funding was 4% of the national budget at the height of the Apollo program, it's less than 1% now)
So I applaud their very recent efforts to finally mention some vague goals away from Low Earth Orbit. L1 is a fine stepping stone, but Mars is where the public eye is. Nasa administrator Daniel Goldin had some brave words about the possibility of sending men to Mars in this decade or the next, but Bush put a bean counter in charge of Nasa pretty quickly to throttle cost overruns from the ISS.
What we really need is a president giving NASA a kick in the pants, and the funding to follow, as Kennedy did. Either that or wait around for private space exploration to become worthwhile, and we're going to be waiting quite a while in that case. Another space race? maybe China? I hope so. Because the current NASA schedule is anything but ambitious.
I'm pretty sure with all of the deals these companies have signed with auto makers, all the customers they already have, and most importantly the millions of dollars in satellites overhead, they wouldn't just let them crash into the ocean because their revenues are starting out low.
Even a massive project like Iridium eventually found a buyer. Even if both of these companies go bankrupt it would be an attractive purchase for some investor.
Anyway, that price already had winXP home in it. As for office, I don't see why you'd need to buy office for a PC and not for a Mac?
Good point about putting it together. I'll concede that.
So the AMD XP 1600 might not be twice as fast as a Power PC 600. It probably is in some things and isn't in some things. Which of those machines would you rather have though?
Lets see... I just grabbed these in a few minutes of browsing. There could be better deals.
AMD Athlon XP 1600+ - $52.99 EPOX EP-8KHAL+ VIA Apollo KT266A - $77.00 Western Digital 80 gig 7200 RPM HD - $111.00 Crucial Micron pc2100 256M RAM - $64.99 Lite-On 16X DVD ROM - $42.00 Sound Blaster Live! - $34.00 Harman HK 19.5 SPEAKER - $29.00 Antec Case w/ 300W power - $55.00 Samsung SyncMaster 753DF 17" DynaFlate CRT monitor - $135.00 Logitec Optical mouse - $11.00 Logitec keyboard - $13.00 3COM 10/100 NIC - $26.00 Windows XP home - $90.00 and last but not least Sony 1.44MB 3.5 inch INTERNAL FDD DRIVE - $8.00
grand total: $ 804.98 shipped (prices calculated from newegg.com being shipped fed-ex saver to Georgia)
That's twice as good in most categories compared to the Imac (right down the number of mouse buttons).
Apple is in the business of selling hardware for more than it's worth. Giving away their operating system to teachers doesn't mean much since it can only be run on their hardware. (OS-X versions they're willing to release, at least)
First, just because the headline exempted the word "only" doesn't mean it was misleading.
Second, you make it sound as if vaporizization is only in the realm of science fiction. Lasers by themselves are used to cut materials. It's not such a stretch to imagine that (even unorganized) microwaves could do the same.
Good that you gave it credit as a farked image (more than most people do) but it would probably be even better to give the specific user, mr_fogey, credit, as they are all user submitted. I have a small flash of sympathy for the RIAA every time I see these fark images ripped off by other sites. Some nerds worked really hard on these!
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You have to remember that MS employees are real human beings. They aren't idiots for the most part. This guy was being very candid about the shortfalls of a windows server, perhaps with hopes of seeing it improved it in the future. It's the higher ups in the corporate ladder and the marketers that candy-coat all things windows and belittle all things *nix.
Ironically, many of those (perfectly valid) reasons that *nix can make a better server are the same reasons I don't like it on my desktop. Text configuration is a blessing for server farms but a nightmare for newbies with a fresh install.
Why would people without arms buy a wristwatch you clod!
To tell the time. duh.
your analogy isn't quite fair. The Earth has warmed and cooled quite a bit throughout history. The last 10,000 or so years have been very stable, but it was in and out of ice ages for hundreds of thousands of years before that.
So anyway, it's not as much a cancer as a fever. And we're not quite sure what normal temperature should be, anyway.
Yeah I'm sure that would be a conern to the shipping. But it is manageable. Already North Atlanta Sea ice is monitored very actively in order to keep icebergs from hitting ships and oil rigs.
I believe the US Coast gaurd's International Ice Patrol takes care of most of the monitoring relevent to shipping.
I could copy/paste from above, but here goes:
The Northern ice caps are floating, thus already displacing the equivalent of their entire mass in water.
So melting them does nothing for the global water level.
Nope. The northern Icecaps are floating. Their melting does nothing to change the global water level. The frozen water is already displacing as much water as it would in liquid form.
So yeah reading these other pages I have no doubt that the coriolis effect is quite negligible in these situations...
But, I find this guy's web page questionable
Specifically, his whining about the commonly understood causes of cloud formation and greenhouse heating are extraordinarily nitpicky.
I'm sure he's correct in saying that clouds form because the rate of evaporation for h20 falls below it's rate of condensation. But he says it's horrible to link this to the temperature of the medium (air) that contains the h20 because the h20 would act similarly no matter what medium it is in. Um.. so what, in this case since the temperature is even across the whole medium (air) what's wrong with this slight simplification?
And worse is his whining over the analogy that the atmosphere works as a blanket to cause greenhouse effects. He says a blanket chiefly stops convection while an atmosphere enables it. (but a blanket also stops conduction and radiation effectively) He seems to miss the point that most people just associate a blanket with "something that traps heat" and I think that's just fine.
Does the atmosphere trap radiation?
No, the atmosphere absorbs radiation emitted by the Earth. But, upon being absorbed, the radiation has ceased to exist by having been transformed into the kinetic and potential energy of the molecules. The atmosphere cannot be said to have succeeded in trapping something that has ceased to exist.
what!? that's rubbish. So what the energy has changed phase, it's still trapped! It's like saying a battery doesn't trap an electrical energy, because it's storing it as chemical energy.
Does the atmosphere reradiate?
One often hears the claim that the atmosphere absorbs radiation emitted by the Earth (correct) and then reradiates it back to Earth (false). The atmosphere radiates because it has a finite temperature, not because it received radiation. When the atmosphere emits radiation, it is not the same radiation (which ceased to exist upon being absorbed) as it received. The radiation absorbed and that emitted do not even have the same spectrum and certainly are not made up of the same photons. The term reradiate is a nonsense term which should never be used to explain anything.
What?! so what if it's different photons at different wavelengths. The atmosphere is slowing the net flow of energy off of the earth's surface by absorbing radiation and returning some of that energy through radiation.
The author takes an amazingly condescending tone towards anyone who would use these horrible analogies.
And in fact, I think that his summary of this greenhouse issue is dead wrong
"The surface of the Earth is warmer than it would be in the absence of an atmosphere because it receives energy from two sources: the Sun and the atmosphere. "
Umm.. no. The atmosphere actually makes the daytime surface temperature much lower. It then helps maintain a nighttime temperature.
Read this guy's page and the faq's associated with them and you can see the amazing logical disconnects he makes to form some of his arguments.
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=44077&cid=4591 655
Though nobody will be reading this since some moderators went crazy on my grandparent.
John Carmack personally posted on Slashdot to express his frustration with the leak of the Alpha, and Slashdot keeps advertising it and aiding it's distribution anyway? Who cares if it's illegal, it's extremely immoral to continue hyping an effectively stolen piece of software that the authors desperately don't want us to have yet.
And this is id! They're an unbelievably community minded company and this is how we pay them back?
Yeah this is the thing that blows my mind about all these competitions, and maybe I'm just an idiot... but without knowing the exact message you're looking for, how do you know when you've broken it? Even if you're looking for plain text, it seems like you could get so many false positives in the form of grammatically valid statements that it would be of no use.
People always (see 100 posts above) use these competitions to draw conclusions about when the government could break your emails with supercomputers or something to that effect, but even if they know how you encrypted it, and even if they know it's written in english plain text, how would they know when they've properly decoded a short message? Maybe I'm just missing something here...
This seems like the a great port for multiplayer reasons, but that's not mentioned anywhere on the page.
I guess modem play wouldn't work? Hmm... Well there has to be some way to port the multiplayer. Whether people would want to burn up their minutes to kill their friends on their phones is another story (I would)
I'm pretty sure having a 20 lb brick hit in the middle of your formation is better than having a working explosive land at you feet. I don't know what the wattage of the laser is (or if that's classified), but it could vaporize a significant amount of the material and this would also change its course significantly.
My guess is that it either disables the shell (good) or causes it to detonate shortly after launch (better)
Actually, no. 5500KM is only about half the distance (there were two seperate lines).
I think the fact that the Microsoft materials can be cleaned up so easily is a bonus for them. Biodegradable chalk that doesn't dissappear for years is certainly still vandalism.
I played Morrowind for 250+ hours before beating it. It's a great game but has some beasty system requirements.
Of course, I might have played everquest an order of magnitude more than that, but I had a hard time beating it.
The number one cause of death in server room fires is toxic smoke inhalation...
What's your source for this? I mean... Sure it's probably true, but it's a bit like warning people that bleeding is the number one cause of death in emu attacks.
I attended a talk by Dr. Robert Zubrin of the Mars Society last year. He said that deep space radiation increases your cancer risk at roughly the same rate as smoking (this article seems to place it higher). Anyway his suggestion was to only recruit only chain smokers for missions to Mars, and make them quit smoking. He was a bit worried about the ability of the astronauts to perform well, though.
The time between when Columbus "discovered" the new world and Magellen circumnavigated the globe was 30 years. It has now been 30 years since Apollo 17, the last time man visited the moon, the last time man left low earth orbit. I think it's a great failure of our race that we've dragged our feet such.
To think that technological advance is blazingly fast in this day in age is misleading. We're not doing too well at hitting the important targets. NASA might just now be waking up to this, but it's yet to be seen if their budget wakes up to it. (Nasa funding was 4% of the national budget at the height of the Apollo program, it's less than 1% now)
So I applaud their very recent efforts to finally mention some vague goals away from Low Earth Orbit. L1 is a fine stepping stone, but Mars is where the public eye is. Nasa administrator Daniel Goldin had some brave words about the possibility of sending men to Mars in this decade or the next, but Bush put a bean counter in charge of Nasa pretty quickly to throttle cost overruns from the ISS.
What we really need is a president giving NASA a kick in the pants, and the funding to follow, as Kennedy did. Either that or wait around for private space exploration to become worthwhile, and we're going to be waiting quite a while in that case. Another space race? maybe China? I hope so. Because the current NASA schedule is anything but ambitious.
I'm pretty sure with all of the deals these companies have signed with auto makers, all the customers they already have, and most importantly the millions of dollars in satellites overhead, they wouldn't just let them crash into the ocean because their revenues are starting out low.
Even a massive project like Iridium eventually found a buyer. Even if both of these companies go bankrupt it would be an attractive purchase for some investor.
I did build my computer in exactly this way. It's not too difficult, and thousands of other people do it.
It's really just a matter of plugging things in and screwing them into the case.
I'm not saying to manufacture your own components.
Wow, I got reamed for that post.
Anyway, that price already had winXP home in it. As for office, I don't see why you'd need to buy office for a PC and not for a Mac?
Good point about putting it together. I'll concede that.
So the AMD XP 1600 might not be twice as fast as a Power PC 600. It probably is in some things and isn't in some things. Which of those machines would you rather have though?
Lets see... I just grabbed these in a few minutes of browsing. There could be better deals.
AMD Athlon XP 1600+ - $52.99
EPOX EP-8KHAL+ VIA Apollo KT266A - $77.00
Western Digital 80 gig 7200 RPM HD - $111.00
Crucial Micron pc2100 256M RAM - $64.99
Lite-On 16X DVD ROM - $42.00
Sound Blaster Live! - $34.00
Harman HK 19.5 SPEAKER - $29.00
Antec Case w/ 300W power - $55.00
Samsung SyncMaster 753DF 17" DynaFlate CRT monitor - $135.00
Logitec Optical mouse - $11.00
Logitec keyboard - $13.00
3COM 10/100 NIC - $26.00
Windows XP home - $90.00
and last but not least
Sony 1.44MB 3.5 inch INTERNAL FDD DRIVE - $8.00
grand total: $ 804.98 shipped
(prices calculated from newegg.com being shipped fed-ex saver to Georgia)
That's twice as good in most categories compared to the Imac (right down the number of mouse buttons).
Apple is in the business of selling hardware for more than it's worth. Giving away their operating system to teachers doesn't mean much since it can only be run on their hardware. (OS-X versions they're willing to release, at least)
I should hope my teachers are smarter.
vaporization, I know. I'm tired.
First, just because the headline exempted the word "only" doesn't mean it was misleading.
Second, you make it sound as if vaporizization is only in the realm of science fiction. Lasers by themselves are used to cut materials. It's not such a stretch to imagine that (even unorganized) microwaves could do the same.
Good that you gave it credit as a farked image (more than most people do) but it would probably be even better to give the specific user, mr_fogey, credit, as they are all user submitted. I have a small flash of sympathy for the RIAA every time I see these fark images ripped off by other sites. Some nerds worked really hard on these!
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