if you were able to devote a 'significant' number of resources (read: high-quality developers) to a particular app or area of the kernel, and were able to set the focus for those resources (stability, performance, new features, etc.), what application or kernel area would you attempt to improve, and what would aspect you focus on improving?
I'd budget $1M/year for a minimum of five years for full-time work on the Hurd. No, it isn't Linux but it is an alternative kernel with interesting features that is sadly stagnating.
Except that it's clear that this bean-counter's idea is that if he has five sysadmins spending 80% of their time sleeping in their chairs he can get rid of four of them.
In a first for the US, one of three nuclear reactors at the Browns Ferry nuclear plant in Alabama has been shut down because the Tennessee River is too hot to provide adequate cooling for the waste heat produced by the reactor.
This is not true. The reactor could be quite adequately cooled with water hotter than the 90 degrees the river water was at. The reactor was shut down because government regulations set a fixed upper limit on the temperature of the water discharged by the plant and the water coming out is always hotter than that going in (the point after all, is to get rid of heat).
The author of the article evidently labors under the delusion that lossy compression is the only kind there is. Consequently I see no reason to take anything he says seriously.
Sun now has a little problem, which might become a giant one: SCO never had any Unix IP to sell. Therefore, it seems likely that Solaris and OpenSolaris contains Novell's Unix IP.
SCO was Novell's agent in the sale of SysV licenses and it is likely that they were Novell's "ostensible agent" in the sale of this license to Sun. If so the license will stand even if they exceeded their authority in in selling it. Their failure to remit the receipts to Novell is entirely between Novell and SCO and has no effect on the validity of the license.
> How do you feel about subsidizing Microsoft's bandwidth costs?
It's good that they are using their own protocol. That way those who have no use for anything from Microsoft will be in no danger of inadvertently doing them a favor.
if one cloaks data by encrypting it, exactly what incriminating evidence does that provide?
In the absence of any other evidence, none.
And how important is that evidence compared to the absence of anything else found that was incriminating?
If there is no other evidence then the fact of encryption is not evidence.
But then, if there is no other evidence it is not likely (not impossible, but unlikely) that they would be looking at your disk drive to begin with.
> My concern with Facebook is that there's no one regulating the utility.
Because we certainly don't want people going around doing things without permission, do we? An unregulated activity? How shocking!
Listen. It's a private company operating in an open market. If you don't like their rules take your business elsewhere. Want more "transparency"? Start your own "transparent" network.
Slashdot Mirror
Though 'false' has its points too.
> I mean, we might make it all the way to "nearby" stars in a generation-ship...
Not true. Put on about one gravity of acceleration and you can reach any point in the universe in a few years.
> Aside from 'Become a manager in 2 days' type books, what resources would you recommend I
> look to for guidance in this transition?
The above captioned book has everything you'll need to know.
Except that it's clear that this bean-counter's idea is that if he has five sysadmins spending 80% of their time sleeping in their chairs he can get rid of four of them.
> How does one reasonably quantify admin productivity?
Tell him you'll use the method he applies to himself.
The author of the article evidently labors under the delusion that lossy compression is the only kind there is. Consequently I see no reason to take anything he says seriously.
They're just waldos .
> How do you feel about subsidizing Microsoft's bandwidth costs?
It's good that they are using their own protocol. That way those who have no use for anything from Microsoft will be in no danger of inadvertently doing them a favor.
But then, if there is no other evidence it is not likely (not impossible, but unlikely) that they would be looking at your disk drive to begin with.
s "resalat" Farsi for "onion"?
> "As of 2006, the absolute failure rate is down to 19 percent," Johnson says. "The success
> rate is up to 35 percent."
They redid the study excluding government projects?
> The article goes on to probe delicately at the question of where a person's personality
> 'is' between death and later revival...
Do they also discuss the color of zero or how wide is up?
> At the end of the day it is all too easy for this stuff to trigger an unbalanced mind.
It clearly has triggered his.
> In the public mind, digital music already is rapidly approaching zero economic value...
Not zero economic value. Zero marginal value. Quite reasonable, because it is approaching zero marginal cost.
Why did Slashdot eat my apostrophe? Now it is eating my double quotes as well!
You cant execute these sorts of instructions from user space.
Why should there be a Linux patch for an Intel hardware problem?
n/t
> However, they all mentioned that cosmic radiation would eventually fog the film...
No. Background radiation will eventually fog the film.
Does your written warranty explicitly state that it is void if you install an "unsupported OS"? If not you allowed yourself to be swindled.
> My concern with Facebook is that there's no one regulating the utility.
Because we certainly don't want people going around doing things without permission, do we? An unregulated activity? How shocking!
Listen. It's a private company operating in an open market. If you don't like their rules take your business elsewhere. Want more "transparency"? Start your own "transparent" network.
To deny you your right to Appeal to a real court would be to deny you your right to due process.