Yes, that's because 2008 R2 the next major release in server line after 2008 - not a service pack
So why didn't they just call it Windows Server 2010? I mildly dislike confusing "R" numbers when there's a perfectly good version numbering scheme already there.
When I had 3.11 I only ever booted it up to run Office (it was a neat "printer driver and font support toolkit" but so much less for anything else). For all the real work, I used DOS. Wasn't until 95 that a Windows became my primary shell and was actually pleasant and productive to use, and that's because you could still shell out to DOS to run your "essential productivity apps" (cough Doom cough).
2000pt papyrus might make them go faster. I understand there are people who have strong feelings about that particular font.
Dear Internet, I just made a billion dollars putting Papyrus on merchandising all over the world. And yes, I did it on purpose just to annoy you all. I'm slowly talking Peter Jackson around to using Arial for The Hobbit. Love, James Cameron.
I've wondered for many years about probably 99% of social network users and if they even realise there are so many great sites out there beyond the scope of their interactions "on the wall".
Oddly enough, there is this rare and little-used Facebook feature called "posting links". Unfortunately nobody ever uses this and therefore all Facebook users are doomed to completely forget the rest of the World Wide Web.
(sorry for the damage to your sarcasm meter, here's a replacement bulb for it)
Funnily enough, no episode of Star Trek has ever demonstrated a PADD infected with malware.
And yet, the holodeck gets rooted every second week. I guess it's running a different OS.
("MoriartyOS (tm), the only Starfleet military-grade holographic cinematic entertainment system developed with the sole purpose of granting artificial sentience to period Victorian villains! With a MoriartyOS console installed in your flagship, you'll be either the envy or pity of every other advanced race in the galaxy as holographic characters periodically run rogue and attempt to subvert your warp engineering systems! Either way, everyone will know that you're too weird to mess with and steer clear! Even the Klingons are too scared to have one of these, and they pioneered the qu'Nkt real-pain touch/bite interface! As Sybok the mad Vulcan prophet would say, we'd be crazy to sell you this system for such a low, low price of one billion Federation credits (gold pressed latinum also accepted at Ferengi acquisition depots). But hey, we are! That's why we're throwing in the Grevious-Harm(tm) safety interlock disabling system for free! Make every workout a surprise when your AI opponents might suddenly pull out a real Tommy gun! But if you were entirely sane, you wouldn't have beat the Kobashi Maru test and made captain in the first place, am I right? Just touch the PADD here, it's a steal!")
Obama doesn't want to be accused of losing the wars for political reasons
Why not? Is there any other valid reason for starting or ending a war but honest, democratically-debated political views? What else is a government for, but to enforce policy?
Back when Laffer was new, as a species we had a century of experience with increasing taxes, never decreasing.
"Species"? Economic policy as a biological imperative? That's an... interestingly broad broad brush you're painting 21st century political theory with.
Even restricting yourself to the last 5,000 years of recorded human history, I think you'll find that something equivalent to taxation has been around since the time of the Pharoahs, and that it manifestly could not have constantly risen since then, or we'd be paying more than 100% of our income. And given that in the ancient world it *was* common to appropriate 100% of an individual's income - they called it "slavery" - I think you'll also find that taxes have fallen quite a bit since then.
But yeah, other than that, taxes had never ever fallen in the entire million-year history of the human species until Ronald Reagan was elected.
Interestingly, since Michaelangelo like most Renaissance artists did for-hire contract work, and the Mona Lisa was for a client, I'm quite sure he *did* cost estimate it.
But the truth is, if anything, the MBA program stresses that focusing on quarterly profits does more to harm the next quarter than any help you'll get this quarter
So if this is not what's taught, why do so many companies do it?
Can we see your flying car and jet pack prototypes? I'd be very interested.
PREDICTION: He will forget the look of pity on your face when he's living on a solar dome in a platform in space. EXTRAPOLATION: It will be be the future soon, and he won't always be this way. SUPPLEMENTAL: The things that make him weak and strange will be engineered away. Meatbag.
ADDITIONAL SUPPORTING DATA: I am sorry for calling you a meatbag, meatb - Master.
First huge step, fusion power. If we have that, we have interstellar space flight.
No, we really don't. We already have "interstellar space flight" with chemical rockets in the sense that the Voyager probes are leaving Sol System... they'll eventually get to another star, it will just take a really long time (50,000 years I think at last count, if they were aimed correctly?) Fusion rockets will also take a really long time that's not appreciably shorter when compared with human lifespans.
What most people think of as "interstellar space flight" is "travel to another star within at least 70 years subjective time so I'm still alive when I get there", and while if you went at a high fraction of C you might be able to get to the next star over in 10 years or, the amount of energy needed to do that would be ridiculous. I don't think even fusion would cut it. Antimatter annihilation, maybe - assuming you have some kind of solar-powered antimatter production station, and good luck siting one of those in anyone's back yard.
Though I'd be really interested to see the results of a real test of the Twin Paradox when someone finally builds a high-C interstellar probe. I haven't found many theoretically coherent textbook resolutions of the paradox, and there are a lot of different incompatible approaches. (Ie, is it the spaceship or NASA who stop aging? A naive reading of SR would say "both and neither, because they're both moving relative to each other."; this is usually handwaved away by saying that acceleration changes things, or that a velocity vector in an opposite direction should have the opposite effect on time dilation, but neither of these approaches seem entirely clear.)
You can't flee disaster whether it be man made or nature made with robots.
Actually, I'd argue that you can do exactly that. For every kind of foreseeable planetary disaster short of Sol going supernova*, there's no place we can reachably get to with currently known physics which would be more welcoming to human life than good old Earth. Mars? Nope, even after World War 3 Earth will have less radiation than there, and plenty of free oxygen and water. Global warming? Not even a blip on the biosphere chart compared with trying to live on the Moon. And even if we did create self-sustaining offworld colonies, completely apart from that we've never done it before, they'd be part of a unified travel and trade network which would be just as vulnerable to a meta-disaster as our near-unified Earth is now - but given that risks of living in space and how fragile it is to keep a biosphere in a can running, the space colonies would actually be likely to fail *first* while the dirtsiders keep surviving.
Robots, on the other hand, could well help make Earth much more livable given the tiny scale of disasters likely to come our way in the next century.
* If Sol did go supernova, yes, you might be better off somewhere outside Sol System. But we don't have any kind of technology which could get us outside of boom range, even if we had fully-fledged fusion rockets. Unless we invent some kind of spacetime magitech which lets us warp to habitable planets in other solar systems within a human lifetime, in which case most of the objections above go away. Warp drive is where Star Trek (and most science fiction) starts making sense; but it's exactly what we don't have in real life, and even worse, we have no plausible theoretical framework on the horizon for achieving a warp drive. Our best guess, General Relativity, says "warping spacetime might be possible at black hole energies, but no, you can never do that with the the matter types and energy sources available to you guys in Sol System". String theory is calibrated by how well it reproduces the results of GR. So... no warp drive for us, unless someone manages to radically rethink physics.
The object of going in to space is to go into SPACE.
And the object of going into SPACE is....?
There's some rocks and a lot of hard vacuum out there, but nothing halfway as habitable as the Antarctic and Sahara. What, exactly, do we achieve by putting people in Spam cans on the moon or Mars or in the radiation hell of Jupiter orbit that we can't achieve by putting people in Spam cans at the bottom of the Mariana Trench?
The one thing we don't get out of space is anything approaching Star Trek. There's no lifeforms that we can see, let alone sentients, so no opportunity for trade in anything except raw minerals (and good luck cheaply de-orbiting those to Earth without them becoming continent-wrecking impacts) and no stimulation to science that we can't get from our existing automated probes.
What exactly is the upside of the human spaceflight future, except for a lifetime of sunlight deficiency, CO2 poisoning, bone calcium depletion and radiation sickness?
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I recall a job posting for MS a while back, where they discussed developing a 128-bit OS.
Screw everything, we're going to 256 bits!
Yes, that's because 2008 R2 the next major release in server line after 2008 - not a service pack
So why didn't they just call it Windows Server 2010? I mildly dislike confusing "R" numbers when there's a perfectly good version numbering scheme already there.
Win3.1 OMFG this is way better than DOS!
No. No, it really wasn't.
When I had 3.11 I only ever booted it up to run Office (it was a neat "printer driver and font support toolkit" but so much less for anything else). For all the real work, I used DOS. Wasn't until 95 that a Windows became my primary shell and was actually pleasant and productive to use, and that's because you could still shell out to DOS to run your "essential productivity apps" (cough Doom cough).
2000pt papyrus might make them go faster. I understand there are people who have strong feelings about that particular font.
Dear Internet, I just made a billion dollars putting Papyrus on merchandising all over the world. And yes, I did it on purpose just to annoy you all. I'm slowly talking Peter Jackson around to using Arial for The Hobbit. Love, James Cameron.
I've wondered for many years about probably 99% of social network users and if they even realise there are so many great sites out there beyond the scope of their interactions "on the wall" .
Oddly enough, there is this rare and little-used Facebook feature called "posting links". Unfortunately nobody ever uses this and therefore all Facebook users are doomed to completely forget the rest of the World Wide Web.
(sorry for the damage to your sarcasm meter, here's a replacement bulb for it)
For the new Maxeler system, it flattened the C++ code down to a Java code.
Just one Java code? I bet it was '.'
Funnily enough, no episode of Star Trek has ever demonstrated a PADD infected with malware.
And yet, the holodeck gets rooted every second week. I guess it's running a different OS.
("MoriartyOS (tm), the only Starfleet military-grade holographic cinematic entertainment system developed with the sole purpose of granting artificial sentience to period Victorian villains! With a MoriartyOS console installed in your flagship, you'll be either the envy or pity of every other advanced race in the galaxy as holographic characters periodically run rogue and attempt to subvert your warp engineering systems! Either way, everyone will know that you're too weird to mess with and steer clear! Even the Klingons are too scared to have one of these, and they pioneered the qu'Nkt real-pain touch/bite interface! As Sybok the mad Vulcan prophet would say, we'd be crazy to sell you this system for such a low, low price of one billion Federation credits (gold pressed latinum also accepted at Ferengi acquisition depots). But hey, we are! That's why we're throwing in the Grevious-Harm(tm) safety interlock disabling system for free! Make every workout a surprise when your AI opponents might suddenly pull out a real Tommy gun! But if you were entirely sane, you wouldn't have beat the Kobashi Maru test and made captain in the first place, am I right? Just touch the PADD here, it's a steal!")
Obama doesn't want to be accused of losing the wars for political reasons
Why not? Is there any other valid reason for starting or ending a war but honest, democratically-debated political views? What else is a government for, but to enforce policy?
On the bright side, they sure do know how to party.
Back when Laffer was new, as a species we had a century of experience with increasing taxes, never decreasing.
"Species"? Economic policy as a biological imperative? That's an... interestingly broad broad brush you're painting 21st century political theory with.
Even restricting yourself to the last 5,000 years of recorded human history, I think you'll find that something equivalent to taxation has been around since the time of the Pharoahs, and that it manifestly could not have constantly risen since then, or we'd be paying more than 100% of our income. And given that in the ancient world it *was* common to appropriate 100% of an individual's income - they called it "slavery" - I think you'll also find that taxes have fallen quite a bit since then.
But yeah, other than that, taxes had never ever fallen in the entire million-year history of the human species until Ronald Reagan was elected.
Duh. Leonardo, of course. But Michaelangelo would have cost estimated the Sistene Chapel too.
Whether all those guys got their estimates *right* is another issue..
"Would you cost estimate the Mona Lisa?"
Interestingly, since Michaelangelo like most Renaissance artists did for-hire contract work, and the Mona Lisa was for a client, I'm quite sure he *did* cost estimate it.
But the truth is, if anything, the MBA program stresses that focusing on quarterly profits does more to harm the next quarter than any help you'll get this quarter
So if this is not what's taught, why do so many companies do it?
Sounds to me like the grandparents need to get off their ass a bit more often and come see the family.
Darn right, if they really cared they would get down off that bullock cart and walk all the way, like humans.
Think about it: you do not open a comms channel in whatever medium and think "You know, I just WISH I could see their faces."
Speak for yourself, I've been using MSN video chat for years to talk to relatives overseas.
You do know people online who you've met in real life... right?
And the plural of 'Sith' is 'war'.
"What a piece of junk!"
She might not look like much, kid, but she's got it where it counts.
Oh, and my spacecraft over here is pretty nice also.
Of course. Not only that, it gets 25 banthas to the dianoga, and only costs 100 dewbacks.
More seriously, I'd be way more impressed if they built a Star Destroyer.
Pfft, I'd prefer a Star Spacecraft Carrier.
Can we see your flying car and jet pack prototypes? I'd be very interested.
PREDICTION: He will forget the look of pity on your face when he's living on a solar dome in a platform in space.
EXTRAPOLATION: It will be be the future soon, and he won't always be this way.
SUPPLEMENTAL: The things that make him weak and strange will be engineered away. Meatbag.
ADDITIONAL SUPPORTING DATA: I am sorry for calling you a meatbag, meatb - Master.
There was a second Matrix movie?! Why didn't I know about this?!?
When's the 3rd due out?
See that black cat that just walked by past? That was the Matrix rebooting itself from a horrible error.
First huge step, fusion power. If we have that, we have interstellar space flight.
No, we really don't. We already have "interstellar space flight" with chemical rockets in the sense that the Voyager probes are leaving Sol System... they'll eventually get to another star, it will just take a really long time (50,000 years I think at last count, if they were aimed correctly?) Fusion rockets will also take a really long time that's not appreciably shorter when compared with human lifespans.
What most people think of as "interstellar space flight" is "travel to another star within at least 70 years subjective time so I'm still alive when I get there", and while if you went at a high fraction of C you might be able to get to the next star over in 10 years or, the amount of energy needed to do that would be ridiculous. I don't think even fusion would cut it. Antimatter annihilation, maybe - assuming you have some kind of solar-powered antimatter production station, and good luck siting one of those in anyone's back yard.
Though I'd be really interested to see the results of a real test of the Twin Paradox when someone finally builds a high-C interstellar probe. I haven't found many theoretically coherent textbook resolutions of the paradox, and there are a lot of different incompatible approaches. (Ie, is it the spaceship or NASA who stop aging? A naive reading of SR would say "both and neither, because they're both moving relative to each other."; this is usually handwaved away by saying that acceleration changes things, or that a velocity vector in an opposite direction should have the opposite effect on time dilation, but neither of these approaches seem entirely clear.)
You can't flee disaster whether it be man made or nature made with robots.
Actually, I'd argue that you can do exactly that. For every kind of foreseeable planetary disaster short of Sol going supernova*, there's no place we can reachably get to with currently known physics which would be more welcoming to human life than good old Earth. Mars? Nope, even after World War 3 Earth will have less radiation than there, and plenty of free oxygen and water. Global warming? Not even a blip on the biosphere chart compared with trying to live on the Moon. And even if we did create self-sustaining offworld colonies, completely apart from that we've never done it before, they'd be part of a unified travel and trade network which would be just as vulnerable to a meta-disaster as our near-unified Earth is now - but given that risks of living in space and how fragile it is to keep a biosphere in a can running, the space colonies would actually be likely to fail *first* while the dirtsiders keep surviving.
Robots, on the other hand, could well help make Earth much more livable given the tiny scale of disasters likely to come our way in the next century.
* If Sol did go supernova, yes, you might be better off somewhere outside Sol System. But we don't have any kind of technology which could get us outside of boom range, even if we had fully-fledged fusion rockets. Unless we invent some kind of spacetime magitech which lets us warp to habitable planets in other solar systems within a human lifetime, in which case most of the objections above go away. Warp drive is where Star Trek (and most science fiction) starts making sense; but it's exactly what we don't have in real life, and even worse, we have no plausible theoretical framework on the horizon for achieving a warp drive. Our best guess, General Relativity, says "warping spacetime might be possible at black hole energies, but no, you can never do that with the the matter types and energy sources available to you guys in Sol System". String theory is calibrated by how well it reproduces the results of GR. So... no warp drive for us, unless someone manages to radically rethink physics.
The object of going in to space is to go into SPACE.
And the object of going into SPACE is....?
There's some rocks and a lot of hard vacuum out there, but nothing halfway as habitable as the Antarctic and Sahara. What, exactly, do we achieve by putting people in Spam cans on the moon or Mars or in the radiation hell of Jupiter orbit that we can't achieve by putting people in Spam cans at the bottom of the Mariana Trench?
The one thing we don't get out of space is anything approaching Star Trek. There's no lifeforms that we can see, let alone sentients, so no opportunity for trade in anything except raw minerals (and good luck cheaply de-orbiting those to Earth without them becoming continent-wrecking impacts) and no stimulation to science that we can't get from our existing automated probes.
What exactly is the upside of the human spaceflight future, except for a lifetime of sunlight deficiency, CO2 poisoning, bone calcium depletion and radiation sickness?
And I read that trying to figure out what the ManClaiming() function would do.
Return a documentation page for the Claiming() function, of course. Sheesh.