Extramadura is a hot southern region with a bloody huge swamp in the middle that is one of the most important water fowl habitats in the world. It has a population comprised of very rugged Spaniards who have a wonderfull musical heritage. I highly recomend you go there to broaden your sense of humanity and learn the great truth about rugged Spanish life and incredible hospitality and human warmth. Leave your American flag waving at home and have a good time with sangria, festivas, flamenco, Spanish musical plays and great Spanish hospitality. It is also the real Spain not the tourista version you see on television.
Stop mousey stop I want you to scrollllllll, no XY for me I use X not Z. Pisss Up a rope! I will hack config if I feel like it you/. Nazi morons....flame, down Karma I need to lose Karma please flaim.
Yes as a developer that poses a problem, however if you are a software sales company that hacks away at what someone else writes, then you can hide things.Shady software companies have been one of the big problems. You can write proprietary ware code for Linux,and sell it, contrary to popular belief. Linus himself encourages this, and so do I, however closed proprietary file formats suck. If you have a better way to do something then your software will sell regardless of your file format, creating sound versions of your app is a good way to earn income also. To write some code and then expect royalties like an author is not how things are going to work. Ms does not pay royalties, you get your salary based on performance. You are expected to code to their design specs and you do not even need to know what the end product even does in reality, rather like the million monkeys thing. It is amazing the amount of vapour ware that gets written for MS Windows that hits the shelves, and then evaporates. Unless it is the best in class and has access to other proprietary file formats it cannot survive. Microsoft has kept truly great software from being accessable to the public at reasonable cost contrary to popular belief. The type writer software interface has become more expensive than the typewriter it has become f'in rediculous because of closed source ware. It will be the death of the industry. People should pay the big dollars for hardware not software that changes every time you look around. I know you want to write new stuff and get challenged but just as challenging is creating tech support that actually listens and recodes to fit customer need quickly. Something that is really expensive and usually ignored in closed source environments. Problem is most software has stopped being written from a user perspective and through interpreted language bloat has become difficult to modify quickly anymore, without extreem dev and testing cost, this is the primary reason why corps like IBM are starting to outsource. Though you would think they learned their lesson after what Gates did to them.
The problem with closed source programs is how do you trust the code. There always seems some area in which the code can be corrupt without the knowledge of the user. A really good example is db interface wares, The possible use of logic bombs by programmers has caused IT people to baulk at many a software offering. If you can display the code your are running and writing then you as a programmer can prove that there is nothing that will blow up without tech support. Also the company that the programmer works for can keep the secondary software writers honest. When the largest cost of software has become support this is vital! Managers are starting to wake up to open source for this very reason, not because good OSS ware is necessarily cheaper to buy, but because there is no way for cheaters to hide! If your program is good why hide it, if someone uses it then dollars to dognuts if they can afford the help you will be the one who does the support. This has nothing to due with security as MS is starting to claim, and as any Linux/Gnu/Bsd user knows. MS uses FreeBSD for hotmail is their BSD server insecure, inefficient or unsupported?
Yes and this is why MS has been hands off with Adobe, at present. However if you really look at the document encoding that is about to come with Longhorn you will find that there are huge internet document encoding measures that are being launched by Microsoft. I doubt that Adobe will be able to compete successfully with business internet documents in about 3 years. Yes Adobe has been great! But MS is working quietly to screw them too.
Somehow what you have confused is free as in freedom and free beer, as usual. If you write something to operate with a physical device, in this case a computer, and then confound the purchasers ability to modify this interface to their need. Are you applying a restriction of use that has sensible terms of sale? For example then I must pay a greater level of money to fix the software product to my needs. This is regularly done.If your needs are different than what the interface dictates then you are not free to use the product which you purchased to your requirements without paying through the nose. This is and will be the greatest cost of proprietary ware. It will also really handcuffing learning, tech advancements and has led to the Microshaft monopoly.
Survival not of the best but survival of the one who holds the source. This way Microsoft has successfully bullied hardware manufactures into submition. When the alternative is a hostile Microsoft manufacturers just bow down. That is the doing and competitive advantage of closed source ware. MS wanted to dominate business word processing so they just made it imposible for other office suites to compete, plain and simple, they did this because of closed source. If you have an innovation interface that MS really wants to encorporate in their portfolio you are first given a chance to build up demand then you will be cloned and dollars to dognuts your file format will be read by the MS clone but the proprietary MS competing format will be so tricked out that you have not got a prayer. That is the reality of what has been alowed to happen with closed source. It has become like giving someone a perpetual exclusive on all digital communication. You can bet MS lobby dollars will only go to keep the status quo Pax Microsoftis going, through bought out congressmen like Sen Fritz. So keep your Mirmidon thoughts about software needing to be closed source to make money. Just bow to Redmond and be a good bread and circuses ignorant software consumer.
A good idea would be to create a version of X that could shut off a flakey desktop mouse config that crashs X. Both Gnome and KDE becoming so mouse dependant is also a pain in the arse. Funny I can still navigate, albeit slowly in Win98 with out a mouse and not crash out.
Will they use gdm for/etc/X11/XF86config, or will they take the sensible route to create a decent platform independant Xconfig? If they do create a decent sensible Xconfig that can quickly reconfig X all the more power to them. The ability to easily reconfig a flakey mouse would be great. What I hate about Redhat is that they took out good old Pico best of the easy to use editors, and have made installing to boot without X a pain in the ass. Jerks, and I have paid for RedHat in the past
never again though. Thank you I will stick to Slack. I hope someone does finally write a killer X configuration tool. Slack is still the best that remains close to sensible.
Now millions of Europeans will be able to down load all the Abba that they want! I can just imagine the Eurocentric content managers, a bunch of RIAA 70s disco farts sitting there thinking the will make a fortune 'cause Europeans really will buy Abba at 1 euro a tune.
How the hell can a rediculous mensa humping moron like this be considered insightfull.1. The bloody gatt is an American business organisation.2. Redhat does not count on selling product idiot! Military power has precious little to do with the real industrial value of a country per capita, take North Korea a GNP that is rediculous, and yet they have one of the worlds biggest standing armies that for the size of their economy is rediculous. China has every reason to be suspicious of Western economic policies and every reason not to trust large International American Corporations. The Chinese are very good business people and know that you do not listen to the western economic spin if you know what is really in your own best interest. Quit flogging at imaginary commies, the Chinese will change, it will not be over night and it will not come with huge American style World Bank sponsored mega dollar crap that handcuffs national economies. The days of total dollar dominance of the world economy are coming to an end, those who have a trade surplus will prosper. Those who think they can use cheap Chinese labour as a source of business advantage will die like the dinosaurs they are.Speak to any Chinese imigrant and they will tell you the Chinese will not be Coolies on our industrial railroads anymore. Get with the future dinosaur or the comet of truth will crush you!
Yes I am saying radical climate and magnetic change is nothing new to the Earth. It is the duration and timing of the change that is not known for certain. Like I said educated guesses and study are all we can do. We are certain that the climate and magnetic alignment of the Earth will change there is just a huge debate as to how rapidly and when. This sensible debate is what good earth science is all about. Broad proclamations of certainty should always be treated with constructive criticism even if it is a well respected PhD making the claims, or a Joe Blow amature with good stats and history knowledge.
/* Critical acclaim is not an issue when you write about rendering on software. Try to think like a programmer, not an editor. There is a big difference between coders and normal humans. Therefore your scientific methods sometimes do not compile.*/
#exclude (wordoctors.h) #exclude (critics.h)
*/ however you can #include just about anything
* that you can reasonably use before you are
* forced to int main()/*
Right now I am writing this on Slack 9, I agree with you but the average Linux sys admin has trouble even comprehending how to recomp a kernel! The problem is db apps like Oracle! It still uses the 2 series gcc and won't work on Slack 9 unless you back compile a separate kern yourself, you can install both 3. series gcc and 2.95 the problem is linking them to the glibc right! then you need to forget your XF86config 4.3 alltogether unless you check out which X version you need for 2.95 gcc, and run a separate X with it (in general a can of worms) It will work if you do it right but then you need to use X with some of the Oracle guis! Catch 22. The Oracle library deps are out of date! You are screwed if you make even the simple mistake of not installing X quite right. I am sure that there is someway to build Slack to run Oracle but this is a little bit of a long way around. Might be a good idea to document the process! I love Slack also for its transparent in your face approach, you even need to enable permissions so users can burn cds, or access/dev/cdrom for that matter! It is a great way to force people to learn real unix style security! A little draconian but I sure love to be able to easily take a pico at my security logs without using an X gui first! I am not up to speed yet on VI and Emacs, so pico is a God send! Maybe thats why redfat nuked it, to make it harder for sys admins to run without their versions of guis, hey that almost sounds like a MS trick. Nah they couldn't be that stupid, could they?
Ah let Crindgley do his rant. The tradgedy is that your hash is still showing and Microsoft really does care. You have to pay to upgrade, longhorn longhorn longhorn.... no more worms no more viruses, no more piracy only secure computing heaven finally for all the loyal MS users. Or if you like you can try a wonderfull new computer software security service. JUST SEND certified check or money order for the low one time price of $39.95 US to Asomahumad Deglawasi Dept of Information Secrecy and Security Post 375 Swalthely St. Station Lagos, Nigeria. PS please include any pertinant banking information. We will secure your illegal copy of any microsoft software for you. Either that or send more money to Microshaft next year when the Fritzed out version of Windows hits the stores!
So you load a word.doc it contains some nice little mail macros and bingo because you are stupid enough to use an unpatched illegal copy of word 97, (which is what one hell of alot of small business owners do); MS word to open it you get slammed. End of story. Go buy longhorny and help microsoft control stupid users! Pay Pay Pay
The reason is obvious why they leave the security flaws intact. They are going to need to sell LONGHORNY big time to show corporated software sales growth to the stock holders. Their Xbox is still costing them money every time someone buys one, they are not making huge enough money from educational certification extortion any more, they are having a hard time keeping up with the number of software violation of patent law suits. They realy need to eat Symantec's lunch again without getting sued to the nines. They need Longhorn to sell in the Billions as soon as it is released, otherwise their paultry 30% margins will start to dry up. Their margins were over 40% before the 2000 dot com balloon blew up. They might have to settle for normal corporate profit levels if Longhorn takes to long to weasel its way into every computer.
Gates and co will take care of all your sensitive info, very soon. With the help of the DMCA Sen. Fritz and MS servers we all will be so secure that no one other than MS and the right Government agencies will be able to unlock your lock online.docs. So smarten up bow to Redmond and pay up suckers! Its upgrade or lose mania time again can your business not afford the wonderfull new security thats coming? Good luck getting your secretaries to use anything other than MS orafice!
"Chemically, darmstadtium is in the same Group as nickel, palladium, and platinum (Group 10). Unlike these lighter atoms, darmstadtium decays after a small fraction of a thousandth of a second into lighter elements by emitting a-particles which are the nuclei of helium atoms." So that is where microsoft got the idea! Here is a brief description of the real palladium. Since it is used in industry for membrane gas extraction and isolation tech, then I guess having software that can control the user is the a valid concept. I see why they are using the code name Longhorn now someone in the spin department realised that palladium is an element that is actually used to control things! Hopefully Longhorn or MS "Palladium" will turn out to be more like 'darmstadtium' which is really vapour ware and only lasts a few thousandths of a before self distructing!
Here is the real scoop on Palladium "Standard state: solid at 298 K Colour: silvery white metallic Classification: Metallic Availability: palladium is available in many forms including wire, foil, "evaporation slugs", granule, powder, rod, shot, sheet, and sponge. Small and large samples of palladium foil, sheet, and wire can be purchased from Advent Research Materialsvia their web catalogue. Ruthenium, rhodium, palladium, osmium, iridium, and platinum together make up a group of elements referred to as the platinum group metals (PGM). Compound of the platinum group metals and their Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS) are available online through the Alfa Aesar catalogue. Palladium is a steel-white metal, does not tarnish in air, and is the least dense and lowest melting of the platinum group metals. When annealed, it is soft and ductile. Cold working increases its strength and hardness. It is used in some watch springs.
At room temperatures the metal has the unusual property of absorbing up to 900 times its own volume of hydrogen. Hydrogen readily diffuses through heated palladium and this provides a means of purifying the gas.
Isolation Here is a brief summary of the isolation of palladium. It would not normally be necessary to make a sample of palladium in the laboratory as the metal is available commercially. The industrial extraction of palladium is complex as the metal occurs in ores mixed with other metals such as platinum. Sometimes extraction of the precious metals such as platinum and palladium is the main focus of a partiular industrial operation while in other cases it is a byproduct. The extraction is complex and only worthwhile since palladium is the basis of important catalysts in industry.
Preliminary treatment of the ore or base metal byproduct with aqua regia (a mixture of hydrochloric acid, HCl, and nitric acid, HNO3) gives a solution containing complexes of gold and platinum as well as H2PdCl4. The gold is removed from this solution as a precipitate by treatment with iron chloride (FeCl2). The platinum is precipitated out as (NH4)2PtCl6 on treatment with NH4Cl, leaving H2PdCl4 in solution. The palladium is precipitated out by treatment with ammonium hydroxide, NH4OH, and HCl as the complex PdCl2(NH3)2. This yields palladium metal by burning."
Can you say SMP can you say SCO can you say pay lets see how much can you ask from the OS licensee to the mother of all clusters. Dig deep Los Alamos you are very close to where Davy Crocket died and just might find that Utah has some wild SCO tribal war chant starting up. The Sco Lawyers are passing around the war pipe (filled with crack) right now thinking about how to attack the Long Knives over in New Mexico. Maybe this might turn into a US Agencies new version of Clusters Last stand!
Funny my experience with Open Office was a very short learning curve! However if you move the gui buttons and settings around in MS office then watch your boss freak if she has to do formatting! I am a mean son of a bitch. She tried OO on my behest and found that the learning curve was acceptable for new employees. If you can run MS office you can certainly run Open Office without difficulty, or much learning. In some ways it is actually easier to use than Microsoft software.
The problem is why should I give up some of my power use if no one else is doing it. Me-tooism. In my case you are dead wrong we do spend more for energy efficient devices and we do use less, so blow it out your ass. We can get by using less and not feel it at all! We use an LG combo washer/dryer a 3 gallon flush shitter, and more energy efficient devices in general. I can quote you our enegy usage it is about 2/3 of the Canadian national average for KW/Hour per person per year. If the American industry, infrastructure, and public would take the same measures there would be no energy shortages period.
No that is not what I am saying. I am speculating about the possibility that a major angular shift of Earths spin alignment might take place every 100,000 years or so. Others have made the same suppositions. If the Earths axis of rotation tips like a top spinning at intervals it could explain alot about the geo-magnetic record and climate change. The climatic zones would shift over the period of change. So could Earths relative magnetic polarity. The big question is how long the change cycle takes, and what are the triggers. Cycles in Sun spot density is one candidate, so is planetary alignment cycles. Not the astrology kind but the astronomic/gravitational kind. There is one thing that we are coming to understand about the Solar System it is a flux of change that does have cycles, with combined events that the outcome of which are very hard to predict. So the more speculation the better the chance of an educated guess.
There are eco nuts, but American LostWages (Los Vegas) style power usage is also largely to blaim. Conservation measures have largely been ignored by the republican "pigs in paradise" attitude toward resources. This goes for all forms of resources. You want it all right now, and the concequences of blind consumerism are starting to hit home! Canada tried a wage and price control sceme and it failed also. The upset of Kensian market forces are the result of rabid consumerism and no way to regulate. Cost is the only way to reward conservation and punish gluttony. There are going to be power price increases and the pigs will howl till they finally get the message. It is the only other alternative, if we do not, then the limitations of resources will. As you pointed out it just did!
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Extramadura is a hot southern region with a bloody huge swamp in the middle that is one of the most important water fowl habitats in the world. It has a population comprised of very rugged Spaniards who have a wonderfull musical heritage. I highly recomend you go there to broaden your sense of humanity and learn the great truth about rugged Spanish life and incredible hospitality and human warmth. Leave your American flag waving at home and have a good time with sangria, festivas, flamenco, Spanish musical plays and great Spanish hospitality. It is also the real Spain not the tourista version you see on television.
Stop mousey stop I want you to scrollllllll, no XY for me I use X not Z. Pisss Up a rope! I will hack config if I feel like it you /. Nazi morons....flame, down Karma I need to lose Karma please flaim.
Yes as a developer that poses a problem, however if you are a software sales company that hacks away at what someone else writes, then you can hide things.Shady software companies have been one of the big problems. You can write proprietary ware code for Linux,and sell it, contrary to popular belief. Linus himself encourages this, and so do I, however closed proprietary file formats suck. If you have a better way to do something then your software will sell regardless of your file format, creating sound versions of your app is a good way to earn income also. To write some code and then expect royalties like an author is not how things are going to work. Ms does not pay royalties, you get your salary based on performance. You are expected to code to their design specs and you do not even need to know what the end product even does in reality, rather like the million monkeys thing. It is amazing the amount of vapour ware that gets written for MS Windows that hits the shelves, and then evaporates. Unless it is the best in class and has access to other proprietary file formats it cannot survive. Microsoft has kept truly great software from being accessable to the public at reasonable cost contrary to popular belief. The type writer software interface has become more expensive than the typewriter it has become f'in rediculous because of closed source ware. It will be the death of the industry. People should pay the big dollars for hardware not software that changes every time you look around. I know you want to write new stuff and get challenged but just as challenging is creating tech support that actually listens and recodes to fit customer need quickly. Something that is really expensive and usually ignored in closed source environments. Problem is most software has stopped being written from a user perspective and through interpreted language bloat has become difficult to modify quickly anymore, without extreem dev and testing cost, this is the primary reason why corps like IBM are starting to outsource. Though you would think they learned their lesson after what Gates did to them.
The problem with closed source programs is how do you trust the code. There always seems some area in which the code can be corrupt without the knowledge of the user. A really good example is db interface wares, The possible use of logic bombs by programmers has caused IT people to baulk at many a software offering. If you can display the code your are running and writing then you as a programmer can prove that there is nothing that will blow up without tech support. Also the company that the programmer works for can keep the secondary software writers honest. When the largest cost of software has become support this is vital! Managers are starting to wake up to open source for this very reason, not because good OSS ware is necessarily cheaper to buy, but because there is no way for cheaters to hide! If your program is good why hide it, if someone uses it then dollars to dognuts if they can afford the help you will be the one who does the support. This has nothing to due with security as MS is starting to claim, and as any Linux/Gnu/Bsd user knows. MS uses FreeBSD for hotmail is their BSD server insecure, inefficient or unsupported?
Yes and this is why MS has been hands off with Adobe, at present. However if you really look at the document encoding that is about to come with Longhorn you will find that there are huge internet document encoding measures that are being launched by Microsoft. I doubt that Adobe will be able to compete successfully with business internet documents in about 3 years. Yes Adobe has been great! But MS is working quietly to screw them too.
Survival not of the best but survival of the one who holds the source. This way Microsoft has successfully bullied hardware manufactures into submition. When the alternative is a hostile Microsoft manufacturers just bow down. That is the doing and competitive advantage of closed source ware. MS wanted to dominate business word processing so they just made it imposible for other office suites to compete, plain and simple, they did this because of closed source. If you have an innovation interface that MS really wants to encorporate in their portfolio you are first given a chance to build up demand then you will be cloned and dollars to dognuts your file format will be read by the MS clone but the proprietary MS competing format will be so tricked out that you have not got a prayer. That is the reality of what has been alowed to happen with closed source. It has become like giving someone a perpetual exclusive on all digital communication. You can bet MS lobby dollars will only go to keep the status quo Pax Microsoftis going, through bought out congressmen like Sen Fritz. So keep your Mirmidon thoughts about software needing to be closed source to make money. Just bow to Redmond and be a good bread and circuses ignorant software consumer.
Will they use gdm for /etc/X11/XF86config, or will they take the sensible route to create a decent platform independant Xconfig? If they do create a decent sensible Xconfig that can quickly reconfig X all the more power to them. The ability to easily reconfig a flakey mouse would be great. What I hate about Redhat is that they took out good old Pico best of the easy to use editors, and have made installing to boot without X a pain in the ass. Jerks, and I have paid for RedHat in the past
never again though. Thank you I will stick to Slack. I hope someone does finally write a killer X configuration tool. Slack is still the best that remains close to sensible.
Now millions of Europeans will be able to down load all the Abba that they want! I can just imagine the Eurocentric content managers, a bunch of RIAA 70s disco farts sitting there thinking the will make a fortune 'cause Europeans really will buy Abba at 1 euro a tune.
How the hell can a rediculous mensa humping moron like this be considered insightfull.1. The bloody gatt is an American business organisation.2. Redhat does not count on selling product idiot! Military power has precious little to do with the real industrial value of a country per capita, take North Korea a GNP that is rediculous, and yet they have one of the worlds biggest standing armies that for the size of their economy is rediculous. China has every reason to be suspicious of Western economic policies and every reason not to trust large International American Corporations. The Chinese are very good business people and know that you do not listen to the western economic spin if you know what is really in your own best interest. Quit flogging at imaginary commies, the Chinese will change, it will not be over night and it will not come with huge American style World Bank sponsored mega dollar crap that handcuffs national economies. The days of total dollar dominance of the world economy are coming to an end, those who have a trade surplus will prosper. Those who think they can use cheap Chinese labour as a source of business advantage will die like the dinosaurs they are.Speak to any Chinese imigrant and they will tell you the Chinese will not be Coolies on our industrial railroads anymore. Get with the future dinosaur or the comet of truth will crush you!
Yes I am saying radical climate and magnetic change is nothing new to the Earth. It is the duration and timing of the change that is not known for certain. Like I said educated guesses and study are all we can do. We are certain that the climate and magnetic alignment of the Earth will change there is just a huge debate as to how rapidly and when. This sensible debate is what good earth science is all about. Broad proclamations of certainty should always be treated with constructive criticism even if it is a well respected PhD making the claims, or a Joe Blow amature with good stats and history knowledge.
/* Critical acclaim is not an issue when you write about rendering on software. Try to think like a programmer, not an editor. There is a big difference between coders and normal humans. Therefore your scientific methods sometimes do not compile.*/
/*
#exclude (wordoctors.h)
#exclude (critics.h)
*/ however you can #include just about anything
* that you can reasonably use before you are
* forced to int main()
Right now I am writing this on Slack 9, I agree with you but the average Linux sys admin has trouble even comprehending how to recomp a kernel! The problem is db apps like Oracle! It still uses the 2 series gcc and won't work on Slack 9 unless you back compile a separate kern yourself, you can install both 3. series gcc and 2.95 the problem is linking them to the glibc right! then you need to forget your XF86config 4.3 alltogether unless you check out which X version you need for 2.95 gcc, and run a separate X with it (in general a can of worms) It will work if you do it right but then you need to use X with some of the Oracle guis! Catch 22. The Oracle library deps are out of date! You are screwed if you make even the simple mistake of not installing X quite right. I am sure that there is someway to build Slack to run Oracle but this is a little bit of a long way around. Might be a good idea to document the process! I love Slack also for its transparent in your face approach, you even need to enable permissions so users can burn cds, or access /dev/cdrom for that matter! It is a great way to force people to learn real unix style security! A little draconian but I sure love to be able to easily take a pico at my security logs without using an X gui first! I am not up to speed yet on VI and Emacs, so pico is a God send! Maybe thats why redfat nuked it, to make it harder for sys admins to run without their versions of guis, hey that almost sounds like a MS trick. Nah they couldn't be that stupid, could they?
One good woodpecker nuke (emr directed pulse nuclear device) in the right location! Bingo no more communication period.
Wow I pulled a good spelling error SECRETARIES, a new job classification, for employees who do all your dirty work and keep their mouths shut!
Ah let Crindgley do his rant. The tradgedy is that your hash is still showing and Microsoft really does care. You have to pay to upgrade, longhorn longhorn longhorn.... no more worms no more viruses, no more piracy only secure computing heaven finally for all the loyal MS users. Or if you like you can try a wonderfull new computer software security service. JUST SEND certified check or money order for the low one time price of $39.95 US to Asomahumad Deglawasi Dept of Information Secrecy and Security Post 375 Swalthely St. Station Lagos, Nigeria. PS please include any pertinant banking information. We will secure your illegal copy of any microsoft software for you. Either that or send more money to Microshaft next year when the Fritzed out version of Windows hits the stores!
So you load a word .doc it contains some nice little mail macros and bingo because you are stupid enough to use an unpatched illegal copy of word 97, (which is what one hell of alot of small business owners do); MS word to open it you get slammed. End of story. Go buy longhorny and help microsoft control stupid users! Pay Pay Pay
The reason is obvious why they leave the security flaws intact. They are going to need to sell LONGHORNY big time to show corporated software sales growth to the stock holders. Their Xbox is still costing them money every time someone buys one, they are not making huge enough money from educational certification extortion any more, they are having a hard time keeping up with the number of software violation of patent law suits. They realy need to eat Symantec's lunch again without getting sued to the nines. They need Longhorn to sell in the Billions as soon as it is released, otherwise their paultry 30% margins will start to dry up. Their margins were over 40% before the 2000 dot com balloon blew up. They might have to settle for normal corporate profit levels if Longhorn takes to long to weasel its way into every computer.
Gates and co will take care of all your sensitive info, very soon. With the help of the DMCA Sen. Fritz and MS servers we all will be so secure that no one other than MS and the right Government agencies will be able to unlock your lock online .docs. So smarten up bow to Redmond and pay up suckers! Its upgrade or lose mania time again can your business not afford the wonderfull new security thats coming? Good luck getting your secretaries to use anything other than MS orafice!
Russia where the element names you.
"Chemically, darmstadtium is in the same Group as nickel, palladium, and platinum (Group 10). Unlike these lighter atoms, darmstadtium decays after a small fraction of a thousandth of a second into lighter elements by emitting a-particles which are the nuclei of helium atoms." So that is where microsoft got the idea! Here is a brief description of the real palladium. Since it is used in industry for membrane gas extraction and isolation tech, then I guess having software that can control the user is the a valid concept. I see why they are using the code name Longhorn now someone in the spin department realised that palladium is an element that is actually used to control things!
Hopefully Longhorn or MS "Palladium" will turn out
to be more like 'darmstadtium' which is really vapour ware and only lasts a few thousandths of a before self distructing!
Here is the real scoop on Palladium
"Standard state: solid at 298 K
Colour: silvery white metallic
Classification: Metallic
Availability: palladium is available in many forms including wire, foil, "evaporation slugs", granule, powder, rod, shot, sheet, and sponge. Small and large samples of palladium foil, sheet, and wire can be purchased from Advent Research Materialsvia their web catalogue.
Ruthenium, rhodium, palladium, osmium, iridium, and platinum together make up a group of elements referred to as the platinum group metals (PGM). Compound of the platinum group metals and their Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS) are available online through the Alfa Aesar catalogue.
Palladium is a steel-white metal, does not tarnish in air, and is the least dense and lowest melting of the platinum group metals. When annealed, it is soft and ductile. Cold working increases its strength and hardness. It is used in some watch springs.
At room temperatures the metal has the unusual property of absorbing up to 900 times its own volume of hydrogen. Hydrogen readily diffuses through heated palladium and this provides a means of purifying the gas.
Isolation
Here is a brief summary of the isolation of palladium.
It would not normally be necessary to make a sample of palladium in the laboratory as the metal is available commercially. The industrial extraction of palladium is complex as the metal occurs in ores mixed with other metals such as platinum. Sometimes extraction of the precious metals such as platinum and palladium is the main focus of a partiular industrial operation while in other cases it is a byproduct. The extraction is complex and only worthwhile since palladium is the basis of important catalysts in industry.
Preliminary treatment of the ore or base metal byproduct with aqua regia (a mixture of hydrochloric acid, HCl, and nitric acid, HNO3) gives a solution containing complexes of gold and platinum as well as H2PdCl4. The gold is removed from this solution as a precipitate by treatment with iron chloride (FeCl2). The platinum is precipitated out as (NH4)2PtCl6 on treatment with NH4Cl, leaving H2PdCl4 in solution. The palladium is precipitated out by treatment with ammonium hydroxide, NH4OH, and HCl as the complex PdCl2(NH3)2. This yields palladium metal by burning."
Can you say SMP can you say SCO can you say pay lets see how much can you ask from the OS licensee to the mother of all clusters. Dig deep Los Alamos you are very close to where Davy Crocket died and just might find that Utah has some wild SCO tribal war chant starting up. The Sco Lawyers are passing around the war pipe (filled with crack) right now thinking about how to attack the Long Knives over in New Mexico. Maybe this might turn into a US Agencies new version of Clusters Last stand!
Funny my experience with Open Office was a very short learning curve! However if you move the gui buttons and settings around in MS office then watch your boss freak if she has to do formatting! I am a mean son of a bitch. She tried OO on my behest and found that the learning curve was acceptable for new employees. If you can run MS office you can certainly run Open Office without difficulty, or much learning. In some ways it is actually easier to use than Microsoft software.
The problem is why should I give up some of my power use if no one else is doing it. Me-tooism. In my case you are dead wrong we do spend more for energy efficient devices and we do use less, so blow it out your ass. We can get by using less and not feel it at all! We use an LG combo washer/dryer a 3 gallon flush shitter, and more energy efficient devices in general. I can quote you our enegy usage it is about 2/3 of the Canadian national average for KW/Hour per person per year. If the American industry, infrastructure, and public would take the same measures there would be no energy shortages period.
No that is not what I am saying. I am speculating about the possibility that a major angular shift of Earths spin alignment might take place every 100,000 years or so. Others have made the same suppositions. If the Earths axis of rotation tips like a top spinning at intervals it could explain alot about the geo-magnetic record and climate change. The climatic zones would shift over the period of change. So could Earths relative magnetic polarity. The big question is how long the change cycle takes, and what are the triggers. Cycles in Sun spot density is one candidate, so is planetary alignment cycles. Not the astrology kind but the astronomic/gravitational kind. There is one thing that we are coming to understand about the Solar System it is a flux of change that does have cycles, with combined events that the outcome of which are very hard to predict. So the more speculation the better the chance of an educated guess.
There are eco nuts, but American LostWages (Los Vegas) style power usage is also largely to blaim. Conservation measures have largely been ignored by the republican "pigs in paradise" attitude toward resources. This goes for all forms of resources. You want it all right now, and the concequences of blind consumerism are starting to hit home! Canada tried a wage and price control sceme and it failed also. The upset of Kensian market forces are the result of rabid consumerism and no way to regulate. Cost is the only way to reward conservation and punish gluttony. There are going to be power price increases and the pigs will howl till they finally get the message. It is the only other alternative, if we do not, then the limitations of resources will. As you pointed out it just did!