Well, what I'm asking is what's inherently wrong with a GUI? *Should* server administration necessarily be difficult?
GUI administration is not necessarily more or less difficult than CLI administration.
Knowing which menus you have to wind your way through to bring up the ipconfig utility is not any easier than just remembering the ipconfig command name. I, for one, have sometimes spent half an hour or more trying to remember what magical sequence of menus and options are required to get to the 'friendly' GUI display that I know is there, but I forgot to click on some obscure option 4 menus back. Navigating those menu options is like running a rat's maze. Anybody ever run into a user who never knew that you had to click on a folder to get the 'find file' menu in Win/95? Is this really easier than typing ' find -name "purple*" -size +50 '?
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Besides having to remember where to find the GUI commands, one also has to take into account that GUI interfaces inherently take way more resources than a CLI interface. If I'm in Atlanta for a conference and I find out that there's something wrong with my Linux server in Seattle, I can call in using my laptop's modem and fix the system from anywhere (even in flight). Trying to do the same with a Windows box pretty much requires me to have an ADSL connection. One also has to take into account the resources demanded on the Server end of things. If my server is already within an inch of crashing, the last thing you want to do is load it down further with a 50MB GUI that eats 15% of the machine's CPU. -- and if I want a 'user friendly' interface without the load of X, CLI interfaces can include menu-drivern utilities that are about as easy to use as GUI interfaces, but cause 1% of the CPU load.
There's also the question of scripting. If I have something that I'm going to be doing more than a few dozen times, I'll often write a shell script that does most of the work for me. Preferrably, the script can just run entirely automated, then I can just run it as needed with cron or triggered by some other program. That's something that's a lot harder to do with a GUI -- and a lot less portable.
Unix doesn't require one to use CLI solutions -- They're available as an optional tool. The availability of those tools is, I think, part of the reason why your average Unix admin can handle way more machines than your average Windows admin. GUI tools are also available to a UNIX admin, but I only use them when they're appropriate to what I'm doing.
They had a big todo about the fact that the finish on the micro PC wasn't matte black. Matte black is a standard finish for a laptop, but I don't see why it should be standard for a home box -- or even why it should be standard at all.
If anything, I'd like to see this thing come out in glossy designer colors... Black, white, blue, phychadelic.....
When you walk away from the standard form factor, why not also walk away from the standard color schemes, too?
Because the most expensive part of the laptop is really the screen, and when you have a micro PC, you are free of that component.
That might be a nice explanation if this box wasn't more expensive than some laptops. At $2000 without a screen, it should probably be compared against $2300-$2500 laptops in terms of general performance -- Unfortunately, the benchmarks for this article weren't written up with that sort of comparison in mind.
Do you even need to have that port open to the net? If it's a standalone machine with no servers, you shouldn't even be listening on that port. I remember that there was a place that described how to disable NetBios -- As I remember it, you simply attach it to some unused 'network device' that never attaches to anything... That way wintendos is happy because it thinks that netbios is still bound, but it never talks to anything outside of your machine.
Ultimately, though, I'd say (along with just about everybody else her): don't run Windows exposed to the net. I've seen emperical tests that found that you can't install and upgrade a win-2000 box while attached to the net before you get owned... One student of mine tried 4 times without getting an uninfected box.
That's the reason why everybody and their dog is selling DSL/Cable hub/firewall/routers. They're going for under $100 these days. Go out and buy one If you can't get a linux/BSD router running on an old P/66.
After reading the article, I was expecting a delta ray type lifting-body. I'm expecting that that would give a much distance/depth efficiency -- and possibly better speed.
I also agree with the earlier poster -- a 1 Knot 'glider' in a 5 knot current sounds only slightly better than a buoy -- but you may be able to use that 1 knot active motion to do things like move cross-current and use different ocean currents to move you around the ocean.
Most likely its from some form of radio-carbon dating.
It wouldn't be carbon dating. Carbon 14 has a half life of about 5700 years, so after ~6000 years, it's got about 1/1000th of what was originally there (which is rather low to begin with). After that, I'm guessing that there's just too little to get reliable statistics from (perhaps noise from other decay sequences??).
Besides the problem of the (relatively) short half-life of Carbon14, the fossilization process leaches most of the carbon out of the body anyways-- so there is (almost) no carbon to date. Even if it didn't 1/2^(77million/5700) => 1/(2e4066). In other words, if you started with a chunk of carbon14 the size of Jupiter, you'd be lucky to find 2 atoms of carbon14 after 60million years of radioactive decay)
There's a nice intro to carbon dating at howstuffworks.com, with even more data at c14dating.com. They mention that you can use carbon-14 style radioisotape dating with isotopes that have a longer halflife than carbon 14. These are the methods are what are used to date older rocks.
The reason why carbon 14 isn't useful for recent items is the nuclear age. In the early years of the nuclear age, the US and later 'nuclear club' members did atmospheric nuke tests that completely messed up (read: randomized) the isotope ratios for everything that's died since the late '40s. Cherbonyl didn't help much, either. Anything earlier than that (and recent enough that there's a statistically valid percentage of C14 left in the body) is a good candidate for Carbon dating.
Prior to nuclear fallout, the primary source of Carbon14 was atmospheric Nitrogen being bombarded by cosmic rays.
"Let me get this straight: You want me to pay more money for software that gives me less functionality? why?
When Microsoft realized that consumers couldn't "understand" their logic behind crippling the capabilities of our home computers, they gave up trying to sell people on the lack of functionality.
They didn't do this because it was good for consumers, they did it because their crippleware was effectively unsellable. Anybody who got a box with this software would simply install something that worked and thus lessen Microsoft's market share in this area. Something that comsumers don't buy is bad for Microsoft. That's all that really matters to Microsoft.
I belive that MY OWN SECULAR GOVERNMENT (in this case Canada) should not have relations (other than to advocate the end of Religious-Rule) with any Non-Secular state;
Er, um... Can Canada cut relations with itself?? -- Given that the preample to our constitutional Charter of Rights reads:
Whereas Canada is founded upon principles that
recognize the supremacy of God and the rule of law:
We would also have to cut our ties with countries such as England (Their (and our) Queen is also head of the church)... Hmm.. That would also imply cutting ties with the rest of the commonwealth, as well. We should also include most of the Middle East, and Ireland as well. Actually, I think that following your principles might end up with Canada pretty much cutting of it's relations with almost every state except for the US (Oops! I forgot about that "one nation under god" thing in the pledge of alegience) and China (unless, of course, you believe that Communism is a religion))
I don't dislike religion. I have a lot of respect for most of our greater religions.
My dislike of mixing politics and religion comes mostly from the fact that politicians have a tendancey to use religion as an excuse and conduit for horrible atrocities and abuses. that are (in many cases) against what the religions stand for.
As examples:
Ireland: The Catholic and Protestant religions are almost identical. Jesus was a devout pacifist ("turn the other cheek", and healing the ear of the constable sent to take him to his death). Nontheless, both sides insist on killing each other in his name.
NAZI GermantOnce again, worship of a Jew named Jesus was used as an excuse for killing Jews.
IsraelIf you bother to read the bible, the oft quoted "eye for an eye" in Leviticus (24:20) is followed by a call to ensure that foreigners are accorded the same rights as Jews
(24:22).024:020 Breach for breach, eye for eye, tooth for tooth: as he hath
caused a blemish in a man, so shall it be done to him again.
Nonetheless, Israel insists on treating Palistinians in a manner that I honestly believe they learnd from their old Gestapo tormenters
Muslim extremists: Islam decries the killing of non-combatants. It also has strong rules against suicide. In the face of this, some religious/political leaders try to convince muslims that killing yourself in a way designed to kill as many women and children as possible will get you into heaven.
It is not religion that is evil -- It's greedy men's corruption of religion that is evil.
"Chinese" is a language family -- like "European". Only the writen language is the same. Speaking Cantonese to a Mandarin listener is like speaking Spanish to a French listener. In Canada, English becomes the common ground.
-- And, no it's not BS. It really happened (almost replying as AC because it's getting really offtopic).
My read of this is that killing Angela was some combination of scorched earth / damage control. I think he knew that he was going to lose this lawsuit and it's pretty unlikely, under the circumstances, that Gaimen is going to let him continue to use her.
Rather than have to explain to fans why she suddenly disappeared, he simply bitchslapped the character -- making it look like it was done out of the non-commercial graciousness of his heart (yeah, right!). Now, after the lawsuit, he's going to be giving Gaimen back some seriously damaged (dead) goods.
How could Lindows be held responsible for what other people distribute?
Lindows isn't responsible for what others distribute. They're responsible for what they distribute. If they declined to release the source code with their binaries, then they're responsible to hand out the source code to anybody who wants it.
If they didn't want to do this, then they should have sent out their distribution with a CD full of source as well. (or put it on the HD that they used for the installation -- which is even cheaper).
Those who have received from Lindows.com the binaries for any GPL'd software can also find the source code available for download in their my.lindows.com account."
I say breach of license.
Given that this is a commercial distribution, Lindows has two choices (quoting directly from
the GPL text):
Accompany it with the complete corresponding machine-readable source code, which must be distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange; or,
Accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least three years, to give any third party, for a charge no more than your cost of physically performing source distribution, a complete machine-readable copy of the corresponding source code, to be distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange; or, [non-commercial binary distribution]
Given that Lindows did not accompany their distribution with the source CDs, they're required to make the sources available to everybody -- not just people with a lindows account.
Why would McFarland buy the rights to a character that he is never going to use her again? I'd expect that the Jury would award Gaiman royalties for the use of the character over this time, and now Gaimen is able to do whatever he wants with the character.
Pretty much end of story (if you'll excuse the pun).
I think that the original phrase was "I couldn't care less" -- but someone was lazy in either their listening or their speaking -- and the mangled english became famous.
Either that, or "I could care less, (but it would take some work)".
The two big points were basically if McF & Gaiman had 'contracts' based on agreements they made when Neil originaly wrote the Spawn issue and in 1997 when they supposedly settled this issue (which Todd later reneged on).
9 counts??? I'd say that the question is whether or not Tod McF is a sociopathic A*hole who has no respect for the agreements he makes with people once he has what he wants.
If the story of what he did to the Mexican convention is even close to accurate, I'd say that there's a pattern here that points to the answer being a resounding "yes".
If he was as blatent about his disregard for agreements as he appears to have been in Mexico, then I'd say there's a good possibility that the jury would make a sizable punitive award. (as in: slap him on the wrist -- with a two-by-four)
That IS rediculous. Can you imagine explaining to your fellow cons why you're in the clink?
Remember Clayoquot Sound? The guy in this picture got 45 days and a $6000 fine. For what? Well, it's in the picture -- standing on a road with a sign. You can get less for raping someone with a knife.
The question is not if we are bringing about an ice age or a warmer period (depending which scare of the day is going around). The question is if we are accelerating the change and by how much.
Accelerating massive climate change by as much as 5000 years is more than a trivial change. We may also not be accelerating the big freeze. We might just be causing a extraneous mini-ice age of decades or centuries in the northern hemisphere. What further worries me about this, though, is that a side effect of a switch change would probably be more -- and more massive hurricanes and tripical storms.
Hurricanes and tropical storms are one of the ways that the earth's climat transfers heat from the equator to temperate regions. If the oceanic conveyer shuts down, there's going to need to be some other way to have that happen. Storms are a probable method of doing that.
Yes, they absorb CO2 but when the trees die it all gets released again.
When a tree dies, its carbon ("biomass") is often consumed by other processes than simple decay. In reasonably mature rainforests, for example, they get sucked up by lichen and moss. I've been in old growth forests where the moss was many feet thick.
(The moss also functions as a very effective HEPA filter to keep most of the organic and particulate matter from flowing into forest streams)
Not all steps in evolution are always positive. A friend of mine was born with webbed fingers & toes (surgically removed at birth). In Edmonton (semi-arid and more than a thousand miles from the nearest ocean), this is blatently stupid.
Further to this apparent stupidity is the fact that extreme cases of webbed feet are often associated with skin 'disorders' that result in extremely dry skin that needs to be bathed in water almost continuously.
I'm told that extreme cases actually include (atrophied?) gills.
If, on the other hand, she had been born near the ocean (her father was from Trinidad - an island nation), and had had the skin condition often associated with webbed digits, she might have been forced to spend most of her time at the beach / in the ocean (shades of mermaids???).
In Japan where some villages make good money diving for oysters / pearls, her webbed feet might have given her an edge over other divers (especially so gills, if they had any functionality at all). Although such a person might be initially shunned as 'different', the boon of being able to thrive in the water might have made her rich in a pearl-diving village and thus made her a 'good catch'. Thus, what was a severe problem in Edmonton could be a boon had her family moved to the ocean to care for her special needs.
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In the bombadier beetle, the combustion chamber might have come about slowly... First would be the noxious gasses... not unlike ink in squid -- it would disuade a predator on it's own. Early versions might have had one chamber which needed to be reloaded on a continuous basis along with the catalyst separately added. The original version might have done external mixing A hardened area around the mixing space would have been an advantage that would evolve over time. -- or it might have started as the venom bay for a stinger.
The catalyst would have been most useful -- but not entirely necesssary. An inhibitor would save resources by removing the requirement to continusously produce the 'unstable' compounds.
It would also be worth pointing out that the description of the compounds as "explosive" is inaccurate. The author even acknowledges so (almost at the end of his very long article). The compounds simply degrade over time. It's the addition of the catalyst that makes the mixture explosive.
BTW: in a pre-inhibitor state, the two chambers (besides being a side effect of biological symetry) would have allowed one chamber to hold a charge while the other discharged and refilled on a rotating basis.
Somebody else pointed out that Blue OLEDs currently halve a lifetime of about 1000H. In an 'always on' part of the display (e.g. clock) that's about 40 days.
Even a 20,000 hour MTBR means that you're going to be replacing the OLED display about every 2 years... Not good enough to make for happy customers in the long run. One solution might be for the manufacturer to make cheap pop-in replacement screens for the unit -- and comit to manufacturing them for a period of time -- or to simply ship the unit with a handfull of pop-ins.
The reply from the DOI pretty much says almost as much as the 4 minutes of silence that was being used as a PR toy.
A "heterogenous mix at the server level." could simply mean a mix of NT2000, NT4 and XP. Although one could hope that it really means other manufacturer's systems as well, it doesn't have to.
For the rest of it, it sounds like they still intend to force the desktop to pure MS.
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I would, but Microsoft threatened to sue me for violating their EULA if I did that.
GUI administration is not necessarily more or less difficult than CLI administration.
Knowing which menus you have to wind your way through to bring up the ipconfig utility is not any easier than just remembering the ipconfig command name. I, for one, have sometimes spent half an hour or more trying to remember what magical sequence of menus and options are required to get to the 'friendly' GUI display that I know is there, but I forgot to click on some obscure option 4 menus back. Navigating those menu options is like running a rat's maze. Anybody ever run into a user who never knew that you had to click on a folder to get the 'find file' menu in Win/95? Is this really easier than typing ' find -name "purple*" -size +50 '? s.
Besides having to remember where to find the GUI commands, one also has to take into account that GUI interfaces inherently take way more resources than a CLI interface. If I'm in Atlanta for a conference and I find out that there's something wrong with my Linux server in Seattle, I can call in using my laptop's modem and fix the system from anywhere (even in flight). Trying to do the same with a Windows box pretty much requires me to have an ADSL connection. One also has to take into account the resources demanded on the Server end of things. If my server is already within an inch of crashing, the last thing you want to do is load it down further with a 50MB GUI that eats 15% of the machine's CPU. -- and if I want a 'user friendly' interface without the load of X, CLI interfaces can include menu-drivern utilities that are about as easy to use as GUI interfaces, but cause 1% of the CPU load.
There's also the question of scripting. If I have something that I'm going to be doing more than a few dozen times, I'll often write a shell script that does most of the work for me. Preferrably, the script can just run entirely automated, then I can just run it as needed with cron or triggered by some other program. That's something that's a lot harder to do with a GUI -- and a lot less portable.
Unix doesn't require one to use CLI solutions -- They're available as an optional tool. The availability of those tools is, I think, part of the reason why your average Unix admin can handle way more machines than your average Windows admin. GUI tools are also available to a UNIX admin, but I only use them when they're appropriate to what I'm doing.
If anything, I'd like to see this thing come out in glossy designer colors... Black, white, blue, phychadelic.....
When you walk away from the standard form factor, why not also walk away from the standard color schemes, too?
That might be a nice explanation if this box wasn't more expensive than some laptops. At $2000 without a screen, it should probably be compared against $2300-$2500 laptops in terms of general performance -- Unfortunately, the benchmarks for this article weren't written up with that sort of comparison in mind.
Do you even need to have that port open to the net? If it's a standalone machine with no servers, you shouldn't even be listening on that port. I remember that there was a place that described how to disable NetBios -- As I remember it, you simply attach it to some unused 'network device' that never attaches to anything... That way wintendos is happy because it thinks that netbios is still bound, but it never talks to anything outside of your machine.
Ultimately, though, I'd say (along with just about everybody else her): don't run Windows exposed to the net. I've seen emperical tests that found that you can't install and upgrade a win-2000 box while attached to the net before you get owned... One student of mine tried 4 times without getting an uninfected box.
That's the reason why everybody and their dog is selling DSL/Cable hub/firewall/routers. They're going for under $100 these days. Go out and buy one If you can't get a linux/BSD router running on an old P/66.
I also agree with the earlier poster -- a 1 Knot 'glider' in a 5 knot current sounds only slightly better than a buoy -- but you may be able to use that 1 knot active motion to do things like move cross-current and use different ocean currents to move you around the ocean.
It wouldn't be carbon dating. Carbon 14 has a half life of about 5700 years, so after ~6000 years, it's got about 1/1000th of what was originally there (which is rather low to begin with). After that, I'm guessing that there's just too little to get reliable statistics from (perhaps noise from other decay sequences??).
Besides the problem of the (relatively) short half-life of Carbon14, the fossilization process leaches most of the carbon out of the body anyways-- so there is (almost) no carbon to date. Even if it didn't 1/2^(77million/5700) => 1/(2e4066). In other words, if you started with a chunk of carbon14 the size of Jupiter, you'd be lucky to find 2 atoms of carbon14 after 60million years of radioactive decay)
There's a nice intro to carbon dating at howstuffworks.com, with even more data at c14dating.com. They mention that you can use carbon-14 style radioisotape dating with isotopes that have a longer halflife than carbon 14. These are the methods are what are used to date older rocks.
The reason why carbon 14 isn't useful for recent items is the nuclear age. In the early years of the nuclear age, the US and later 'nuclear club' members did atmospheric nuke tests that completely messed up (read: randomized) the isotope ratios for everything that's died since the late '40s. Cherbonyl didn't help much, either. Anything earlier than that (and recent enough that there's a statistically valid percentage of C14 left in the body) is a good candidate for Carbon dating.
Prior to nuclear fallout, the primary source of Carbon14 was atmospheric Nitrogen being bombarded by cosmic rays.
Somebody needs to patent gravity -- but it would (obviously) need to bed indirectly:
A method for reliably predicting the release of excess distance between free bodies
When Microsoft realized that consumers couldn't "understand" their logic behind crippling the capabilities of our home computers, they gave up trying to sell people on the lack of functionality.
They didn't do this because it was good for consumers, they did it because their crippleware was effectively unsellable. Anybody who got a box with this software would simply install something that worked and thus lessen Microsoft's market share in this area. Something that comsumers don't buy is bad for Microsoft. That's all that really matters to Microsoft.
Er, um... Can Canada cut relations with itself?? -- Given that the preample to our constitutional Charter of Rights reads:
We would also have to cut our ties with countries such as England (Their (and our) Queen is also head of the church).I don't dislike religion. I have a lot of respect for most of our greater religions. My dislike of mixing politics and religion comes mostly from the fact that politicians have a tendancey to use religion as an excuse and conduit for horrible atrocities and abuses. that are (in many cases) against what the religions stand for.
As examples:
-
Ireland: The Catholic and Protestant religions are almost identical. Jesus was a devout pacifist ("turn the other cheek", and healing the ear of the constable sent to take him to his death). Nontheless, both sides insist on killing each other in his name.
- NAZI GermantOnce again, worship of a Jew named Jesus was used as an excuse for killing Jews.
- IsraelIf you bother to read the bible, the oft quoted "eye for an eye" in Leviticus (24:20) is followed by a call to ensure that foreigners are accorded the same rights as Jews
Nonetheless, Israel insists on treating Palistinians in a manner that I honestly believe they learnd from their old Gestapo tormenters
- Muslim extremists: Islam decries the killing of non-combatants. It also has strong rules against suicide. In the face of this, some religious/political leaders try to convince muslims that killing yourself in a way designed to kill as many women and children as possible will get you into heaven.
It is not religion that is evil -- It's greedy men's corruption of religion that is evil.Well, as long as SUNfires don't ship with a Windows Light option, I'll be happy.
-- And, no it's not BS. It really happened (almost replying as AC because it's getting really offtopic).
Rather than have to explain to fans why she suddenly disappeared, he simply bitchslapped the character -- making it look like it was done out of the non-commercial graciousness of his heart (yeah, right!). Now, after the lawsuit, he's going to be giving Gaimen back some seriously damaged (dead) goods.
Nice guy, hunh?
Lindows isn't responsible for what others distribute. They're responsible for what they distribute. If they declined to release the source code with their binaries, then they're responsible to hand out the source code to anybody who wants it.
If they didn't want to do this, then they should have sent out their distribution with a CD full of source as well. (or put it on the HD that they used for the installation -- which is even cheaper).
I say breach of license.
Given that this is a commercial distribution, Lindows has two choices (quoting directly from the GPL text):
- Accompany it with the complete corresponding machine-readable source code, which must be distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange; or,
- Accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least three years, to give any third party, for a charge no more than your cost of physically performing source distribution, a complete machine-readable copy of the corresponding source code, to be distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange; or, [non-commercial binary distribution]
Given that Lindows did not accompany their distribution with the source CDs, they're required to make the sources available to everybody -- not just people with a lindows account.Pretty much end of story (if you'll excuse the pun).
Either that, or "I could care less, (but it would take some work)".
9 counts??? I'd say that the question is whether or not Tod McF is a sociopathic A*hole who has no respect for the agreements he makes with people once he has what he wants.
If the story of what he did to the Mexican convention is even close to accurate, I'd say that there's a pattern here that points to the answer being a resounding "yes".
If he was as blatent about his disregard for agreements as he appears to have been in Mexico, then I'd say there's a good possibility that the jury would make a sizable punitive award. (as in: slap him on the wrist -- with a two-by-four)
Remember Clayoquot Sound?
The guy in this picture got 45 days and a $6000 fine. For what? Well, it's in the picture -- standing on a road with a sign. You can get less for raping someone with a knife.
Accelerating massive climate change by as much as 5000 years is more than a trivial change. We may also not be accelerating the big freeze. We might just be causing a extraneous mini-ice age of decades or centuries in the northern hemisphere. What further worries me about this, though, is that a side effect of a switch change would probably be more -- and more massive hurricanes and tripical storms.
Hurricanes and tropical storms are one of the ways that the earth's climat transfers heat from the equator to temperate regions. If the oceanic conveyer shuts down, there's going to need to be some other way to have that happen. Storms are a probable method of doing that.
When a tree dies, its carbon ("biomass") is often consumed by other processes than simple decay. In reasonably mature rainforests, for example, they get sucked up by lichen and moss. I've been in old growth forests where the moss was many feet thick.
(The moss also functions as a very effective HEPA filter to keep most of the organic and particulate matter from flowing into forest streams)
Further to this apparent stupidity is the fact that extreme cases of webbed feet are often associated with skin 'disorders' that result in extremely dry skin that needs to be bathed in water almost continuously.
I'm told that extreme cases actually include (atrophied?) gills.
If, on the other hand, she had been born near the ocean (her father was from Trinidad - an island nation), and had had the skin condition often associated with webbed digits, she might have been forced to spend most of her time at the beach / in the ocean (shades of mermaids???).
In Japan where some villages make good money diving for oysters / pearls, her webbed feet might have given her an edge over other divers (especially so gills, if they had any functionality at all). Although such a person might be initially shunned as 'different', the boon of being able to thrive in the water might have made her rich in a pearl-diving village and thus made her a 'good catch'. Thus, what was a severe problem in Edmonton could be a boon had her family moved to the ocean to care for her special needs.
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In the bombadier beetle, the combustion chamber might have come about slowly... First would be the noxious gasses... not unlike ink in squid -- it would disuade a predator on it's own. Early versions might have had one chamber which needed to be reloaded on a continuous basis along with the catalyst separately added. The original version might have done external mixing A hardened area around the mixing space would have been an advantage that would evolve over time. -- or it might have started as the venom bay for a stinger.
The catalyst would have been most useful -- but not entirely necesssary. An inhibitor would save resources by removing the requirement to continusously produce the 'unstable' compounds.
It would also be worth pointing out that the description of the compounds as "explosive" is inaccurate. The author even acknowledges so (almost at the end of his very long article). The compounds simply degrade over time. It's the addition of the catalyst that makes the mixture explosive.
BTW: in a pre-inhibitor state, the two chambers (besides being a side effect of biological symetry) would have allowed one chamber to hold a charge while the other discharged and refilled on a rotating basis.
Somebody else pointed out that Blue OLEDs currently halve a lifetime of about 1000H. In an 'always on' part of the display (e.g. clock) that's about 40 days.
Even a 20,000 hour MTBR means that you're going to be replacing the OLED display about every 2 years... Not good enough to make for happy customers in the long run. One solution might be for the manufacturer to make cheap pop-in replacement screens for the unit -- and comit to manufacturing them for a period of time -- or to simply ship the unit with a handfull of pop-ins.
Try telling that to Bill Gates or Bill Clinton.
I'm sure I could find you a nice Jade paperweight for $200+.
(In the days when GW Bush was snorting coke, he might have had a paperweight with $200 of cocaine inside of it. Would that count?)
A "heterogenous mix at the server level." could simply mean a mix of NT2000, NT4 and XP. Although one could hope that it really means other manufacturer's systems as well, it doesn't have to.
For the rest of it, it sounds like they still intend to force the desktop to pure MS.