This is the same power plant that was shut down due to a boric acid leak. And since the blackout was mentioned in passing, I'll go ahead and add that the plant is owned by FirstEnergy.
I read in this article at IT World that SCO is now claiming that the XFS filesystem was improperly contributed to Linux. Does anyone else know about this? Did I miss their announcement targeting SGI? Are they next?
Right. It's long been publicised that the northeast power grid is flakier than most reality shows. Solar activity has knocked this grid over before. Extreme temperatures have caused problems in the past. It was only a matter of time before this happened.
It's definitely a faulty interpretation of the law's concession to fair use. However, saying that someone can make one and only one backup copy for personal use without explicit permission from the copyright holder is not logically (or legally) equivalent to saying that that copyright holder cannot grant explicit permission to freely copy and distribute the work.
"The wife of Julian Dibbell, the man who quit his job to sell items from Ultima Online, has filed for divorce. 'He has deluded himself into thinking he can support his family with his fantasy life. I just got tired of hoping he would grow up,' was the only comment given by Mrs. Dibbell."
I built a corporate fallout detector, scanned a copy of SCO OpenServer, and the damned detector blew up!
Here's the real review
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Snipped from BN.com, excerpts from an actual review of this "book":
In British screenwriter Pavlou's adolescent first novel, it's March 2012 and huge storms are raging around the globe, sparked by giant sunspots.
An unconvincing gaggle of scientists discovers they have only one unholy Holy Week to ship a nuclear device to Antarctica and bomb the underwater threat to smithereens.
The often ludicrous dialogue and the ham-fisted handling of human relations and motivations, however, make for an unfocused novel, one patched together like Frankenstein, with every stitching line, every unnatural feature, unblushingly exposed to the most casual glance.
Actually, I think the truth will fall somewhere in the middle. The workforce reduction doesn't have to come from complete elimination of people from a job, just a reduction in the number of people needed. Automated assembly lines didn't completely eliminate people on the lines, but it did reduce the workforce (and therefore the cost) needed for production. Ditto ATMs.
Self-checkout has yet to mature, which is probably one reason why there are only a few in a store. But one thing is painfully obvious - you only need one person to run four checkouts. I think that in a few years self-checkout will replace half or more of the checkout lanes in stores, with a corresponding reduction in cashiers.
Pay-at-the-pump seems to be having less of an impact, but that could be because fill-ups are not a real money making transaction for gas stations - the real money is made through convenience store sales, anyway. So it could be that pay-at-the-pump is just a way to reduce the cost of a marginal transaction. It isn't enough of an improvement to allow any more of a reduction in workforce than self-service already accomplished.
So McDonald's doesn't need to replace their cashiers with kiosks, just get enough business through the kiosks to eliminate one or two cashier positions per store. In fact it seems to me that McDonald's could more easily automate the process of making the food than the sale of it, and make deeper cuts in the workforce. While the article depicts a future where this replacement takes place with the advent of cheap humanoid robots, that really isn't necessary. It doesn't take two legs to develop a system that can flip burgers and add toppings. You could probably run a fast-food restaurant with just a handful of people to watch the machinery, handle customers who experience problems, and deal with special circumstances.
If you want to lose weight, you might think about asking your boss to remove the beer keg/tap from the office.
Man, the only thing we have in our break room is a water cooler and a Coke machine.
Re:Before all the flamers get in.
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Again, the point is that this is not a replacement for X. Nor is this meant to remove X. The idea is that we can create more powerful native GUI apps this way, and still have X and X applications for those that need them. And run them on the same box.
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The filesystem will be based on SQL Server 2003, but it won't be a fully functional version of SQL Server.
Won't they have to patch and reboot the teachers weekly? How often will the faculty BSOD? You know someone was going to say it...
Armageddon has been just barely missing me since it was released. I've successfully managed to avoid seeing that movie so far.
Now I can start tagging my subatomic particle collection!
This morning SpamAssassin tagged the daily cron email as spam.
McBride's statement makes complete sense to me now. I was wondering why their building was surrounded by wild mushrooms.
This is the same power plant that was shut down due to a boric acid leak. And since the blackout was mentioned in passing, I'll go ahead and add that the plant is owned by FirstEnergy.
Don't we need to warm his cold heart with a hot island song?
Why people are texting each other bad-mouthing the movies?
I think we're back to "Because the movies suck."
I read in this article at IT World that SCO is now claiming that the XFS filesystem was improperly contributed to Linux. Does anyone else know about this? Did I miss their announcement targeting SGI? Are they next?
Right. It's long been publicised that the northeast power grid is flakier than most reality shows. Solar activity has knocked this grid over before. Extreme temperatures have caused problems in the past. It was only a matter of time before this happened.
It's definitely a faulty interpretation of the law's concession to fair use. However, saying that someone can make one and only one backup copy for personal use without explicit permission from the copyright holder is not logically (or legally) equivalent to saying that that copyright holder cannot grant explicit permission to freely copy and distribute the work.
"The wife of Julian Dibbell, the man who quit his job to sell items from Ultima Online, has filed for divorce. 'He has deluded himself into thinking he can support his family with his fantasy life. I just got tired of hoping he would grow up,' was the only comment given by Mrs. Dibbell."
Why not wait for the courts to decide whether there is any truth in SCO's allegations? And let the court say what is to be done?
Because then SCO might not get any money out of this! And that would be "Not Fair! Not Fair! Not Fair!"
Not that I'm implying that SCO is run by a bunch of four-year-olds or anything.
Better buy now!
Yeah. I'll get right on that. Just watch how fast I go.
Don't worry about it. It's probably just "acid reflux".
How does this affect CD changers that use the same trick - namely transmitting a low power FM signal that your car stereo can pick up?
I feel I should warn anyone considering the purchase of a face hugger: they are not nearly as affectionate as their name suggests.
More importantly what are the implications for our society as we move out of an age of scarcity to an age of plenty?
Those who profit from scarcity will fight to prevent plenty, just to keep their money train from derailing.
I built a corporate fallout detector, scanned a copy of SCO OpenServer, and the damned detector blew up!
Snipped from BN.com, excerpts from an actual review of this "book":
In British screenwriter Pavlou's adolescent first novel, it's March 2012 and huge storms are raging around the globe, sparked by giant sunspots.
An unconvincing gaggle of scientists discovers they have only one unholy Holy Week to ship a nuclear device to Antarctica and bomb the underwater threat to smithereens.
The often ludicrous dialogue and the ham-fisted handling of human relations and motivations, however, make for an unfocused novel, one patched together like Frankenstein, with every stitching line, every unnatural feature, unblushingly exposed to the most casual glance.
I think I'll pass.
This isn't a review. It's a book report that gives away the ending.
I guess I should be glad that I didn't have to spend money to find out that the plot of this book is apparently a cliched piece of shit.
Actually, I think the truth will fall somewhere in the middle. The workforce reduction doesn't have to come from complete elimination of people from a job, just a reduction in the number of people needed. Automated assembly lines didn't completely eliminate people on the lines, but it did reduce the workforce (and therefore the cost) needed for production. Ditto ATMs.
Self-checkout has yet to mature, which is probably one reason why there are only a few in a store. But one thing is painfully obvious - you only need one person to run four checkouts. I think that in a few years self-checkout will replace half or more of the checkout lanes in stores, with a corresponding reduction in cashiers.
Pay-at-the-pump seems to be having less of an impact, but that could be because fill-ups are not a real money making transaction for gas stations - the real money is made through convenience store sales, anyway. So it could be that pay-at-the-pump is just a way to reduce the cost of a marginal transaction. It isn't enough of an improvement to allow any more of a reduction in workforce than self-service already accomplished.
So McDonald's doesn't need to replace their cashiers with kiosks, just get enough business through the kiosks to eliminate one or two cashier positions per store. In fact it seems to me that McDonald's could more easily automate the process of making the food than the sale of it, and make deeper cuts in the workforce. While the article depicts a future where this replacement takes place with the advent of cheap humanoid robots, that really isn't necessary. It doesn't take two legs to develop a system that can flip burgers and add toppings. You could probably run a fast-food restaurant with just a handful of people to watch the machinery, handle customers who experience problems, and deal with special circumstances.
If you want to lose weight, you might think about asking your boss to remove the beer keg/tap from the office.
Man, the only thing we have in our break room is a water cooler and a Coke machine.
Again, the point is that this is not a replacement for X. Nor is this meant to remove X. The idea is that we can create more powerful native GUI apps this way, and still have X and X applications for those that need them. And run them on the same box.