It will lead to two things: 1. Increase in FOSS adoption 2. Increase in piracy by people who still need/think they need windows. And once someone pirates windows it's just a small step to pirate MS Office. Net result: zero cash flow going back to Microsoft.
If you were an evil megalomaniacal convicted monopolist would you allow that to happen?
Why not hook up all those machines in the local gymnasium to the national grid? Use electromagnetic generators instead of friction belts to provide resistance.
The gym could charge no membership fees, and get money by selling energy to the power company.
According to his speech, they know pretty much every factor now that has a relevant effect on global climate... Their current power bill is 40,000$/mo. At their new facility (you can see a design of it in this document), it will be far more...
All I can say is I hope they factored in their own computing facility when calculating global climate change.
I believe it's not so much a high temperature that affects electronic equipment, but fluctuations in temperature.
If your PCB traces are expanding and contracting between say 20C at night and 40C during the day you're going to get fatigue. It's also not so good for mechanisms inside hard disk drives.
So the HVAC guy at the local television studio tells me anyway.
The title of that article does raise an interesting point.
I don't know what Green parties are like in other countries, but the NZ one has adopted all sorts of ridiculous policies and is generally considered a loony group.
Simply the fact that groups like the Greens are endorsing OSS will result in people associating the two, possibly harming OSS adoption in the long run.
It has happened to otherwise sound principles such as environmental sustainability or healthy food programmes in schools.
When I flick on the local radio at 6 I expect to get up-to-date news about todays local, regional and international events. I do not expect "sponsored" items pushing some second-rate portable audio player that has become little more than a fashion accessory.
So I flick on the telly just in time to catch the news, and there it is again. This time some hotshot journalist is investigating the "latest craze in digital audio".
I'm just amazed they didn't include a "This paid news item was brought to you by Apple Computer Inc." notice at the end.
PDF itself is as open as XML for trademark issues.... PDF has closed and open source readers and writers free and commercial on pretty much every platform you can think of including handhelds and game consoles.
And still there are many PDF documents out there that can only be read properly with Adobe Acrobat.
I"m not convinced that the published PDF spec is 100% complete. I wouldn't be surprised if there were certain 'undocumented' features put into Adobe Writer that only Adobe Reader could interpret, thus retaining mindshare for Adobe.
Well, having an evolution theory is one thing, but still accepting it as an absolute truth in the 21st century, completely rejecting any other ideas on that sole basis, and trying to force their view upon others with different scientific backgrounds in the public school system is a different thing entirely.
Plus you get to claim self-sufficiency. That is a BIG plus in my book.
I'm always suspicious of foreign aid that gifts heavy machinery or engineered seeds that fill a short term need but create long term dependence on industrialised countries.
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povPod?
What, I can now render my Pov-Ray scenes on the go?
Nice way to use those CPU cycles when you get sick of listening to music, I guess...
What about the other 90% of us blokes who HAVE NO NEED for porn or 'jacking'?
Only on /. could that be moderated 'insightful'.
Go get some marriage counselling, and seek help about that porn thing.
Seriously.
If I'd wanted to know how Zombies worked, I'd examine the logs of one of my many 0wned windows boxes over the net some time.
Oh, you mean real zombies!
Good point, I didn't think of that :)
Let's see them go through with this.
It will lead to two things:
1. Increase in FOSS adoption
2. Increase in piracy by people who still need/think they need windows. And once someone pirates windows it's just a small step to pirate MS Office. Net result: zero cash flow going back to Microsoft.
If you were an evil megalomaniacal convicted monopolist would you allow that to happen?
Luxury.
Eclipse is a rather nice IDE. It's just a shame that you can't (yet) use it for anything other than Java.
Show me a working Eclipse-like environment for C or PHP then I'll be impressed.
Okay how about "As the cost of [buying] these SILICON-BASED machines decreases, the cost of powering and cooling them increases."
It might not be a silly idea.
Why not hook up all those machines in the local gymnasium to the national grid? Use electromagnetic generators instead of friction belts to provide resistance.
The gym could charge no membership fees, and get money by selling energy to the power company.
According to his speech, they know pretty much every factor now that has a relevant effect on global climate ...
Their current power bill is 40,000$/mo. At their new facility (you can see a design of it in this document), it will be far more...
All I can say is I hope they factored in their own computing facility when calculating global climate change.
I believe it's not so much a high temperature that affects electronic equipment, but fluctuations in temperature.
If your PCB traces are expanding and contracting between say 20C at night and 40C during the day you're going to get fatigue. It's also not so good for mechanisms inside hard disk drives.
So the HVAC guy at the local television studio tells me anyway.
That's okay. Because of its horrible security record, a lot of data houses won't support Oracle either.
The title of that article does raise an interesting point.
I don't know what Green parties are like in other countries, but the NZ one has adopted all sorts of ridiculous policies and is generally considered a loony group.
Simply the fact that groups like the Greens are endorsing OSS will result in people associating the two, possibly harming OSS adoption in the long run.
It has happened to otherwise sound principles such as environmental sustainability or healthy food programmes in schools.
I'm still in favour of relegating porn to a .xxx domain.
As a sys admin, it will make my job much easier to filter out that kind of crap.
A new study shows that companies hire foreign workers for cheap labor, not skill.
I'm curious, did anyone at all believe otherwise?
...says it all.
When I flick on the local radio at 6 I expect to get up-to-date news about todays local, regional and international events. I do not expect "sponsored" items pushing some second-rate portable audio player that has become little more than a fashion accessory.
So I flick on the telly just in time to catch the news, and there it is again. This time some hotshot journalist is investigating the "latest craze in digital audio".
I'm just amazed they didn't include a "This paid news item was brought to you by Apple Computer Inc." notice at the end.
PDF itself is as open as XML for trademark issues. ...
PDF has closed and open source readers and writers free and commercial on pretty much every platform you can think of including handhelds and game consoles.
And still there are many PDF documents out there that can only be read properly with Adobe Acrobat.
I"m not convinced that the published PDF spec is 100% complete. I wouldn't be surprised if there were certain 'undocumented' features put into Adobe Writer that only Adobe Reader could interpret, thus retaining mindshare for Adobe.
When's a demo coming out?
Well, having an evolution theory is one thing,
but still accepting it as an absolute truth in the 21st century,
completely rejecting any other ideas
on that sole basis, and trying to force their view
upon others with different scientific backgrounds
in the public school system is a different thing entirely.
Plus you get to claim self-sufficiency. That is a BIG plus in my book.
I'm always suspicious of foreign aid that gifts heavy machinery or engineered seeds that fill a short term need but create long term dependence on industrialised countries.
Conclusively?
With all the weather activity on Mars who's to say it hasn't been blown away?
There might be more than mini-tornados at the poles.
Uh, if it was just some nobody who rolled back the changes why don't you just reinstate them?
Why on earth would you blame Wikipedia?
Yeah, and the US space program has advanced from that point in leaps and bounds hasn't it?
I mean, it seems like only yesterday that we planned to send people to Mars, and look where we are today.