A new version of Office comes out every two or three years, and it would help if the next upgrade cycle didn't cost $400/seat for an entire state government.
And those 10 IT guys will get paid for their time whether they're installing Office Vista or OpenOffice.org.
Michigan could do with a move like this. We're running a deficit and our economy's not getting any better. The Republican-controlled legislature is pushing tax cut after tax cut, without much in the way of spending cuts. Something like this could save some real dollars.
Personally, I think you're nuts if you advocate "the safest approach."
The space program was popular in America during the 60s in no small part to the sense of adventure it gave not just the astronauts, but to the people following the news. People knew the program was dangerous, and they understood that it was for an important purpose: Beating the Russians.
NASA did such a good job protecting our astronauts, we lost only three men prior to Challenger, and those three were on the ground when they died. Space didn't seem so scary any more. Once we beat the Russians to the moon, the us-vs-them side of the equation died down, too. We were left with a space program driven by commercial, military and scientific interests, but none of those carried with them the same social interest that danger and the fear of a Red moon provided.
Here, we're shown again that space is dangerous. All you have to do is flip through the TV news channels or a newspaper, and you'll find a story about the current Shuttle mission. Space exploration has a lot of attention, and we need to capitalize on that by showing the American populace we're capable of facing the danger and beating it.
Bring our boys home safely on this space craft, and you'll bring back popular confidence and support. Pussyfoot through it, and you'll only convince the populace that space is something we're not ready for. And, this being a republic, if people don't think we're ready for space, they'll be persuaded that there are more beneficial things for that money to go to, like tax refund checks.
Until it supports itself financially, manned space exploration is going to have to thrive on the public's sense of adventure.
IIRC, that was because IBM was using higher number of platters than most manufacturers. Something like five to a drive. I believe they're down to three now.
Why do some people continue work with the source code to Quake, while others work with Crystal Space? Don't try to concentrate OSS developers...they each have their own reasons for coding, and one project may fit their requirements better than others.
You get one or more degrees with each joint, and humanoid appendages consist of multiple joints. Otherwise, you would be limited to occupying a linear region between the root of an appendage and where you wanted the end of the appendage.
My right arm has something like four degrees of freedom. Two rotational axii at the shoulder, one at the elbow, and one more that lets me rotate my arm. (Sorry, I'm not all that knowledgable in anatomy.) With it, I can reach around a corner, or under a stack of papers on a desk.
That's the whole point. If you put a UPS on your PoE-capable switch, all your phones will remain in service. In case of longer-term power outages like a storm, you simply use a decent generator.
In Quick Basic, it would look something like this:
Story$ = "How Computers Work -- Circa 1979" loop.start: PRINT Story$ SLEEP RAND(3600 * 48) GOTO loop.start
Not sure SLEEP is correct...the students I tutor don't need delays in their homework. The fact that they come to me is evidence of enough delay already...
I can also picture treating the keyboard as a tty, and piping syslog to it. (Come on, you're not going to tell me you still need to see the keys, are you?)
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Similar to one by Heinlein: "Never attribute to malice that which could be adequately explained by incompetence."
A new version of Office comes out every two or three years, and it would help if the next upgrade cycle didn't cost $400/seat for an entire state government.
And those 10 IT guys will get paid for their time whether they're installing Office Vista or OpenOffice.org.
Michigan could do with a move like this. We're running a deficit and our economy's not getting any better. The Republican-controlled legislature is pushing tax cut after tax cut, without much in the way of spending cuts. Something like this could save some real dollars.
Do something that'll fit as a normal epitaph, like: "kill -9 1"
And introduce a slew of inconsistencies, as happens whenever you have the same code executed by two different codebases.
Personally, I think you're nuts if you advocate "the safest approach."
The space program was popular in America during the 60s in no small part to the sense of adventure it gave not just the astronauts, but to the people following the news. People knew the program was dangerous, and they understood that it was for an important purpose: Beating the Russians.
NASA did such a good job protecting our astronauts, we lost only three men prior to Challenger, and those three were on the ground when they died. Space didn't seem so scary any more. Once we beat the Russians to the moon, the us-vs-them side of the equation died down, too. We were left with a space program driven by commercial, military and scientific interests, but none of those carried with them the same social interest that danger and the fear of a Red moon provided.
Here, we're shown again that space is dangerous. All you have to do is flip through the TV news channels or a newspaper, and you'll find a story about the current Shuttle mission. Space exploration has a lot of attention, and we need to capitalize on that by showing the American populace we're capable of facing the danger and beating it.
Bring our boys home safely on this space craft, and you'll bring back popular confidence and support. Pussyfoot through it, and you'll only convince the populace that space is something we're not ready for. And, this being a republic, if people don't think we're ready for space, they'll be persuaded that there are more beneficial things for that money to go to, like tax refund checks.
Until it supports itself financially, manned space exploration is going to have to thrive on the public's sense of adventure.
IIRC, that was because IBM was using higher number of platters than most manufacturers. Something like five to a drive. I believe they're down to three now.
Professors don't like it when I use multiple Wikipedia references...
Why do some people continue work with the source code to Quake, while others work with Crystal Space? Don't try to concentrate OSS developers...they each have their own reasons for coding, and one project may fit their requirements better than others.
I blame weight-loss craze in general for the proliferation of worms...
Give it a thump with your finger.
I can't believe I'm publicly disagreeing with no less than Andrew Tanenbaum, but I *do* have a lower /. ID, so here goes...
:(
That would have been a perfect sig, but it doesn't fit.
Uncle Don? I didn't know you were on Slashdot.
:)
'Tis Mike.
Kyle was TOS era. O'Brien was TNG/DS9 era.
He probably meant to say, "If I had depended on that same robot to..."
If a given task suddenly requires less time to completeion, one devotes the freed time to something new.
You get one or more degrees with each joint, and humanoid appendages consist of multiple joints. Otherwise, you would be limited to occupying a linear region between the root of an appendage and where you wanted the end of the appendage.
My right arm has something like four degrees of freedom. Two rotational axii at the shoulder, one at the elbow, and one more that lets me rotate my arm. (Sorry, I'm not all that knowledgable in anatomy.) With it, I can reach around a corner, or under a stack of papers on a desk.
You explicitly said power, not telephone. If the telephone lines are snapped, sure, there's a problem.
I've never lost both power and telephone. Even out in the sticks--where I live--the telephone lines are buried.
Allow me to introduce you to a favorite tool of mine. It can come in handy when your writing sounds somehow redundant.
That's the whole point. If you put a UPS on your PoE-capable switch, all your phones will remain in service. In case of longer-term power outages like a storm, you simply use a decent generator.
In your typical media, your audio and video streams are separate. So if you can keep your audio bandwidth requirements down, you can get better video.
I've tried that, but never quite got it working. Have a good reference?
My 94-key keyboard has seven fewer keys than yours, so it's clearly more reliable, and thus better. ;)
Whack-a-mole. Conway's game of life. Pac-Man.
I can also picture treating the keyboard as a tty, and piping syslog to it. (Come on, you're not going to tell me you still need to see the keys, are you?)