As opposed to an oil pipeline? Hydrogen has the nice property of being MUCH lighter than air. A leak would mostly rise harmlessly into the air unless ignited in which case it would all burn instantly in a flash. Also, a leak wouldn't be an environmental disaster like oil would.
Contrary to popular belief, hydrogen is not more dangerous than say gasoline especially if it isn't pressurized.
If we can build a pipeline to transport oil in from Alaska, we could build a pipeline to transport hydrogen in from some remote seafront where there are no houses and resorts to be bothered by rows upon rows of these stations wherever that is.
Impossible. The epicenter is the area above the earth's surface that represents the origin of the earthquake. The focus is the actual point underground where the earthquake originates.
It warns you (if you set it to) to warn you of any application attempting to access the internet. You can even set it to always block a certain application from accessing the internet. Not bad.
I wouldn't count America out of the possibility of adopting free software especially since it is constantly improving. All it will take is for South American countries announcing how much they have saved in support costs, lack of debilitating virus attacks, etc. for a group of Congressmen to get together and make it a political agenda. I forsee states taking up the initiative first and it working its way up the ladder.
With free versions of software such as Open Office constantly improving, what place do you perceive commercial software to have in the free software world as free alternatives mature to an acceptable and usable state?
I like chili. I like chocolate chip cookies. That doesn't mean I would like the two of them together.
I like Compaq. I like HP (mostly). I do not remain convinced and have neither seen nor heard any evidence that leads me to believe this is a good thing for consumers and employees. Thus far, the only people I see benefiting completely are those on top getting nice compensation.
I am not trolling, I really would like someone to explain why this is a good thing. Maybe I missed it somewhere.
It seems I remember reading somewhere or some such thing that since they were able, Microsoft has always had enough liquid assets on hand to operate for at least one year with zero profits. In other words, they could freeze raises and new hiring and give their products away for an entire year.
THAT is a scary proposition for potential competitors. If you ask me, given that kind of ability to weather bad times, Linux (or some other such free model) might be the only OS that stands a chance at dethroning them completely.
I agree it would be nice to have them factor in those variables, but there is so much to consider that a complex formula would be required.
I think there should be at least three measures that show a movie's performance. 1) Percentage profit a movie makes 2) Tickets sold compared to population given as a percentage 3) Average percentage of seats filled at theaters.
Measure 1 would show how profitable a movie is. An indication as to its success relative to the financers.
Measure 2 would not represent really how many people actually saw it (some see it multiple times) but it would give at least a quasi-accurate indication over time of how one movie compares to another.
Measure 3 would potentially measure a movie's ability to draw the crowds.
There are ways these could be manipulated to give even more accurate indications. I do agree that raw sales figures are flawed.
The only thing a Computer Science PhD might qualify or empower him to do is discuss the theory behind scheduler's, memory managers and such. In no way shape or form does that translate to him knowing the difference between a desktop and a window manager or any other component added post-Minix.
I bet he could code a mean Quicksort, Radix sort or maybe even an impressively unimpressive recursive bubble-sort. Ask him what the X window system is and he will probably stare at you like a deer in headlights.
I think there is a simple fact you are overlooking in the difference. The average Joe user doesn't give a damn about how it works and why it works. Joe just wants it to work. He will plod along and open attachments without thinking and spread viruses again and again and again.
Asking Joe to install security patches and turn off options to make his Outlook more secure is like asking a horse to bark. If he could understand what you are saying, he wouldn't do it anyway.
If his e-mail client AND OS are built secure from the ground up, then Joe will have to make an effort to compromise his system.
Actually I think there is quite a bit at risk. The discovery of intelligent life possibly more intelligent than us could cause some severe religious, social and governmental problems.
For religious types it might mean they have to redefine and reinterpret their texts. It could even be worse for religions if the message we receive says something like "Nice to see you are coming along. We wondered how long it would take our genetic experiment to mature this far along."
Socially it could easily become an "us vs. them" mentality where we stand more unified. This would be a good thing. Perhaps many disputes would resolve very quickly. Perhaps not.
For governments it could be troubling because now we are faced with a potential new threat. Especially if they are far more technically advanced. Do we make contact? What if they want to colonize because their planet just got creamed by a supernova? More to the point, what if they check out our DNA and find us to be an alarming mixture of intelligence and animalism to the point of us being the killer bees of the galaxy? I know this isn't necessarily likely but imagine their disposition. Here is an intelligent species that uses technology at every turn as a weapon.
Anyway, enough rambling. I hope my point is clear.
IBM -- I will never forget the first and only IBM PC I ever bought. Constantly crashing and about every month or so, crashed beyond repair and a rebuild was necessary. After about 5 months of this (5 rebuilds) I knew something was wrong. After performing every kind of test imaginable I narrowed it down to a probable BIOS problem. Called IBM and asked what the latest BIOS was. Turns out I had the latest. I tell tech support the BIOS is faulty. They disagree. I tell them to e-mail me when a new one comes out. They add me to some mailing list. Two weeks later I get a notice about an updated BIOS. Crash problem fixed. Miraculous.
Although I can't say IBM is all bad. They never argued when I said a part failed. Next business day the part was there. Nice.
Compaq -- Never had a problem here. With our Proliant servers, Compaq has been amazing with support. Very few problems to begin with but wow are they top notch to get us parts and such.
Dell -- I can't say enough bad things about Dell's tech support as of late. We use a RIS server to deploy Windows 2000 installations. When we discovered about 20 of our Dell computers wouldn't work with RIS because of faulty BIOS Dell's response was "We don't support network installations on these machines so if it doesn't work there is nothing we can or will do." Wrong answer.
Not only that, but you get a tech that knows next to nothing that makes you jump through 10 hoops before they will send you the part you KNOW is faulty.
Of course, the unfortunate thing is that security is only as strong as your weakest link. One dumb and careless user can turn the most secure environment into an open bank vault with a sign blazing "take what you can carry!"
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How about hydrogen powered jets? The exhaust would be water vapor.
As opposed to an oil pipeline? Hydrogen has the nice property of being MUCH lighter than air. A leak would mostly rise harmlessly into the air unless ignited in which case it would all burn instantly in a flash. Also, a leak wouldn't be an environmental disaster like oil would.
Contrary to popular belief, hydrogen is not more dangerous than say gasoline especially if it isn't pressurized.
If we can build a pipeline to transport oil in from Alaska, we could build a pipeline to transport hydrogen in from some remote seafront where there are no houses and resorts to be bothered by rows upon rows of these stations wherever that is.
"The epicenter was 4.7 miles below surface."
Impossible. The epicenter is the area above the earth's surface that represents the origin of the earthquake. The focus is the actual point underground where the earthquake originates.
In that case, I would just use an alternative browser and block IE. That or just uninstall the application.
It warns you (if you set it to) to warn you of any application attempting to access the internet. You can even set it to always block a certain application from accessing the internet. Not bad.
I wouldn't count America out of the possibility of adopting free software especially since it is constantly improving. All it will take is for South American countries announcing how much they have saved in support costs, lack of debilitating virus attacks, etc. for a group of Congressmen to get together and make it a political agenda. I forsee states taking up the initiative first and it working its way up the ladder.
With free versions of software such as Open Office constantly improving, what place do you perceive commercial software to have in the free software world as free alternatives mature to an acceptable and usable state?
You are correct. I meant to say zero revenues. Thanks for the correction.
I like chili. I like chocolate chip cookies. That doesn't mean I would like the two of them together.
I like Compaq. I like HP (mostly). I do not remain convinced and have neither seen nor heard any evidence that leads me to believe this is a good thing for consumers and employees. Thus far, the only people I see benefiting completely are those on top getting nice compensation.
I am not trolling, I really would like someone to explain why this is a good thing. Maybe I missed it somewhere.
It seems I remember reading somewhere or some such thing that since they were able, Microsoft has always had enough liquid assets on hand to operate for at least one year with zero profits. In other words, they could freeze raises and new hiring and give their products away for an entire year.
THAT is a scary proposition for potential competitors. If you ask me, given that kind of ability to weather bad times, Linux (or some other such free model) might be the only OS that stands a chance at dethroning them completely.
"I opened and closed the garage door while I took the shot above. Really makes it look like there's something gone very wrong with the garage door."
Imagine this thing taking a picture of someone walking from the top down. Now that would be some trick photography.
I agree it would be nice to have them factor in those variables, but there is so much to consider that a complex formula would be required.
I think there should be at least three measures that show a movie's performance. 1) Percentage profit a movie makes 2) Tickets sold compared to population given as a percentage 3) Average percentage of seats filled at theaters.
Measure 1 would show how profitable a movie is. An indication as to its success relative to the financers.
Measure 2 would not represent really how many people actually saw it (some see it multiple times) but it would give at least a quasi-accurate indication over time of how one movie compares to another.
Measure 3 would potentially measure a movie's ability to draw the crowds.
There are ways these could be manipulated to give even more accurate indications. I do agree that raw sales figures are flawed.
The only thing a Computer Science PhD might qualify or empower him to do is discuss the theory behind scheduler's, memory managers and such. In no way shape or form does that translate to him knowing the difference between a desktop and a window manager or any other component added post-Minix.
I bet he could code a mean Quicksort, Radix sort or maybe even an impressively unimpressive recursive bubble-sort. Ask him what the X window system is and he will probably stare at you like a deer in headlights.
After rereading your post I realize you weren't overlooking anything, just summarizing differences. Too early for me to be up obviously.
I think there is a simple fact you are overlooking in the difference. The average Joe user doesn't give a damn about how it works and why it works. Joe just wants it to work. He will plod along and open attachments without thinking and spread viruses again and again and again.
Asking Joe to install security patches and turn off options to make his Outlook more secure is like asking a horse to bark. If he could understand what you are saying, he wouldn't do it anyway.
If his e-mail client AND OS are built secure from the ground up, then Joe will have to make an effort to compromise his system.
Actually I think there is quite a bit at risk. The discovery of intelligent life possibly more intelligent than us could cause some severe religious, social and governmental problems.
For religious types it might mean they have to redefine and reinterpret their texts. It could even be worse for religions if the message we receive says something like "Nice to see you are coming along. We wondered how long it would take our genetic experiment to mature this far along."
Socially it could easily become an "us vs. them" mentality where we stand more unified. This would be a good thing. Perhaps many disputes would resolve very quickly. Perhaps not.
For governments it could be troubling because now we are faced with a potential new threat. Especially if they are far more technically advanced. Do we make contact? What if they want to colonize because their planet just got creamed by a supernova? More to the point, what if they check out our DNA and find us to be an alarming mixture of intelligence and animalism to the point of us being the killer bees of the galaxy? I know this isn't necessarily likely but imagine their disposition. Here is an intelligent species that uses technology at every turn as a weapon.
Anyway, enough rambling. I hope my point is clear.
IBM -- I will never forget the first and only IBM PC I ever bought. Constantly crashing and about every month or so, crashed beyond repair and a rebuild was necessary. After about 5 months of this (5 rebuilds) I knew something was wrong. After performing every kind of test imaginable I narrowed it down to a probable BIOS problem. Called IBM and asked what the latest BIOS was. Turns out I had the latest. I tell tech support the BIOS is faulty. They disagree. I tell them to e-mail me when a new one comes out. They add me to some mailing list. Two weeks later I get a notice about an updated BIOS. Crash problem fixed. Miraculous.
Although I can't say IBM is all bad. They never argued when I said a part failed. Next business day the part was there. Nice.
Compaq -- Never had a problem here. With our Proliant servers, Compaq has been amazing with support. Very few problems to begin with but wow are they top notch to get us parts and such.
Dell -- I can't say enough bad things about Dell's tech support as of late. We use a RIS server to deploy Windows 2000 installations. When we discovered about 20 of our Dell computers wouldn't work with RIS because of faulty BIOS Dell's response was "We don't support network installations on these machines so if it doesn't work there is nothing we can or will do." Wrong answer.
Not only that, but you get a tech that knows next to nothing that makes you jump through 10 hoops before they will send you the part you KNOW is faulty.
This line of thinking leaves you in one big mess when the secret gets out. Then what are you left with?
Of course, the unfortunate thing is that security is only as strong as your weakest link. One dumb and careless user can turn the most secure environment into an open bank vault with a sign blazing "take what you can carry!"
The only completely secure OS is one that either a) doesn't exist or b) has no I/O interfaces at all (which makes it useless)
Just a fact that security is a goal to be constantly reached for and never fully realized.
Bell Labs is the R&D force behind Lucent. Lucent is the business front. www.lucent.com will tell you the lowdown.
of Max Ventura or Jesse Nukem Forever?
Me: Please tell me where the secret door is.
PS2: If it was up your ass you would know exactly where it is.
Come on, what is the point?
If Windows truly isn't modular, I would love to hear an in depth explanation on how in the hell they manage the code. I can hear it now:
Upper level project manager: "We need to make the windows do this funky thing while closing them."
Coders: "Ok, give us the next three months to figure out where in this mass mess of code to insert that."