This is a disease that occurs in the Congo (Zaire), not the USA. The militias there vaccinate everyone else with bullets and rape, but don't do much for their own.
I think you will find that the GNU userland existed on *BSD before Linux existed. It may have developed since, but had Linux not been the legendary BSD lawsuit, BSD would be the predominant OS now. It was close, anyway. For a while most Linux distros did not work, while at least 3 BSDs worked fine - at least on my hardware.
Yes, but in the real world the PHBs get hired, and you dont.
The truth is, people generally wont hire anyone older than they are, because theyfeel bad about telling older people what to do. Nothing else is relevant, certainly not skills and abilities.
If you are over 40, you had better be the boss, or life sucks.
In the room where I am now, (my sitting room) there are 14 wall warts - most (say 10) are 5V phone chargers, etc. capable of over an amp. Five are laptop chargers rate at about 20V at about 5A. (Yes, there are five laptops in the room at present)
So you want 10A cabling for a 5V supply - so loss needs to be less than 0.2V - that is some hefty wire. And you want a 20V supply capable of more than 25A - say 30A. That is some more big fat wire! (6mm2 wire costs money and is a pig to connect to)
I think I prefer the 240V supply, thin wires and wall warts.
I can, and have, designed 240V off line switchers with losses of less than 1W - and they don't cost very much to make in million-off quantities. I am not sure the losses are much less with a single SMPS, and I certainly dont like putting all my eggs in one basket (Look what happened to Bernie Madoff's investors whio tried that optimisation)
The skin effect is only significant at frequencies WAY above 60Hz, so this is not relevant. AC is used because transformers can convert huge amounts of power from one voltage to another reliably, efficiently and cheaply.
Its true you can convert voltages DC to DC using electronics, but reliably at 132kV? It aint easy, cheap and certainly neither if you want efficiency.
(Blow up a 132kV IGBT, then come back and tell me about the damage:-)
Unix was first written in such an environment, but from day 1, it assumed that all machjines would be multi-user, and would need security to work with multiple users.
By the late 80's Unix was in widespread use on University campuses, where every competent comp-sci student felt it was his duty to hack it. Also, the Unix machines were all on the internet by the mid 90's (or at least DECNet). It was in fighting that off that Un*x security was fully tested.
DOS assumed that each amchine would have only one user, and therefore security was not needed. Netowrk support was so crap, and so expensive, that the majority of Windows machines were on the internet till after y2k.
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Please send me one of your flying pigs.
That was the Muslim spelling.
Are you sure?
They can probably do it remotely on must OS's anyway. Quick - make friends with Theo.
CSIgrep would take 30 mins to get the result! (With ad breaks)
This is a disease that occurs in the Congo (Zaire), not the USA. The militias there vaccinate everyone else with bullets and rape, but don't do much for their own.
Aha ... there is the cause the world's current economic ills.
Maybe it is connected with willfull ignorance (powered by comissions and bonuses) to spot ponzi schemes ?
Maybe you should try FreeY or OpenY. I, personally, advise you stay well clear of Z.
I think you will find that the GNU userland existed on *BSD before Linux existed. It may have developed since, but had Linux not been the legendary BSD lawsuit, BSD would be the predominant OS now. It was close, anyway. For a while most Linux distros did not work, while at least 3 BSDs worked fine - at least on my hardware.
Yes, but you are clearly smarter than most American Telcos.
You mean "Let the politicians give the money to their cronies" - cos that is what you will get.
No, I dont have a solution but "lets kill all the politicians" comes close!
The truth is, people generally wont hire anyone older than they are, because theyfeel bad about telling older people what to do. Nothing else is relevant, certainly not skills and abilities.
If you are over 40, you had better be the boss, or life sucks.
Speaking as an oldie: we all did that - it still wont save you! Train up as a plumber now, while you can afford it.
Now get off my lawn
I have a few relatives staying over and they want to compute while they watch X-factor!
When USB was invented, most devices were still 5V anyway.
So you want 10A cabling for a 5V supply - so loss needs to be less than 0.2V - that is some hefty wire. And you want a 20V supply capable of more than 25A - say 30A. That is some more big fat wire! (6mm2 wire costs money and is a pig to connect to)
I think I prefer the 240V supply, thin wires and wall warts.
I can, and have, designed 240V off line switchers with losses of less than 1W - and they don't cost very much to make in million-off quantities. I am not sure the losses are much less with a single SMPS, and I certainly dont like putting all my eggs in one basket (Look what happened to Bernie Madoff's investors whio tried that optimisation)
The efficiency of most fridge and A/C motors is truely appalling - 30% would be considered good.
Its true you can convert voltages DC to DC using electronics, but reliably at 132kV? It aint easy, cheap and certainly neither if you want efficiency.
(Blow up a 132kV IGBT, then come back and tell me about the damage :-)
My proposed solution is "The US has jurisdiction in the US, the UN covers the rest of the world!"
We the people don't like your US government or its policies, and even if we did, they are not OURS.
Or in the words of the 20th century - "we dont like your imperialist behaviour very much",
Are you sure about that? They always used to be, if indirectly. Then again, they used to use PDP8s.
Does my lawn look big in this?
Lets just nuke it from high orbit!
Springfield? what did Homer Simpson say it was?
Yes we can
This is America! (Sorry about the Puerto Rican accent :-)
By the late 80's Unix was in widespread use on University campuses, where every competent comp-sci student felt it was his duty to hack it. Also, the Unix machines were all on the internet by the mid 90's (or at least DECNet). It was in fighting that off that Un*x security was fully tested.
DOS assumed that each amchine would have only one user, and therefore security was not needed. Netowrk support was so crap, and so expensive, that the majority of Windows machines were on the internet till after y2k.
Yes. It is an acknowledged fact that GPL stuff is as boring as hell!