This is exactly the kind of "free speech" liberals want in this country. Granted, racism is patently wrong, morally and ethically. However, here in the U.S. you're labelled racist if you even do honest debate on racial issues.
Okay, the first link says nothing about hurricanes becoming more frequent or more powerful. The second link has some data that is highly supsect. Hurricane experts seem to thing an increased El Nino effect would inhibit Gulf hurricanes yet this site seems to explain how that they would increase them. So I take this site with a grain of salt. As for the Ozone, I'm not sure what correlation that has on hurricane formation. I do know that hurricane experts seem to think that any global warming will have only a marginal effect on hurricane strength, at least in the short term, because water temperature is only a part of what cranks up a hurricane. That, coupled with the fact that we're not seeing intensity changes of any magnitude with Pacific or far eastern typhoons leads them to believe this is largely inconsequential (though I would throw in a 'for now' as obviously if we were talking 10-20 degree temp changes we'd be looking at a whole host of issues). The simple fact is, to think that a couple of degrees in temperature is going to give us a multitude of super storms is scientifically false and patently assinine. To jump on this bandwagon is to ignore the accumulated data at hand and simply to go along with the crowd. Is this what "science" has become?
Statistically speaking, we're only in a cyclical increase in storms. But data over the long haul shows we're not in a progressive change. I realize that the "global warming" data is attractive and it's easy to use it as a tool for explaining hurricanes but the data is just not there. Again, Andrew was one of our most expensive storms and it hit in a relatively quite hurricane season. Scientifically speaking we are just not seeing a "everything is getting worse" scenerio. What we ARE seeing is increased coverage, more population areas being hit, and the advent of instant information. Nothing more, nothing less.
Despite your depressing analysis, things are not getting worse. At least not in the sense you think they are. The only reason the damage is worse is because the population along the coast is getting larger. We're not seeing more storms and more powerful storms and they are not part of some "Earth is dying" or "Global Warming" scenerio. When Andrew hit, for instance, it was in a relatively low year of only about 7 storms. This is all normal and a normal part of nature. Whether we should "do" anything is a matter of ethics and science but not a matter of "things are getting worse."
The question is: Can Microsoft 'Microsoft' Google. See Google is content with the notion that there are other applications out there and that the Web works without Google being in every piece of code on every web server. Google can live and let live. While they want to have a successful business and huge chunk of market share, they aren't looking to dominate the OS, browser, music, media, office software, accounting, and messaging (though they have the audacity to be releasing a messaging client!). The real question is will Microsoft assimilate Google. This seems carefully worded to make M$ the underdog!
Frankly, Windows has always required more to be more. If you ran the minimum requirements, you got mimimal performance. Maybe this will put more people off to buying into their lock-in scheme.
That there isn't alot in the way of security suites that were/are ready for Tiger. Norton was slow to release Norton for Tiger, for instance. Is it taken for granted, to some extent yes. However, by and large it's born out in the fact that Windows is still the easiest target.
This is actually pointless. Linux, at the server level, is already in data centers. It certainly can beat Windoze in uptime and security. It's already doing mission critical jobs. Will it be more robust in 5 years? Sure. Is it still something to be avoided in the data center because its not secure? No. Too many people are using and thankfully DESPITE Gartner.
The thing is, 1 million accounts is not simultaneous. There will be a substantial number who won't be on the server at any given time. The number of accounts isn't as much a concern as the size of the inboxes involved. If you run quotas and keep them down, you can have a decent machine handle these accounts even with one server. That is, until you add webmail. With that number, webmail would have to be a serious package. I know for my implementation, the speed of the webmail package dropped with large inboxes, so again quotas help. I'm with the suggestion above about a Beowolf cluster. Clusters are nice for redundancy, speed, and the ability to stay up indefinitely.
Yeah, that bothers me too. We continue to respond to people who see OSS as quasi-socialism and try to explain that it's not. Then some goober comes up with this kind of taxation plan? "Yeah, we'll all put a quarter in a can on the dashboard of the VW Bus that takes us to the web, Man! Its communal! Utopiatic! Peace!
This is fscking rediculous! We don't need DRM and we sure as hell don't need taxation to mitigate it!
I don't have the info, but I could inquire about it. One of the professors at my college was also a geologist. I believe I first heard of this evidence for him. It's out there. There may be slow adopters and folks who think the evidence is explainable, but that doesn't make the finding unanimous. It's not the first time either. Human and ancient horse-like remains have been found together. The particular horse-like creature was thought to be a contemporary of the dinosaur age as well.
Well, I've been a SA for the better part of the last 15-20 years. I've NEVER seen audio or video embedding in a Word doc. Granted, I've not been "on the floor" so-to-speak in some time, but this is all BS from Microsoft. It's "features" like these that keep Office bloated. I found the comment about "voice over IP" pretty funny. Throw out an industry buzzword so that the ignorant will think, "Oh my! We'll miss the VoIP revolution if we move to OpenDocument!" It's at that point I would have asked them to leave. "Excuse me, Sir, but you're either going to have to bring your sign that says, 'I'm a fscking prick' with you to the meetings, or we're going to have to ask you to leave."
There lies the problem. I can assure you that whether dinosaurs were bird-like or reptile-like is an absolute. Scientists aren't changing the truth, they are changing their belief (faith if you will, because the two are the same). They are weighing evidence and making an educated guess based on where the evidence is pointing them. In this case, they are taking new evidence and rethinking their previously held positions. This is a good thing but it behoves us as "the masses" to ponder whether truth is changing or whether our understanding of it. Truth, my friend, is solid. Whatever the dinosaur was, it was.
So they don't really mean VoIP, the mean "a voice that is recorded into a format, embedded into a document, and sent to another machine over a protocal that happens to be IP? Ohhhhh....now I see! Yeah!.....Cool! So something I could do anyway.
No one said we didn't have the money. In our country, we have TELEVISIONS and NEWS ORGANISATIONS and they are reporting that the GOVERNMENT has just allocated $10.5BILLION in aide for this tragedy. Sorry about the caps, but it turns out you really are stupid.
Things like this bring out the best in some and the worse in others. Everything from looting to taking the opportunity to stake out political claims. The people will rebuild and do so despite what we do and do not do. I'm glad to see some are choosing to "do."
Well, no one put a gun to their heads and said, "Gimme all your intellectual property." They were drawn by the paycheck and sold their ideas. The real key is to get to a point where they love your work so much they are willing to let go of part of the ownership. It's a two edged sword. I think when you "work" as in are a corporate employee you are going to lose such rights. Situation like recording artists losing the ability to play the music they wrote, that's another thing. Though I don't know the answer.
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You believe your grad students and I'll believe my experts. Ocean temps only account for about 10% of a hurricanes potential energy. BZZT!
This is exactly the kind of "free speech" liberals want in this country. Granted, racism is patently wrong, morally and ethically. However, here in the U.S. you're labelled racist if you even do honest debate on racial issues.
Okay, the first link says nothing about hurricanes becoming more frequent or more powerful. The second link has some data that is highly supsect. Hurricane experts seem to thing an increased El Nino effect would inhibit Gulf hurricanes yet this site seems to explain how that they would increase them. So I take this site with a grain of salt. As for the Ozone, I'm not sure what correlation that has on hurricane formation.
I do know that hurricane experts seem to think that any global warming will have only a marginal effect on hurricane strength, at least in the short term, because water temperature is only a part of what cranks up a hurricane. That, coupled with the fact that we're not seeing intensity changes of any magnitude with Pacific or far eastern typhoons leads them to believe this is largely inconsequential (though I would throw in a 'for now' as obviously if we were talking 10-20 degree temp changes we'd be looking at a whole host of issues). The simple fact is, to think that a couple of degrees in temperature is going to give us a multitude of super storms is scientifically false and patently assinine. To jump on this bandwagon is to ignore the accumulated data at hand and simply to go along with the crowd. Is this what "science" has become?
Statistically speaking, we're only in a cyclical increase in storms. But data over the long haul shows we're not in a progressive change. I realize that the "global warming" data is attractive and it's easy to use it as a tool for explaining hurricanes but the data is just not there. Again, Andrew was one of our most expensive storms and it hit in a relatively quite hurricane season. Scientifically speaking we are just not seeing a "everything is getting worse" scenerio. What we ARE seeing is increased coverage, more population areas being hit, and the advent of instant information. Nothing more, nothing less.
Despite your depressing analysis, things are not getting worse. At least not in the sense you think they are. The only reason the damage is worse is because the population along the coast is getting larger. We're not seeing more storms and more powerful storms and they are not part of some "Earth is dying" or "Global Warming" scenerio. When Andrew hit, for instance, it was in a relatively low year of only about 7 storms. This is all normal and a normal part of nature. Whether we should "do" anything is a matter of ethics and science but not a matter of "things are getting worse."
The question is: Can Microsoft 'Microsoft' Google. See Google is content with the notion that there are other applications out there and that the Web works without Google being in every piece of code on every web server. Google can live and let live. While they want to have a successful business and huge chunk of market share, they aren't looking to dominate the OS, browser, music, media, office software, accounting, and messaging (though they have the audacity to be releasing a messaging client!). The real question is will Microsoft assimilate Google. This seems carefully worded to make M$ the underdog!
Frankly, Windows has always required more to be more. If you ran the minimum requirements, you got mimimal performance. Maybe this will put more people off to buying into their lock-in scheme.
That there isn't alot in the way of security suites that were/are ready for Tiger. Norton was slow to release Norton for Tiger, for instance. Is it taken for granted, to some extent yes. However, by and large it's born out in the fact that Windows is still the easiest target.
This is actually pointless. Linux, at the server level, is already in data centers. It certainly can beat Windoze in uptime and security. It's already doing mission critical jobs. Will it be more robust in 5 years? Sure. Is it still something to be avoided in the data center because its not secure? No. Too many people are using and thankfully DESPITE Gartner.
The thing is, 1 million accounts is not simultaneous. There will be a substantial number who won't be on the server at any given time. The number of accounts isn't as much a concern as the size of the inboxes involved. If you run quotas and keep them down, you can have a decent machine handle these accounts even with one server. That is, until you add webmail. With that number, webmail would have to be a serious package. I know for my implementation, the speed of the webmail package dropped with large inboxes, so again quotas help. I'm with the suggestion above about a Beowolf cluster. Clusters are nice for redundancy, speed, and the ability to stay up indefinitely.
Yeah, that bothers me too. We continue to respond to people who see OSS as quasi-socialism and try to explain that it's not. Then some goober comes up with this kind of taxation plan? "Yeah, we'll all put a quarter in a can on the dashboard of the VW Bus that takes us to the web, Man! Its communal! Utopiatic! Peace!
This is fscking rediculous! We don't need DRM and we sure as hell don't need taxation to mitigate it!
I don't have the info, but I could inquire about it. One of the professors at my college was also a geologist. I believe I first heard of this evidence for him. It's out there. There may be slow adopters and folks who think the evidence is explainable, but that doesn't make the finding unanimous. It's not the first time either. Human and ancient horse-like remains have been found together. The particular horse-like creature was thought to be a contemporary of the dinosaur age as well.
Well, I've been a SA for the better part of the last 15-20 years. I've NEVER seen audio or video embedding in a Word doc. Granted, I've not been "on the floor" so-to-speak in some time, but this is all BS from Microsoft. It's "features" like these that keep Office bloated. I found the comment about "voice over IP" pretty funny. Throw out an industry buzzword so that the ignorant will think, "Oh my! We'll miss the VoIP revolution if we move to OpenDocument!"
It's at that point I would have asked them to leave. "Excuse me, Sir, but you're either going to have to bring your sign that says, 'I'm a fscking prick' with you to the meetings, or we're going to have to ask you to leave."
There lies the problem. I can assure you that whether dinosaurs were bird-like or reptile-like is an absolute. Scientists aren't changing the truth, they are changing their belief (faith if you will, because the two are the same). They are weighing evidence and making an educated guess based on where the evidence is pointing them. In this case, they are taking new evidence and rethinking their previously held positions. This is a good thing but it behoves us as "the masses" to ponder whether truth is changing or whether our understanding of it. Truth, my friend, is solid. Whatever the dinosaur was, it was.
So they don't really mean VoIP, the mean "a voice that is recorded into a format, embedded into a document, and sent to another machine over a protocal that happens to be IP? Ohhhhh....now I see! Yeah!.....Cool! So something I could do anyway.
LIke how women have often made me seek out and plunge into debt!?
I think we're up to Exhibit R that Microsoft is Pure Evil. Being right all the time is really a burden sometimes.
Yeah if you're American and/or Bush you just can't fuckin' win for losin' it seems.
You must get a TOTALLY different CNN than I've been seeing...just this week....
**YAWN*** You so silly!
Funny, you linked to CNN. I think that tells us all we need to know.
No one said we didn't have the money. In our country, we have TELEVISIONS and NEWS ORGANISATIONS and they are reporting that the GOVERNMENT has just allocated $10.5BILLION in aide for this tragedy. Sorry about the caps, but it turns out you really are stupid.
Idiocy should be painful. Yours should be lethal.
Things like this bring out the best in some and the worse in others. Everything from looting to taking the opportunity to stake out political claims. The people will rebuild and do so despite what we do and do not do. I'm glad to see some are choosing to "do."
Since he's already won one case, he's got some precident on his side. Now they just seem to be leaving him alone.
Well, no one put a gun to their heads and said, "Gimme all your intellectual property." They were drawn by the paycheck and sold their ideas. The real key is to get to a point where they love your work so much they are willing to let go of part of the ownership. It's a two edged sword. I think when you "work" as in are a corporate employee you are going to lose such rights. Situation like recording artists losing the ability to play the music they wrote, that's another thing. Though I don't know the answer.