First, the article mentions salt water because it can be taken straight from the sea. In your case, the water is desalinated to get it to your home, and then salt added - ouch.
Second, there is a point of doing this in a desert - it's much more sunny out there, meaning more efficiency of algae growth.
> As in, they can ditch the expensive Windows > Operating systems and change to Linux while their > users can still use the applications they already know.
But Office is the most expensive part of the Windows desktop! And so CXOffice doesn't save you that much... If you pay, say, $60 (a year!) for Mandrake (I paid $120), and ~$60 for CXOffice, you're not that far from Windows.
Now OpenOffice is a totally different story... but it doesn't work for me as yet.
Ah, and right, I didn't have to pay for MDK. I chose to.
I was somehow always suspicious of letting Linux boot Windows - seen Windows messing up, Linux messing up and so on.
So I finally settled on using the Windows boot loader to boot Linux. This way, it's a bit of pain in the a$$, as I have to manually get the boot sector from/dev/hda5 (or whatever it is), then boot to Windows (since NTFS is not writable from Linux), and since I don'h have a floppy drive, I also need a Knoppix in the middle...
Now, it's not easy. And it takes some time and practice and trial-and-error. But the point is, the whole setup is quite benign - Windows doesn't interfere with Linux bootloader, and neither Linux with Windows one.
I did manage to kill Linux installation to the point that I had to run lilo again... and yes, installing a new kernel means doing it all over again.
But I never had any conflicts, and unless Microsoft stops supporting this feature, never will be.
P.S. That is, of course, until Skype has a Linux version and I'll be able to throw away the Windows installation completely...
Two cowboys, John and Jim, are walking in the prairie. John sees a pile of manure and says "Jim, I bet $50 that you won't eat this pile". And Jim bets on this and eats it.
Then John sees another pile and says again "I bet $100 you won't eat this one". And Jim bets and eats it too, getting his $100.
Now Jim is very upset for eating lots of manure, so, seeing another pile, he says "John, I bet $150 that you won't eat this one!". And John bets and eats it, winning $150.
Then after a couple of minutes, John says reluctantly "Jim, don't you think we've just eaten loads of manure for nothing?".
Now that I think of it, it really looks like it shouldn't work.
Assume there are two ideal parallel mirrors. If you send a ray exactly perpendicular to the mirrors, it would bounce between them indefinitely, depositing an infinite amount of energy!
And if you think of red shift, then I can construct a scenario in which the ray will bounce on an infinite number of (initially static) mirrors-just send it a bit diagonally.
Don't you all see this can actually PROMOTE some competition?
Two years from now. There is an AMD's Hammer processor vs. the Intel's Itanium. Most released applications are compiled for (guess what?). And then what processor would you buy? The one that will work for you, i.e. have applications compiled for it.
I remember trying to work on an WinNT/Alpha machine. NO software vendor would care to port to it, however simple that it should be.
Any ideas why NT/Alpha architecture died? *grin*.
This CLR actually gives the AMD's x86-64 a chance. And other possible processor vendors too.
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And don't forget the following.
First, the article mentions salt water because it can be taken straight from the sea. In your case, the water is desalinated to get it to your home, and then salt added - ouch.
Second, there is a point of doing this in a desert - it's much more sunny out there, meaning more efficiency of algae growth.
I want to say that this is peanuts when you throw in the $300+ for the Office.
> As in, they can ditch the expensive Windows
> Operating systems and change to Linux while their
> users can still use the applications they already know.
But Office is the most expensive part of the Windows desktop! And so CXOffice doesn't save you that much... If you pay, say, $60 (a year!) for Mandrake (I paid $120), and ~$60 for CXOffice, you're not that far from Windows.
Now OpenOffice is a totally different story... but it doesn't work for me as yet.
Ah, and right, I didn't have to pay for MDK. I chose to.
I was somehow always suspicious of letting Linux boot Windows - seen Windows messing up, Linux messing up and so on.
/dev/hda5 (or whatever it is), then boot to Windows (since NTFS is not writable from Linux), and since I don'h have a floppy drive, I also need a Knoppix in the middle...
So I finally settled on using the Windows boot loader to boot Linux. This way, it's a bit of pain in the a$$, as I have to manually get the boot sector from
Now, it's not easy. And it takes some time and practice and trial-and-error. But the point is, the whole setup is quite benign - Windows doesn't interfere with Linux bootloader, and neither Linux with Windows one.
I did manage to kill Linux installation to the point that I had to run lilo again... and yes, installing a new kernel means doing it all over again.
But I never had any conflicts, and unless Microsoft stops supporting this feature, never will be.
P.S. That is, of course, until Skype has a Linux version and I'll be able to throw away the Windows installation completely...
If he makes a turn for every access to Google... He must be spinning VERY VERY fast!
Two cowboys, John and Jim, are walking in the prairie. John sees a pile of manure and says "Jim, I bet $50 that you won't eat this pile". And Jim bets on this and eats it.
Then John sees another pile and says again "I bet $100 you won't eat this one". And Jim bets and eats it too, getting his $100.
Now Jim is very upset for eating lots of manure, so, seeing another pile, he says "John, I bet $150 that you won't eat this one!". And John bets and eats it, winning $150.
Then after a couple of minutes, John says reluctantly "Jim, don't you think we've just eaten loads of manure for nothing?".
Well, how does *this* benefit from SCO's enterprise, high-performance, Multi-CPU IP?
Now that I think of it, it really looks like it shouldn't work.
Assume there are two ideal parallel mirrors. If you send a ray exactly perpendicular to the mirrors, it would bounce between them indefinitely, depositing an infinite amount of energy!
And if you think of red shift, then I can construct a scenario in which the ray will bounce on an infinite number of (initially static) mirrors-just send it a bit diagonally.
Don't you all see this can actually PROMOTE some competition? Two years from now. There is an AMD's Hammer processor vs. the Intel's Itanium. Most released applications are compiled for (guess what?). And then what processor would you buy? The one that will work for you, i.e. have applications compiled for it. I remember trying to work on an WinNT/Alpha machine. NO software vendor would care to port to it, however simple that it should be. Any ideas why NT/Alpha architecture died? *grin*. This CLR actually gives the AMD's x86-64 a chance. And other possible processor vendors too.