I am willing to bet that it is exactly what you are describing! The record industry used to be famous for what they called "cleans", which were the "after hours" production of records that never gave the legit rights holder's any money. Wonder how many CDs and DVDs on the shelves at your local stores are "cleans"?
Sure, they have cheap prices, but a relatively limited selection of products. For example, I can go to a real music store, and find thousands of titles, but I doubt you will find even a thousand in a Walmart. Same goes for food, books, computers, and electronics.
So if you want limited selection but cheap prices, choose Walmart. If you want selection, choose smaller stores that specialize. Going with Walmart limits your choice. With less choice comes less control over how you can spend your hard earned dollars...and with less control comes more monopolies. And when you get monopolies, you loose the "invisible hand" of the free market which can balance things out.
Former US President Jimmy Carter has been to the reactor site in question in the 1950s...Canada had their "3 Mile Island" in 1952 when the NRX Reactor at Chalk River had a partial core meltdown. At the time, Carter was a nuclear engineer with the US Navy, and had been training at Chalk River. After the explosion caused either by hydrogen gas, or steam, he was one of the 150 US servicemen who helped clean up the reactor.
It's simple, we can simply and easily neutralize their supercomputer by giving them 216 copies of Windows Vista to install on it, for free! That will sink them, for sure!
The Industry Insiders (SMOFS/members of Condom, etc) were astounded that Jordon got a 12 book deal way back when, so I would guess that the 12th book *should* end the series! And please, let a series end! I was shocked to find there is *ANOTHER* Thomas Covenant book out!!!! Is Donaldson trying to turn his readers into the books main character?
One of the companies behind the project is MDA (MacDonald Dettwiler and Associates) out of Richmond BC, the Canadian company that buils the Canadarm for the Space Shuttle, and the Canadarm 2, which is on the Space Station. So these people are really "rocket scientists" from Canada, and other places around the world.
And it's true in Canada as well! Gotta brain? Park it at the door if you are going to kindergarden through grade 12! Else you risk a *very* unhappy childhood!
What a crime!
ttyl
Farrell...still bitter about my treatment in the schools...
I got into Linux around kernel version 0.11 or so...and what a wild, strange trip it has been! I would have been even more fun to have caught the original posting by Linus...but I only had access to the newsgroups around the kernel version I mentioned.
I still think there is a place for LUGs, but they need to change with the times. Some LUGs , like the one here in Ottawa, have generally lost their way, and in this case, degenerated in to a flame war society. I haven't bothered to go back after being away ill for a while.
There still is a place for a LUG to do things like Install Fests, and other advocacy oriented jobs.
Over half of the Webservers on the Net today run Apache, and the vast majority are hosted on Linux systems...so Let's be conservativer and say only half of the 53% of the systems running Apache are on Linux, that would give Linux a share, on the low end, of 26.5%. Add into that, lighttpd which runs mostly on Linux, which has 1.2%...so on the low end of the estimate Linux runs at least 27% of the web servers on the Net, and if we estimate something like 2/3rds of the Apache systems are running Linux, we get a high end of maybe 36%.
Microsoft, on the other hand has a share of almost 32%. So, if an OS has a share that is about the same as Microsoft's, wouldn't you say that is Mainstream?
As well, Linux's security model is based upon that of Unix. Unix had around 25 years of experience with with security when Linux came along. And Linux has had a over decade and a half of experience above that. Windows current security model only came into being with Windows NT, which came out just after Linux. NT's security model is probably better than Vista's. The hooks between IE and the kernel were not there, and that is what makes Win XP and it's offspring less secure.
Mr. Dell has realized that big business companies cannot compete in the computer field. I'd swear that he's been reading Toffler, and is trying to change direction of the monstrous ship called Dell. It's slow and ponderous, but it seems to be happening. Other than IBM, no other major computer company has made as public a commitment to Linux and Open Source as Dell has. HP will have to do something soon, if only to keep mindshare.
HP is going to be at a disadvantage because it has the same corporate setup that it has always had, no one person can step on and change the direction of the company like Jobs and Dell have done. In a world where change happens hourly, a bureaucratic organization is always going to be slower to change than a company where a person with a vision can cause change. It happened at Apple, and hopefully, it is happening at Dell.
Gee, that sucks...but what sucks even more is that people are still using the term SCI-FI (Pronouced "Skiffy") for Science Fiction, or SF if you want the short form. "Skiffy" is the term reserved for bad stuff like DeLaurentis moves and some of the home-made programming of the Space Channel in Canada. Doctor Who, Star Trek, the works of writers like Arthur C. Clarke, Larry Niven, or Radio Drama like Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy are SF, not Skiffy!/rant off
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Well, at least the original was.
The Gods in the new BSG are more like Classical Gods, and I don't think that the Mormons are polytheists.
ttyl
Farrell
FNORD
There are no Fnords, It was not but one of our underground agents.
FNORD
Hail Eris, All Hail Discordia!
FNORD
I am willing to bet that it is exactly what you are describing! The record industry used to be famous for what they called "cleans", which were the "after hours" production of records that never gave the legit rights holder's any money. Wonder how many CDs and DVDs on the shelves at your local stores are "cleans"?
ttyl
Farrell
I guess MS is as sure of their IP as SCO was!
And it will be fun with the obvious happens to MS too!
ttyl
Well, if they don't sell it, and the museum become extinct...you can just say that it was evolution in action!
ttyl
Wally's World sucks galactic muffins. IMOHO
Sure, they have cheap prices, but a relatively limited selection of products. For example, I can go to a real music store, and find thousands of titles, but I doubt you will find even a thousand in a Walmart. Same goes for food, books, computers, and electronics.
So if you want limited selection but cheap prices, choose Walmart. If you want selection, choose smaller stores that specialize. Going with Walmart limits your choice. With less choice comes less control over how you can spend your hard earned dollars...and with less control comes more monopolies. And when you get monopolies, you loose the "invisible hand" of the free market which can balance things out.
ttyl
Former US President Jimmy Carter has been to the reactor site in question in the 1950s...Canada had their "3 Mile Island" in 1952 when the NRX Reactor at Chalk River had a partial core meltdown. At the time, Carter was a nuclear engineer with the US Navy, and had been training at Chalk River. After the explosion caused either by hydrogen gas, or steam, he was one of the 150 US servicemen who helped clean up the reactor.
ttyl
Farrell
And the Bush Jr. Addendum...
If at first you don't succeed, try, try try again!
It's simple, we can simply and easily neutralize their supercomputer by giving them 216 copies of Windows Vista to install on it, for free! That will sink them, for sure!
ttyl
Farrell
The Industry Insiders (SMOFS/members of Condom, etc) were astounded that Jordon got a 12 book deal way back when, so I would guess that the 12th book *should* end the series! And please, let a series end! I was shocked to find there is *ANOTHER* Thomas Covenant book out!!!! Is Donaldson trying to turn his readers into the books main character?
ttyl
Most people forget the soundtrack that Devo did for the game Neuromancer...
ttyl
One of the companies behind the project is MDA (MacDonald Dettwiler and Associates) out of Richmond BC, the Canadian company that buils the Canadarm for the Space Shuttle, and the Canadarm 2, which is on the Space Station. So these people are really "rocket scientists" from Canada, and other places around the world.
ttyl
Don't need one, got one...:-)
ttyl
Farrell
Oz of Jolt....over hours of downtime!
ttyl
And it's true in Canada as well! Gotta brain? Park it at the door if you are going to kindergarden through grade 12! Else you risk a *very* unhappy childhood!
...still bitter about my treatment in the schools...
What a crime!
ttyl
Farrell
I got into Linux around kernel version 0.11 or so...and what a wild, strange trip it has been! I would have been even more fun to have caught the original posting by Linus...but I only had access to the newsgroups around the kernel version I mentioned.
ttyl
Farrell
I still think there is a place for LUGs, but they need to change with the times. Some LUGs , like the one here in Ottawa, have generally lost their way, and in this case, degenerated in to a flame war society. I haven't bothered to go back after being away ill for a while.
There still is a place for a LUG to do things like Install Fests, and other advocacy oriented jobs.
ttyl
Farrell
Dell wasn't the only company to be hit with the the capacitor problem...only Dell went public, the other two companies didn't.
ttyl
Farrell
The original Night Stalker series was excellent, the remake was OK...but could have become excellent if it had been continued....:-(
ttyl
Farrell
Actually, Linux *is* mainstream today!
Based upon the latest figures from NetCraft.
Over half of the Webservers on the Net today run Apache, and the vast majority are hosted on Linux systems...so Let's be conservativer and say only half of the 53% of the systems running Apache are on Linux, that would give Linux a share, on the low end, of 26.5%. Add into that, lighttpd which runs mostly on Linux, which has 1.2%...so on the low end of the estimate Linux runs at least 27% of the web servers on the Net, and if we estimate something like 2/3rds of the Apache systems are running Linux, we get a high end of maybe 36%.
Microsoft, on the other hand has a share of almost 32%. So, if an OS has a share that is about the same as Microsoft's, wouldn't you say that is Mainstream?
As well, Linux's security model is based upon that of Unix. Unix had around 25 years of experience with with security when Linux came along. And Linux has had a over decade and a half of experience above that. Windows current security model only came into being with Windows NT, which came out just after Linux. NT's security model is probably better than Vista's. The hooks between IE and the kernel were not there, and that is what makes Win XP and it's offspring less secure.
ttyl
Mr. Dell has realized that big business companies cannot compete in the computer field. I'd swear that he's been reading Toffler, and is trying to change direction of the monstrous ship called Dell. It's slow and ponderous, but it seems to be happening. Other than IBM, no other major computer company has made as public a commitment to Linux and Open Source as Dell has. HP will have to do something soon, if only to keep mindshare.
HP is going to be at a disadvantage because it has the same corporate setup that it has always had, no one person can step on and change the direction of the company like Jobs and Dell have done. In a world where change happens hourly, a bureaucratic organization is always going to be slower to change than a company where a person with a vision can cause change. It happened at Apple, and hopefully, it is happening at Dell.
ttyl
Farrell
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FLIEGENDE KINDERSCHEISSE!
There was a saying that was popular when I was a kid...
"It doesn't matter if you win or loose, but how you play the game"
Apple, for the most part, plays well. So do most Open Source groups. Microsoft doesn't.
It's nice to see another player on the field, one who plays well.
ttyl
I prefer the old "What's long and blue and hangs between Bush Jr.'s Legs?" A:"Harper's Tie"
ttyl
/rant on
/rant off
Gee, that sucks...but what sucks even more is that people are still using the term SCI-FI (Pronouced "Skiffy") for Science Fiction, or SF if you want the short form. "Skiffy" is the term reserved for bad stuff like DeLaurentis moves and some of the home-made programming of the Space Channel in Canada. Doctor Who, Star Trek, the works of writers like Arthur C. Clarke, Larry Niven, or Radio Drama like Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy are SF, not Skiffy!
Don't forget, Canada is not the US.
ttyl
Farrell