Actually, for Red Hat their competitor is CentOS, not Fedora.
Fedora acts essentially as bleeding-edge research for what should go into Red Hat Enterprise, while CentOS takes advantage of Red Hat's GPL requirements and promptly rebuilds the identical packaging minus the Red Hat branding.
What that means is that in order to compete Red Hat has to do at least one of 3 things: 1. Keep improving Red Hat Enterprise fast enough that CentOS can't keep up. 2. Provide better support and/or service than the CentOS community or third-party developers can. 3. Convince their customers that they want to buy their Linux from an enterprise solutions vendor rather than risking that there's a problem that the free options can't solve. In other words, "no one got fired for buying Red Hat" sort of argument.
To their credit, the Red Hat folks I've talked to have been thoroughly focused on options 1 and 2.
One could postulate that the administration worked very hard to keep this announcement quiet in order to not look worse.
If so, they managed to screw that up as well. Maneuvers like "suspending" a presidential campaign to deal with a "financial crisis" doesn't do a good job of convincing people that the economy is doing just fine.
I'd think Ada Lovelace would have a better claim there, given that not only did she never own a computer, they didn't even exist and there was at the time no such thing as a "program".
I can create standing very easily (as can any lawyer worth his salt):
My client is under a non-disclosure agreement with his employer that prevents him/her from discussing work-related business over insecure channels. However, because this law essentially allows unlawful wiretaps, s/he can't conduct business over the phone or Internet connection without violating that agreement. Therefor any communications, such as those between different branch offices, must be done using slower and more expensive methods like US mail or physical traveling to those offices, or my client is in violation of contract.
Believe me, you do not want a bunch of unaccountable telecom bureaucrats playing god with the backbone. You want a free market making these decisions.
There ain't no such thing as a free communications market. It's a natural monopoly, so either you end up with an unregulated monopoly or a heavily regulated semi-competitive market. Which leads directly to unaccountable telecom bureaucrats either way, the only difference is who's paying them (Ma Bell vs the FCC).
Kamen is far from poor, and his products are quite popular in the markets he targets.
The Segway isn't that popular, but I don't really see that as a problem: it's quite nifty for the people it would help, Segway polo looks fun, but for most people it's simply not worth the cost of owning it and the hassle of moving it around when you're not using it.
Einstein may have demonstrated that the math had to be right, but this sort of result was needed to demonstrate that the math correctly described the universe.
Given the presence of a very non-interventionist government in 1792, 1797, 1819, 1825, 1837, 1847, 1857, 1866, 1873, 1884, 1890, 1893, 1896, 1907, and 1910-1911, corporations have shown they cannot self-regulate.
If you read your own sources, you'll note that "In general, at 50 meters, wind power Class 4 or higher can be useful for generating wind power with large turbines. Class 4 and above are considered good resources."
Class 4 on your maps is the pink area or darker. And class 3 wind is considered a possibility as well.
In gender-segregated summer camps that I and my sister have worked in, you see more boys doing the nurturing and more girls doing the tinkering. What was really interesting is that you'd take the same set of kids, put them together, and they tended to go right back to engaging in their usual gender roles. This effect is significantly more obvious for kids who have gone through puberty, but to some degree it was happening as early as age 9.
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Actually, for Red Hat their competitor is CentOS, not Fedora.
Fedora acts essentially as bleeding-edge research for what should go into Red Hat Enterprise, while CentOS takes advantage of Red Hat's GPL requirements and promptly rebuilds the identical packaging minus the Red Hat branding.
What that means is that in order to compete Red Hat has to do at least one of 3 things:
1. Keep improving Red Hat Enterprise fast enough that CentOS can't keep up.
2. Provide better support and/or service than the CentOS community or third-party developers can.
3. Convince their customers that they want to buy their Linux from an enterprise solutions vendor rather than risking that there's a problem that the free options can't solve. In other words, "no one got fired for buying Red Hat" sort of argument.
To their credit, the Red Hat folks I've talked to have been thoroughly focused on options 1 and 2.
Even visible source code isn't entirely safe:
http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/ken/trust.html
Always a fun read.
One could postulate that the administration worked very hard to keep this announcement quiet in order to not look worse.
If so, they managed to screw that up as well. Maneuvers like "suspending" a presidential campaign to deal with a "financial crisis" doesn't do a good job of convincing people that the economy is doing just fine.
I'd think Ada Lovelace would have a better claim there, given that not only did she never own a computer, they didn't even exist and there was at the time no such thing as a "program".
I can create standing very easily (as can any lawyer worth his salt):
My client is under a non-disclosure agreement with his employer that prevents him/her from discussing work-related business over insecure channels. However, because this law essentially allows unlawful wiretaps, s/he can't conduct business over the phone or Internet connection without violating that agreement. Therefor any communications, such as those between different branch offices, must be done using slower and more expensive methods like US mail or physical traveling to those offices, or my client is in violation of contract.
Then the title of the documentary is obviously:
The Incredibly Strange Company Who Stopped Living and Became a Mixed-Up Zombie
It's full of bugs.
Believe me, you do not want a bunch of unaccountable telecom bureaucrats playing god with the backbone. You want a free market making these decisions.
There ain't no such thing as a free communications market. It's a natural monopoly, so either you end up with an unregulated monopoly or a heavily regulated semi-competitive market. Which leads directly to unaccountable telecom bureaucrats either way, the only difference is who's paying them (Ma Bell vs the FCC).
Point: Look, this isn't an argument.
Counterpoint: Yes it is.
Point: No it isn't.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Darfsteller
As good a read now as it was in 1955.
Liv Tyler? You must be new here: the celebrity that is kept has to be Natalie Portman (petrified in hot grits).
Kamen is far from poor, and his products are quite popular in the markets he targets.
The Segway isn't that popular, but I don't really see that as a problem: it's quite nifty for the people it would help, Segway polo looks fun, but for most people it's simply not worth the cost of owning it and the hassle of moving it around when you're not using it.
Steve Ballmer is many things, but he's not a pirate.
As George Carlin put it, it's not enough to play the right notes. You have to know why they have to be played.
Einstein may have demonstrated that the math had to be right, but this sort of result was needed to demonstrate that the math correctly described the universe.
My point is that those markets were relatively unregulated (no SEC, no FDIC, etc) and utterly failed to self-regulate.
Given the presence of a very non-interventionist government in 1792, 1797, 1819, 1825, 1837, 1847, 1857, 1866, 1873, 1884, 1890, 1893, 1896, 1907, and 1910-1911, corporations have shown they cannot self-regulate.
Gliders aren't silent, but they're a heck of a lot quieter than your average airplane and well below the noise level of, say, a motorcycle.
... and is now off to go destroy the Two Trees of Valinor.
Seriously, greedy managerial types seem to think that a person's entire job rotates around a computer.
Greedy managerial types think that the right answer to any ambiguity like this one is the one that makes or saves them the most money.
If you read your own sources, you'll note that "In general, at 50 meters, wind power Class 4 or higher can be useful for generating wind power with large turbines. Class 4 and above are considered good resources."
Class 4 on your maps is the pink area or darker. And class 3 wind is considered a possibility as well.
In gender-segregated summer camps that I and my sister have worked in, you see more boys doing the nurturing and more girls doing the tinkering. What was really interesting is that you'd take the same set of kids, put them together, and they tended to go right back to engaging in their usual gender roles. This effect is significantly more obvious for kids who have gone through puberty, but to some degree it was happening as early as age 9.
Bluntman and Chronic
Seriously, it's scary when Kevin Smith accurately describes something.
If you can get there, it's yours.
"It is immoral to allow a sucker to keep their money."