Micro$oft isnt worried about Europe, once they get a taste of American genetically modified foods they will become docile Wal-Mart loving sheep. And the balls will fall of all on their own. Heck buy up some their news companies and they'll take anything that corporate Europe throws their way.
Even if Europe bans this addition to Longhorn, Microsoft will just re-use the whole Windows-XP-N edition(sans media player) scam, where they sell it for the same price, that no-one will purchase.
Dell has realy good customer support, no hoops nothing. you just give them the service tag information and tell them what's wrong, and boom next day delivery of a compatable replacement part. No waiting in queue, nice midwest accents, totally rocking support.
Only problem is they have a lower grade support for almost everybody. Lower grade is something villanous, it is an experiment to find out just how far people can be pushed before they start mailing pipe bombs, and living in Montanna.
I was totally naieve when I recommended them a few years ago to some friends. Bad Idea. New advice to EVERYONE (and yea it's a bit lame) always call the support line of ANY product before you buy it (and ever suspect that you would need to call). I got some weird ass looks from the cell phone people when I asked for it. The worst part was that If they didnt pick up in three minutes I would back out of the sale.
Really if you think it's important start doing it, WHEN customers are there.. Change the culture of support, if you make it a purchase decision it will matter. If you hear a totally uninteligible voice on the other side, boom no sale.
Four hours on the phone being cranky isnt worth saving $20.. unless your living in the third world.
Right now it has apparent feasibility for bioremediation, which should be pretty big on peoples minds. But as for more technilogical/ medical/ anthrocentric uses, it's a building block. at 5 microns X 5 nanometers, it's a bit tough to manipulate by hand.
However these might be useful as a product of existing animal nerve cells. Imagine changing neurons to have some "long wires" that would interface with electrodes easier. It might take some work, but it might be worth it. With a little work, it might be easier to have a hormone controlled expression of the "wires", that way you send in a hormone coated electrode, and the neurons would grab on, without being poisoned by the metal.
You've oversimplified it... The real problem with time traveling investments is that time travelers are JERKS...
Now I cam back with a full list of things to buy when I came back from the year 2274.. (strangely time travel backwards wasn't/ isn't / wont be/ as hard as everyone thought/ thinks/will think..>.. ok back to the story.. I take back all my references and buy stock in the bubble like mad.. The money is coming in like wild. And then I buy like crazy some stocks that TANK.. Anyway I wind up in the dawn of the twenty first century and broke.
What really got my goat was when I saw the file creation date 06/03/2534 on my stock info.. Im assuming some "great" grandchildren are having quite the laugh, retiring back in the good old 21'st.. While there is enough money to live right a long time, and enough scenery to still enjoy without the thick coal pollution of the 23rd century.
If they're using THAT word, you need to read between the lines till you see it. It's like smoke coming out of a teenagers room, you know that the smell isnt just air freshener.
I had issues about spraying for mosquitos, but really we should just start fogging neighborhoods with a spamsteracide, on alternate days spray with a fraudsteracide..
While I suspect that spraying might have some cleanup issues, I think that it is really in societies best interest.
This is a way better solutions than having all those pesky screens.
Theo does inspire confidence. He has a real hatred for stuff that doesnt fit his perfectionist ideal. In a way that makes him a real peice of work. He works on his baby and it works just how he likes it. openBSD is pretty cool, and Id HATE to see what would happen to it if the leigons of linux coders started modding it..
Now that that's said, I dont think openBSD really cuts it for Joe User, or even Joe+ User. The install process is archaic, the naming conventions are good, but unless your liked them first, they are a monkey wrench. Linux has a survivable install system, but installing drivers is still a nightmare.
openBSD does just what it designed to, but that wont make Joe User even stop for a second.
There is a beauty in the whole system microsoft has... If a Company doesnt want it's song ripped off, all they need to do is seed the net with their song, minus a couple of frames. Because the frames arent in order it screws the whole thing up. Everyone will be missing that "rare frame". The beauty is that they can get people all worked up waiting for the download of "Age Of Mythology 7" to complete, and then it hangs at 99%. After about 3 days of staring at my monitor saying "FINNISH Dammit FINNISH" you might just buckle and buy the game because it's cheaper than professional therapy.
Actually I would suggest that you specify the blacklist issues with the colo in your contract. Go ahead and check it first by all means. But having a "will not be assigned a previously blacklisted IP address" clause in all of your contract from now on will save a whole lot of hassle.
Heck I would have gone after my COLO instead of the blacklister, and explain that you were assigned "damaged" addresses, and to rectify the problem immediatly.. IE move you to a clean spot.
Two things gained:
1. The ISP knows that damaged addresses happen, and you wont take it.
The computing power thing isnt too hard to figure out. You get their power usage, subtract 100 w per employee roughly. Then assume the rest is dedicated to computing power/cooling. While I'm betting that the NSA still keeps some horribly inneficient garbage around, along with new power friendly clusters around. So you could figure out their theoretical max flops by a ratio of about 50w-100w/gigaflop, it sounds high but with AC and old clusters it might be low. Then you lower it a whole bunch more, because the NSA doesnt need FLOPS, they need brutal bytes/sec and petaflops of data. Heck I figure they probably have agents interning at google just to get better ideas on how to manage their boxen.
The NSA has totally blown through the 100 Tflop spot, but I'm betting that theyre doing it in a high latency fashion that would make you go "geez, I didnt mean that way!".
While I bet the NSA does have some nice stuff, they have bounded funds, and getting a machine suitable for high end fluid dynamics is a pain in the ass to justify to a spymaster, when he can just a$k NASA to get some time on their boxes.
The NSA is cool, they just arent what hollywood shows. They're a bunch of people willing to die for the greater good, and realizing that only a handful people will ever know they're heroes.
UM five years is a long time, I thought that these guys were trying to beat google, not lay down like a bunch of bowling pins. Getting a shell out in five years is standing still. If these guys have workable short term goals, those need to be hit hard and fast. I figure that they'll put the people they want to get downsized on that project..
No, no!
There are 23 chromosomal pairs. Each half of each pair contains the same (more or less) information - you could think of it as a genetic back-up system. (Except for the XY chromosomal pair in males). At the start, one chromosome is maternal, the other is paternal. But over time, they actually swap bits around until there's a mixture.
Each chromosome contains one immensely long strand of DNA, a double-helix. This double helix is NOT redundant, only one of the two strands contains genetic information: The other strand is only there to make it easier to copy the helix.
The other strand is cruical to act as a template to repair errors. The best analogy would be a raid-1, there are mechaisms to figure out which strand went bad, so then the information is recovered from the good copy.
BTW each chromosome averages 4" in length, calling it immensely long might be a bit of a overcompensation.
The human genome is approximately 3 billion bases long, and it takes three bases (known as a codon) to code one amino acid. 4 x 4 x 4 = 64 possible amino acids. (Altho they only actually code 20 or so). Then you have to filter out all the codons that don't actually code anything, and are discarded before the gene is transcribed into a protein.
NOW do the math!
The big thing that wasnt explicitly pointed out is that each chromosome has around a thousand genes.
Genes are sets of hundreds to thousands of base pairs AT TA GC or CG.
not to knock, but listen carefully to what the person has a clue about, you skipped to the end part without correcting the original assumptions..
so even with the Now do the Math, the guy should assume that desktop power is fine. because you've said that the chromosome is immensly long, but didnt explain a base.. so he assumes that an A is an immensly long molecule composed of billions of bases, connected to an G A T or C also composed of billions of bases.
The I havent a clue as the headed should have clued you in.
Megawatts is correct, it the amount of energy that is being pulled continuously. So if you want to multiply the MW*24*365.25 you can get a total MWH/ YEAR, but it's a little silly.
Saying we use 75 MW Hours/Hour seems a bit retarded.
Remember to fully spray the cats with anti static spray (usually downey in water for the cheapskates here). Because cats LOVE to rub against you when you are at your most vunerable.
Cats are less prone to rub you when they are dripping with foul smelling static guard.
Storm (A+ certified)
p.s. wear your grounding strap
The answer is Mu, because your question is based on an invalid assumption.
The hand was amputated earlier in "attack of the clones" by Darth Tyranus. So the Contnuity is kept, however he keeps the mechanized limb for the duration of ROTS.
Embrace and Extend.
Bring about new email servers that still deal with all the same SMTP traffic that they always do. And in addition a secondary email channel that provides a "proof of work" Email system. The email system would take in both channels and flag the upgraded email as spam-unlikely. So you would be able to send email that was spam-unlikely to friends, and as the system grows you could eventually drop smtp mail as an option, as no one would bother reading it anymore.
The proof of work could be done without a central server. An algorithmic system could request a problem to be done, that would have an easy checking mechanism. Such as factoring a multiple of 2 primes, where the size would be increased as computing power increased, allowing the server to need 30 seconds to 2 minutes of compute time to answer. This would make sending mail a bit more cpu expensive, but it would more than make up for it in the cost of filtering regular email.
That a mini cluster is way easy to sneak out of the office... heck one janitor, one night, one car. and boom big fat take. makes laptops seem pretty smalltime.
You distinguish the newly created worlds by the amount of packing residue left on them. Like your new microwave still has little clinging bits of foam stuck by static, newer worlds have chunks of pumice still stuck on by gravity.
Really whats puzzling is why would God bother to make "fake" decomposed organic matter, that was never really alive. If God really needed to wait for it to decompose it would imply that He is bound to the same laws of time that we are, that's kinda a pretty weak interpretation of the Almighty.
So really I kinda see creationists as believing in a weak version of God that is either stuck by time, and impatient or a shallow God that is ok with a veneer of reality. Either way seems a pretty lame version of The Ultimate.
Slashdot Mirror
something about in the darkness bind them... [Sauron et all.]
Storm
And this is slashdot, when did intelligent discourse become a requirement for posting, I've always considered slashdot a humor site.
Cheers
Storm
Even if Europe bans this addition to Longhorn, Microsoft will just re-use the whole Windows-XP-N edition(sans media player) scam, where they sell it for the same price, that no-one will purchase.
Storm
1. Human Stupidity, one mistaken format of the raid instead of that USB drive and poof.
2. Localized disasters, Flood, Lightning, Tornadoes, Blizzards, and Fire are all things that will can trash a raid.
3. Human malice, theft, vandalizm, hackers, viruses, worms and the like. Offline storage is less suceptable to these issues.
Storm
Only problem is they have a lower grade support for almost everybody. Lower grade is something villanous, it is an experiment to find out just how far people can be pushed before they start mailing pipe bombs, and living in Montanna.
I was totally naieve when I recommended them a few years ago to some friends. Bad Idea. New advice to EVERYONE (and yea it's a bit lame) always call the support line of ANY product before you buy it (and ever suspect that you would need to call). I got some weird ass looks from the cell phone people when I asked for it. The worst part was that If they didnt pick up in three minutes I would back out of the sale.
Really if you think it's important start doing it, WHEN customers are there.. Change the culture of support, if you make it a purchase decision it will matter. If you hear a totally uninteligible voice on the other side, boom no sale.
Four hours on the phone being cranky isnt worth saving $20.. unless your living in the third world.
Storm
I can see the new caption, "sorry Rex, this one goes to the recycling bin, good dog"....... "BAD DOG no eating from the table, DOWN DOWN"
Storm
P.s. well it is a side effect.
Storm
P.S. IANANTE (I am not a nano-tech engineer)
What really got my goat was when I saw the file creation date 06/03/2534 on my stock info.. Im assuming some "great" grandchildren are having quite the laugh, retiring back in the good old 21'st.. While there is enough money to live right a long time, and enough scenery to still enjoy without the thick coal pollution of the 23rd century.
Storm
Storm
I havent listened to an 8-track in over 20 years now....
Can you imaging when your explaining to grandkids about what a DVD was.... and how you used to have a wild stereo, but it's lame in the 2050's..
neither can I.
Storm
While I suspect that spraying might have some cleanup issues, I think that it is really in societies best interest.
This is a way better solutions than having all those pesky screens.
Storm
Now that that's said, I dont think openBSD really cuts it for Joe User, or even Joe+ User. The install process is archaic, the naming conventions are good, but unless your liked them first, they are a monkey wrench. Linux has a survivable install system, but installing drivers is still a nightmare.
openBSD does just what it designed to, but that wont make Joe User even stop for a second.
Storm
Storm
ps. I meant that spelling.
Heck I would have gone after my COLO instead of the blacklister, and explain that you were assigned "damaged" addresses, and to rectify the problem immediatly.. IE move you to a clean spot.
Two things gained:
1. The ISP knows that damaged addresses happen, and you wont take it.
2. you have a clean IP address
Storm
The NSA has totally blown through the 100 Tflop spot, but I'm betting that theyre doing it in a high latency fashion that would make you go "geez, I didnt mean that way!".
While I bet the NSA does have some nice stuff, they have bounded funds, and getting a machine suitable for high end fluid dynamics is a pain in the ass to justify to a spymaster, when he can just a$k NASA to get some time on their boxes.
The NSA is cool, they just arent what hollywood shows. They're a bunch of people willing to die for the greater good, and realizing that only a handful people will ever know they're heroes.
Storm
Storm
not to knock, but listen carefully to what the person has a clue about, you skipped to the end part without correcting the original assumptions.. so even with the Now do the Math, the guy should assume that desktop power is fine. because you've said that the chromosome is immensly long, but didnt explain a base.. so he assumes that an A is an immensly long molecule composed of billions of bases, connected to an G A T or C also composed of billions of bases.
The I havent a clue as the headed should have clued you in.
Storm
listen next time.
Saying we use 75 MW Hours/Hour seems a bit retarded.
Storm
Cats are less prone to rub you when they are dripping with foul smelling static guard.
Storm (A+ certified) p.s. wear your grounding strap
Storm
Storm
Storm
p.s. I hear he's one of those EMACS users.
Storm
That a mini cluster is way easy to sneak out of the office... heck one janitor, one night, one car. and boom big fat take. makes laptops seem pretty smalltime.
Really whats puzzling is why would God bother to make "fake" decomposed organic matter, that was never really alive. If God really needed to wait for it to decompose it would imply that He is bound to the same laws of time that we are, that's kinda a pretty weak interpretation of the Almighty.
So really I kinda see creationists as believing in a weak version of God that is either stuck by time, and impatient or a shallow God that is ok with a veneer of reality. Either way seems a pretty lame version of The Ultimate.
Storm