IBM lists in their 'key alliances' RedHat as well as (UnitedLinux partners) Caldera, TurboLinux and Suse.
I suspect that IBM will announce the consolidation of UnitedLinux over the RedHat alliance as far as their partners go.... although they won't burn bridges any time soon.
"and also to improve the levels of software technology" except for this part I'd say you're right... Microsoft has yet to improve software technology unless you consider marketing the hell out of it an improvement.
Tom Cruise will be showing up at your door soon with a warrant for your arrest, stating that you were thinking about thinking about planning to kill some one who just cut you off on the freeway in some near future incident.
You are guilty of course... I mean of thinking that is.
"Laser light buckets could allow faster data rates than the biggest radio antennae on Earth, Miller said, but it does have its drawbacks.
"The concept looks very promising from a cost standpoint...but it can't get through clouds at all," he said, adding that to be effective, a number of ground sites would be needed to account for bad weather. "And it would all have to be developed from scratch, but it's possible that sometime in the next decade we could be using optical instead of radio frequencies."
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"but it can't get through clouds at all"
Why can't we just use satellites to receive the 'optical' data and retransmit via radio or whatever the last 'mile' kinda like a DSL for deep space transmissions...
AOTC is definitely one of the best sequels I've ever seen, 'what, it is a sequel?', yeah a sequel, so give it credit for what it is.
You have to ask yourself whether you would rather have a stand alone Starwars-like movie made around the story which would draw in all the kids in the world with it's 'extreme' action or would you rather have a well-rounded and well produced sequel to a wonderful saga?
Episode one was for the kids apparently... we all complained, right? Then Lucas goes and makes a much more mature film (Episode 2) and we all yawn and complain, right? What's up?
I wish he had treated Episode 1 with the same level of seriousness he tried with E2. In the long run which film will you go back and watch again? I for one will be fast forwarding through E1 just to get the story started and then sitting down to enjoy E2 (w/ a few snack breaks around the romance scenes). E3? who knows...
Hopefully I'll be able to revisit the Starwars saga in years to come and get to have a real quality marathon viewing. It will be kind of wierd to jump from E3 to E4 though with the difference in cinema tech being so disparate.
Yes Oxygen is constantly 'oxidizing' our cells. It is what gives us life and what kills us as well... oxygen is what shortens those telomeres that tell a cell when to die which is good or else we would all turn in to big cancers.
There's obviously more to it than this, so lok it up. To summarize though, pure oxygen is not conducive to a full life span.
Technology created this market. Movies, CDs, and any other form of distributable media. Who do these people think they are trying to capitilize on media that is defunct. "Your market is over!!!!" What once was free and the was mass distributable is now free again... nothing has changed except you.. you're like the gir/boy friend who didn't know when to move on...
get a real business model!!! one which isn't all aboot preying on the talented and the ignorant.
If you can't do that, you are all real losers and you really should consider shooting your selves in the fuckin' head... if not, welcome home!!
You said it yourself... export it to html or pdf from word, then send it out. Word processing is for editing only, use what ever you like best, but for distribution use a more universal format and pick the one with the least overhead for the document... kind of like that old proverb "Rather hurt than maim, rather maim than injure, rather injure than kill."
If plain old text will do the job well enough use it, if you need more use RTF or PDF, need more then consider needing less... there's no need for killing your intended recipient.
"If you're looking for Sony's motivation in opening the specifications, I believe it's here. In the absence of additional software sales, Sony sees opening the platform as a method for selling additional hardware."
If only the Computer hardware makers would see this exact same point as well... we'd see the last of Windows, well for a while at least.
"- teach it to go into CompUSA, attach itself to a PowerMac, and download software."
Didn't you see? It is going to have Bluetooth connectivity and with all the new Macs including Bluetooth soon... no need to attach. Just send the little bugger in there and get it within like 15 ft. and you're set.;p Course you may want to mod it with wheels or 'teach' it how to self-destruct when caught...
Unfortunately there is no client other than Ximian Evolution w/ Connector that has ever allowed full compatibility with Exchange servers.
Mail may be a nice e-mail client for most but it certainly doesn't do shared calendaring/messaging/folders etc. with Exchange Server.
Outlook for Mac was close but not perfect and M$ stopped development long ago. Another company I remember from a year ago had something that also pseudo worked but had an insane licensing structure ($$$$$).
I only work with Perl. When I'm looking at someone else's code all I ask is that they outline the basic function of a particular section of code so when I need to change/enhance/debug something I can find the right area to start looking as quickly as possible.
I've never had to deal with 'obfuscated' code so I don't know about onscure variables, etc.. or how much more complicating they could be to my task.
Just point me in the right direction. Anything else is going to be too much or too little... and if I don't already know what the code is supposed to be doing I probably should be talking to someone who does before I sit down to work on the code itself.
Obviously reverse engineering of software is a whole different beast.
"Of course values can't have changed dramatically, because that would mean that low-weight atoms such as carbon would be unstable, and without carbon, there wouldn't be anyone around to measure the fine structure constant anyway."
Who is to say that carbon has always been stable... maybe one of the more unstable elements today was the stable element at the time and has become unstable as a result of the change in the constant value.
Bumblebees by macrophysical limitations should not physically be able to fly!
Things work differently at the (physical)level these people are working at. Give them at least a little credit for spending the time to research and analyze. Surely they would not be publicizing this info without a minimum of verifiable evidence.
All of your 'evidence' is based on macrophysics and common knowledge. Microphysics and especially that which deals with physics at the molecular level is much different and obeys radically different laws.
For example, viscosity: rarely does viscosity play any and I mean any role at a microscopic level... otherwise nothing would work... can you imagine molecules behaving according to 'viscosity' instead of various types of polarization or attraction to other molecules... I think not.
Viscosity is definitely a macroscopic topic and plays absolutely no part in MEMs research... now valence levels and atomic/molecular attraction may be relevant.
The article talks about these 'lighter than air' platforms as low-orbit satellites. Essentially they are taling about weather ballons with manual control and various sensors. Not a bad idea. I don't know about the whole 'terrorist' trip but for scientific and other obversational research these are long over due.
Why not have pseudo-permanent floating observatories with near zero fuel consumption and long term stability/low service capabilities?
These are not passenger transports, just platforms for sensors. They require much less fuel to keep them aloft compared to plane/aerofoil based solutions. Despite any expensive instruments onboard they are ultimately very expendable and cost effective. They seemingly can do the job of much more expensive satellites.
This could have something to do with Apple being the first and only OS / Software company to be able to strike a deal with AOL on their chat software AIM.
With Jaguar/10.2's imminent release and iChat compatibility with AIM via mac.com usernames this could really have an interesting impact on the interoperability/integration of AOL services with the Apple/Mac initiative.
Oh yeah and I haven't touched IE for anything since Mozilla RC2... which is a huge hurdle I've been looking to overcome. Flash integration isn't perfected as yet but everything else seems on par or much better... ie: rendering big/. posts is at least ten times faster in Mozilla than in IE.
Microsoft MacBU has said that a major upgrade is in the works for IE on Mac though, sooo ya never know.
Personally I've been using Mozilla RC2 for the last couple of days over Chimera.. no disrespect, but it is still in beta (majorly).
Once you activate the http1.1 and pipelining preferences in Mozilla you will see Chimera like performance albeit w/o the lovely Aqua theme (I've switched to AlumiteX via 'Themer: Anche' myself... lovin' it). Mozilla still has a few bugs as well but for overall UE it now rates above Chimera... we'll see what the future holds.
Does anyone know anything about thermal gradients pushing this sort of MEM engine?
I always thought it would be really cool to have trillions of MEMS powered by naturally occurring thermal gradients at the microscopic level. Ya know, all that background ambient heat fluctuation none of us feel could really be harnessed by something small enough.
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IBM lists in their 'key alliances' RedHat as well as (UnitedLinux partners) Caldera, TurboLinux and Suse.
I suspect that IBM will announce the consolidation of UnitedLinux over the RedHat alliance as far as their partners go.... although they won't burn bridges any time soon.
No intention to be 'droll' is what you meant to say right?
"and also to improve the levels of software technology" except for this part I'd say you're right... Microsoft has yet to improve software technology unless you consider marketing the hell out of it an improvement.
ObviousGuy once again lives up to his handle...
Tom Cruise will be showing up at your door soon with a warrant for your arrest, stating that you were thinking about thinking about planning to kill some one who just cut you off on the freeway in some near future incident.
You are guilty of course... I mean of thinking that is.
"Laser light buckets could allow faster data rates than the biggest radio antennae on Earth, Miller said, but it does have its drawbacks.
"The concept looks very promising from a cost standpoint...but it can't get through clouds at all," he said, adding that to be effective, a number of ground sites would be needed to account for bad weather. "And it would all have to be developed from scratch, but it's possible that sometime in the next decade we could be using optical instead of radio frequencies."
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"but it can't get through clouds at all"
Why can't we just use satellites to receive the 'optical' data and retransmit via radio or whatever the last 'mile' kinda like a DSL for deep space transmissions...
AOTC is definitely one of the best sequels I've ever seen, 'what, it is a sequel?', yeah a sequel, so give it credit for what it is.
You have to ask yourself whether you would rather have a stand alone Starwars-like movie made around the story which would draw in all the kids in the world with it's 'extreme' action or would you rather have a well-rounded and well produced sequel to a wonderful saga?
Episode one was for the kids apparently... we all complained, right? Then Lucas goes and makes a much more mature film (Episode 2) and we all yawn and complain, right? What's up?
I wish he had treated Episode 1 with the same level of seriousness he tried with E2. In the long run which film will you go back and watch again? I for one will be fast forwarding through E1 just to get the story started and then sitting down to enjoy E2 (w/ a few snack breaks around the romance scenes). E3? who knows...
Hopefully I'll be able to revisit the Starwars saga in years to come and get to have a real quality marathon viewing. It will be kind of wierd to jump from E3 to E4 though with the difference in cinema tech being so disparate.
Yes Oxygen is constantly 'oxidizing' our cells. It is what gives us life and what kills us as well... oxygen is what shortens those telomeres that tell a cell when to die which is good or else we would all turn in to big cancers.
There's obviously more to it than this, so lok it up. To summarize though, pure oxygen is not conducive to a full life span.
Technology created this market. Movies, CDs, and any other form of distributable media. Who do these people think they are trying to capitilize on media that is defunct. "Your market is over!!!!" What once was free and the was mass distributable is now free again... nothing has changed except you.. you're like the gir/boy friend who didn't know when to move on...
get a real business model!!! one which isn't all aboot preying on the talented and the ignorant.
If you can't do that, you are all real losers and you really should consider shooting your selves in the fuckin' head... if not, welcome home!!
You said it yourself... export it to html or pdf from word, then send it out. Word processing is for editing only, use what ever you like best, but for distribution use a more universal format and pick the one with the least overhead for the document... kind of like that old proverb "Rather hurt than maim, rather maim than injure, rather injure than kill."
If plain old text will do the job well enough use it, if you need more use RTF or PDF, need more then consider needing less... there's no need for killing your intended recipient.
You mean the sexy 'red' Leezard right?
Use it as an mp3 jutebox!!! W/ visualizer... It's the only way to use the Box. Microsoft, "now supporting intellectual property infringement".
"If you're looking for Sony's motivation in opening the specifications, I believe it's here. In the absence of additional software sales, Sony sees opening the platform as a method for selling additional hardware."
If only the Computer hardware makers would see this exact same point as well... we'd see the last of Windows, well for a while at least.
"- teach it to go into CompUSA, attach itself to a PowerMac, and download software."
;p Course you may want to mod it with wheels or 'teach' it how to self-destruct when caught...
Didn't you see? It is going to have Bluetooth connectivity and with all the new Macs including Bluetooth soon... no need to attach. Just send the little bugger in there and get it within like 15 ft. and you're set.
Unfortunately there is no client other than Ximian Evolution w/ Connector that has ever allowed full compatibility with Exchange servers.
Mail may be a nice e-mail client for most but it certainly doesn't do shared calendaring/messaging/folders etc. with Exchange Server.
Outlook for Mac was close but not perfect and M$ stopped development long ago. Another company I remember from a year ago had something that also pseudo worked but had an insane licensing structure ($$$$$).
I only work with Perl. When I'm looking at someone else's code all I ask is that they outline the basic function of a particular section of code so when I need to change/enhance/debug something I can find the right area to start looking as quickly as possible.
I've never had to deal with 'obfuscated' code so I don't know about onscure variables, etc.. or how much more complicating they could be to my task.
Just point me in the right direction. Anything else is going to be too much or too little... and if I don't already know what the code is supposed to be doing I probably should be talking to someone who does before I sit down to work on the code itself.
Obviously reverse engineering of software is a whole different beast.
"Of course values can't have changed dramatically, because that would mean that low-weight atoms such as carbon would be unstable, and without carbon, there wouldn't be anyone around to measure the fine structure constant anyway."
Who is to say that carbon has always been stable... maybe one of the more unstable elements today was the stable element at the time and has become unstable as a result of the change in the constant value.
Who is pioneering controllable ADP? It's the most significant energy producing process in the living organism and I've seen nothing. What gives?
Just gotta say this one thing:
Bumblebees by macrophysical limitations should not physically be able to fly!
Things work differently at the (physical)level these people are working at. Give them at least a little credit for spending the time to research and analyze. Surely they would not be publicizing this info without a minimum of verifiable evidence.
All of your 'evidence' is based on macrophysics and common knowledge. Microphysics and especially that which deals with physics at the molecular level is much different and obeys radically different laws.
For example, viscosity: rarely does viscosity play any and I mean any role at a microscopic level... otherwise nothing would work... can you imagine molecules behaving according to 'viscosity' instead of various types of polarization or attraction to other molecules... I think not.
Viscosity is definitely a macroscopic topic and plays absolutely no part in MEMs research... now valence levels and atomic/molecular attraction may be relevant.
The article talks about these 'lighter than air' platforms as low-orbit satellites. Essentially they are taling about weather ballons with manual control and various sensors. Not a bad idea. I don't know about the whole 'terrorist' trip but for scientific and other obversational research these are long over due.
Why not have pseudo-permanent floating observatories with near zero fuel consumption and long term stability/low service capabilities?
These are not passenger transports, just platforms for sensors. They require much less fuel to keep them aloft compared to plane/aerofoil based solutions. Despite any expensive instruments onboard they are ultimately very expendable and cost effective. They seemingly can do the job of much more expensive satellites.
-that's it, I like.
This could have something to do with Apple being the first and only OS / Software company to be able to strike a deal with AOL on their chat software AIM.
With Jaguar/10.2's imminent release and iChat compatibility with AIM via mac.com usernames this could really have an interesting impact on the interoperability/integration of AOL services with the Apple/Mac initiative.
Oh yeah and I haven't touched IE for anything since Mozilla RC2... which is a huge hurdle I've been looking to overcome. Flash integration isn't perfected as yet but everything else seems on par or much better... ie: rendering big /. posts is at least ten times faster in Mozilla than in IE.
Microsoft MacBU has said that a major upgrade is in the works for IE on Mac though, sooo ya never know.
Personally I've been using Mozilla RC2 for the last couple of days over Chimera.. no disrespect, but it is still in beta (majorly).
Once you activate the http1.1 and pipelining preferences in Mozilla you will see Chimera like performance albeit w/o the lovely Aqua theme (I've switched to AlumiteX via 'Themer: Anche' myself... lovin' it). Mozilla still has a few bugs as well but for overall UE it now rates above Chimera... we'll see what the future holds.
Does anyone know anything about thermal gradients pushing this sort of MEM engine?
I always thought it would be really cool to have trillions of MEMS powered by naturally occurring thermal gradients at the microscopic level. Ya know, all that background ambient heat fluctuation none of us feel could really be harnessed by something small enough.
Why not X == 1 then yes else no. There.