The Flying Spaghetti Monster http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Spaghetti_Mons ter appears in living material and you attribute it to "Science" and "Bio-business". He is talking to us and we are just to cynical to listen. For shame. We must fight for the minds of tommorow or there is no hope.
It is nice but dont get to excited it works for windows only. It will just fragment things further unless they go all the way and make one for OSX and Linux.
This is the real big threat to the open source community. Once Microsoft becomes honest whith themselves they might start making real progress on the engineering side of their product. Marketing will get you so far when you have no more competition but good engineering can make it stick.
In my book it is really a 1.3 megabit connection. I know all the arguments about people downloading faster then uploading but it is really like digital zoom on cameras, totaly worhtless in every real life use except advertising.
I am really starting to feel nausea when speaking about space. Doesn't any one even remember JFK's qoute!!!
"We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too." - JFK 1962
We didn't go to moon to find out what the moon is made of we went to the moon to find out what we are made of!!! Ever since we went to the moon it became the benchmark or our planet, "If we can get to the moon why can't we...."
I am really scared about our lack of ambition I know our best years are ahead of us but let's hope we have the guts to get there.
You would not believe how much sun junk financial companies have lying around. I am talking about I have worked in companies were they have racks and racks of maxed out 4500's (the ram alone can cost 20g) running a single process at low utilization. The advantage of sun is that they are the only company that has a unified industrial grade hardware/software system so financial companies will pay thru the nose for that peace of mind. One admin told me that the only reason they really still use sun is because that it pipes input and output thru the serial port from the second power is turned on. You can give all the TCO arguments in the world no body is going to care if they have to explain to the CEO why a billion dollar (Literally) transaction failed because two vendors blamed each other for a mistake. Until a Linux company REALLY gets it there will always be room for sun.
From right after 9/11 to now there have been NO major commercial accidents in 4 years in America. Any way you turn the stats commercial air comes out ahead. Imagine if every time you drove your car a helicopter watched you at all times, a mechanic checked your car out, no other car was allowed within a mile of you, and drivers ed was 4 years long. Thats commercial aviation. General aviation is about as dangerous as riding a motercycle (which is perfectly safe as long as you don't crash:) )
At the risk of getting flamed, The keyword is "Japan's largest railway company began a test run for a new bullet train". In America the pattern is always the same. Take NY City's subway system first
1) private companies built 100's of miles of track
2) New York set price limits to "keep the fare reasonable"
3) the companies go bankrupt
4) the city takes over the system
5) no major improvments for the next 50 years
6) people start paying much more for taxis and express busses so they can get to work
When the subway was private 26 major lines were built, since then practically nothing. The only thing they have left is advertisements bragging that their system is 100 years old. It's the same story for Amtrack.
How long until Yukos Mountain becomes choice real estate as we learn to turn waste products in to new sources of energy. Like when natural gas was considered a "waste" product of oil.
This might be a great combination with fuel cells. A 5 minute charge and a tank of hydrogen might be good for a couple of hundred miles and still allow service station convenience.
But it allows much more efficient plants. $1 mill dollars might make a power plant 1/2% more efficient while it might take billions to make every auto engine %1/2 more efficient. Also new technologies like fusion can be slipped into place because every thing is in place, creating that much more incentive to find them.
"Interplay Forced to Liquidate (France)" Don't freek out Germany tried to liquidate france twice, didn't really get close. Heck half the world has tried to liquidate france at one time or another.
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I remember the good old days when unbreakable encryption would stay unbreakable for 15 years. Now it's being broken before it is even released.
It has already been leaked to the web http://www.mozilla.org/
Does any body have a list??? Their new address would be helpful to.
The Flying Spaghetti Monster http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Spaghetti_Mons ter appears in living material and you attribute it to "Science" and "Bio-business". He is talking to us and we are just to cynical to listen. For shame. We must fight for the minds of tommorow or there is no hope.
It is nice but dont get to excited it works for windows only. It will just fragment things further unless they go all the way and make one for OSX and Linux.
This is the real big threat to the open source community. Once Microsoft becomes honest whith themselves they might start making real progress on the engineering side of their product. Marketing will get you so far when you have no more competition but good engineering can make it stick.
Yeah until you lose root. How do you boot into single user mode in space?
In my book it is really a 1.3 megabit connection. I know all the arguments about people downloading faster then uploading but it is really like digital zoom on cameras, totaly worhtless in every real life use except advertising.
"We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too." - JFK 1962
We didn't go to moon to find out what the moon is made of we went to the moon to find out what we are made of!!! Ever since we went to the moon it became the benchmark or our planet, "If we can get to the moon why can't we ...."
I am really scared about our lack of ambition I know our best years are ahead of us but let's hope we have the guts to get there.
You would not believe how much sun junk financial companies have lying around. I am talking about I have worked in companies were they have racks and racks of maxed out 4500's (the ram alone can cost 20g) running a single process at low utilization. The advantage of sun is that they are the only company that has a unified industrial grade hardware /software system so financial companies will pay thru the nose for that peace of mind. One admin told me that the only reason they really still use sun is because that it pipes input and output thru the serial port from the second power is turned on. You can give all the TCO arguments in the world no body is going to care if they have to explain to the CEO why a billion dollar (Literally) transaction failed because two vendors blamed each other for a mistake. Until a Linux company REALLY gets it there will always be room for sun.
Between going to mars and 7 Ghz laptops http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/09/ 07/1241216&tid=198&tid=184
It is really beginnig to feel like april fools day. Did I over sleep a few months??? Or mayby a few years.
1) Large grey subwoofer used - 50 GBP
2) Large grey subwoofer used, called a deathstar - 100 GBP
3) Profit
Its a hoax, Its a hoax!!!!2 2&tid=105
1 3&tid=105&tid=159
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/12/12/23592
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/12/27/23142
Oh wait if it's this slow mayby for once it is real.
From right after 9/11 to now there have been NO major commercial accidents in 4 years in America. Any way you turn the stats commercial air comes out ahead. Imagine if every time you drove your car a helicopter watched you at all times, a mechanic checked your car out, no other car was allowed within a mile of you, and drivers ed was 4 years long. Thats commercial aviation. General aviation is about as dangerous as riding a motercycle (which is perfectly safe as long as you don't crash :) )
At the risk of getting flamed, The keyword is "Japan's largest railway company began a test run for a new bullet train". In America the pattern is always the same. Take NY City's subway system first
1) private companies built 100's of miles of track
2) New York set price limits to "keep the fare reasonable"
3) the companies go bankrupt
4) the city takes over the system
5) no major improvments for the next 50 years
6) people start paying much more for taxis and express busses so they can get to work
When the subway was private 26 major lines were built, since then practically nothing. The only thing they have left is advertisements bragging that their system is 100 years old. It's the same story for Amtrack.
Has it been slashdoted it so yesterday. The real question is has linux been ported to it yet? It's been several hours.
ok, ok Cuba 1 USA 99. I still like the USA better.
How long until Yukos Mountain becomes choice real estate as we learn to turn waste products in to new sources of energy. Like when natural gas was considered a "waste" product of oil.
there's a reason http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/top100.html hasn't been updated for a while. Lack of material.
This might be a great combination with fuel cells. A 5 minute charge and a tank of hydrogen might be good for a couple of hundred miles and still allow service station convenience.
I just hope that retire means the same thing in russian as it does in english!
Obligatory joke: It must not be to fast of a server becuase the site is slashdotted.
But it allows much more efficient plants. $1 mill dollars might make a power plant 1/2% more efficient while it might take billions to make every auto engine %1/2 more efficient. Also new technologies like fusion can be slipped into place because every thing is in place, creating that much more incentive to find them.
The joke is in how they worded the headline. It should be obvious that no malice is intended.
"Interplay Forced to Liquidate (France)" Don't freek out Germany tried to liquidate france twice, didn't really get close. Heck half the world has tried to liquidate france at one time or another.