Showing proper knowledge is important for your argument to be considered. I reserve the right to consider anyone who doesn't know "Kelvin" is a unit as not properly educated and, therefore, under-qualified to make comments on Physics.
With so many incompetent people making such bold statements about Climatology, there is little time to be wasted with what can only be considered as layman ramblings.
Would you consider someone who doesn't know Mexican is not a language or who doesn't know when a fiscal year ends or that Pakistan is not an Arab country to be fit for Presidency?
I mainly find it funny because I usually don't run Windows. If I did, I would feel something a little bitter added to the funny mix, kind of a Dilbert strip.
It was supposed to dig down a little bit and try to take some underground samples.
Keep in mind that most mining equipment is not very portable, if at all. Taking it to Mars and landing it safely is beyond our current capabilities.
OTOH, we could smash a block of something and analyze the resulting plume. There is no better way to dig a crater that smashing a 1 ton bullet traveling at a couple kilometers per second.
There is, but try smuggling a nuke to space these days...
Hydro power should be no threat to fish stock as, in essence, you are turning a valley into a lake, increasing space for fish to live. It may be a threat to certain species of fish who will find it difficult to swim upstream to lay eggs. There are some (bad) solutions for that, though.
The only time when they should have a negative impact on the population of fish is when the reservoir is filling and you force a drought downstream.
But I agree - we need all the energy we can get and any combination of zero-emission sources is a Good Thing.
I keep a Windows box around, for testing and for running some very specific software and applications. I am an MCSD and was about to become a MCSE when I finally decided that Unix-like alternatives were much more interesting.
You won't see me criticizing *BSD, AIX or Solaris. I have a couple things I would like to see in them (like a good package manager like APT - which made me move from Red Hat to Debian 4 years ago), but I won't call them the same names I call Windows. I don't know them well enough.
Windows, OTOH, is a huge collection of crufty APIs that have lived since Windows 1.x, with a total disregard to security, safety and overall quality. It takes endless hours to install and patch and minutes to destroy an unpatched machine connected to the internet. When I decide to rebuild my Ubuntu notebook, it takes about two hours while rebuilding my Windows box take at least a day. There is a lot of software for it and I even respect that other guy in this thread that said he does most of his work in ssh sessions under Cygwin (I install Cygwin on every Windows box I work with) and runs Windows to be compatible with his corporate network.
I was a Vista beta tester and I wasn't impressed. There is eye candy, but it is tasteless and ugly. While it is a great improvement over XP, it is like saying the elephant man is a great improvement over the hunchback of Notre Dame. It is bloated and feels heavy.
When comparing OSX and Vista, OSX wins hands down. It's simple, easy to use, stable and powerful. If I need a Unix system, it's there. If I want a beautiful GUI, it's also there. If I want a powerful API and development tools, Apple gives them away.
BTW, I also keep a Mac around, for testing stuff and running specific programs.
And I do keep two AIX boxes too for the very same reason.
And an IBM z50 running (what else?) NetBSD for completely different reasons: it's a toy.
And - Windows fanboys certainly won't know this - OSX is a direct descendant of the NeXT OS (OPENSTEP), not MacOS Classic. There probably is no common code between them.
I could bet my ears most IPs are from the Redmond region.
Microsoft seems to be employing a gigantic astroturf team.
I never, ever, saw so much Windows-friendly stupidity. Have any one of the Windows fanboys ever used another OS for more that the 5 minutes required to learn one's way around? Most Windows fanboys never used anything else, so, for them, Windows is the best.
Do they expect Microsoft to send them expensive notebooks as a reward?
I used Vista. I was a beta tester and it sucked badly release after release up to the final one. The bug I filed upon pre-beta 1 was never fixed.
I too suspect he is pulling a Rick Belluzzo. The only way he would rat his puppeteers would be confronting him with a credible threat of incarceration.
It shouldn't be that hard - this lawsuit was doomed from the beginning and a minimum amount of source-code comparison should have shown that - and exactly this information would have been believed to be the basis of the lawsuit, so he should have no hope of saying he didn't know. Any attempt by him to misrepresent it in any other way to SCO's shareholders could be interpreted as fraud.
They are lawyers and they were paid to do it, so, they will do it. They will appeal everything that's not in accord to their client's interest and they will do whatever they can to act according to the instructions received from their client.
And they should not do any different because they are good lawyers.
I will be satisfied when Darl McBride or other SCO senior execs rats his friends at Redmond (who are behind the financing SCO got from the Canopy Group) in exchange for a couple years less worth of jail time and they get indicted for whatever conspiracy they took part in.
Of course, the MS Astroturf Unit will mod down this into oblivion.
Like humans, alien civilisations could shorten the time to find extra-terrestrials by picking up television and radio broadcasts that might leak from colonised planets. "Even then, unless they can develop an exotic form of transport that gets them across the galaxy in two weeks it's still going to take millions of years to find us," said Mr Bjork. "There are so many stars in the galaxy that probably life could exist elsewhere, but will we ever get in contact with them? Not in our lifetime," he added.
A reflective armor is only effective for the wavelengths it can reflect.
It is pretty hard to find something that reflects well from below IR to beyond UV. Sure, the atmosphere will block some, but satellites can't exactly take evasive action. You can start frying them as soon as they are above the horizon.
Both features could be considered requirements for safe operation of the Windows-based computer. Without them, a Windows XP box on broadband link resists for about 40 seconds before being infected with some malware.
So, it is sort of a recall because of life-threatening defects, not really new funcionality.
Think of it as Explorer tires that do not blow-up.
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Dear Coward,
Showing proper knowledge is important for your argument to be considered. I reserve the right to consider anyone who doesn't know "Kelvin" is a unit as not properly educated and, therefore, under-qualified to make comments on Physics.
With so many incompetent people making such bold statements about Climatology, there is little time to be wasted with what can only be considered as layman ramblings.
Would you consider someone who doesn't know Mexican is not a language or who doesn't know when a fiscal year ends or that Pakistan is not an Arab country to be fit for Presidency?
Oh... Wait...
I wonder what catagory of spell checker you use. Its relaiblity is a major contrabution to the quality of your text. Must be a dam good one.
Wish I had modpoints. +1 funny for you.
I mainly find it funny because I usually don't run Windows. If I did, I would feel something a little bitter added to the funny mix, kind of a Dilbert strip.
We did. It was called Beagle 2.
It was supposed to dig down a little bit and try to take some underground samples.
Keep in mind that most mining equipment is not very portable, if at all. Taking it to Mars and landing it safely is beyond our current capabilities.
OTOH, we could smash a block of something and analyze the resulting plume. There is no better way to dig a crater that smashing a 1 ton bullet traveling at a couple kilometers per second.
There is, but try smuggling a nuke to space these days...
I can only imagine the kind of corporate loyalty that behaviour buys.
IIRC the card-reader was the 59. the 58 had the program-module thingy.
I wanted a 59 so badly at that time... Now I have a RISC multitasking computer with cameraphone on my back pocket.
While I agree diversity is a Good Thing, I see a PC where the major difference is a PowerPC processor instead of an x86 one pretty uninteresting.
For what it is, it would be far better to release it for x86 processors. Even Apple did it.
I want a 16-core ARM CPU, Burroughs B5000-like memory and hardware-assisted garbage collection. The simplistic PC architecture has lived far too long.
Hydro power should be no threat to fish stock as, in essence, you are turning a valley into a lake, increasing space for fish to live. It may be a threat to certain species of fish who will find it difficult to swim upstream to lay eggs. There are some (bad) solutions for that, though.
The only time when they should have a negative impact on the population of fish is when the reservoir is filling and you force a drought downstream.
But I agree - we need all the energy we can get and any combination of zero-emission sources is a Good Thing.
We need to hurry up on fusion.
Don't say bad things about TI calculators. My faithful TI-55 was my first programmable device!
If anything I'd say that Microsoft is one of the least trusted entities out there.
They worked very hardm screwing partners and customers alike, for decades to attain such status. They deserve it more than anyone else.
Hmmmm. There should be a "document structure view" that would mark the different styles in boxes overlayed to the normal editing view...
Interesting idea. Anyone knows where the OOo folks get together to discuss future features?
Not me.
I keep a Windows box around, for testing and for running some very specific software and applications. I am an MCSD and was about to become a MCSE when I finally decided that Unix-like alternatives were much more interesting.
You won't see me criticizing *BSD, AIX or Solaris. I have a couple things I would like to see in them (like a good package manager like APT - which made me move from Red Hat to Debian 4 years ago), but I won't call them the same names I call Windows. I don't know them well enough.
Windows, OTOH, is a huge collection of crufty APIs that have lived since Windows 1.x, with a total disregard to security, safety and overall quality. It takes endless hours to install and patch and minutes to destroy an unpatched machine connected to the internet. When I decide to rebuild my Ubuntu notebook, it takes about two hours while rebuilding my Windows box take at least a day. There is a lot of software for it and I even respect that other guy in this thread that said he does most of his work in ssh sessions under Cygwin (I install Cygwin on every Windows box I work with) and runs Windows to be compatible with his corporate network.
I was a Vista beta tester and I wasn't impressed. There is eye candy, but it is tasteless and ugly. While it is a great improvement over XP, it is like saying the elephant man is a great improvement over the hunchback of Notre Dame. It is bloated and feels heavy.
When comparing OSX and Vista, OSX wins hands down. It's simple, easy to use, stable and powerful. If I need a Unix system, it's there. If I want a beautiful GUI, it's also there. If I want a powerful API and development tools, Apple gives them away.
BTW, I also keep a Mac around, for testing stuff and running specific programs.
And I do keep two AIX boxes too for the very same reason.
And an IBM z50 running (what else?) NetBSD for completely different reasons: it's a toy.
And - Windows fanboys certainly won't know this - OSX is a direct descendant of the NeXT OS (OPENSTEP), not MacOS Classic. There probably is no common code between them.
Q. E. D.
Sadly, most Windows fanboys never used anything but Windows.
I could bet my ears most IPs are from the Redmond region.
Microsoft seems to be employing a gigantic astroturf team.
I never, ever, saw so much Windows-friendly stupidity. Have any one of the Windows fanboys ever used another OS for more that the 5 minutes required to learn one's way around? Most Windows fanboys never used anything else, so, for them, Windows is the best.
Do they expect Microsoft to send them expensive notebooks as a reward?
I used Vista. I was a beta tester and it sucked badly release after release up to the final one. The bug I filed upon pre-beta 1 was never fixed.
I too suspect he is pulling a Rick Belluzzo. The only way he would rat his puppeteers would be confronting him with a credible threat of incarceration.
It shouldn't be that hard - this lawsuit was doomed from the beginning and a minimum amount of source-code comparison should have shown that - and exactly this information would have been believed to be the basis of the lawsuit, so he should have no hope of saying he didn't know. Any attempt by him to misrepresent it in any other way to SCO's shareholders could be interpreted as fraud.
They are lawyers and they were paid to do it, so, they will do it. They will appeal everything that's not in accord to their client's interest and they will do whatever they can to act according to the instructions received from their client.
And they should not do any different because they are good lawyers.
It's only sad they have an evil client.
I will be satisfied when Darl McBride or other SCO senior execs rats his friends at Redmond (who are behind the financing SCO got from the Canopy Group) in exchange for a couple years less worth of jail time and they get indicted for whatever conspiracy they took part in.
Of course, the MS Astroturf Unit will mod down this into oblivion.
Yes. He did
It's a cookbook!
A reflective armor is only effective for the wavelengths it can reflect.
It is pretty hard to find something that reflects well from below IR to beyond UV. Sure, the atmosphere will block some, but satellites can't exactly take evasive action. You can start frying them as soon as they are above the horizon.
Oh no! -1 offtopic!
It means the Microsoft Astroturf Unit has infiltrated Slashdot too!
And they got modpoints!
They should be forced to call each misdocumented API a billion times on program start-up for every program they publish.
mwahahaha
It never ceases to amaze me that an operating system wastes time and resources worrying about gradients on screens.
Both features could be considered requirements for safe operation of the Windows-based computer. Without them, a Windows XP box on broadband link resists for about 40 seconds before being infected with some malware.
So, it is sort of a recall because of life-threatening defects, not really new funcionality.
Think of it as Explorer tires that do not blow-up.