no, the massiveness of this part of the biosphere is what was not known. those samples from the past were viewed as a tiny niche ecology. now we find it may be the main one of this planet
what operating system has Oracle (worth billions of dollars, btw) shut down?
the market shuts down proprietary operating systems; when it's no longer profitable to make one, they aren't made. if you're talking about opensolaris, 1. some parts of it were never open sourced 2. it died from lack of interest and use. 3. the projects that forked the open source part of it can't get enough mind share
Yes VMS, now called OpenVMS, is still maintained and sold as one of the Operating Systems the HP Integrity line and the no longer sold (but still supported) Alpha CPU. The latesest version is 8.4 which came out June 2010.
some of my clients have those and they all are over ten years old, that architecture had a 30 year run. the last hp e3000 was sold november 2003, and plenty of 3rd party companies will support any model even though hp recently end-of-lifed them
depends on situation. I've worked on client systems that are not internet connected and only are for data entry. most patches serve no purpose in such an environment - no web serving, no email, no file sharing, no command line: the data entry people can't break out of their application.
theories can be useful. the standard model is useful for predicting the outcome of experiments. these Higgs boson results are a part of that. there are actually several theories about the Higg boson's properties (such as spin and decay rate & products), and more research will tell which of those models are useful. science is about useful models, you want Truth go next door to Philosophy department.
you need more information. the pu-238 used in RTGs is in oxide form, bound with Oxygen 16 to absorb the occasional neutron (it is mostly an alpha emitter) that can be formed. So, the pu-238 is "already burned", in a sense, and in a form to be safer to humans.
look at a map of the world taken at night. see that large area that's mostly dark in the middle, that's called africa. where are kids there going to plug in a tablet?
why are you calling war on innocents "defense". the cost of our "wars" aren't in the "budget", do you get that? PARTISAN??? I'm a real conservative, not a democrat but the Republicans have become the party of fat cats, genocide, and fascism.
those bad experiences of which you speak are not common among the people I know who did internet dating. I'm too old to have met girlfriends and then wife that way, but friends 10 years younger have had a great time.
we'll spend ten times that amount occupying, maiming and killing people who did not attack us on 09/11/2001. because that's important and of lasting benefit to humanity.
now that's tempting, operate an FM station with that legal cost-of-doing-business of $1600/month. should be able to recoup that with modest ad revenue.....
30 minute outage for certain areas isn't "evaporated". That's better track record than say gmail or amazon (planet wide outages) or linux kernel (weeks down) or opensolaris (poof gone, & indiana not production stable)
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no, the massiveness of this part of the biosphere is what was not known. those samples from the past were viewed as a tiny niche ecology. now we find it may be the main one of this planet
what operating system has Oracle (worth billions of dollars, btw) shut down?
the market shuts down proprietary operating systems; when it's no longer profitable to make one, they aren't made. if you're talking about opensolaris, 1. some parts of it were never open sourced 2. it died from lack of interest and use. 3. the projects that forked the open source part of it can't get enough mind share
no one with a smart mind cracked it, microsoft just rolled over for the russian government
Yes VMS, now called OpenVMS, is still maintained and sold as one of the Operating Systems the HP Integrity line and the no longer sold (but still supported) Alpha CPU. The latesest version is 8.4 which came out June 2010.
some of my clients have those and they all are over ten years old, that architecture had a 30 year run. the last hp e3000 was sold november 2003, and plenty of 3rd party companies will support any model even though hp recently end-of-lifed them
HP calls it OpenVMS now, their big Itanium boxes can run it, and Alpha version still supported till 2016:
http://h71000.www7.hp.com/openvms/openvms_supportchart.html
ingesting in a form your body will retain (say metallic or salt) is dangerous. but a glass or ceramic won't be kept.
depends on situation. I've worked on client systems that are not internet connected and only are for data entry. most patches serve no purpose in such an environment - no web serving, no email, no file sharing, no command line: the data entry people can't break out of their application.
old Unix has a ton of security holes though, wouldn't want a web server right on the internet with it
I've worked on Alpha VMS systems with 15 years uptime.
interesting, but could be a minute percentage of the whole, do they have raw numbers?
uh, no. not true for either top ten free apps or top ten revenue generators. they're gmail and youtube related things, plus games.
rss is great for us geeks, but the world at large not so much
theories can be useful. the standard model is useful for predicting the outcome of experiments. these Higgs boson results are a part of that. there are actually several theories about the Higg boson's properties (such as spin and decay rate & products), and more research will tell which of those models are useful. science is about useful models, you want Truth go next door to Philosophy department.
most people on planet earth have never heard of RSS and don't use it. sad but tru.
you need more information. the pu-238 used in RTGs is in oxide form, bound with Oxygen 16 to absorb the occasional neutron (it is mostly an alpha emitter) that can be formed. So, the pu-238 is "already burned", in a sense, and in a form to be safer to humans.
look at a map of the world taken at night. see that large area that's mostly dark in the middle, that's called africa. where are kids there going to plug in a tablet?
why are you calling war on innocents "defense". the cost of our "wars" aren't in the "budget", do you get that? PARTISAN??? I'm a real conservative, not a democrat but the Republicans have become the party of fat cats, genocide, and fascism.
those bad experiences of which you speak are not common among the people I know who did internet dating. I'm too old to have met girlfriends and then wife that way, but friends 10 years younger have had a great time.
we'll spend ten times that amount occupying, maiming and killing people who did not attack us on 09/11/2001. because that's important and of lasting benefit to humanity.
I wish. 18 fucking years to go......*sigh*
Panda furs are already worth $60,000 to $90,000 on the black market
a national fiber network would be a huge infrastructure investment with lasting benefit, like the highway system.
hmm, 16 year old company worth $2.5 billioni and growing. you say they will collapse, why?
now that's tempting, operate an FM station with that legal cost-of-doing-business of $1600/month. should be able to recoup that with modest ad revenue.....
businesses have to have their lawyers go over such issues with a fine tooth comb anyway, they're not going to trust some "foundation"
30 minute outage for certain areas isn't "evaporated". That's better track record than say gmail or amazon (planet wide outages) or linux kernel (weeks down) or opensolaris (poof gone, & indiana not production stable)