the economy and infrastructure of the U.S. are poised for a big stall for several reasons (loss of credibility of dollar due to inability to pay interest on national debt, light sweet crude production is peaked, big foreign customers seeking new markets in south america and asia makng u.s. less relevent, climate change, outsourcing)....don't worry about the internet, worry about basic infrastructure.
in the context of an enterprise, it won't be non-tech savvy users trying to install Linux, and it won't be without distro vendor support. That said, i've NEVER have to contact RedHat or SuSE for the clusters and other server farms I've built, in 7 years of doing Linux distros. Search engines and IRC & forums has saved butt many times, though. My 18 years Unix experience helps a little too;)
every few weeks??!!! haha, you're just as likely to be a victim of this kind of fraud as anyone else, thieves who steal this kind of data know it has to be very quickly used.
And yet the reality is that Cisco routers and microsoft software and IBM gear can and do fail and cause business interuption and lost time and money. How often do the giants pay restitution for the problems they make? If in reality we're just talking about support, that someone will rush out to fix/replace/repair, maybe there is hope a smaller business could compete by providing the same service levels as the big guys. As money is getting tighter, corporations are willing to try open source in ways and in places they never would have 10 years ago.
Strange, there's other views on that Apostolic Succession business too, that there were other "bishops" other than the ones the apostles appointed, and that the proper mode of appointing a bishop is for a congregation to elect them. This "simple stuff" of which you speak is so simple that the RCC killed tens of millions of people who had other views on the subject, not to mention snuffing out more Jews than Hitler. Somehow I don't think that's what Jesus had in mind, "my kingdom is not of this earth"
Various groups have done a "canonizing", and come up with different books. Some would say that the Church of which jesus spoke has nothing to do with the RCC or any other earthly organization, but of all true believers in all ages, the RCC in any case did not start to come into existence for four more centuries, and did not evolve into its present beliefs for another six hundred years after that.
Hah, there were MANY "denominations" of christianity in the 4th century, besides that group which later became the Roman Catholic Church. There's plenty of christians who would reject what was done in Carthage in the 4th century just as they reject anything taught by the Roman Catholic Church in the 21st. Plenty of denominations would classify each and every pope as an antichrist, just as an example (and they would say Peter was no pope and never was in Rome, that's just myth)
employers want you there 8:30 to 5:00pm and then they're making people on-call and pagable the rest of the day. They want us to be like 3rd world asian countries where people work 12+ hours a day every day of the week with maybe chinese new year for holidays.
we use most of resources once and throw them in the trash. There's a heck of alot of room for improvement, maybe soon we even grow/farm most of what we need, whether housing, vehicles, fuel, equipment. China and India will have much more motivation than the west ever did to go in this direction with their booming R&D. So don't go all doom and gloom just yet.
our sun will expand as it ages, and in less than 250 million years the earth will be too hot for mammals, and in 500 million years from now too hot for even microbal life. way before then all the ice on earth will melt. waterworld, baby, it's your future!
no, not when its at the bottom of a huge gravity well, the energy cost to raise it is too fearsome. What there IS out there is more solar energy than a thousand worlds could ever use.
More likely the major stores of super-bugs are the bodies of patients being medicated, the nooks and crannies of the floor might be one storage place, but there's WAY more staph and such even in the noses of healthy people.
as an aside, that fear of little air bublles is irrational: tapping the needle really isn't necessary, it takes more than a couple cc of air to cause problems. A doctor told me about that, as my wife was being hooked up to IV that had some truly miniscule bubbles in it.
Hah, I just worked in a datacenter in the basement of a building, no cell service. Upon going upstairs, the bronze roof of the place also blocked cell signals except within 20 feet of the doors. And rule number two for kidnapping anyone is to search & remove victim's weapons, cell phone, pager, gps, etc. Rule number one is don't get caught kidnapping someone.
no, Moore's orignal statement was about complexity of integrated circuit with respect to minimum component costs, and even our cell phones chips roughly follow the rule.
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the economy and infrastructure of the U.S. are poised for a big stall for several reasons (loss of credibility of dollar due to inability to pay interest on national debt, light sweet crude production is peaked, big foreign customers seeking new markets in south america and asia makng u.s. less relevent, climate change, outsourcing)....don't worry about the internet, worry about basic infrastructure.
that was no hill, that was my mother in law, you insensitive clod! and boy is she pissed!
heh, from the movie it looked like he would do an even better job being a target for practice.
in the context of an enterprise, it won't be non-tech savvy users trying to install Linux, and it won't be without distro vendor support. That said, i've NEVER have to contact RedHat or SuSE for the clusters and other server farms I've built, in 7 years of doing Linux distros. Search engines and IRC & forums has saved butt many times, though. My 18 years Unix experience helps a little too ;)
every few weeks??!!! haha, you're just as likely to be a victim of this kind of fraud as anyone else, thieves who steal this kind of data know it has to be very quickly used.
I think of more than half of the world as enslaved, who wants to join that?
And yet the reality is that Cisco routers and microsoft software and IBM gear can and do fail and cause business interuption and lost time and money. How often do the giants pay restitution for the problems they make? If in reality we're just talking about support, that someone will rush out to fix/replace/repair, maybe there is hope a smaller business could compete by providing the same service levels as the big guys. As money is getting tighter, corporations are willing to try open source in ways and in places they never would have 10 years ago.
Strange, there's other views on that Apostolic Succession business too, that there were other "bishops" other than the ones the apostles appointed, and that the proper mode of appointing a bishop is for a congregation to elect them. This "simple stuff" of which you speak is so simple that the RCC killed tens of millions of people who had other views on the subject, not to mention snuffing out more Jews than Hitler. Somehow I don't think that's what Jesus had in mind, "my kingdom is not of this earth"
Various groups have done a "canonizing", and come up with different books. Some would say that the Church of which jesus spoke has nothing to do with the RCC or any other earthly organization, but of all true believers in all ages, the RCC in any case did not start to come into existence for four more centuries, and did not evolve into its present beliefs for another six hundred years after that.
Hah, there were MANY "denominations" of christianity in the 4th century, besides that group which later became the Roman Catholic Church. There's plenty of christians who would reject what was done in Carthage in the 4th century just as they reject anything taught by the Roman Catholic Church in the 21st. Plenty of denominations would classify each and every pope as an antichrist, just as an example (and they would say Peter was no pope and never was in Rome, that's just myth)
relax, you have more time than that, it's actually 03:14:08 UTC on January 19, 2038
employers want you there 8:30 to 5:00pm and then they're making people on-call and pagable the rest of the day. They want us to be like 3rd world asian countries where people work 12+ hours a day every day of the week with maybe chinese new year for holidays.
we use most of resources once and throw them in the trash. There's a heck of alot of room for improvement, maybe soon we even grow/farm most of what we need, whether housing, vehicles, fuel, equipment. China and India will have much more motivation than the west ever did to go in this direction with their booming R&D. So don't go all doom and gloom just yet.
that statistic is an false urban legend. What is true is U.S. consumes 25% of world's product, which also means we're paying for it.
for crap's sake, dc powered servers are nothing new, many have config option of "-48VDC standard telco" supply.
our sun will expand as it ages, and in less than 250 million years the earth will be too hot for mammals, and in 500 million years from now too hot for even microbal life. way before then all the ice on earth will melt. waterworld, baby, it's your future!
no, not when its at the bottom of a huge gravity well, the energy cost to raise it is too fearsome. What there IS out there is more solar energy than a thousand worlds could ever use.
More likely the major stores of super-bugs are the bodies of patients being medicated, the nooks and crannies of the floor might be one storage place, but there's WAY more staph and such even in the noses of healthy people. as an aside, that fear of little air bublles is irrational: tapping the needle really isn't necessary, it takes more than a couple cc of air to cause problems. A doctor told me about that, as my wife was being hooked up to IV that had some truly miniscule bubbles in it.
yeah, I used to hate it too when my pecker would get wood in class
Hah, I just worked in a datacenter in the basement of a building, no cell service. Upon going upstairs, the bronze roof of the place also blocked cell signals except within 20 feet of the doors. And rule number two for kidnapping anyone is to search & remove victim's weapons, cell phone, pager, gps, etc. Rule number one is don't get caught kidnapping someone.
pfft, substitute magnum goose loads instead of the wussy rock salt, and watch evolution in action.
no, Moore's orignal statement was about complexity of integrated circuit with respect to minimum component costs, and even our cell phones chips roughly follow the rule.
I plan on penetrating flexi-armor chastity belts with one of those
you'd have to watch out for slow blades and kids with laser pointers though.
actions between two friends regarding a hunting accident have absolutely no relevence or bearing on your point.