if those really were printed in late 1700's, and not a reprint in 19th century that just kept original dates (as was often the practice, my school library had many such 19th century reprints of 1600 and 1700's books ), then let's check back in the 2090's and again at 2140 (350 years) and see if the rate of mottling has accelerated and the things are still readable.
paper only lasts at most about 300 years, those thousand year old "books" you hear about are printed on animal parts (skin & other tissue). Unless you're prepared to do the National Archives thing and store them in helium filled cases with UV protection, your printouts are doomed. Storing a gigabyte on those archival quality ink and paper which claim to last 500 years would be bulky and very expensive...don't know about you, but my data isn't that important. Let the archeologists reconstruct our civilization from fragments as they always have, 99.99% of what we do and what we save as data is mundane 7 repetitive and of no real historical significance anyway (i.e., they don't need to see the tax return of every citizen 1,000 years from now to see how our tax system worked. They certainly don't need to see all 300 million AOL CDs, just ten or twenty thousand will do just fine.
over half of movies are just tired rehashing of past successes, very little original material these days: they might be worth $3 to see at home but not $8 + concession stand + wait in line + annoying junveniles. I haven't seen a movie released in the past year I would consider worth seeing in theatre.
heh, I could think of a test of their abilities that involves using less & less complex encryption until the nice g men kicks in your front door....then you'd have an estimation of their computing power.
Ah, THAT kind of production. It seems the BSD follow multimedia device drivers done for Linux; BSD leadership for device drivers is largely in the realm of disks and network. BSD really does seem to be server focused; I love BSD for serving several domains I own, but still use Linux as my desktop & laptop OS largely because of insurmountable multimedia issues
from the view of creating a Linux/Mac version of software, problem with Java is you have to make the user install it, and that they get right version of JRE. Java isn't write once run anywhere, it's write once, make the user do some potentially painful setup/config which might screw up other JVM and Java apps they have running already (and maybe even screw their browser if they click the right install option), and hopefully run. As for X11, it's just GUI, there's a backend that needs to be there.
been faxing in lunch/dinner orders since the early 80's, e-mailing 'em since the early 90's, and in 1994 gave demonstration of what the "world wide web" was to management which including showing site for carry out pizza ordering..... this really isn't earth shattering news.
heh, there might be other choices out there, SuSE Pro works much more nicely on my desktop & laptop than RedHat or Federo 1 &2 ever did. Mobile wireless with RH or FC sucks too.
Turbotax and other such non-game home software have mac versions, I'm wondering if the move by Apple to x86 will mean it would be possible for a combined Mac-Linux version of any such software to be made - would mean of course an open library API by Apple
actually, that phrase "guarenteed lowest price" has so many loopholes and caveats that you will see more than one competitor use it for the same goods at different price, without any possibility of being accused of fraud. Or the phrase "largest online dealer", which could actually mean several things. Even "your money back if not fully satisfied" might not mean what you think it does (read that fine print!)
is price fixing, would you rather have that? Not me, I'd rather hunt around for a good deal for major purchases. It's worth it, you can get 20%+ more gear that way!
The point is that most government and enterprise Linux installations are going to run RedHat or SuSE, period. That's all I've seen GNU/Linux-wise in my three years of working in such data centers. I'd be happy to see something else (like Debian or Ubantu, or even happier to see FreeBSD, but it hasn't happened yet)
a couple million web sites running an open source OS which is something Not Linux, and those that do run Linux are bailing out of RedHat to other things: SuSE, Ubantu, etc.
You'll be please to know that a reply has already been sent via +/-24Khz freq shift at 1.42 GHz on 30 November 2004 01:32:34.43 GMT to star HIP 04872: "Declare and tag all your weapons of mass destruction, you evil axis of nonterrestrials, or we will, with a coalition of the willing, destroy you!
Don't hate India, hate your By-the-Big-Corporation-for-the-Big-Corporation government that would rather take advantage of the cheap resources/labor that a caste (India) or communist (china) or oppressed (insert favorite 3rd world shithole here) society provides, than invest in its own people's economy.
What happens if a large corporation uses DRM to enforce copyright it *claims* to own but in fact does not. I'm thinking of someone alot bigger than SCO doing what SCO did (attempt to steal software copyrighted by others) but also having the power (unlike SCO) to actually shut down use of software.
China will of course evolve its hardware capabilities to make its own processors. I was wondering if they would also put in their own backdoors to enforce policy regarding approved internet/media content, but maybe leaving the ability to process censored content makes the guilty easier to find.
sadly, in the last 2 years OS/2 use in ATM and POS systems went from over 80% to under 30% as a version of Windows replaces it. The mainframe market from IBM continues to grow at over 20% per year, but of course that's not many machines (just a heck of alot of users)
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if those really were printed in late 1700's, and not a reprint in 19th century that just kept original dates (as was often the practice, my school library had many such 19th century reprints of 1600 and 1700's books ), then let's check back in the 2090's and again at 2140 (350 years) and see if the rate of mottling has accelerated and the things are still readable.
welfare will become a luxury that can't be afforded, which is what some of us believe is the equilibrium condition of economics
paper only lasts at most about 300 years, those thousand year old "books" you hear about are printed on animal parts (skin & other tissue). Unless you're prepared to do the National Archives thing and store them in helium filled cases with UV protection, your printouts are doomed. Storing a gigabyte on those archival quality ink and paper which claim to last 500 years would be bulky and very expensive...don't know about you, but my data isn't that important. Let the archeologists reconstruct our civilization from fragments as they always have, 99.99% of what we do and what we save as data is mundane 7 repetitive and of no real historical significance anyway (i.e., they don't need to see the tax return of every citizen 1,000 years from now to see how our tax system worked. They certainly don't need to see all 300 million AOL CDs, just ten or twenty thousand will do just fine.
over half of movies are just tired rehashing of past successes, very little original material these days: they might be worth $3 to see at home but not $8 + concession stand + wait in line + annoying junveniles. I haven't seen a movie released in the past year I would consider worth seeing in theatre.
heh, I could think of a test of their abilities that involves using less & less complex encryption until the nice g men kicks in your front door....then you'd have an estimation of their computing power.
Ah, THAT kind of production. It seems the BSD follow multimedia device drivers done for Linux; BSD leadership for device drivers is largely in the realm of disks and network. BSD really does seem to be server focused; I love BSD for serving several domains I own, but still use Linux as my desktop & laptop OS largely because of insurmountable multimedia issues
yes Keymaster, when the Destructor is come!
you want production servers to make sounds????
from the view of creating a Linux/Mac version of software, problem with Java is you have to make the user install it, and that they get right version of JRE. Java isn't write once run anywhere, it's write once, make the user do some potentially painful setup/config which might screw up other JVM and Java apps they have running already (and maybe even screw their browser if they click the right install option), and hopefully run. As for X11, it's just GUI, there's a backend that needs to be there.
been faxing in lunch/dinner orders since the early 80's, e-mailing 'em since the early 90's, and in 1994 gave demonstration of what the "world wide web" was to management which including showing site for carry out pizza ordering..... this really isn't earth shattering news.
Debian's back in the game for the next year or so, you mean, until the next stable release about 2009 A.D.
As a dupe?
heh, there might be other choices out there, SuSE Pro works much more nicely on my desktop & laptop than RedHat or Federo 1 &2 ever did. Mobile wireless with RH or FC sucks too.
Turbotax and other such non-game home software have mac versions, I'm wondering if the move by Apple to x86 will mean it would be possible for a combined Mac-Linux version of any such software to be made - would mean of course an open library API by Apple
actually, that phrase "guarenteed lowest price" has so many loopholes and caveats that you will see more than one competitor use it for the same goods at different price, without any possibility of being accused of fraud. Or the phrase "largest online dealer", which could actually mean several things. Even "your money back if not fully satisfied" might not mean what you think it does (read that fine print!)
is price fixing, would you rather have that? Not me, I'd rather hunt around for a good deal for major purchases. It's worth it, you can get 20%+ more gear that way!
well, I think a more accurate translation of the open source community today [is a] subcontractor of American multinationals
would be: the open source community needs to be a subcontractor of European multinationals.
The point is that most government and enterprise Linux installations are going to run RedHat or SuSE, period. That's all I've seen GNU/Linux-wise in my three years of working in such data centers. I'd be happy to see something else (like Debian or Ubantu, or even happier to see FreeBSD, but it hasn't happened yet)
a couple million web sites running an open source OS which is something Not Linux, and those that do run Linux are bailing out of RedHat to other things: SuSE, Ubantu, etc.
You'll be please to know that a reply has already been sent via +/-24Khz freq shift at 1.42 GHz on 30 November 2004 01:32:34.43 GMT to star HIP 04872: "Declare and tag all your weapons of mass destruction, you evil axis of nonterrestrials, or we will, with a coalition of the willing, destroy you!
thank you and gawd bless,
G.W. Bush "
Don't hate India, hate your By-the-Big-Corporation-for-the-Big-Corporation government that would rather take advantage of the cheap resources/labor that a caste (India) or communist (china) or oppressed (insert favorite 3rd world shithole here) society provides, than invest in its own people's economy.
What happens if a large corporation uses DRM to enforce copyright it *claims* to own but in fact does not. I'm thinking of someone alot bigger than SCO doing what SCO did (attempt to steal software copyrighted by others) but also having the power (unlike SCO) to actually shut down use of software.
China will of course evolve its hardware capabilities to make its own processors. I was wondering if they would also put in their own backdoors to enforce policy regarding approved internet/media content, but maybe leaving the ability to process censored content makes the guilty easier to find.
sadly, in the last 2 years OS/2 use in ATM and POS systems went from over 80% to under 30% as a version of Windows replaces it. The mainframe market from IBM continues to grow at over 20% per year, but of course that's not many machines (just a heck of alot of users)
well, yeah... but it ruled!