I've seen articles about a "reverse brain drain", where Indians are returning to India because of bleak job market here in past couple of years. R&D labs are being set up in India by HP, Microsoft, Lucent, IBM, etc. The biotech industry in India is booming, with the promise of improvements in agriculture, and the aging western population of the U.S. and many european countries (some with negative population growth!) is a huge potential market for medical products. I'd say India's future is looking good.
I think we should make a huge fusion reactor 93 million miles from earth so it won't pollute anything here. It could light about half the world at a time, too. It could provide more than enough power for the earth for the next 4 billion years at least.
increased productivity? my 98se has never been infected by spyware. my XP laptop lasted less than a month and I installed all security patches. The one piece of adware/spyware I couldn't remove had installed itself as a kernel dll with registry entries, so file was always locked. Putting the drive on another machine and removing the file resulted in a nonbootable sytem. Good thing the gig I was on that required XP was winding down so I blew away XP and installed SuSE linux and VMware workstation with Win 2000 Pro under it.
I was a longtime RedHat fan from release 5.2 to 8, but because of RedHat's change of plan tried a bunch of Linux distros and have stuck with SuSE for my server and laptop.
Mandrake was a close second being just a little harder to get some USB devices working, Gentoo fun but takes too long to futz around, Debian great but versions of packages a little too old & stale for some of the development I do, Slackware similar to Debian but package management not quite as good.
Were he to point out the growing threat of SuSE Linux too, he would be giving Novell/SuSE and IBM some free advertising. I see even HP now sells their high-end x86 servers with the option of SuSE install/support in addition to RedHat. Oracle supports SuSE Enterprise Server (despite the continuing urban legend they only support RedHat; they support six brands of Linux distros.
this was true about 5 years ago, but now they also support SuSE Enterprise Server, and two flavours of Asianux Inside. For existing Oracle products shipped with United Linux support (new products will NOT be supported on UL), they support TurboLinux and Conectiva powered by Unitied Linux 1.0.
Surely you remember the 1971 "Diamonds are Forever" scene at the Whyte House Casino as Q is testing his "Slot Machine Decoder Ring" and drains the jackpot out of a few machines with a smile on his face?
Linux (and most other Unix) zealots can't handle that kind of humor because their favorite kernel really doesn't do "fairness" properly: the kernel of any quality OS would limit the load on the machine that one login can create.
haha, the only electic fence within 20 miles is keeping cattle from running away: I'd be even more scared of a 65 year old farmer's shootin' iron full o' 00 buck than corporate rent-a-cops.
I think Al Gore is a weirdo. Nevertheless he was speaking from a legislative perspective, not an engineering one: he sponsored two bills and government action that altered the arpanet into what we call the internet.
interesting, but it's barbed wire they used, with the statement that it's common around the world....well, in some places maybe, but I can tell you all the barbed wire within 20 miles of where I'm sitting is generally protecting property of pissy owners who would take exception to its removal for the purpose of housing the poor! Wonder what substitute(s) could be used?
actually, you should have started to take offense at the mention of sallying forth on the basis of this research on dogs and injecting thousands of humans in hospitals.
So live in a trailer or RV or small boat? Me, I actually *want* to live in stereotypical suburban bungalow because it's nice and comfy and relatively safe, but yes it leads to lazy life and costs a heap of extra money. My wife is from a country where even well-to-do people sleep on straw mats on tile floor, but she likes king sized bed and HVAC better.
yes, but for civilian religious booby-trap use the ancient gps signals were intentionally randomly time shifted so accuracy was only to the nearest 3 cubits.
Indeed, we do not have accurate temperature readings for Europe or anywhere else for the last 500 years, and I would be very suspicious of the accuracy of any outdoor weather thermometer built in say 1850 or 1910. I've worked with laboratory grade mercury thermometers, and they come with a nice correction chart that usually go from about half a degree plus or minus (sometimes more) over the range of the thing.
when it starts getting a gps reading, it knows it left the building. Anyway, in most buildings gps will work in some places and not in others - alot of risk for the thief. I suppose one could place a lo-jack type laptop in a faraday cage, but again risky when it comes type to either strip or access it.
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I would say anything man does also is a part of earth, even if we scour the biosphere right off this old ball.
I've seen articles about a "reverse brain drain", where Indians are returning to India because of bleak job market here in past couple of years. R&D labs are being set up in India by HP, Microsoft, Lucent, IBM, etc. The biotech industry in India is booming, with the promise of improvements in agriculture, and the aging western population of the U.S. and many european countries (some with negative population growth!) is a huge potential market for medical products. I'd say India's future is looking good.
but what if the unborn lies on the right side BECAUSE they are left handed?
I think we should make a huge fusion reactor 93 million miles from earth so it won't pollute anything here. It could light about half the world at a time, too. It could provide more than enough power for the earth for the next 4 billion years at least.
here you go. Volanoes put out 1/130 as much carbon dioxide as human activity, 200 million tons vs. 26 BILLION tons by man
increased productivity? my 98se has never been infected by spyware. my XP laptop lasted less than a month and I installed all security patches. The one piece of adware/spyware I couldn't remove had installed itself as a kernel dll with registry entries, so file was always locked. Putting the drive on another machine and removing the file resulted in a nonbootable sytem. Good thing the gig I was on that required XP was winding down so I blew away XP and installed SuSE linux and VMware workstation with Win 2000 Pro under it.
I was a longtime RedHat fan from release 5.2 to 8, but because of RedHat's change of plan tried a bunch of Linux distros and have stuck with SuSE for my server and laptop.
Mandrake was a close second being just a little harder to get some USB devices working, Gentoo fun but takes too long to futz around, Debian great but versions of packages a little too old & stale for some of the development I do, Slackware similar to Debian but package management not quite as good.
as a not totally unrelated aside, Oracle also supports running on VMWare!
Were he to point out the growing threat of SuSE Linux too, he would be giving Novell/SuSE and IBM some free advertising. I see even HP now sells their high-end x86 servers with the option of SuSE install/support in addition to RedHat. Oracle supports SuSE Enterprise Server (despite the continuing urban legend they only support RedHat; they support six brands of Linux distros.
this was true about 5 years ago, but now they also support SuSE Enterprise Server, and two flavours of Asianux Inside. For existing Oracle products shipped with United Linux support (new products will NOT be supported on UL), they support TurboLinux and Conectiva powered by Unitied Linux 1.0.
but I've heard of RedHat; never heard of Xandros nor Linspire.
Programs that were originally written for another platform (like Vax VMS or IBM or Amdahl Mainframe) and then ported to Unix/Linux can be interesting.
That said, I love Linux (it's paying my bills) and BSD; just couldn't resist a chance to get in a cheap potshot.
students who formerly wasted their time watching TV all evening now also waste time on the computer.
Legacy? HP does sell/support Linux (SuSE and RedHat) too. And Windows. And Novell. And all manner of Intel (one to 8-way) based boxes.
well, not everything.... the chips, chips, baked beans, and chips doesn't have much chips in it.
Surely you remember the 1971 "Diamonds are Forever" scene at the Whyte House Casino as Q is testing his "Slot Machine Decoder Ring" and drains the jackpot out of a few machines with a smile on his face?
Linux (and most other Unix) zealots can't handle that kind of humor because their favorite kernel really doesn't do "fairness" properly: the kernel of any quality OS would limit the load on the machine that one login can create.
haha, the only electic fence within 20 miles is keeping cattle from running away: I'd be even more scared of a 65 year old farmer's shootin' iron full o' 00 buck than corporate rent-a-cops.
I think Al Gore is a weirdo. Nevertheless he was speaking from a legislative perspective, not an engineering one: he sponsored two bills and government action that altered the arpanet into what we call the internet.
interesting, but it's barbed wire they used, with the statement that it's common around the world....well, in some places maybe, but I can tell you all the barbed wire within 20 miles of where I'm sitting is generally protecting property of pissy owners who would take exception to its removal for the purpose of housing the poor! Wonder what substitute(s) could be used?
actually, you should have started to take offense at the mention of sallying forth on the basis of this research on dogs and injecting thousands of humans in hospitals.
So live in a trailer or RV or small boat? Me, I actually *want* to live in stereotypical suburban bungalow because it's nice and comfy and relatively safe, but yes it leads to lazy life and costs a heap of extra money. My wife is from a country where even well-to-do people sleep on straw mats on tile floor, but she likes king sized bed and HVAC better.
yes, but for civilian religious booby-trap use the ancient gps signals were intentionally randomly time shifted so accuracy was only to the nearest 3 cubits.
Indeed, we do not have accurate temperature readings for Europe or anywhere else for the last 500 years, and I would be very suspicious of the accuracy of any outdoor weather thermometer built in say 1850 or 1910. I've worked with laboratory grade mercury thermometers, and they come with a nice correction chart that usually go from about half a degree plus or minus (sometimes more) over the range of the thing.
when it starts getting a gps reading, it knows it left the building. Anyway, in most buildings gps will work in some places and not in others - alot of risk for the thief. I suppose one could place a lo-jack type laptop in a faraday cage, but again risky when it comes type to either strip or access it.