oh yeah, just think if 1/10 the people driving to Chicago M-F 7:30-9:00am had one of those.....I think just one 250 M.P.H head on collision would fling enough debris into nearby flying car's jet engines that a sort of "chain reaction" would be touched off. Instead of 20 car pile-ups on the inbound Kennedy, we'd have "a 8,500 flying vehicle chain-react-up, with firestorm lasting well into the lunch hour".
actually, there are ways of harvesting those "secret" numbers too (the fake "out-of-order" ATM machine that harvested card numbers & PINS", employees who cracked the PIN database, etc.etc.), or bypassing the need for such passwords altogether (e.g. man-in-the-middle attacks).
and with the big corporations here trying to get everyone into upper-lower class commodity McJobs, why Microsoft will soon price itself out of the developed world's reach too. We soon won't need Office or any other word processors anyway, and as Dogbert said of a future America with everyone having menial service jobs, "but just think of how clean it will be."
Post WWII inventions in our daily lives (sure they all have components of prior technology, the various types of LASER have several too): Semiconductor electronics & integrated circuits, CCD imaging, microwave oven, magnetic data storage, optical and magneto-optical storage, the operating system, public key cryptography, pacemaker, GPS, automatic teller, pregnancy tester, barcode.....
...and Tungten melts at the very high temperature of 3000 degrees F (1650 C). Let's not forget the pressuem, estimated to be 4.5 GPa at 140 km, about 650,000 PSI. I don't think we'll be going down there anytime soon.
you forget diamond BURNS LIKE COAL at temperatures of just over 1500 degrees.
as the other replier has pointed out, you're a layer off - the outer mantle goes from 7 miles to about 190 miles (10-300 km), with temperatures of 2520 to 5400 degrees F, more than enough to make diamond burst into flame in the presence of oxygen, and to melt steel.
haha, I wonder if in 100 years, we'd have the technology to build something 62 miles under the surface of the earth, in the outer mantle. I haven't heard of any alloys made by man that could endure 10 minutes under those conditions. You might want to get a long tape measure & do a check, I think your contractors lied and only made it 5 miles deep.
What a total crock of steaming bovine fecal matter - we have NO idea how often large asteroids have impacted in the past, there are any number of ways the impact craters can be hidden since most of our planet is under water, and glacials have scrubbed large areas of the land masses. And even if we had a perfect record of our past asteroid hits, that has NO bearing on future encounters. There could be a stream of ten 10-kilometer asteroids bound to hit earth in the next 100 years , put on that trajectory by some random event long ago, or there could be NO chance of a major hit for the remaining lifetime of the earth. One in a million, or 1 in 1, WE DON"T KNOW.
big money has been poured into fusion since I was a kid (that's more than 30 years). It's just a money sewer. We already have a big ol' fusion reactor in the sky that puts out more energy than we could possibly ever use.
The funny thing about making a big-ass computer, is that 10 years later you have the same power on your desk. Look at the performance of a Cray-2 and compare that with a 3GHz Intel box. Enough said, you have pressing need for a heavy number cruncher, instead of spending millions just wait a few years & you can run your sim on your kid's Quake machine.
Simulate nukes? bah, we gots plenty already. Big and small and dial-a-yield.
Everything else is ok. 8D
Linus' kernel (and about two dozen other open source OS kernels) would be largely useless without a free compiler. Useless without the hundreds of Unix-like utilties to make an actual OS. And the GNU utilities are VERY useful even on commercial OS like Solaris, IRIX, HP/UX, AIX, etc. etc. I've been using GNU tools for over a decade to better admin my machines.
If any of his children were born here they are U.S. citizens. A "U.S. resident alien" has to obey the same laws as a U.S. citizen, with the added bonus that they could be incarcerated by the INS and/or deported in some cases if they break the law, beside the normal other penalties the rest of us would get. Not a good option for a married man
You don't like them, don't look at them. My relatives are spread all over the planet, and we like to see pictures of what everyone's doing. Those without personal websites email photos. Also, I've had one job already because of my personal web site's resume page + the googlebot. Personal websites rule!
Being a "U.S. resident alien", he not only has to obey the same laws as you & I, but if he does not, he also can face the added consequence in some cases of being incarcerated by the INS, and even deported.
As an advocate and evangelist of RedHat from version 5.2 until 2 months ago, I believe it will harm RedHat that no ISOs of the new products, especially the high end enterprise products, are available for public download and distribution: no way to study/learn at home (except if one is rich), no way to bring in RedHat into the "back door" for evaluation or test beds, no way to evangelize colleagues with real running systems. If your business model is built on support, why restrict access to the base enterprise software (even if with no updates except via source rpm)? Your new competitors will do this (SuSE + IBM)
Though I'm a developer, and you're a developer, most people aren't developers, they are USERS of software. Fedora isn't for people who will USE software; they want stability and standarization. A person in business or home user can't ever count on Fedora being stable enough or standard enough to do anything useful. Fedora is a happy fun playpen only.
I have read the books, and other than the destruction of the ring, the deposing of Saruman by Gandalf was the second greatest event in the whole Trilogy.
"Behold, I am not Gandalf the Grey, whom you betrayed. I am Gandalf the White, who has returned from death. You have no colour now, and I cast you from the order and from the Council." He raised his hand, and spoke slowly in a clear voice. "Saruman, your staff is broken.! There was a crack, and the staff split asunder in Saruman's hand, and the head of it fell down at Gandalf's feet.
After RedHat giving me the shaft, I've been trying out various distros (Slackware, Debian, Fedora, Mandrake) for the past month, and Mandrake seems very good - Debian kernel, libraries and ports too old, and SuSE doesn't have free ISO's to burn CD to try out (yes I have been buying RedHat since 5.x). Mandrake is the first distro to recognize everything in my system without manual configuration of mouse, xfree86, CD writer. only rough spot thus far is changing permissions on/proc/bus/ to world read-execute and/proc/bus/usb so that normal user can use USB camera.
Is there also a solution for those of us silly enough to run a Microsoft server for 24x7 operation, who don't have the luxury of unlocking files or booting from DOS disk?
Well, in our case we only have to worry about porting to platforms we choose.... and our applications WILL run on RedHat 7.3 & up, Mandrake 9.1, and FreeBSD. Someday Debian stable will be there. Might add Mandrake is looking mighty good, and they're not afraid to let you download ISO and try it for free. Hope RedHat goes back to that...
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but suppose someone does the "Demolition Man" thing & whacks off & uses someone's finger. Has someone tested it that way?
oh yeah, just think if 1/10 the people driving to Chicago M-F 7:30-9:00am had one of those.....I think just one 250 M.P.H head on collision would fling enough debris into nearby flying car's jet engines that a sort of "chain reaction" would be touched off. Instead of 20 car pile-ups on the inbound Kennedy, we'd have "a 8,500 flying vehicle chain-react-up, with firestorm lasting well into the lunch hour".
actually, there are ways of harvesting those "secret" numbers too (the fake "out-of-order" ATM machine that harvested card numbers & PINS", employees who cracked the PIN database, etc.etc.), or bypassing the need for such passwords altogether (e.g. man-in-the-middle attacks).
and with the big corporations here trying to get everyone into upper-lower class commodity McJobs, why Microsoft will soon price itself out of the developed world's reach too. We soon won't need Office or any other word processors anyway, and as Dogbert said of a future America with everyone having menial service jobs, "but just think of how clean it will be."
Post WWII inventions in our daily lives (sure they all have components of prior technology, the various types of LASER have several too): Semiconductor electronics & integrated circuits, CCD imaging, microwave oven, magnetic data storage, optical and magneto-optical storage, the operating system, public key cryptography, pacemaker, GPS, automatic teller, pregnancy tester, barcode.....
90% of the /bin /usr/sbin /sbin wasn't written by GNU in those Unix(tm) and the *BSD systems, but in the case of GNU/Linux they were.
...and Tungten melts at the very high temperature of 3000 degrees F (1650 C). Let's not forget the pressuem, estimated to be 4.5 GPa at 140 km, about 650,000 PSI. I don't think we'll be going down there anytime soon.
you forget diamond BURNS LIKE COAL at temperatures of just over 1500 degrees. as the other replier has pointed out, you're a layer off - the outer mantle goes from 7 miles to about 190 miles (10-300 km), with temperatures of 2520 to 5400 degrees F, more than enough to make diamond burst into flame in the presence of oxygen, and to melt steel.
haha, I wonder if in 100 years, we'd have the technology to build something 62 miles under the surface of the earth, in the outer mantle. I haven't heard of any alloys made by man that could endure 10 minutes under those conditions. You might want to get a long tape measure & do a check, I think your contractors lied and only made it 5 miles deep.
What a total crock of steaming bovine fecal matter - we have NO idea how often large asteroids have impacted in the past, there are any number of ways the impact craters can be hidden since most of our planet is under water, and glacials have scrubbed large areas of the land masses. And even if we had a perfect record of our past asteroid hits, that has NO bearing on future encounters. There could be a stream of ten 10-kilometer asteroids bound to hit earth in the next 100 years , put on that trajectory by some random event long ago, or there could be NO chance of a major hit for the remaining lifetime of the earth. One in a million, or 1 in 1, WE DON"T KNOW.
big money has been poured into fusion since I was a kid (that's more than 30 years). It's just a money sewer. We already have a big ol' fusion reactor in the sky that puts out more energy than we could possibly ever use.
The funny thing about making a big-ass computer, is that 10 years later you have the same power on your desk. Look at the performance of a Cray-2 and compare that with a 3GHz Intel box. Enough said, you have pressing need for a heavy number cruncher, instead of spending millions just wait a few years & you can run your sim on your kid's Quake machine.
Simulate nukes? bah, we gots plenty already. Big and small and dial-a-yield. Everything else is ok. 8D
Linus' kernel (and about two dozen other open source OS kernels) would be largely useless without a free compiler. Useless without the hundreds of Unix-like utilties to make an actual OS. And the GNU utilities are VERY useful even on commercial OS like Solaris, IRIX, HP/UX, AIX, etc. etc. I've been using GNU tools for over a decade to better admin my machines.
If any of his children were born here they are U.S. citizens. A "U.S. resident alien" has to obey the same laws as a U.S. citizen, with the added bonus that they could be incarcerated by the INS and/or deported in some cases if they break the law, beside the normal other penalties the rest of us would get. Not a good option for a married man
You don't like them, don't look at them. My relatives are spread all over the planet, and we like to see pictures of what everyone's doing. Those without personal websites email photos. Also, I've had one job already because of my personal web site's resume page + the googlebot. Personal websites rule!
Being a "U.S. resident alien", he not only has to obey the same laws as you & I, but if he does not, he also can face the added consequence in some cases of being incarcerated by the INS, and even deported.
first was e-business, then i-business...now we have e-bola and i-bola. These marketing droids are so lame.....
SCO's purpose is to pump their stock & keep their name in the headlines. These actions suit their purposes wonderfully.
some of GNU's stuff runs with a Unixware kernel :D
As an advocate and evangelist of RedHat from version 5.2 until 2 months ago, I believe it will harm RedHat that no ISOs of the new products, especially the high end enterprise products, are available for public download and distribution: no way to study/learn at home (except if one is rich), no way to bring in RedHat into the "back door" for evaluation or test beds, no way to evangelize colleagues with real running systems. If your business model is built on support, why restrict access to the base enterprise software (even if with no updates except via source rpm)? Your new competitors will do this (SuSE + IBM)
Though I'm a developer, and you're a developer, most people aren't developers, they are USERS of software. Fedora isn't for people who will USE software; they want stability and standarization. A person in business or home user can't ever count on Fedora being stable enough or standard enough to do anything useful. Fedora is a happy fun playpen only.
I have read the books, and other than the destruction of the ring, the deposing of Saruman by Gandalf was the second greatest event in the whole Trilogy.
"Behold, I am not Gandalf the Grey, whom you betrayed. I am Gandalf the White, who has returned from death. You have no colour now, and I cast you from the order and from the Council." He raised his hand, and spoke slowly in a clear voice. "Saruman, your staff is broken.! There was a crack, and the staff split asunder in Saruman's hand, and the head of it fell down at Gandalf's feet.
Those are BETA version - RE 2.95???????
After RedHat giving me the shaft, I've been trying out various distros (Slackware, Debian, Fedora, Mandrake) for the past month, and Mandrake seems very good - Debian kernel, libraries and ports too old, and SuSE doesn't have free ISO's to burn CD to try out (yes I have been buying RedHat since 5.x). Mandrake is the first distro to recognize everything in my system without manual configuration of mouse, xfree86, CD writer. only rough spot thus far is changing permissions on /proc/bus/ to world read-execute and /proc/bus/usb so that normal user can use USB camera.
Is there also a solution for those of us silly enough to run a Microsoft server for 24x7 operation, who don't have the luxury of unlocking files or booting from DOS disk?
Well, in our case we only have to worry about porting to platforms we choose.... and our applications WILL run on RedHat 7.3 & up, Mandrake 9.1, and FreeBSD. Someday Debian stable will be there. Might add Mandrake is looking mighty good, and they're not afraid to let you download ISO and try it for free. Hope RedHat goes back to that...