I think that they are going the wrong direction in looking for new bleeding-edge technology. Nobody is better placed to use the current tried-and-true technology than the power companies.
Here in Virginia, USA, the power company "Dominion Power" is closely tied to "Dominion Communications". The issue is simple. If you want to run copper (or fiber) between two locations, you need continuous right-of-way . You need legal access to a swath of land between both locations that has no point where you do not have the ability to dig a trench. There are only 3 groups that have this. Governments (along the roads), Railroads (like the way Qwest did it) and power companies. (unless I dimm-wittedly forgot somebody)
It seems silly to me for an organization that HAS continuous righ-of-ways to bother with troubled technologies when they can actually lay their own fiber, and charge silly amounts of money to other companies to lease their left over strands.
While I enjoyed A Mote in God's Eye enough to finish it, you have to admit that the author is not looking for laurels to rest on when he writes; (not quoted directly)
All of the best engineers come from the planet New Scotland, and most starship captains accept the notion that they intentionally speak with such a heavy accent that they are nearly unintelligable.
I do not have enough of a memory to quote it directly, but that is almost it.
Remember that embedded linux is another way of saying' Linux that people don't know they're using'.
Yea, it's cool that people are making money at it. But I don't think that it is as hope-generating as some people might first believe. Wide scale acceptance is where a stable market will come from, not 'sneaking it in when they're not looking'.
Nerver ask 'Is It Possible'. Of course its possible. It's possible to build a beowulf cluster of 1024 old gateway 486DX-33 machines. With the room filled with 250 watt 'heaters' you would have less processing ability than the 1U rack server I just bought.(dual 2GHz with 2GB, running linux, or course)
The question you should ask is 'Is it worth my time and money?'
And to answer your question, in my experience the people who drive the purchase of Apple vs. PC's are doing it for reasons that don't lend themselves to thin-client deployment. (graphics, and CAD)
Actually, hardcore geeks are never the ones I have to worry about when I am dealing with video or printing abilities. It's those darned marketing types.
I have met people who can instantly tell the difference between 24 and 32 bit color. And then the will complain endlessly if their monitor does not present 32 bit color EXACTLY like the monitor in a different room (lit by different types of lights).
Don't worry about the geeks; there are much better things to worry about.
Imagine running into the group of researchers in a quake match.....
Sure, their ping times are all 200, but they are clocking their CPU's to 17GHz and rendering at 64,000 x 32,000! On the bigger maps, they can snipe you from their spawn to yours.
Cool and calm (i.e. passionless sheep) is what allowed the DMCA to get passed in the first place.
OK, I'm with you so far.
It doen't matter what the INTENTION of the law is, it matter what the law says.
Oops, that's where you lost me.
I am not a lawyer, nor do I play one on TV (yet) but I am related to a few, and I have been in a courtroom more than a few times. The simple fact is that it DOES matter what the intention of the law is.
Why else would it matter what the desenting opinion is in supream court cases? They are written because interpretation and intention are part off what differentiate the living-law coming from live judges from a rule-set that could be programmed into a computer.
I don't know about everybody else, but at MY house there is really only one reason everyone luggs their machine half way across the city. Everyone knows that you can play games over the internet, but if you frag somebody remotely, you don't get to $hit talk the victom.
The finger pointing also doesn't get translated very well.
We have one friend, Jamie (last name omitted since he reads/.) who bangs his keyboard and curses when he gets fragged. After 7 years of getting together every month or so, he still hasn't figured that it makes him much more enjoyable to hunt.;)
The terminology HYPERSONIC implies faster than mach 5. If I remember correctly, the simple explaination is that at mach 5 there is a aerodynamic barrier that you can think of being similar to the sound barrier (mach 1).
Remember that everybody made a big deal about breaking the sound barrier? That's because going mach 1.1 is much more than 20% harder than going mach 0.9. Likewise going mach 5.1 is MUCH harder than going mach 4.9.
Once you have gotten hypersonic though, you are theoreticly OK until the friction of the air you are traveling through melts your plane. Which of course has to do with the selection of materials, not the ability of the propulsion system.
I don't have any problems with a 3 hour movie that has the courtacy to mention that beforehand. If they mention it in the publicity, then everyone can buy the medium soda and not the bladder-buster when they are at the snack-bar.
And by the way, K-19 turns out not to be the action movie you might think. I have seen it and while it is a very compelling movie, there is simply almost no action in it. It is a drama. I won't give anything (much) away, but the main conflict in the movie is not between the soviet union and the americans.
The story is based on real events, and the simple fact is that there were no large naval battles between the USA and USSR. In the interest of not posting spoilers, I'll simply stop there.
It maybe "en vogue" to blast parents for their irresponsibility, but there are some things that all parents are defensless against.
OK,
So you are a good parrent. Please allow me to take a momment (before I go on a rant) to genuinely applaude you. If more people were like you, the world would be a better place.
However, the number of people who have invested the level of thought that you have, is uncomfortably low. There ARE bad parrents out there. They have problems that ARE their own fault that they then expect society to fix while they whine about how unfortunate they are.
It is no wonder that the children of these people have little feeling of accountability as they have never seen what that looks like. Take for example the kids that shot up thier high school and killed themselves. If their parrents had done that personally they would be on 'death row' right now, and I am not so sure that they shouldn't be there now.
And while there are situations where bad things happen to good people, more often than not, the story ends up being that half of what would be considered 'due dilligence' would have protected these poor children.
Allow me to sum-up the point I am trying to make. Bad things happening to children is not always due to the neglegence of the parrents. BUT when it IS, they should be recognised as the criminals that they are and removed from society just like all of the other scum.
Listen, everybody knows that Diamonds are made when coal (carbon) is compressed under great pressure for very long times. BUT what most people ignore is that when you remove the pressure ( by, say, digging it out of the ground) it turns right back to coal!
No kidding.
Of course it takes the same ammount of time ( hundreds of lifetimes) but every diamond you have ever seen is turning to coal right before your very eyes.
Is THAT the symbol you want to choose for the love of your life?
As long as _I_ don't have to support their user base, what's so bad about AOLOS?
Why fight M$ when you can let AOL fight M$?
I suspect that a lot of the supporters of Linux started out like I did by being disillusioned by the alternatives. Now, more than ever, with the positive press for Linux out there, the more people see that there ARE alternatives to M$, the better for all of us.
Personally I consider using a recipe as cooking somebody else's food.
If I am cooking a meal, then I will add the ingredients that will taste good today. If I follow directions (written at a second grade reading level) then _I_ am not cooking, I am simply prepairing somebody else's food.
LOL.
I DID buy more tivo space just for Good Eats. And right before the DVD came out.... DOH!
And on a related note:
There are time slots on FoodTV that have fewer commercials (midnight - 6:00am). Anybody with a VCR, or other device, might want to look for those.
I was wondering if I (or any other of my fellow/.'ers) could get a 'guest' appearance as THING. I could pour a table spoon of sage into a pot like a pro. I could even hold the kosher salt while you took a pinch.
How 'bout it? What does a geek have to do to get a spot on Good Eats?
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Actually to be correct, that Hertz.
Here in Virginia, USA, the power company "Dominion Power" is closely tied to "Dominion Communications". The issue is simple. If you want to run copper (or fiber) between two locations, you need continuous right-of-way . You need legal access to a swath of land between both locations that has no point where you do not have the ability to dig a trench. There are only 3 groups that have this. Governments (along the roads), Railroads (like the way Qwest did it) and power companies. (unless I dimm-wittedly forgot somebody)
It seems silly to me for an organization that HAS continuous righ-of-ways to bother with troubled technologies when they can actually lay their own fiber, and charge silly amounts of money to other companies to lease their left over strands.
Hmmmm, propeller driven spacecraft... Neat idea you have there. All we have to do is find a intersteller river.
All of the best engineers come from the planet New Scotland, and most starship captains accept the notion that they intentionally speak with such a heavy accent that they are nearly unintelligable.
I do not have enough of a memory to quote it directly, but that is almost it.
Now maybe I can get support for all of the pathetic 7 year old legacy servers I have to keep running.
Or, maybe not.
Am I the only one still maintaining a SCO database server?
Yea, it's cool that people are making money at it. But I don't think that it is as hope-generating as some people might first believe. Wide scale acceptance is where a stable market will come from, not 'sneaking it in when they're not looking'.
The question you should ask is 'Is it worth my time and money?'
And to answer your question, in my experience the people who drive the purchase of Apple vs. PC's are doing it for reasons that don't lend themselves to thin-client deployment. (graphics, and CAD)
I have met people who can instantly tell the difference between 24 and 32 bit color. And then the will complain endlessly if their monitor does not present 32 bit color EXACTLY like the monitor in a different room (lit by different types of lights).
Don't worry about the geeks; there are much better things to worry about.
Sure, their ping times are all 200, but they are clocking their CPU's to 17GHz and rendering at 64,000 x 32,000! On the bigger maps, they can snipe you from their spawn to yours.
Still though, I wonder how long CD's will be around with writable DVD's sitting on the shelf at the local CompUSA.
OK, I'm with you so far.
It doen't matter what the INTENTION of the law is, it matter what the law says.
Oops, that's where you lost me.
I am not a lawyer, nor do I play one on TV (yet) but I am related to a few, and I have been in a courtroom more than a few times. The simple fact is that it DOES matter what the intention of the law is.
Why else would it matter what the desenting opinion is in supream court cases? They are written because interpretation and intention are part off what differentiate the living-law coming from live judges from a rule-set that could be programmed into a computer.
So now you have MY 2 cents.
Would YOU invest in a company that used PGP as its core business but did NOT involve Zimmermann?
Well, would you?
'didn't think so.
The finger pointing also doesn't get translated very well.
We have one friend, Jamie (last name omitted since he reads /.) who bangs his keyboard and curses when he gets fragged. After 7 years of getting together every month or so, he still hasn't figured that it makes him much more enjoyable to hunt. ;)
Remember that everybody made a big deal about breaking the sound barrier? That's because going mach 1.1 is much more than 20% harder than going mach 0.9. Likewise going mach 5.1 is MUCH harder than going mach 4.9.
Once you have gotten hypersonic though, you are theoreticly OK until the friction of the air you are traveling through melts your plane. Which of course has to do with the selection of materials, not the ability of the propulsion system.
And by the way, K-19 turns out not to be the action movie you might think. I have seen it and while it is a very compelling movie, there is simply almost no action in it. It is a drama. I won't give anything (much) away, but the main conflict in the movie is not between the soviet union and the americans.
The story is based on real events, and the simple fact is that there were no large naval battles between the USA and USSR. In the interest of not posting spoilers, I'll simply stop there.
- Robert
OK,
So you are a good parrent. Please allow me to take a momment (before I go on a rant) to genuinely applaude you. If more people were like you, the world would be a better place.
However, the number of people who have invested the level of thought that you have, is uncomfortably low. There ARE bad parrents out there. They have problems that ARE their own fault that they then expect society to fix while they whine about how unfortunate they are.
It is no wonder that the children of these people have little feeling of accountability as they have never seen what that looks like. Take for example the kids that shot up thier high school and killed themselves. If their parrents had done that personally they would be on 'death row' right now, and I am not so sure that they shouldn't be there now.
And while there are situations where bad things happen to good people, more often than not, the story ends up being that half of what would be considered 'due dilligence' would have protected these poor children.
Allow me to sum-up the point I am trying to make. Bad things happening to children is not always due to the neglegence of the parrents. BUT when it IS, they should be recognised as the criminals that they are and removed from society just like all of the other scum.
Listen, everybody knows that Diamonds are made when coal (carbon) is compressed under great pressure for very long times. BUT what most people ignore is that when you remove the pressure ( by, say, digging it out of the ground) it turns right back to coal!
No kidding.
Of course it takes the same ammount of time ( hundreds of lifetimes) but every diamond you have ever seen is turning to coal right before your very eyes.
Is THAT the symbol you want to choose for the love of your life?
Or, as you mentioned, 4 months to make as much money as a standard game.
As long as _I_ don't have to support their user base, what's so bad about AOLOS?
Why fight M$ when you can let AOL fight M$?
I suspect that a lot of the supporters of Linux started out like I did by being disillusioned by the alternatives. Now, more than ever, with the positive press for Linux out there, the more people see that there ARE alternatives to M$, the better for all of us.
Right?
I wonder if they will disable 'disable popups'.
Well, heck... you could have what ever you wanted now. That isn't the DELL buisness model!!
If I am cooking a meal, then I will add the ingredients that will taste good today. If I follow directions (written at a second grade reading level) then _I_ am not cooking, I am simply prepairing somebody else's food.
LOL. I DID buy more tivo space just for Good Eats. And right before the DVD came out .... DOH!
And on a related note:
There are time slots on FoodTV that have fewer commercials (midnight - 6:00am). Anybody with a VCR, or other device, might want to look for those.
First off, I love your show.
I was wondering if I (or any other of my fellow /.'ers) could get a 'guest' appearance as THING. I could pour a table spoon of sage into a pot like a pro. I could even hold the kosher salt while you took a pinch.
How 'bout it? What does a geek have to do to get a spot on Good Eats?