But the situation is much murkier with the Permian extinctions. Last I'd heard, we have yet to find clear evidence of an impact in the form of iridium, a dust layer or shocked quartz.
Xu and Yang, 1993 and Yang et al. 1995 have reported Iridium spikes and Stishovite microspherules in non-marine P/T sediments in Australia and Antarctica. There's no Permian oceanic crust left since all of it has been subducted, and the Iridium and Stishovite levels are an order of magnitude smaller than C/T sediments, but it is still evidence of some type of major impact.
I'm likely in the minority on a site where "nerd is king,"
I doubt it - there are plenty of us who enjoy the "set and forget" aspect of Linux servers. I've been using SME (used to be E-Smith) server Contribs for the past five years.
That's probably the only objection I'd have to FreeNAS - it doesn't do as many nice things as SME, which also sets up some fairly handy services like "iBays", which are web/intranet pages made simple. Worth looking at if you want more than just fileserving but still want to keep it simple.
The results are pretty conclusive, I'm afraid. Satan is more real than you are - so get thee behind me, TheDreadSlashdotterD. I banish thee to thou foul basement.
the article suggests that Vista is crap because his two older laptops had hardware problems and that Lenovo hasn't released Vista-ready drivers yet. Sounds pretty weak to me.
No, the nastiest (and funniest criticism) was this;
Beta 2 is a good looking operating system with a number of new features, which will be familiar to you if you've played with recent versions of Apple's OS X.
This type of spam isn't too bad given traditional spam methods, as smarter users won't open attachments from people they don't know.
From the summary;
"From the article: 'The e-mail was written to look like an internal e-mail, including signature. It was addressed by name to the intended victim and not detected by the anti-virus software.'"
If I stopped opening document files attached to internal emails just because I didn't recognise the sender, I'd be out of a job within weeks. If I have to make a choice between changing the way I work, or changing my office software because it is so poorly written it will compromise my computer if I open the wrong document, then that software should be dumped instantly.
This is why ODF is so important. Bring on OpenOffice, KDE Office, ODF in Lotus Notes, give me choices, let me out of this trap.
He's presenting a false choice, trying to convince people that they can't have both dependability and openness at the same time. That is FUD.
What's even more interesting is that most of us in the know choose FOSS because it is more dependable.
There is often a tradeoff, but I've always seen it as FOSS being reliable and solid, but sometimes short on features compared to commercial software, which has lots of glitz and flashy GUIs, but is more likely to break.
I wonder if this is some sort of preemptive astroturfing.
In order to decide if we should buy it, we need to know what it does. If the companies making the products are performing a bait-and-switch with the demos, we are not able to to make that assessment correctly.
I want to know if the demos are fake. I want reviews to reflect the real product, not some one-off special I'll never be able to buy. I want to know if I can trust the company selling the product to supply the actual product I've chosen.
I'm happy to see this sort of story, because it helps keep the bastards honest. And let's face it, that's a full-time job these days.
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Xu and Yang, 1993 and Yang et al. 1995 have reported Iridium spikes and Stishovite microspherules in non-marine P/T sediments in Australia and Antarctica. There's no Permian oceanic crust left since all of it has been subducted, and the Iridium and Stishovite levels are an order of magnitude smaller than C/T sediments, but it is still evidence of some type of major impact.
You know Clippy, that sort of non-sequiter was why we kicked you out of the Office help system. Don't make us do it again...
It's OK, but the troll-blocker doesn't seem to be working very well.
It puts the lotion on its skin or it gets the Kapuoeniak again?
That's because Ford doesn't make Pintos any more.
A young peasant. They do get better though.
Especially if you visualise it copping a chair flying the other way...
Thank you. That's a keeper!
The discussion is about an AMD-ATI merger, not ATI-nVidia. Please stay on topic.
Considering the sense of humour normally displayed by these guys, it's more likely to be because the wombat eats roots and leaves.
I doubt it - there are plenty of us who enjoy the "set and forget" aspect of Linux servers. I've been using SME (used to be E-Smith) server Contribs for the past five years.
That's probably the only objection I'd have to FreeNAS - it doesn't do as many nice things as SME, which also sets up some fairly handy services like "iBays", which are web/intranet pages made simple. Worth looking at if you want more than just fileserving but still want to keep it simple.
True, so let's Googlefight it.
The results are pretty conclusive, I'm afraid. Satan is more real than you are - so get thee behind me, TheDreadSlashdotterD. I banish thee to thou foul basement.Satan?
The consumer always pays, by definition. This is about adding billable layers to skim more profits from those consumers. I mean us consumers.
Just Google for "$200 Billion Broadband Scandal" by Bruce Kushnick. It's not exactly a secret.
Do you have a webcam?
Just askin...
There's probably plenty of you who pay more than that. This year, your Tax Freedom Day falls on June 3 Tax Freedom Day
It's not so great. Tastes the same as Swiss, but has more holes.
They're on first.
No, the nastiest (and funniest criticism) was this;
Bitchslap...It will be the default install for 95% of computers sold.
That's the great benefit of owning a monopoly. You can use it to dominate markets you wouldn't normally have a hope of even competing in.
From the summary;
If I stopped opening document files attached to internal emails just because I didn't recognise the sender, I'd be out of a job within weeks. If I have to make a choice between changing the way I work, or changing my office software because it is so poorly written it will compromise my computer if I open the wrong document, then that software should be dumped instantly.This is why ODF is so important. Bring on OpenOffice, KDE Office, ODF in Lotus Notes, give me choices, let me out of this trap.
What's even more interesting is that most of us in the know choose FOSS because it is more dependable.
There is often a tradeoff, but I've always seen it as FOSS being reliable and solid, but sometimes short on features compared to commercial software, which has lots of glitz and flashy GUIs, but is more likely to break.
I wonder if this is some sort of preemptive astroturfing.
We can fix that!
In order to decide if we should buy it, we need to know what it does. If the companies making the products are performing a bait-and-switch with the demos, we are not able to to make that assessment correctly.
I want to know if the demos are fake. I want reviews to reflect the real product, not some one-off special I'll never be able to buy. I want to know if I can trust the company selling the product to supply the actual product I've chosen.
I'm happy to see this sort of story, because it helps keep the bastards honest. And let's face it, that's a full-time job these days.