But I'm told things are 9X cheaper in China -
(i.e. one company I know who told their managers they can hire 9 people in their china office for everyone that they fired in the US!!!!)
Considering the well known cost advantage of outsourcing, this 56 billion may well be far more productive than the 277 billion.
... or if it was pushed: they are working on such weapons
Look up the cool "reentry angle for faster deorbit"
graphs and the "impact velocity minimum energy deorbit" charts in this
RAND Corp document on kinetic-energy space weapons.
Parent wroteThe Bio-warfare attacks with smallpox laden blankets and such generally happened in the 1700's to 1750's, not the 1500's.
Interesting. Note that bio-warefare agents getting out of control dates back quite a bt further - likely to the 1346 Siege of Caffa. This page from
our government's center for disease control has interesting details.
On the basis of a 14th-century account by the Genoese Gabriele de' Mussi, the Black Death is widely believed to have reached Europe from the Crimea as the result of a biological warfare attack. This is not only of great historical interest but also relevant to current efforts to evaluate the threat of military or terrorist use of biological weapons.
Bet the guy who wrote it never thought it was also relevant to exploring Mars.
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If slashcode adopted this approach, we could all use whatever look we wanted for whatever device we were using; just by having a user-specified style sheet!
Other than wine however, QEmu (http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/) is a nice speed driven emulator that will do full on emulation of a system.
I second the thought that QEmu's entire-system-emulation is a great approach. I'm no expert, but it gives me some feeling of being better "sandboxed" so rogue applications don't escape from the emulated system.
But perhaps the coolest, this Fabrice Bellard guy who wrote QEmu is the same guy behind the
ffmpeg library and the TinyCC C compiler, his own emacs clone, and the linmodem project. Quite the impressive guy in the open source world.
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GameBoy
makes an awesome microcontroler for home robotics projects.
4 MB of flash memory, 16 MB of SDRAM, various inputs, a nice LCD for output.
Charmed Labs makes a great interface card and software to interact with the gameboy. This card can (but isn't required to) interface with many of the lego sensors and motors.
Reviews of spam filters always seem to focus on how much stuff they block.
The consequenses of blocking a non-spam email are so much worse (parent not hearing from kid. the customer that would have saved your startup.) than a spam getting in, I wish the spam filter reviews would focus on those.
For even more consise examples, check out the
POVRay short code contest, where they have everything from landscapes to pottery exhibits to cities to blood-cells -- each in under 256 bytes of source code.
"'The Wet Bird'... I can't even imagine putting those images together using POV-Ray. Using 3dsmax, sure. But POV-Ray? Wow."
Gilles Tran, the artist who made 'The Wet Bird' piece has a wonderful 9-page series of web pages on
The
Making of the Web Bird
He's one of the best 3D artists our there in any media. You can see more of his gallery here
"How exactly do they make a believer out of a CIO who's test linux rollout has reduced costs on the project by 30% over the past 6 months?"
They don't need to. They market to the CEO and CFO instead. An easier sale, and if the CFO tells the CEO "we'll save 30%" it'll have as much influence as if the CIO says the opposite.
Probably even moreso -- because the subject of the conversation is saving money==finances.
Anyone have a compatability checklist of file-formats supported by Windows (standard distro) vs file-formats supported by Linux (a standard distro)?
I'm thinking stuff like.ogg, etc.
OTOH, if we want to play like msft who probably counts ".doc" and ".ppt" as file formats, we should probably count.fvwmrc,.bashrc, sendmail.cf as well.:)
"Also bear in mind that in a perfect world, radio stations would play music that their target audience wants to hear."
Wouldn't these Ad/Songs help this?
The Ads/Songs with the highest ROI would be the ones that people want to hear - by voting with their dollars.
In fact, it's hard for me to think of a more reliable way of surveying the listeners to find what they really want to hear. If you just ask them, you'll find some people who lie to sound cool (as much as I liked most punk bands, Black Flag was too extreme for my everyday listening, but I still said I liked them). But if you can see what they're actually paying for, you know exactly what they like.
Personally, I'd kinda like it if all the ads got replaced by songs. The station would still need to worry about if the balance of good vs. sucky songs got played, in the same way they worry about advertisers that offend their listeners.
"We're a pure financial animal," Goldfarb said of the venture capital firm. The terms of the investment deal were attractive, he said, with BayStar purchasing $20 million worth of preferred shares that paid an ongoing dividend. <b>The firm mitigates its risk by shorting</b> the common stock of the company it is investing in.
a pretty good suspicion that BayStar made money on the deal.
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Considering the well known cost advantage of outsourcing, this 56 billion may well be far more productive than the 277 billion.
Of course you could have linked his article talking about the office design
... or if it was pushed: they are working on such weapons Look up the cool "reentry angle for faster deorbit" graphs and the "impact velocity minimum energy deorbit" charts in this RAND Corp document on kinetic-energy space weapons.
bummer.
Linux's updates shouldn't be more than a few megs, considering there are floppy-based distros where the whole distro fits in a meg or two.
Of course if by "Linux" you're counting Wine & MSFT-office-warez & more, you'd have more security updates than a core Linux distro.
But how many millions of dollars saved, when people
- stopped playing solitare while their system was hozed.
- stopped reading slashdot while their system was hozed.
- switched to Linux, saving the company licensing costs for years to come.
I'd love to see if these millions saved = the millions lost.-
Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova
First woman in space.
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Guion Bluford
First african american in space.
- Laika
first of earths inhabitants in space (baring alien abductions, etc).
- Tito first tourist.... Shuttlesworth - first guy from his whole continent...
"I don't know if it is a very dramatic sounding name though" IMHO Guion Bluford probably has the coolest name of the lot.Interesting. Note that bio-warefare agents getting out of control dates back quite a bt further - likely to the 1346 Siege of Caffa. This page from our government's center for disease control has interesting details.
Bet the guy who wrote it never thought it was also relevant to exploring Mars.While not a 100% clone, it's cool because ALL the layout&look&feel is done in CSS. It's the exact same html as this, this, and even this wireless-device-friendly look
If slashcode adopted this approach, we could all use whatever look we wanted for whatever device we were using; just by having a user-specified style sheet!
A was using this as an argument against censoring the internet, but I guess it's only a matter of time before it becomes a reality on voice lines too.
I second the thought that QEmu's entire-system-emulation is a great approach. I'm no expert, but it gives me some feeling of being better "sandboxed" so rogue applications don't escape from the emulated system.
But perhaps the coolest, this Fabrice Bellard guy who wrote QEmu is the same guy behind the ffmpeg library and the TinyCC C compiler, his own emacs clone, and the linmodem project. Quite the impressive guy in the open source world.
Charmed Labs makes a great interface card and software to interact with the gameboy. This card can (but isn't required to) interface with many of the lego sensors and motors.
Higher density = more "bits - per - revolution"
More "bits/revolution" * same RPM = faster data rate
(of course if they just added platters, you wouldn't get faster - but it seems they're getting more bits by increasing the density/platter)
The consequenses of blocking a non-spam email are so much worse (parent not hearing from kid. the customer that would have saved your startup.) than a spam getting in, I wish the spam filter reviews would focus on those.
For even more consise examples, check out the POVRay short code contest, where they have everything from landscapes to pottery exhibits to cities to blood-cells -- each in under 256 bytes of source code.
Gilles Tran, the artist who made 'The Wet Bird' piece has a wonderful 9-page series of web pages on The Making of the Web Bird He's one of the best 3D artists our there in any media. You can see more of his gallery here
They don't need to. They market to the CEO and CFO instead. An easier sale, and if the CFO tells the CEO "we'll save 30%" it'll have as much influence as if the CIO says the opposite.
Probably even moreso -- because the subject of the conversation is saving money==finances.
Did you mean "free as in warez" or "free as in MSBlast, Klez, and Lovsan"?
I'm thinking stuff like .ogg, etc.
OTOH, if we want to play like msft who probably counts ".doc" and ".ppt" as file formats, we should probably count .fvwmrc, .bashrc, sendmail.cf as well. :)
NOT! It's a sad day.
The open source community _wanted_ to see Darl vs. IBM in a GPL suit.
Wouldn't these Ad/Songs help this?
The Ads/Songs with the highest ROI would be the ones that people want to hear - by voting with their dollars.
In fact, it's hard for me to think of a more reliable way of surveying the listeners to find what they really want to hear. If you just ask them, you'll find some people who lie to sound cool (as much as I liked most punk bands, Black Flag was too extreme for my everyday listening, but I still said I liked them). But if you can see what they're actually paying for, you know exactly what they like.
Perhaps this will inspire the alcohol & advertising industry to produce better music than the brittney-clones that the record labels keep signing.
I think the ad guys the beer companies hire actually have a shot - they've shown pretty impressive creativity in the past.
Personally, I'd kinda like it if all the ads got replaced by songs. The station would still need to worry about if the balance of good vs. sucky songs got played, in the same way they worry about advertisers that offend their listeners.
you sure? I don't think so. note you can mount a CDRom read-only, and that doesn't write.