Akamai is everywhere because that's the whole point of their business. They cache content for their customers, and their software finds the nearest server to an individual client, and uses that as a mirror. This is fast (not many router hops to get to your nearest akamai server) but needs a ton of servers all over the place. Akamai thus has a ton of servers, all over the place.
BootCamp+winXP is probably your best bet, for the moment. Using a VM still needs a copy of Windows, and will be a bit slower. My father is one of the Revit developers (codes the geometric modeler) and I've tried running it under WINE. It fails, sadly. As others have pointed out VMWare Fusion has gotten better. As with any VM the problem is that the VM adds overhead. More RAM, more video ram, and a faster processor (or more cores) should mitigate those problems.
Sandia is working on an expanded version of the Z-machine that would act as a fusion power plant. Still a research facility, obviously, but they aren't using a Tokamak, unlike most other fusion researchers.
Actually, the frequency is more important than the power.
See, ionizing radiation causes cancer. If the incoming energy of a given photon (determined by the frequency) is higher than the ionization energy of the impacted material electrons will be "knocked off" and the atom ionized. When this happens to DNA it can cause errors, thus causing cancer. Non ionizing radiation, such as 2.4ghz microwaves, will never do this, it will merely heat whatever it hits. Signal power is only important in determining how much heat will be produced. The frequency determines how much cancer causing damage you get, the power determines how cooked you get.
Crystals and magnets CAN be used to block/change EM radiation.
Mainly, a crystal provides a clock for an oscilator, and the magnet is an electromagnet. It's one way to generate an EM field. This will, of course, just add more EM, but it does cause a change.
Exactly. Cell phone radiation is non-ionizing. No matter how much power you pump into it the only effect you will cause is heating. You could have the world's most powerful radio emitter at those frequencies and never knock a single electron off a molecule of your DNA. So it's only the heating that could be causing the cancer. Yet no one says that fevers cause cancer.
5 reasons a geek should install Ubuntu, off the top of my head:
* 4 GB of memory supported on 32-bit Ubuntu.
* Backup to DVD-R or CD-R
* MUCH better Wi-Fi control, though some cards aren't supported. Most are IME.
* Rsync works on any files.
* UI technique that has been availible for some time via "Launchy" on windows and Deskbar on Linux -- hit Alt+F3 key, type the name of your file or program, and hit enter.
The wikipedia article on the sarcasm mark contains a bit more info:
The Snark, a ligature of the full stop and tilde (~) was proposed to other type designers and typographers at http://www.typophile.com/ for signifying all sorts of irony, including verbal irony, such as sarcasm.
Yes, but you need to use Encrypt, Decrypt, Encrypt, This is important because if done in EEE mode the initial permutation before the second E will reverse the final permutation after the first E. Err. wait, that's 3DES.
Getting a group that plays well together is hard.
I've said before that the real fun of WoW PVE is leading raids. Playing in the average raid guild is boring, just press your 5 buttons over and over again, night after night. Leading the raid, co-ordinating a class, or such is much harder and more fun. One of my old guild masters had a great idea: choose funny music for each boss. Razergore's chase got Yakkety Sax (the Benny Hill theme.) Ragnaros got Power Rangers. Etc, etc. Sure, we wanted loot, but we kept coming back to see what the music would be for the next boss. Raiding is to repetitive to keep the players entertained, a good raid leader will think of things to keep the guild together. This is hard, raiding is easy.
They might also work it like EVE: release an "expansion" pack that updates the engine. No WoW2, just an expansion that costs as much as a full game. This would avoid fragmenting the userbase.
How does bizarreness matter? The cult of scientology believes that evil space aliens murdered billions of other aliens by stuffing them into DC-10 like spaceships and blowing them up in earth's volcanoes with Hydrogen bombs. The cult of christianity believes that you can telepathically communicate with a dead god-fragment and tell him you love him and that he will accept you into his kingdom and cleanse you of a taint that was placed in all humanity by a rib-woman being tricked by a talking snake.
Scientology is insane, but so are pretty much all other religions.
It's fun to lead raids, or to be a class lead. Then every raid seems different, there are different problems to solve, etc. To just be a player in a raid is boring.
Arena PVP is also endgame, and has roughly equivalent gear. Human opponents provide far more varied experiences than raids (9 classes, assume 2 pvp viable specs each, 5 players chosen. that's thousands of different possible matchups just by class and spec alone, ignoring player skill and style all together.)
No, no, no. XMonad is the expert mode widow manager. Mouse not required. Programming ability probably required, since all the settings are hard coded. Then again, it's tiny and easy to understand, so that's not a bad thing.
Don't buy gold. Gold is only valuable in a good economy, where people can afford jewlery. (There are other uses, but most use very small amounts of it.) Buy copper or another metal that is used in large amounts and has a high value. And make sure it's used in societies other than your own. Copper is being used by china, for example.
Important point. Seceding implies that they didn't want to take over the existing government, merely implement their own and let the non-seceding states remain as the US. When their secession was denied they rebelled.
This is stranger than believing that a woman made from a rib was tricked into eating a magic fruit by an evil snake and so everyone else in the world will be punished forever? Or that some hippy bum was the son of an all-powerful being and yet couldn't escape execution or find a more effective way of converting people?
Most religions require some pretty strong dope to take seriously.
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Akamai is everywhere because that's the whole point of their business. They cache content for their customers, and their software finds the nearest server to an individual client, and uses that as a mirror. This is fast (not many router hops to get to your nearest akamai server) but needs a ton of servers all over the place. Akamai thus has a ton of servers, all over the place.
BootCamp+winXP is probably your best bet, for the moment. Using a VM still needs a copy of Windows, and will be a bit slower. My father is one of the Revit developers (codes the geometric modeler) and I've tried running it under WINE. It fails, sadly. As others have pointed out VMWare Fusion has gotten better. As with any VM the problem is that the VM adds overhead. More RAM, more video ram, and a faster processor (or more cores) should mitigate those problems.
Yes, but if you want to publish physics stuff on the internet use arXiv.org and publish a preprint of your paper.
Sandia is working on an expanded version of the Z-machine that would act as a fusion power plant. Still a research facility, obviously, but they aren't using a Tokamak, unlike most other fusion researchers.
Actually, the frequency is more important than the power.
See, ionizing radiation causes cancer. If the incoming energy of a given photon (determined by the frequency) is higher than the ionization energy of the impacted material electrons will be "knocked off" and the atom ionized. When this happens to DNA it can cause errors, thus causing cancer. Non ionizing radiation, such as 2.4ghz microwaves, will never do this, it will merely heat whatever it hits. Signal power is only important in determining how much heat will be produced. The frequency determines how much cancer causing damage you get, the power determines how cooked you get.
Crystals and magnets CAN be used to block/change EM radiation. Mainly, a crystal provides a clock for an oscilator, and the magnet is an electromagnet. It's one way to generate an EM field. This will, of course, just add more EM, but it does cause a change.
Exactly. Cell phone radiation is non-ionizing. No matter how much power you pump into it the only effect you will cause is heating. You could have the world's most powerful radio emitter at those frequencies and never knock a single electron off a molecule of your DNA. So it's only the heating that could be causing the cancer. Yet no one says that fevers cause cancer.
5 reasons a geek should install Ubuntu, off the top of my head: * 4 GB of memory supported on 32-bit Ubuntu. * Backup to DVD-R or CD-R * MUCH better Wi-Fi control, though some cards aren't supported. Most are IME. * Rsync works on any files. * UI technique that has been availible for some time via "Launchy" on windows and Deskbar on Linux -- hit Alt+F3 key, type the name of your file or program, and hit enter.
No, they used Italianium and Machinetranslatium.
Just link goatse like a normal troll. That vent clearly belongs to a Sony executive, and is thus filled with hot air with which said being can speak.
Fixed That For You, Hope That Helps, Have A Nice Day.
YHBT. YHL. FOAD.~
Yes, but you need to use Encrypt, Decrypt, Encrypt, This is important because if done in EEE mode the initial permutation before the second E will reverse the final permutation after the first E. Err. wait, that's 3DES.
Naw, one of the paladins will just judge Justice on you, so you can't run away.
Getting a group that plays well together is hard.
I've said before that the real fun of WoW PVE is leading raids. Playing in the average raid guild is boring, just press your 5 buttons over and over again, night after night. Leading the raid, co-ordinating a class, or such is much harder and more fun. One of my old guild masters had a great idea: choose funny music for each boss. Razergore's chase got Yakkety Sax (the Benny Hill theme.) Ragnaros got Power Rangers. Etc, etc. Sure, we wanted loot, but we kept coming back to see what the music would be for the next boss. Raiding is to repetitive to keep the players entertained, a good raid leader will think of things to keep the guild together. This is hard, raiding is easy.
They might also work it like EVE: release an "expansion" pack that updates the engine. No WoW2, just an expansion that costs as much as a full game. This would avoid fragmenting the userbase.
How does bizarreness matter? The cult of scientology believes that evil space aliens murdered billions of other aliens by stuffing them into DC-10 like spaceships and blowing them up in earth's volcanoes with Hydrogen bombs. The cult of christianity believes that you can telepathically communicate with a dead god-fragment and tell him you love him and that he will accept you into his kingdom and cleanse you of a taint that was placed in all humanity by a rib-woman being tricked by a talking snake.
Scientology is insane, but so are pretty much all other religions.
It's fun to lead raids, or to be a class lead. Then every raid seems different, there are different problems to solve, etc. To just be a player in a raid is boring.
Arena PVP is also endgame, and has roughly equivalent gear. Human opponents provide far more varied experiences than raids (9 classes, assume 2 pvp viable specs each, 5 players chosen. that's thousands of different possible matchups just by class and spec alone, ignoring player skill and style all together.)
No, no, no. XMonad is the expert mode widow manager. Mouse not required. Programming ability probably required, since all the settings are hard coded. Then again, it's tiny and easy to understand, so that's not a bad thing.
Persistent mage armour. Mithril twilight chainmail. Etc, etc. Smart wizards have ways around the knife in the back.
While Lockheed only has that new F22, and the JSF... and plenty of other stuff. Lockheed Martin isn't in dire need of new contracts.
Don't buy gold. Gold is only valuable in a good economy, where people can afford jewlery. (There are other uses, but most use very small amounts of it.) Buy copper or another metal that is used in large amounts and has a high value. And make sure it's used in societies other than your own. Copper is being used by china, for example.
You want "if" and not "iff." "Iff" is if and only if, but you already have the "only."
Important point. Seceding implies that they didn't want to take over the existing government, merely implement their own and let the non-seceding states remain as the US. When their secession was denied they rebelled.
This is stranger than believing that a woman made from a rib was tricked into eating a magic fruit by an evil snake and so everyone else in the world will be punished forever? Or that some hippy bum was the son of an all-powerful being and yet couldn't escape execution or find a more effective way of converting people?
Most religions require some pretty strong dope to take seriously.