"I'm not convinced there's any way to die gracefully when your business becomes outmoded (SCO, too)."
Oh yes, there is. You can just dismiss your company, taking all its money and closing doors. There is no need to create a mafia just because your business model is outdated.
Any system that exploits a temperature difference is limited to the Carnot efficiency. That includes photovoltaics.
The biggest difference is that photovoltaics are limited to near 95% efficiency. You have no hope of reaching the same efficiency on any machine exclusively on the Earth surface since it would require near-Sun or near-Background-Radiation temperatures.
No, sodium is liquid at 1000F. The reason it is viable at nuclear reactors and isn't at solar plants is because the reactors have a much smaller cooling system to care about and is kept hot all the time.
Sodium is quite dangerous, most salts aren't. It is quite hard to repair a sodium filled tube, it is easy to repair a salt filled one. Sodium probably changes more in volume than the salt they are using (altough a better heat conductivity should compensate this a bit) and is more expensive.
So, sodium is ideal to cooling systems that need to be failure free (even working on conductivity if convection stops), always on (no big change in volume) and that you have no hope of fixing anyway if something goes wrong.
Even more when there is no authority (and pre-fixed deadline), the committee is small and composed of passionate people. On those circunstances, a committee can design even better things than a lone individual, and through a much funnier process.
You can just turn that switch for now. When people start using IPv6, you upgrade. That way, you get more up-to-date equipment and probably save a lot of money and work. Better yet, you can implement IPv6 now, without needing a budget and authorization to spend it (that can take years if you are at government).
The people "doing it wrong" were right all the time.
"Solaris boxes normally measure their uptime in years."
Mine here measure their uptime in fraction of a power maintence interval:) That's normaly less than a year. And my Linuxes measures uptime on fraction of kernel updates interval.
Well, you can just tell them to call help desk. You can explain that it is the proper procedure, that it is needed for biling, that the problem is on other sector, or any other explanation that is factual.
Most people won't call you back if you explain why they shouldn't. Bonus if you end with "But I'll send your complain to help desk this time".
You apparently didn't grasp the GP answer. If you take care of asking quiestions that require an expert to answer, you can have an expert answering them.
Now, if you shot every minor interrogation into the helpdesk, it becomes uneconomical to hire experts. In this case you will be directed to somebody that is more "economicaly viable".
It is also notable that the second half you cite (the Supreme Lider, Assembly of Experts, Guardian Concil...) have been steadly losing power to the first half (Parlament, Presidence) as the population become better educated on the last decades.
That is, until Bush promissed to invade Iran. Since then, the fearfull population is losing their hard earned rights, giving loads of power to a governemnt that promisses to protect them. A situation that may seem familiar to some people here.
The longer that MS stays with XP (or something worse), the longer Linux can improve to reduce migration costs (AKA improve compatibility) and offer better alternatives to the MS way of working.
Now, Linux must be visibly better than Windows for people migrate. That is hard to acomplish, but with Windows stagnant, time runs against Microsoft.
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And by the same time, MS brings OOXML to the table.
If they want to become nice, they need to do that in a consistent way.
Oh yes, there is. You can just dismiss your company, taking all its money and closing doors. There is no need to create a mafia just because your business model is outdated.
Too bad such people don't end at jail.
Yes, but copyrights don't. Only artists that retain their copyrights can walk away.
Any system that exploits a temperature difference is limited to the Carnot efficiency. That includes photovoltaics.
The biggest difference is that photovoltaics are limited to near 95% efficiency. You have no hope of reaching the same efficiency on any machine exclusively on the Earth surface since it would require near-Sun or near-Background-Radiation temperatures.
No, sodium is liquid at 1000F. The reason it is viable at nuclear reactors and isn't at solar plants is because the reactors have a much smaller cooling system to care about and is kept hot all the time.
Sodium is quite dangerous, most salts aren't. It is quite hard to repair a sodium filled tube, it is easy to repair a salt filled one. Sodium probably changes more in volume than the salt they are using (altough a better heat conductivity should compensate this a bit) and is more expensive.
So, sodium is ideal to cooling systems that need to be failure free (even working on conductivity if convection stops), always on (no big change in volume) and that you have no hope of fixing anyway if something goes wrong.
Even more when there is no authority (and pre-fixed deadline), the committee is small and composed of passionate people. On those circunstances, a committee can design even better things than a lone individual, and through a much funnier process.
Well, for the first time they'll be encoraging interoperability. What is the problem of them bragging about something that is true?
It is much better than bragging about something that isn't, like they use to do.
It is not Open Source. Neither is CC-No-Commercial.
3)Something else.
You can just turn that switch for now. When people start using IPv6, you upgrade. That way, you get more up-to-date equipment and probably save a lot of money and work. Better yet, you can implement IPv6 now, without needing a budget and authorization to spend it (that can take years if you are at government).
The people "doing it wrong" were right all the time.
And your post wins the longest serie of "but"s of 2007!
Mine here measure their uptime in fraction of a power maintence interval :) That's normaly less than a year. And my Linuxes measures uptime on fraction of kernel updates interval.
Windows measures it on fraction of a week.
Well, you can just tell them to call help desk. You can explain that it is the proper procedure, that it is needed for biling, that the problem is on other sector, or any other explanation that is factual.
Most people won't call you back if you explain why they shouldn't. Bonus if you end with "But I'll send your complain to help desk this time".
You apparently didn't grasp the GP answer. If you take care of asking quiestions that require an expert to answer, you can have an expert answering them.
Now, if you shot every minor interrogation into the helpdesk, it becomes uneconomical to hire experts. In this case you will be directed to somebody that is more "economicaly viable".
Oh, yes. But I am to listen about a country that doesn't (and maybe, move there).
That's a funny thing for a GNOME user to say.
Well, if they instead put all that work into something that will benefit me, they'll gain a user.
Yes, we all learned a lot about "pragmatism" from that BitKeeper episode.
Nobody can fully support OOXML. Not even Microsoft, but they get the advantaje of being the de facto reference system.
If anybody try to compete on those bases, it will fail.
It is also notable that the second half you cite (the Supreme Lider, Assembly of Experts, Guardian Concil...) have been steadly losing power to the first half (Parlament, Presidence) as the population become better educated on the last decades.
That is, until Bush promissed to invade Iran. Since then, the fearfull population is losing their hard earned rights, giving loads of power to a governemnt that promisses to protect them. A situation that may seem familiar to some people here.
The longer that MS stays with XP (or something worse), the longer Linux can improve to reduce migration costs (AKA improve compatibility) and offer better alternatives to the MS way of working.
Now, Linux must be visibly better than Windows for people migrate. That is hard to acomplish, but with Windows stagnant, time runs against Microsoft.
Like image placement.
Are you implying both are not the same thing?
And, by the way, on the 2 Debian DVDs there is more than one error. So, nobody can blame MS on that, Linux is worse.
Linux is good for interactive and batch computation, all sizes.
Just remember that there are other kinds of computing, although MS doesn't even dream on going into them either.