On the contrary, I think that if a mayor approved decommissioning of a nuclear power plant, he'd sew up re-election on the spot.
I hear what you're saying about designing things to last, but comparing a server to a metal vessel that experiences hundreds of atmospheres of pressure, at high temperatures, while undergoing neutron, for 50 years flux is a bit of a stretch.
An informed person might note that there is a whole lot of oil in the Niger Delta - somewhere around 30 billion barrels and 180 trillion cubic feet of natural gas. In fact, Nigeria is Africa's largest producer of oil - much larger than Libya, and it's the light sweet crude which the petroleum industry is always looking for.
Ahh, the Civilization solution to barbarians: kill them all, take their gold, and burn down their stupid huts so that they can't easily come back and chase away your workers that are just trying to plant some corn.
In fact, the MacBook Air comes with a small 8GB USB stick that consists of nothing but the Mach kernel, a boot.efi file, a driver mkext to get the thing going, and a disk image of the Mac OS X 10.6.5 install DVD which is what actually boots.
Nope. Once you're on a hack, you download the app from the app store. You then run the app, which installs Lion. Then, you adjust your boot loader and driver injector accordingly, just the same as the hacks do today.
It's not like it installs the OS directly from their file server to your/System/Library/CoreServices folder or something, it downloads a "Install Mac OS X.app" which contains the MPKG distributions.
Any more, the Mac Pro has more CPU power than most pre-press folks are going to utilize, but still requires purchasing the massive monitor they all want for looking at double-tabloid ad spreads.
The iMac has a good mix of horsepower, and a mostly-professional quality huge display. I say mostly because of that damn glossy finish.
They've been using the App Store for distributing the developer previews of Lion. You don't even need to make an image - it's just an app. Copy it to a USB stick.
If your Mac craps out, you use the factory image disc that came with it, then run that app from the USB stick / network share / burned DVD / redownload from App store.
It actually does work really good, as long as the download actually completes.
Or, you just might be completely wrong; as all of the following are true:
You can use >console on 10.4.x, 10.5.x, 10.6.x and the developer previews of 10.7. I have been using it on all of these versions, and all of their point releases for over four years. Apple actually tests on this functionality if you are to take the exams for their professional IT certifications. You can still get to single user mode on boot by holding down cmd-S after the startup chime
In no way did that "stop working a long time ago."
Apple bought a semiconductor design company or two. They don't have fabrication capacity - they depend on other contract fabricators (Samsung) for that.
The one thing that Intel has proven to be the best in the world at for decades, is fabrication of semiconductors.
Apple designs their A-series of chips in-house. They may be trying to lure Intel in with $billions to fab them up at a smaller process, gaining power efficiency as well as volume production cost savings (smaller die = more dies per same size wafer)
Either retool them to make stuff that doesn't need the latest-and-greatest process - flash memory, chipset controllers, etc.
-or-
Remove everything they can, lock the doors, and let them sit forever; because the regulatory costs of tearing them down outweigh the value of the plant, property, and equipment that makes up the fab. There are several permanently "idled" fabs in the Hillsboro, Oregon area in this condition.
I'm sorry, if you have definitive intelligence on where this asshat is, you go get him with the best intentions of putting him in ziptie bracelets and throwing him in the back of a helicopter. If he so much as looks in the direction a weapon, you put two hot ones each in him and his friends before he can kill anyone else. NPR reports that one of these cowards used a woman as a human shield during the course of the raid - this isn't the act of a rational person, and rational people don't put down their weapons and give up.
There's no way that guy comes out of there alive - he's responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands of people through his organization of terror. You think he's gonna wave a white flag and take a trip to the Hague because a SEAL team comes knocking on his door?
You can thank John Kerry and Bill Clinton, as well as the rest of the 103rd Congress for cancelling the project, all of 3 years before it went into production.
Other fine things the 103rd Congress did before being booted out by the Republican Revolution of 1994: The Brady Bill Don't Ask, Don't Tell
Myth: The Bush tax cuts are the main cause of the budget deficit.
- The Bush tax cuts were passed in 2001 and 2003. - In 2007, the budget deficit stood at 1.2 percent of GDP. - By 2009, the budget deficit had increased to 9.9 percent of the economy. - The Bush tax cuts didn't change between 2007 and 2009.
Myth: The Bush tax cuts are the main cause of the budget deficit.
- The Bush tax cuts were passed in 2001 and 2003. - In 2007, the budget deficit stood at 1.2 percent of GDP. - By 2009, the budget deficit had increased to 9.9 percent of the economy. - The Bush tax cuts didn't change between 2007 and 2009.
"In the near to plausible mid future, you achieve absolutely nothing for the survival of the human race by going off-planet to the local solar system - and you're going to find very expensive, dangerous, exhausting and degrading work trying to scratch out a living on your average Sol system planetoid - a chunk of frozen metal, gas or ice without even functional dirt, and on a strictly bring-your-own oxygen basis."
Other than, you know, actually getting started on the other stuff. You don't just up and decide to fly to another star system - you have to first get around the one you're in. We work in increments.
It may be the system of weights and measures of our former oppressors, but then we remember that word "former" and it reminds us that we still handed out a first-rate beatdown at Yorktown.
In fact, I find a game to be more worth it when there is LESS cutscene crap. I want to interact with something when I'm playing a game - if I want to watch some rendered 3D stuff, I'll go down to the local theater.
Especially since Apple said this a year ago, and Adobe has had another year to try to make it right, and (according to the reviewer) has missed the mark by quite a bit.
Evergreen Aviation in Oregon, who was trying to get a Shuttle, would have had it in the same museum as a SR-71, a Titan-II rocket, a Mercury space capsule, and the Spruce Goose; among a myriad of other aircraft.
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On the contrary, I think that if a mayor approved decommissioning of a nuclear power plant, he'd sew up re-election on the spot.
I hear what you're saying about designing things to last, but comparing a server to a metal vessel that experiences hundreds of atmospheres of pressure, at high temperatures, while undergoing neutron, for 50 years flux is a bit of a stretch.
An informed person might note that there is a whole lot of oil in the Niger Delta - somewhere around 30 billion barrels and 180 trillion cubic feet of natural gas. In fact, Nigeria is Africa's largest producer of oil - much larger than Libya, and it's the light sweet crude which the petroleum industry is always looking for.
Ahh, the Civilization solution to barbarians: kill them all, take their gold, and burn down their stupid huts so that they can't easily come back and chase away your workers that are just trying to plant some corn.
In fact, the MacBook Air comes with a small 8GB USB stick that consists of nothing but the Mach kernel, a boot.efi file, a driver mkext to get the thing going, and a disk image of the Mac OS X 10.6.5 install DVD which is what actually boots.
It's basically NetBoot-on-a-stick.
Nope. Once you're on a hack, you download the app from the app store. You then run the app, which installs Lion. Then, you adjust your boot loader and driver injector accordingly, just the same as the hacks do today.
It's not like it installs the OS directly from their file server to your /System/Library/CoreServices folder or something, it downloads a "Install Mac OS X.app" which contains the MPKG distributions.
Any more, the Mac Pro has more CPU power than most pre-press folks are going to utilize, but still requires purchasing the massive monitor they all want for looking at double-tabloid ad spreads.
The iMac has a good mix of horsepower, and a mostly-professional quality huge display. I say mostly because of that damn glossy finish.
They've been using the App Store for distributing the developer previews of Lion. You don't even need to make an image - it's just an app. Copy it to a USB stick.
If your Mac craps out, you use the factory image disc that came with it, then run that app from the USB stick / network share / burned DVD / redownload from App store.
It actually does work really good, as long as the download actually completes.
Or, you just might be completely wrong; as all of the following are true:
You can use >console on 10.4.x, 10.5.x, 10.6.x and the developer previews of 10.7. I have been using it on all of these versions, and all of their point releases for over four years.
Apple actually tests on this functionality if you are to take the exams for their professional IT certifications.
You can still get to single user mode on boot by holding down cmd-S after the startup chime
In no way did that "stop working a long time ago."
Apple bought a semiconductor design company or two. They don't have fabrication capacity - they depend on other contract fabricators (Samsung) for that.
The one thing that Intel has proven to be the best in the world at for decades, is fabrication of semiconductors.
Apple designs their A-series of chips in-house. They may be trying to lure Intel in with $billions to fab them up at a smaller process, gaining power efficiency as well as volume production cost savings (smaller die = more dies per same size wafer)
I don't know what they do with older fabs
Either retool them to make stuff that doesn't need the latest-and-greatest process - flash memory, chipset controllers, etc.
-or-
Remove everything they can, lock the doors, and let them sit forever; because the regulatory costs of tearing them down outweigh the value of the plant, property, and equipment that makes up the fab. There are several permanently "idled" fabs in the Hillsboro, Oregon area in this condition.
I'm sorry, if you have definitive intelligence on where this asshat is, you go get him with the best intentions of putting him in ziptie bracelets and throwing him in the back of a helicopter. If he so much as looks in the direction a weapon, you put two hot ones each in him and his friends before he can kill anyone else. NPR reports that one of these cowards used a woman as a human shield during the course of the raid - this isn't the act of a rational person, and rational people don't put down their weapons and give up.
There's no way that guy comes out of there alive - he's responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands of people through his organization of terror. You think he's gonna wave a white flag and take a trip to the Hague because a SEAL team comes knocking on his door?
The waste problem is not a problem of science, but a problem of politics.
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integral_fast_reactor
You can thank John Kerry and Bill Clinton, as well as the rest of the 103rd Congress for cancelling the project, all of 3 years before it went into production.
Other fine things the 103rd Congress did before being booted out by the Republican Revolution of 1994:
The Brady Bill
Don't Ask, Don't Tell
Yeah, no wonder they got tossed out.
Myth: The Bush tax cuts are the main cause of the budget deficit.
- The Bush tax cuts were passed in 2001 and 2003.
- In 2007, the budget deficit stood at 1.2 percent of GDP.
- By 2009, the budget deficit had increased to 9.9 percent of the economy.
- The Bush tax cuts didn't change between 2007 and 2009.
Try again.
Myth: The Bush tax cuts are the main cause of the budget deficit.
- The Bush tax cuts were passed in 2001 and 2003.
- In 2007, the budget deficit stood at 1.2 percent of GDP.
- By 2009, the budget deficit had increased to 9.9 percent of the economy.
- The Bush tax cuts didn't change between 2007 and 2009.
Try again.
"In the near to plausible mid future, you achieve absolutely nothing for the survival of the human race by going off-planet to the local solar system - and you're going to find very expensive, dangerous, exhausting and degrading work trying to scratch out a living on your average Sol system planetoid - a chunk of frozen metal, gas or ice without even functional dirt, and on a strictly bring-your-own oxygen basis."
Other than, you know, actually getting started on the other stuff. You don't just up and decide to fly to another star system - you have to first get around the one you're in. We work in increments.
Even if you taxed the top 1% at 100%, that's only $1.68T, which would get the Federal government to sometime in May with their current budget:
$3.55T / 12 = $295.8B per month
$1.68T / $295.8B = 5.67 months
Stop trying to pin the current situation on the wealthy, and start blaming Congress for spending money we can't possibly get.
(Numbers taken from 2008 IRS tax data, updated in Oct. 2010)
Yeah, mining phosphates isn't what it used to be...
It may be the system of weights and measures of our former oppressors, but then we remember that word "former" and it reminds us that we still handed out a first-rate beatdown at Yorktown.
In fact, I find a game to be more worth it when there is LESS cutscene crap. I want to interact with something when I'm playing a game - if I want to watch some rendered 3D stuff, I'll go down to the local theater.
And, strangely, the rate of piracy is often correlated to the number of digits on the price.
Exactly.
I didn't even think twice about buying Portal 2 earlier this week, and it was worth every penny.
This is like the movie industry being worried about television - they are two different products, loosely related to each other.
Especially since Apple said this a year ago, and Adobe has had another year to try to make it right, and (according to the reviewer) has missed the mark by quite a bit.
Evergreen Aviation in Oregon, who was trying to get a Shuttle, would have had it in the same museum as a SR-71, a Titan-II rocket, a Mercury space capsule, and the Spruce Goose; among a myriad of other aircraft.
Most WiFi routers do not have a 3.5mm audio out jack
Much less one that has optical out, for allowing a receiver to do the decode instead of amplifying an analog signal. The AirPort Express has that too.