Sooner or later, Microsoft will force Linux out of the server room and if Linux hasn't won a leverage on the desktop then it is doomed.
How will that happen? Simple. Microsoft, in Longhorn, has converted to an Object File System supporting an SQL database with both rolled into the kernel. Database security will increase Longhorn's security. Linux will no longer be able to dual boot with Microsoft's OS. It will be Linux or Longhorn on the desktop, not both.
Longhorn will only communicate with servers that use the Object File System. People will convert their servers to Longhorn to get the security.
There was a recent story posted on/. that demonstrated mathematically that Gnutella type networks cannot achieve the numbers of clients or transfers they claim. Do do so would suck up all the internet bandwidth, rendering the internet useless to all.
Microsoft's dominance in the applications arena hinges on its proprietary data formats. I cannot reasonably ask my patrons to run applications that cannot faithfully, reliably, and consistently both read and write Microsoft documents. However, applications that meet these criteria do not exist, because Microsoft controls the format, but does not divulge the operational details. If a competitor comprehends the format, Microsoft changes it. Microsoft gets an upgrade fee; the competitor starts over.
You realize, don't you, that even WinXXX cannot 'faithfully' read and write Microsoft documents? Your Win9x users, for example, will not be able to read or edit a Word doc sent from Office XP. The same is true for the other MS propriatary formats. This is all part of Bill's scheme to force users of older WinXX OSs to "upgrade" and such a tactic is prima facia proof of a monoply. If users had a real choice they'd switch the moment Gates first tried such an onious tactic.
With StarOffice, OpenOffice and AbiWord they now have a choice, but the vast majoryity don't realize it because of the control MS will CONTINUE to have over the PC OEMS.
However, recent events at Walmart give me hope. Now that one can buy a PC for $399 sans OS, or $599 with XP, one can see the MS tax in action. Hopefully, these prices will force Dell, Gateway and Compac to lower their prices too, rendering the MS tax obvious to all and breaking the monoply.
The WHOLE purpose of such a convoluted access (i.e., sans hotlinks) is to make access as difficult as possible. For the vast majority of dialup connections it will be too time consuming to look up and/or read comments. I have DSL and even using it is laborious.
This situation is NOT by accident! A useful method would have been to put the comments into a searchable database. They knew that, but it would have made cross checking too easy, and their tissue of lies could be blown away by a gradeschool student doing simple comparisons.
Well, drivers eventually do get from the -ac tree into the Linus tree, you know - the whole point is that AC tries them out until they are stable enough for Linus. Not to mention that Mr. Cox does have some responsibility to provide RedHat with the best kernel he can, no matter what Linus thinks of it. The only weird thing here is that as far as the VM goes, Linus has picked up the more experimental code first. So people who always recompile the Linus kernel when they install a new distro may find that their kernel operates very differently after that.
So Alan is generating test bed kernels, with even numbers, which RH is putting into their distros?
The phenomenon of Hydrogen embrittlement will prevent using current pipes and pipelines for hydrogen transportation. Bottled Hydrogen will have to do until better piping technology is invented.
You mis-read the article and/or the temperaure.
It is probably about 3,500 degrees, not 60,000. A 60,000 degree temperature is 6 TIMES HOTTER than the Sun, which is only at 10,000 on the surface, and where the corna gas is at 100,000 degrees it would take more than a cubic mile of that very thin plasma to warm a cup of coffee.
Hydrogen would be a VERY SAFE fuel, either as a liquid or a gas. Here is a url of a paper demonstrating the difference. A Hyrdrogen powered car is MUCH safer than a gasoline powered car. First, gasoline is much heavier than air, and a leak would result in flashback ignition, even if the ignition source were many many feet away. Secondly, Hydogen burns UP, not down. Even the liquid form vaporized into gas much lighter than air, so it won't accumulate or get trapped. The Challanger disaster was caused by the leak in the solid booster burning a hole in the liquid Hydrogen tank. Seventy seconds into the flight, just after maximum powerup, the tank ruptured, spewing liquid Hydrogen into a Mach 5 slipstream, instantly vaporizing and igniting the Hydrogen. The rupturing liquid Oxygen tank added to the malstrom, a factor that wouldn't be present in most Hydrogen fires related to cars or planes.
The USA and the rest of the Free World needs to began a "Manhatten Project" designed to covert our countries to Hydrogen. The best way is with Solwer Power Tower II installations. Excess power can be used to convert non potable water to Hydrogen , releasing the Oxygen to the atmosphere.
http://rhlx01.rz.fht-esslingen.de/projects/alt_e ne rgy/sol_thermal/powertower.html
This technology is 'low tech' and could be built and maintained by craftsmen in any community.
While I noticed that SirCam infected email did fire my Wine program the results were a dud. The effect was that SirCam was exposed but not functional, and I was able to explore it's code without fear. There were no registries to infect, no exchange list to exploit, and the "hidden" trojans were easily seen and removed.
lessening mainstream interest in the closed source operating system,
Which explains Win2000's slow growth rate...
and a sharp decline in WinXX-based companies' stock value, said Doug Miller, Microsoft's group product manager for competitive strategies.
Like MSFT's 50% decline in less than a year? Or, the companies who got in bed with M$ and were thrown out the next morning, minus their 'virtue'.
mmm.... must mean the M$ is going to the toilet.
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I have to use WinXX at work.
My Win98SE crashes on me regularly, so it is easy to understand why dedicated Microdrones think that frequent rebooting in normal and do so without even thinking about it. They even mentally block out the activity and then never realize how much of their time is spent going through that process.
Well, I've been hearing the Win2000 was MUCH MORE STABLE than Win98. (aside - isn't it amazing that Microsoft ads are targeting their previous versions of Windows as being unstable and therefore in need of upgrading to Win2000? !!)
So, I tried to install Win2000 this morning.
No go.
My 2 year old Dell OptiPlex GX1 450Mbr wasn't in the list, but I thought I'd check it out anyway:
:\i386WIN32.EXE/checkupgradeonly
I won't go through the 3 page report, C:\WINDOWS\upgrade.txt, but suffice to say that I am still using Win98SE as my programing environment, and still rebooting frequently... the heavier I load it the more frequently it crashes.
Luckily, I use SuSE as home. My box is up and connected to the internet 24/7 via ADSL, I haven't had Linux crash in three years. The only crash I did have, back in the fall of 1997, was my fault due to my C++ programing error when I was first learning the Linux environment. I was a newbie at the time and didn't know about Alt-Fx popping up a new console, or about logging in remotely.
I also have another observation in regards to this particular M$ FUD piece: it seems to me that there is a coordinated anonymous posting attack on/. in support of M$ and the concept of paying through the nose for bugs.
Also, I wonder what all the VB coders are going to do now the Bill & Company have cut them off at the knees but removing a large number of reserved words from VB.NET and adding objects. If you've got to retrain, VBrs, come on over to Linux. If you still insist that you'd only be comfortable if you paid money for your software then check out Borland's Kylix - $99 for a GUI RAD that will make you feel at home.
Just prior to the discovery that Polio was caused by a virus, which led to a vaccine, I say a report that used statistics to show a correlation between drinking Coke and contracting Polio, to a 95% confidence level.
As far as I know my retirement portfolio doesn't include IBM stock. I leave those decisions to the portfolio manager.
But, IBM strategy of making Linux the OS on its mainframes will, IMO, bring it back into the workplace with a vengence. Considering the hardware and licensing cost of installing and supporting 500 PC workstations and 30+ Novell and Windows servers, along with the large support staff, you aren't far from an IBM mainframe running virtual linux into diskless workstations.
One company I am very familiar with spent over 1.5 million dollars to upgrade from Win3.11 to Win95. There's been no real improvement in speed or efficiency. From the user's view point a 486DX120 running Borland's office suit on Win3.11 appears just as fast as WP Office 9 does on a 450MHz Pentium PC with 128 MB of Ram running Win98SE. The bloat and bugs of Win98SE has successfully nullified the speed and power of the newer PCs. Why did they upgrade? The software companies weren't going to continue support for the older versions of the software.
You can't purchase FoxPro 3.5 or VFP 3.0 and M$ won't support them. Same with the other software by other houses. A pox on all their houses.
For 1.5 Million they could have had a real powerhouse with blazing speed on both ends of the network cable running GPL's software into a state of the art DB2 database and keeping in communication with via Lotus Notes. (Hopefully, IBM will release the Linux client soon.:)
If having an Open Source OS is important, why would there be a demand for closed source software that you can already obtain for closed source operating systems?
If not having to pay for an operating system is important, why would you pay for software that is already available for operating systems you can pay for?
Your two main sentences succinctly state why propriatary software companies will find a viable market in Linux difficult to sustain, as recent events with Adobe and Quake prove.
There may be exceptions.
I use MoneyDance. It is a very adaquate replacement for Quicken. Even it Quicken released a native Linux version I doubt I would purchase it.
I have always downloaded and installed the latest version of XEphem. It is free, even though the author has sold it to a for-profit company. I am on the verge of deciding to buy the $79 CDROM version because taking 16+ days to download the 800MB of celestial data would be a waste of my ADSL and my time.
I purchased WP8 on CD to get the 800 page manual and the additional fonts, pics, etc... It is still the best WP for Linux, until KWord become stable and full featured. (I purchased that bloated WINE port of WPO200 but demanded and received my money back. Had it been a native Linux binary I would still be using it, and who knows for how long.)
I purchased Applix because I thought it would be a viable office suit. I was wrong. That $99 was wasted. KOffice and SO5.2 (and it's OS children) will make it virtually impossible for any commercial office suite to succeede in Linux.
I have Blender (and purchased the Manual!) but when I want to do graphic work I use GIMP. It interfaces to my Mustek scanner. Blender is awesome, but I am not a graphic design artist.
I'm still waiting for a good street atlas program. I would pay for a Linux version (not a java or WINE port) what I paid for my Win95 versions, even though map fragments are easily availabe on the web.
I had purchased every version of MathCad through 7.0. Since moving to Linux I have ceased upgrading it. On Linux MuPAD is ok, for a text version, but I really miss the graphical MathCad and would pay for a native Linux version of it, but not a java or WINE port.
I think propriatary software will eventually become successful in the Linux arena, but it won't by competing against the major software catagories exemplified by SO & KOffice, Konqueror & KMail, QCad, Gimp, KDevelop, etc... Those areas will forever belong to Open Source Software. Once they completely stablize we will forever be free of those insane incompatibilities between versions of the same document format, aka wordXXX.
However, we haven't seen the last of the propriatary wars. Closed software houses will use "intellectual property" patents and copyrights, with lizard lawyers and big bucks overpowering poor users, to protect 'their rights' by attempting to hamstring Open Source development. That tactic will become less effective, even with a compliant and psychophant USPTO, as prior art and the absurdity of many of the cliams are given the full spot light.
By 'embracing, extending and extinsguishing" the W3W standards Gates is attempting to turn the Internet into Microsoft propriatary turf.
To use IE would require the use of WinXX, which would require leaving Linux or dual booting. I gave up dual booting a year ago. I will not return to WinXX nor will I visit/. again.
The quality of the postings to/. have put me in a mood to do this, but this 'story' was the last straw.
Please delete my account.
I was ASKED to install a Linux system at work last week! (I've been
preaching Linux for 3 years - patients pays off!) They gave me an
old P100 with 71MB or usable RAM and two HDs.
I decided to use SuSE 6.4 BECAUSE it had ReiserFS.
The graphic install really impressed the Win techies standing
around watching because it was easy enough that even they
could do it, and is pretty eye candy. KDe really impressed them
too.
Thirty minutes later the second HD, a 4.3 BigFoot, died.
I had/home on it, and since I was logged in as root, it didn't matter.
The dead drive was smoothly disconnected from the system.
Since I was needed to power down to replace the HD I decided
to test out the ReiserFS. I reached over and pressed the reset
button. A collective "gasp!" rose from the assembled techies.
Thirty seconds later I had the KDE graphical login prompt.
No corruption, no losses. It's like having an UPS attached.
I didn't notice any increase in speed of file accessing, but it
was fast at rebooting. It's been up 18 days now, which is
also impressing the techies in our M$ shop. They are still
afraid of Linux though. I think it is because they may feel
that they may have to retrain, loosing any employment
advantages they may have accumulated. They are right.
Not only are Net Citizens avoiding California, Californians are leaving
the state in droves and moving here to the midwest, where the "Good
Live" can still be found.
Here's why: remember Berkely?
The schools were magnate schools, the community services were above
average, and all races lived side-by-side in upper middle class homes
and worked in high paying, skilled factory jobs or at the university.
Then the Left started agitating and eventually gained control of the town
council.
They first tried to immitate a "Nation-State" by making Berkley a no nukes
zone. Then they tried to tax both ends of a business transaction, even if a
company wasn't in state. They also made the book keeping so onerous as
be impossible, but since they are anti-capitalist that was ok with them. It
came as a suprize that business left, tax revenues declined, city services
could no longer be supported, and Berkely became, instead of a 'Nation-
State", effectively a third world county.
These same wackos are now trying to drive business out of the state. They
will probably succeed, but we are getting a lot of transplanted Californians
here in the midwest who have a newfound respect for the meaning of free
enterprise, taxation without representation, and the 1st and 2nd amendments..
Exactly. The center of mass would be the same after the explosion as before. The warhead would contribute less than 100 Kg to the total mass. A 'bullet' of an asteroid would be converted into a group of pellets. Assume that all the pellets hit the earth anyway. Their total kinetic energy is still delivered to our environment and the effect would be the same, minus the big pothole.
This assumes, of course, that a nuclear explosion in space would do the same damage as one on earth. There is not much mass in a nuclear weapon. On earth the photon energy released in the explosion heats the surrounding air and creates a shock wave. The heat and shock wave do most of the damage. Only very close to ground zero is the radiant energy strong enough to vaporize a large amount of matter. The first A Bomb didn't even vaporize all of the support tower. The first H bomb created a hole in the ocean 1 mile wide and 1/2 mile deep, but it was setting on the island when it was detonated. In space, there is no air to heat and/or form a shock wave. The missle would have to be on the surface or inside it to do any significant damage. The recent orbit of an asteroid by a space craft was a long time in preparation and difficult to do. Rushing to save the world with one week's notice may not be so easy.
The balance is even more delicate that folks realize. Consider the 3 body problem as it relates to Chaos. Now make that 9 bodies! Now add the chance migrations of thse asteroids and other objects through the solar system. It's like smoking a cigarette while fixing a propane leak.
Slashdot Mirror
(After reading some of the stupid comments, complaints, trolls, blackout calls goatsex, portman idiocy, etc....)
Limit posting of comments to those who subscribe and thus are helping to pay for bandwitdh.
Ditto!
considering how stupid this suit makes Intel look one has to wonder what keeps this instanity from spreading to their CPU designs.
Sure glad my box is Athlon powered.
So it would seem.
Sooner or later, Microsoft will force Linux out of the server room and if Linux hasn't won a leverage on the desktop then it is doomed.
How will that happen? Simple. Microsoft, in Longhorn, has converted to an Object File System supporting an SQL database with both rolled into the kernel. Database security will increase Longhorn's security. Linux will no longer be able to dual boot with Microsoft's OS. It will be Linux or Longhorn on the desktop, not both.
Longhorn will only communicate with servers that use the Object File System. People will convert their servers to Longhorn to get the security.
Hardly.
There was a recent story posted on
You realize, don't you, that even WinXXX cannot 'faithfully' read and write Microsoft documents? Your Win9x users, for example, will not be able to read or edit a Word doc sent from Office XP. The same is true for the other MS propriatary formats. This is all part of Bill's scheme to force users of older WinXX OSs to "upgrade" and such a tactic is prima facia proof of a monoply. If users had a real choice they'd switch the moment Gates first tried such an onious tactic.
With StarOffice, OpenOffice and AbiWord they now have a choice, but the vast majoryity don't realize it because of the control MS will CONTINUE to have over the PC OEMS.
However, recent events at Walmart give me hope. Now that one can buy a PC for $399 sans OS, or $599 with XP, one can see the MS tax in action. Hopefully, these prices will force Dell, Gateway and Compac to lower their prices too, rendering the MS tax obvious to all and breaking the monoply.
Why do you skirt the obvious?
The WHOLE purpose of such a convoluted access (i.e., sans hotlinks) is to make access as difficult as possible. For the vast majority of dialup connections it will be too time consuming to look up and/or read comments. I have DSL and even using it is laborious.
This situation is NOT by accident! A useful method would have been to put the comments into a searchable database. They knew that, but it would have made cross checking too easy, and their tissue of lies could be blown away by a gradeschool student doing simple comparisons.
Well said!
Maybe subscriptions will eliminate the AC trash posters, script kiddies, racists, pedophiles and posters like the 'goat.sex' idiot.
Do more than 'tout Linux'. Make copies of your favorite distro and give them one!
So Alan is generating test bed kernels, with even numbers, which RH is putting into their distros?
Not a good practice.
Just before your wallet empties out...
The phenomenon of Hydrogen embrittlement will prevent using current pipes and pipelines for hydrogen transportation. Bottled Hydrogen will have to do until better piping technology is invented.
You mis-read the article and/or the temperaure.
l _L eak_Simulation.pdf
e ne rgy/sol_thermal/powertower.html
It is probably about 3,500 degrees, not 60,000. A 60,000 degree temperature is 6 TIMES HOTTER than the Sun, which is only at 10,000 on the surface, and where the corna gas is at 100,000 degrees it would take more than a cubic mile of that very thin plasma to warm a cup of coffee.
Hydrogen would be a VERY SAFE fuel, either as a liquid or a gas. Here is a url of a paper demonstrating the difference. A Hyrdrogen powered car is MUCH safer than a gasoline powered car. First, gasoline is much heavier than air, and a leak would result in flashback ignition, even if the ignition source were many many feet away. Secondly, Hydogen burns UP, not down. Even the liquid form vaporized into gas much lighter than air, so it won't accumulate or get trapped. The Challanger disaster was caused by the leak in the solid booster burning a hole in the liquid Hydrogen tank. Seventy seconds into the flight, just after maximum powerup, the tank ruptured, spewing liquid Hydrogen into a Mach 5 slipstream, instantly vaporizing and igniting the Hydrogen. The rupturing liquid Oxygen tank added to the malstrom, a factor that wouldn't be present in most Hydrogen fires related to cars or planes.
http://www.eren.doe.gov/hydrogen/pdfs/Swain_Fue
The USA and the rest of the Free World needs to began a "Manhatten Project" designed to covert our countries to Hydrogen. The best way is with Solwer Power Tower II installations. Excess power can be used to convert non potable water to Hydrogen , releasing the Oxygen to the atmosphere.
http://rhlx01.rz.fht-esslingen.de/projects/alt_
This technology is 'low tech' and could be built and maintained by craftsmen in any community.
While I noticed that SirCam infected email did fire my Wine program the results were a dud. The effect was that SirCam was exposed but not functional, and I was able to explore it's code without fear. There were no registries to infect, no exchange list to exploit, and the "hidden" trojans were easily seen and removed.
SirCam it totally harmless on Linux under Wine.
These are three key trends to watch for in 2001:
a static growth rate,
Similar to Win2000's growth rate?
lessening mainstream interest in the closed source operating system,
Which explains Win2000's slow growth rate...
and a sharp decline in WinXX-based companies' stock value, said Doug Miller, Microsoft's group product manager for competitive strategies.
Like MSFT's 50% decline in less than a year? Or, the companies who got in bed with M$ and were thrown out the next morning, minus their 'virtue'.
mmm.... must mean the M$ is going to the toilet.
I have to use WinXX at work.
/checkupgradeonly
/. in support of M$ and the concept of paying through the nose for bugs.
My Win98SE crashes on me regularly, so it is easy to understand why dedicated Microdrones think that frequent rebooting in normal and do so without even thinking about it. They even mentally block out the activity and then never realize how much of their time is spent going through that process.
Well, I've been hearing the Win2000 was MUCH MORE STABLE than Win98. (aside - isn't it amazing that Microsoft ads are targeting their previous versions of Windows as being unstable and therefore in need of upgrading to Win2000? !!)
So, I tried to install Win2000 this morning.
No go.
My 2 year old Dell OptiPlex GX1 450Mbr wasn't in the list, but I thought I'd check it out anyway:
:\i386WIN32.EXE
I won't go through the 3 page report, C:\WINDOWS\upgrade.txt, but suffice to say that I am still using Win98SE as my programing environment, and still rebooting frequently... the heavier I load it the more frequently it crashes.
Luckily, I use SuSE as home. My box is up and connected to the internet 24/7 via ADSL, I haven't had Linux crash in three years. The only crash I did have, back in the fall of 1997, was my fault due to my C++ programing error when I was first learning the Linux environment. I was a newbie at the time and didn't know about Alt-Fx popping up a new console, or about logging in remotely.
I also have another observation in regards to this particular M$ FUD piece: it seems to me that there is a coordinated anonymous posting attack on
Also, I wonder what all the VB coders are going to do now the Bill & Company have cut them off at the knees but removing a large number of reserved words from VB.NET and adding objects. If you've got to retrain, VBrs, come on over to Linux. If you still insist that you'd only be comfortable if you paid money for your software then check out Borland's Kylix - $99 for a GUI RAD that will make you feel at home.
Just prior to the discovery that Polio was caused by a virus, which led to a vaccine, I say a report that used statistics to show a correlation between drinking Coke and contracting Polio, to a 95% confidence level.
Caused all sorts of hysteria among the mommies.
Correlation does not equal cause.
As far as I know my retirement portfolio doesn't include IBM stock. I leave those decisions to the portfolio manager.
:)
But, IBM strategy of making Linux the OS on its mainframes will, IMO, bring it back into the workplace with a vengence. Considering the hardware and licensing cost of installing and supporting 500 PC workstations and 30+ Novell and Windows servers, along with the large support staff, you aren't far from an IBM mainframe running virtual linux into diskless workstations.
One company I am very familiar with spent over 1.5 million dollars to upgrade from Win3.11 to Win95. There's been no real improvement in speed or efficiency. From the user's view point a 486DX120 running Borland's office suit on Win3.11 appears just as fast as WP Office 9 does on a 450MHz Pentium PC with 128 MB of Ram running Win98SE. The bloat and bugs of Win98SE has successfully nullified the speed and power of the newer PCs. Why did they upgrade? The software companies weren't going to continue support for the older versions of the software.
You can't purchase FoxPro 3.5 or VFP 3.0 and M$ won't support them. Same with the other software by other houses. A pox on all their houses.
For 1.5 Million they could have had a real powerhouse with blazing speed on both ends of the network cable running GPL's software into a state of the art DB2 database and keeping in communication with via Lotus Notes. (Hopefully, IBM will release the Linux client soon.
If having an Open Source OS is important, why would there be a demand for closed source software that you can already obtain for closed source operating systems?
If not having to pay for an operating system is important, why would you pay for software that is already available for operating systems you can pay for?
Your two main sentences succinctly state why propriatary software companies will find a viable market in Linux difficult to sustain, as recent events with Adobe and Quake prove.
There may be exceptions.
I use MoneyDance. It is a very adaquate replacement for Quicken. Even it Quicken released a native Linux version I doubt I would purchase it.
I have always downloaded and installed the latest version of XEphem. It is free, even though the author has sold it to a for-profit company. I am on the verge of deciding to buy the $79 CDROM version because taking 16+ days to download the 800MB of celestial data would be a waste of my ADSL and my time.
I purchased WP8 on CD to get the 800 page manual and the additional fonts, pics, etc... It is still the best WP for Linux, until KWord become stable and full featured. (I purchased that bloated WINE port of WPO200 but demanded and received my money back. Had it been a native Linux binary I would still be using it, and who knows for how long.)
I purchased Applix because I thought it would be a viable office suit. I was wrong. That $99 was wasted. KOffice and SO5.2 (and it's OS children) will make it virtually impossible for any commercial office suite to succeede in Linux.
I have Blender (and purchased the Manual!) but when I want to do graphic work I use GIMP. It interfaces to my Mustek scanner. Blender is awesome, but I am not a graphic design artist.
I'm still waiting for a good street atlas program. I would pay for a Linux version (not a java or WINE port) what I paid for my Win95 versions, even though map fragments are easily availabe on the web.
I had purchased every version of MathCad through 7.0. Since moving to Linux I have ceased upgrading it. On Linux MuPAD is ok, for a text version, but I really miss the graphical MathCad and would pay for a native Linux version of it, but not a java or WINE port.
I think propriatary software will eventually become successful in the Linux arena, but it won't by competing against the major software catagories exemplified by SO & KOffice, Konqueror & KMail, QCad, Gimp, KDevelop, etc... Those areas will forever belong to Open Source Software. Once they completely stablize we will forever be free of those insane incompatibilities between versions of the same document format, aka wordXXX.
However, we haven't seen the last of the propriatary wars. Closed software houses will use "intellectual property" patents and copyrights, with lizard lawyers and big bucks overpowering poor users, to protect 'their rights' by attempting to hamstring Open Source development. That tactic will become less effective, even with a compliant and psychophant USPTO, as prior art and the absurdity of many of the cliams are given the full spot light.
By 'embracing, extending and extinsguishing" the W3W standards Gates is attempting to turn the Internet into Microsoft propriatary turf. To use IE would require the use of WinXX, which would require leaving Linux or dual booting. I gave up dual booting a year ago. I will not return to WinXX nor will I visit /. again.
The quality of the postings to /. have put me in a mood to do this, but this 'story' was the last straw.
Please delete my account.
I was ASKED to install a Linux system at work last week! (I've been /home on it, and since I was logged in as root, it didn't matter.
preaching Linux for 3 years - patients pays off!) They gave me an
old P100 with 71MB or usable RAM and two HDs.
I decided to use SuSE 6.4 BECAUSE it had ReiserFS.
The graphic install really impressed the Win techies standing
around watching because it was easy enough that even they
could do it, and is pretty eye candy. KDe really impressed them
too.
Thirty minutes later the second HD, a 4.3 BigFoot, died.
I had
The dead drive was smoothly disconnected from the system.
Since I was needed to power down to replace the HD I decided
to test out the ReiserFS. I reached over and pressed the reset
button. A collective "gasp!" rose from the assembled techies.
Thirty seconds later I had the KDE graphical login prompt.
No corruption, no losses. It's like having an UPS attached.
I didn't notice any increase in speed of file accessing, but it
was fast at rebooting. It's been up 18 days now, which is
also impressing the techies in our M$ shop. They are still
afraid of Linux though. I think it is because they may feel
that they may have to retrain, loosing any employment
advantages they may have accumulated. They are right.
Not only are Net Citizens avoiding California, Californians are leaving
the state in droves and moving here to the midwest, where the "Good
Live" can still be found.
Here's why: remember Berkely?
The schools were magnate schools, the community services were above
average, and all races lived side-by-side in upper middle class homes
and worked in high paying, skilled factory jobs or at the university.
Then the Left started agitating and eventually gained control of the town
council.
They first tried to immitate a "Nation-State" by making Berkley a no nukes
zone. Then they tried to tax both ends of a business transaction, even if a
company wasn't in state. They also made the book keeping so onerous as
be impossible, but since they are anti-capitalist that was ok with them. It
came as a suprize that business left, tax revenues declined, city services
could no longer be supported, and Berkely became, instead of a 'Nation-
State", effectively a third world county.
These same wackos are now trying to drive business out of the state. They
will probably succeed, but we are getting a lot of transplanted Californians
here in the midwest who have a newfound respect for the meaning of free
enterprise, taxation without representation, and the 1st and 2nd amendments..
Exactly. The center of mass would be the same after the explosion as before. The warhead would contribute less than 100 Kg to the total mass. A 'bullet' of an asteroid would be converted into a group of pellets. Assume that all the pellets hit the earth anyway. Their total kinetic energy is still delivered to our environment and the effect would be the same, minus the big pothole.
This assumes, of course, that a nuclear explosion in space would do the same damage as one on earth. There is not much mass in a nuclear weapon. On earth the photon energy released in the explosion heats the surrounding air and creates a shock wave. The heat and shock wave do most of the damage. Only very close to ground zero is the radiant energy strong enough to vaporize a large amount of matter. The first A Bomb didn't even vaporize all of the support tower. The first H bomb created a hole in the ocean 1 mile wide and 1/2 mile deep, but it was setting on the island when it was detonated. In space, there is no air to heat and/or form a shock wave. The missle would have to be on the surface or inside it to do any significant damage. The recent orbit of an asteroid by a space craft was a long time in preparation and difficult to do. Rushing to save the world with one week's notice may not be so easy.
The balance is even more delicate that folks realize. Consider the 3 body problem as it relates to Chaos. Now make that 9 bodies! Now add the chance migrations of thse asteroids and other objects through the solar system. It's like smoking a cigarette while fixing a propane leak.