Key West, FL used to get a substantial amount of its water from full-time operational desal plants (two, at one point; the first starting in '67) so this isn't even the first in the continental U.S.
Now, the plants in Key West may no longer be in use (I don't know if that is true or not), but "the first full-time desalination plant... in the U.S." is certainly not in Tampa. You might get by with "the only" (and I doubt that is even the case), but "the first" is certainly incorrect.
You said in your original post that temperatures were 5 degrees higher 1000 years ago. Since you did not further qualify that statement, your sentence implies that you believe temperatures were 5 degrees higher 1000 years ago than they are today.
None of these articles you cite mention what the average global temperature was 1000 years ago.
It sounds like you are changing your argument to fit the facts. That's perfectly fine. I agree that global temperatures fluctuated by a few degrees during the last millenium.
I really like the features of the P800. The price is a bit shocking. But the kicker is that the P800 looks so... ugly. I think that the SonyEricsson designers need to go back to school. Nokia and Motorola make much prettier phones.
Actually, it may have the opposite effect. Rather than hurting OSS in general, and Linux in particular, this action puts the message out to the top brass (CIOs/CTOs/CEOs) that Linux is now as robust as commercial Unix variants, and the Unix community is scared.
Read the complaint filed by SCO. While full of half-turths and number of outright incorrect statements, it does state that Linux is now an enterprise-ready OS. They attribute all of that enterprise-readyiness to IBM's appropriation of Unix trade secrets, of course. But still, the impression that SCO Group gives in the complaint is that Linux is enterprise ready and threatening traditional Unix.
I don't think that anyone with a full deck thinks that SCO has the ability to succeed against IBM, a company many orders of magnitude bigger. The complaint is that IBM misappropriated Unix trade secrets (not patents). Trade secrets from an OS (UNIX System V) that has many books written about it. I have The Magic Garden Explained; The internals of System V Release 4, an open systems design on my bookshelf. What trade secrets do you supposed were disseminated by that book? I rather doubt that IBM appropriated Unix trade secrets that could not be found in the public already or were not developed internally. I think most upper-level decision-makers are savvy enough to understand this.
Now, IANAL, and my impression of our judicial system isn't completely favorable. It may well be that public knowledge can still be considered a trade secret. Such apparent silliness would not surprise me. It also would not surprise me if SCO tried to argue that even IP developed internally by IBM for AIX became a Unix trade secret which they were required to protect.
Could someone with a bit of geophysics knowledge comment on how well this agrees with the reported lack of a magnetic field on Mars? My understanding is that Earth's magnetic field is a result of having a solid/liquid iron core. If the same holds true for Mars, what is different about the Martian core that prevents it from acting as a dynamo?
And thirty seconds later, the NSA, the FBI, the CIA and probably Homeland Security all SLAPP him with DMCA-violation lawsuits...
As the previous responder noted, DMCA would certainly not apply in this case. A more interesting discussion would ensue were you to explain *why* those organizations would like to suppress this.
The persistent store is quite language-specific. It doesn't allow for a Python application to access a Java store, for instance. It also doesn't seem to allow concurrent access to data, which would require significantly more than 350 lines of code.
Both of these issues make this solution unusable in an enterprise environment. The RAM size issue has already been mentioned by others and is another very real limitation.
In general, object caching mechanisms are not terribily difficult to create. This generic solution proves the point by only requiring 350 lines of Java code.
I am sure that there is something worthy in this project, I just cannot see it used for anything other than very small-scale development efforts.
This is my biggest complaint of web sites. The problem is mostly due to clueless web designers using broken off-the-shelf email validation tools.
One option is to use Qmail instead of Sendmail as your MTA. Qmail uses "-" (dash, minus sign) as a seperator and that is almost universally accepted by web sites.
I've never seen such a collection of knee-jerk humorless reactionaries in my life!!! I think the responses to this article are funnier than the article itself.
Warning: serious reactions to this article will go on your permanent record!!!
Is there an x86 based machine that can outperform, say, a Sun Enterprise 15k?
It depends on the problem domain. But in many cases a cluster (not necessarily a Beowulf) of x86 Linux boxes can easily outperform a Sun Enterprise 15K for significantly less money. Many problems (but not all!) that can be efficiently computed with SMP systems readily lend themselves to distributed computation.
Oh, blow it out your arse. Python is an object-oriented procedural language with some functional aspects thrown in for good measure. Python was never trying to be Lisp. And thank Guido for that!
The problem is when Sam writes contribution checks out of the "Pretty Large Inc." bank account, not his own. And when Sam writes those checks and buys influence from representatives that do not ostensibly represent him.
Sam should be able to contribute as much as he wants (within limits) as an individual and discuss his individual concerns, but not Sam, CEO of "Pretty Large Inc." That role should have no involvement in politics.
Corporations should have no rights in the sphere of politics. They can't vote, and they damn sure shouldn't be able to buy influence.
Vendors already have methods in place for dealing with multiple versions of a library installed; this will be nothing new to them.
This is true of OS vendors, but for end users and third-party library vendors this is still a nightmare. Many of us end-users rely on commercial, closed-source C++ libraries for our applications. As compiler and core library ABIs change, each vendor has to choose which ABI to support. The end users who chose a suite of commercial libraries supporting GCC only a couple of years ago are quickly finding themselves in unsupported enviroments because vendor A is still using GCC 2.95.x, vendor B has chosen GCC 3.1, and vendor C announces that in 3 months their product will support GCC 3.2, deprecating the version that supports GCC 2.95.x.
Applications that rely on all three vendors' libraries are in a heap of trouble.
This sonar isn't going to be in action all the time, only when there is the possibility that there is an enemy submarine nearby.
Bullsh*t. The military spends far more time (orders of magnitude) in training than it does in actual combat. And the only way the Navy will be satisfied with the combat readiness of it's sub hunters is by practicing with live sonar.
So, the Navy will be killing marine mammals regardless of whether any actual lives are saved.
Imagine you're a peasant halfway around the world and you are given the opportunity to receive a million dollars for pressing a button on a simple black box. The only caveat is that pushing that button results in some sleaze-ball dot-com millionare in the U.S. dying a painful death. Would you do it?
I just got 1Mb wireless broadband and couldn't be happier. Much higher (8x) bandwidth and 1/3 the price of my ISDN connection.
The most satisfying call I've made in a long time was yesterday to Qwest to cancel my ISDN service. The CS rep asked me if I'd had any problems with Qwest service! "Non-stop from day one," I replied.
Rumor is that Qwest is not doing *any* upgrades this year (no new DSL service areas for instance) and doesn't have enough spare parts in stock to keep up with repairs.
One hint for Qwest customers: file regular complaints with your public utilities commission. I've filed my fair share of complaints with the Colorado PUC. It is the only way to get action from Qwest.
Anyway, I now have wireless phone service and wireless internet service and am 100% Qwest free. It's been a great week for me!
Now I just need to decide if I want to work with the satellite monopoly or stay with the cable monopoly. I'll probably ditch AT&T cable just for calling their service "AT&T Broadband" without offering internet service and stringing the folks in my area along for so long without upgrading the cable to provide broadband internet access.
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Or find one that already exists, is well supported and is widely used.
I know of very few hardware platforms, Intel-based or otherwise, that can handle 10Gb/s over a single I/O stream. PCI just doesn't go that fast (yet).
You'll need more than what's in this spec to get to 10Gb/s.
Isn't it illegal for Microsoft to tie any of its software products to its OS?
http://www.edwardwillett.com/Columns/desalination. htm
Now, the plants in Key West may no longer be in use (I don't know if that is true or not), but "the first full-time desalination plant ... in the U.S." is certainly not in Tampa. You might get by with "the only" (and I doubt that is even the case), but "the first" is certainly incorrect.
None of these articles you cite mention what the average global temperature was 1000 years ago.
It sounds like you are changing your argument to fit the facts. That's perfectly fine. I agree that global temperatures fluctuated by a few degrees during the last millenium.
You are citing a two-decade old paper from a creationist "research center" to support your argument?
Shit... I've been trolled. Mea culpa.
Slashdot really needs a -1, Uninformed moderation option. (And who the hell moderated the parent Informative?)
Climate through the Ages - The last 1000 Years
I really like the features of the P800. The price is a bit shocking. But the kicker is that the P800 looks so... ugly. I think that the SonyEricsson designers need to go back to school. Nokia and Motorola make much prettier phones.
Read the complaint filed by SCO. While full of half-turths and number of outright incorrect statements, it does state that Linux is now an enterprise-ready OS. They attribute all of that enterprise-readyiness to IBM's appropriation of Unix trade secrets, of course. But still, the impression that SCO Group gives in the complaint is that Linux is enterprise ready and threatening traditional Unix.
I don't think that anyone with a full deck thinks that SCO has the ability to succeed against IBM, a company many orders of magnitude bigger. The complaint is that IBM misappropriated Unix trade secrets (not patents). Trade secrets from an OS (UNIX System V) that has many books written about it. I have The Magic Garden Explained; The internals of System V Release 4, an open systems design on my bookshelf. What trade secrets do you supposed were disseminated by that book? I rather doubt that IBM appropriated Unix trade secrets that could not be found in the public already or were not developed internally. I think most upper-level decision-makers are savvy enough to understand this.
Now, IANAL, and my impression of our judicial system isn't completely favorable. It may well be that public knowledge can still be considered a trade secret. Such apparent silliness would not surprise me. It also would not surprise me if SCO tried to argue that even IP developed internally by IBM for AIX became a Unix trade secret which they were required to protect.
Could someone with a bit of geophysics knowledge comment on how well this agrees with the reported lack of a magnetic field on Mars? My understanding is that Earth's magnetic field is a result of having a solid/liquid iron core. If the same holds true for Mars, what is different about the Martian core that prevents it from acting as a dynamo?
Mmmm... warm airborne donuts.
Can't tell if this should be moderated "Funny" or "Insightful"... That probably makes it the perfect "+1 Troll".
As the previous responder noted, DMCA would certainly not apply in this case. A more interesting discussion would ensue were you to explain *why* those organizations would like to suppress this.
The persistent store is quite language-specific. It doesn't allow for a Python application to access a Java store, for instance. It also doesn't seem to allow concurrent access to data, which would require significantly more than 350 lines of code.
Both of these issues make this solution unusable in an enterprise environment. The RAM size issue has already been mentioned by others and is another very real limitation.
In general, object caching mechanisms are not terribily difficult to create. This generic solution proves the point by only requiring 350 lines of Java code.
I am sure that there is something worthy in this project, I just cannot see it used for anything other than very small-scale development efforts.
A Real Googler(tm) would save a step and have them just click the "I'm Feeling Lucky" button. :-)
Amen, brother.
This is my biggest complaint of web sites. The problem is mostly due to clueless web designers using broken off-the-shelf email validation tools.
One option is to use Qmail instead of Sendmail as your MTA. Qmail uses "-" (dash, minus sign) as a seperator and that is almost universally accepted by web sites.
I've never seen such a collection of knee-jerk humorless reactionaries in my life!!! I think the responses to this article are funnier than the article itself.
Warning: serious reactions to this article will go on your permanent record!!!
It depends on the problem domain. But in many cases a cluster (not necessarily a Beowulf) of x86 Linux boxes can easily outperform a Sun Enterprise 15K for significantly less money. Many problems (but not all!) that can be efficiently computed with SMP systems readily lend themselves to distributed computation.
Oh, blow it out your arse. Python is an object-oriented procedural language with some functional aspects thrown in for good measure. Python was never trying to be Lisp. And thank Guido for that!
Are we forgetting about the plague that wiped out a good chunk of the human population just a few short centuries ago?
The problem is when Sam writes contribution checks out of the "Pretty Large Inc." bank account, not his own. And when Sam writes those checks and buys influence from representatives that do not ostensibly represent him.
Sam should be able to contribute as much as he wants (within limits) as an individual and discuss his individual concerns, but not Sam, CEO of "Pretty Large Inc." That role should have no involvement in politics.
Corporations should have no rights in the sphere of politics. They can't vote, and they damn sure shouldn't be able to buy influence.
This is true of OS vendors, but for end users and third-party library vendors this is still a nightmare. Many of us end-users rely on commercial, closed-source C++ libraries for our applications. As compiler and core library ABIs change, each vendor has to choose which ABI to support. The end users who chose a suite of commercial libraries supporting GCC only a couple of years ago are quickly finding themselves in unsupported enviroments because vendor A is still using GCC 2.95.x, vendor B has chosen GCC 3.1, and vendor C announces that in 3 months their product will support GCC 3.2, deprecating the version that supports GCC 2.95.x.
Applications that rely on all three vendors' libraries are in a heap of trouble.
What is being done to address this problem?
So, the Navy will be killing marine mammals regardless of whether any actual lives are saved.
Imagine you're a peasant halfway around the world and you are given the opportunity to receive a million dollars for pressing a button on a simple black box. The only caveat is that pushing that button results in some sleaze-ball dot-com millionare in the U.S. dying a painful death. Would you do it?
I just got 1Mb wireless broadband and couldn't be happier. Much higher (8x) bandwidth and 1/3 the price of my ISDN connection.
The most satisfying call I've made in a long time was yesterday to Qwest to cancel my ISDN service. The CS rep asked me if I'd had any problems with Qwest service! "Non-stop from day one," I replied.
Rumor is that Qwest is not doing *any* upgrades this year (no new DSL service areas for instance) and doesn't have enough spare parts in stock to keep up with repairs.
One hint for Qwest customers: file regular complaints with your public utilities commission. I've filed my fair share of complaints with the Colorado PUC. It is the only way to get action from Qwest.
Anyway, I now have wireless phone service and wireless internet service and am 100% Qwest free. It's been a great week for me!
Now I just need to decide if I want to work with the satellite monopoly or stay with the cable monopoly. I'll probably ditch AT&T cable just for calling their service "AT&T Broadband" without offering internet service and stringing the folks in my area along for so long without upgrading the cable to provide broadband internet access.