I'd rather that J.Lo and Ben were gone and Johnny and John had just broken up, or got back together, or had a baby, or whatever they're doing this week...
There are two words in techno-marketing that really turn my off: Extreme and Ultra.
Okay, I guess the latter is a prefix, not a word, unless you're Sun, who, laughably, has a whole series of "Ultra" things. I guess things over there just keep getting ultra-er.
Biodiesel costs about twice per gallon what regular (petrol) diesel does. Where are the cost savings there? I agree that there are environmental cost savings, but not ones that warrant the extra energy expenditure it takes to make the money to buy the more expensive diesel.
It's all about the cost, no matter where you bank it.
Dunno about sending in the SEALs, but I've often wondered why the RIAA and SCO aren't the targets of allegations based in the RICO Act, particularly with some of SCO's recent antics.
It doesn't matter if the offer is genuine or not. The question isn't one of intent on the part of the RIAA, but of the actual rights (or release of claims) imparted.
I hope this and other similar suits bring the RIAA down. I don't support bootlegging software or content, but neither do I support terrorism.
I see the same problem here in Portland (Oregon). There aren't 5-10 foot drops from walls, but there aren't a lot of boat ramps downtown, either. I can think of two on the South end of town and two on the North end for the Willamette, but that's about it. The Willamette divides the city, and the Columbia creates a northern border.
Of course, they don't call Portland "Bridgetown" for nothing. It's a breeze to cross the river, even at rush hour. The bottlenecks are elsewhere. I hear different about NYC, but I've never been there.
Still, one of these cars would be super cool to have. I wonder if you'd have to wear a life vest to drive it? I can just see Nordstrom carrying stylish lifejackets that go with your summerweight blazer...
Actually, I got that part. And, by reading the summary, I intuited that the point wasn't to see how much money he could profit. I laud his intentions. Still, it's interesting to see how far it goes.
Well, if you want a (not terribly poetic, but still oddly familiar sounding) fictional look at what might happen if some philanthropist/entrepreneur was successful at RLVs, read Michael Flynn's Firestar, followed by three others in the series. Four books could've been tightened up to three, but it's still a good read.
Not really. The Sun Ray seems to be a self-booting client machine for accessing applications on remote hosts. What I was suggesting that the (oh so long ago posted) parent was suggesting was that workstations would have high-speed Ethernet ports on them and no internal disks (or other bootable media). The storage would be remote and managed, each user having their own partition on a SAN. iSCSI would be the transport for block operations and TCP/IP would be the transport for all the stuff that you use the network for now, but both of them would share the Ethernet connection.
I may be wrong, but I think you missed the point. The way I got it, the parent was trying to say that our desktop machines would come down to nothing more than a box with a processor & motherboard, the latter of which have three ports: 1 Ethernet, 1 USB and 1 video. The whole thing would be small enough to hang off the back of an LCD monitor. It would make for a very manageable infrastructure.
I hear root and route pronounced the same two ways (either word pronounced two ways) commonly, using "oo" as in "rooster" and "oo" as in "foot" interchangably. This also goes for "roof." Of course, people around here can't seem to decide if "creek" is pronounced like it's spelled or "crik." I'm pretty sure it's a "country folk, city folk" thing.
Interesting. Somebody can confirm/deny this, but I think in Chinese, the "X" is pronounced like the American "Sh," which could make this "Shoe-vert." A nice logo of green sneakers would be appropriate.
I don't think the parent was talking about suffering of those fetuses (or whomever) the stem cells were being harvested from, but the suffering of the potentially mangled children born as the first clones.
To add to that, I can't think of any pain and suffereing by any living being (human or otherwise) caused by the science that Copernicus and/or Gallileo were putting forth. That is, unless you count the emotional suffering that those who were having their base belief systems shattered by a different idea might have endured. Some people can't stand the idea that others have different ideas than they do. Then there are people who can't stand the idea of changing something, even as they're changing it.
It's a good thing that all of us are so open minded and can discuss things.
You know, most of the moderation for this topic seems to be "Interesting." Calling something "interesting" isn't calling it "correct" or even "suggested." It's not even calling it "novel." I think it's completely fair to call this post "interesting."
Sorry, but you're mistaken. The risk factor in arbitrage trading is financial. If you don't think so, call your local power utility's trading desk and ask.
Slightly OT: Electricity is the only physical commodity that has no shelf life. It makes traders crazy trying to make money at it.
Oh, where are the moderator points when I need them?
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You basically want Linux to target the "Middle 50%" of users that Microsoft writes their software for.
This will make Linux better?
Yes, actually, it will. I, for one, don't mind hacking config files, so long as they're well documented. Most of them that I've encountered have been, but then I've only configured some large-project packages like Apache and whatnot. I'm sure there are examples of config files that read like the've been ROT13'ed.
But then I look at a tool like Webmin, and think, gee, it sure is easier to install packages using this thing, and I can configure some of them here, and get on with USING my computer rather than CONFIGURING it.
I think it's cool that, as a "normal" user, I can't do certain things on my Linux boxen; I have to log in as root to do them. But there are a lot of things that I should be able to easily assign to groups of users, such as having R/W priveleges on FAT partitions.
"Whaddya mean, noob? RTFM! It's as easy as hacking your/etc/fstab file and adding/def/hda1/mnt/win_c fat defaults 0 0 on a line. How hard is that?"
Pardon me for polluting the traditional Linux model, but somewhere between that and checking a box that says "Allow all users read write priveleges to everything this computer can possibly access" (which is, I believe, an actual setting somewhere in XP) is a middleground where computer users can feel comfortable without being either hackers or id10Ts.
"As a side note, most law enforcement officials drive Chevrolet vehicles. Chevrolet is the producer of 95% of the vehicles in the world and the ones funding this investigation. That fact, though, has not in any way clouded this investigation."
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I'd rather that J.Lo and Ben were gone and Johnny and John had just broken up, or got back together, or had a baby, or whatever they're doing this week...
Okay, I guess the latter is a prefix, not a word, unless you're Sun, who, laughably, has a whole series of "Ultra" things. I guess things over there just keep getting ultra-er.
Biodiesel costs about twice per gallon what regular (petrol) diesel does. Where are the cost savings there? I agree that there are environmental cost savings, but not ones that warrant the extra energy expenditure it takes to make the money to buy the more expensive diesel.
It's all about the cost, no matter where you bank it.
Dunno about sending in the SEALs, but I've often wondered why the RIAA and SCO aren't the targets of allegations based in the RICO Act, particularly with some of SCO's recent antics.
It doesn't matter if the offer is genuine or not. The question isn't one of intent on the part of the RIAA, but of the actual rights (or release of claims) imparted.
I hope this and other similar suits bring the RIAA down. I don't support bootlegging software or content, but neither do I support terrorism.
I see the same problem here in Portland (Oregon). There aren't 5-10 foot drops from walls, but there aren't a lot of boat ramps downtown, either. I can think of two on the South end of town and two on the North end for the Willamette, but that's about it. The Willamette divides the city, and the Columbia creates a northern border.
Of course, they don't call Portland "Bridgetown" for nothing. It's a breeze to cross the river, even at rush hour. The bottlenecks are elsewhere. I hear different about NYC, but I've never been there.
Still, one of these cars would be super cool to have. I wonder if you'd have to wear a life vest to drive it? I can just see Nordstrom carrying stylish lifejackets that go with your summerweight blazer...
Actually, I got that part. And, by reading the summary, I intuited that the point wasn't to see how much money he could profit. I laud his intentions. Still, it's interesting to see how far it goes.
Having seen Palm Pilots that went for $199 in stores go for $289 on e-Bay, it'll be interesting to see how high the price for a $0.99 song goes.
And, no, I haven't RTFA yet, I'm going to do that now...
Well, if you want a (not terribly poetic, but still oddly familiar sounding) fictional look at what might happen if some philanthropist/entrepreneur was successful at RLVs, read Michael Flynn's Firestar, followed by three others in the series. Four books could've been tightened up to three, but it's still a good read.
Not really. The Sun Ray seems to be a self-booting client machine for accessing applications on remote hosts. What I was suggesting that the (oh so long ago posted) parent was suggesting was that workstations would have high-speed Ethernet ports on them and no internal disks (or other bootable media). The storage would be remote and managed, each user having their own partition on a SAN. iSCSI would be the transport for block operations and TCP/IP would be the transport for all the stuff that you use the network for now, but both of them would share the Ethernet connection.
I may be wrong, but I think you missed the point. The way I got it, the parent was trying to say that our desktop machines would come down to nothing more than a box with a processor & motherboard, the latter of which have three ports: 1 Ethernet, 1 USB and 1 video. The whole thing would be small enough to hang off the back of an LCD monitor. It would make for a very manageable infrastructure.
In this context, shouldn't it be "arses?"
I hear root and route pronounced the same two ways (either word pronounced two ways) commonly, using "oo" as in "rooster" and "oo" as in "foot" interchangably. This also goes for "roof." Of course, people around here can't seem to decide if "creek" is pronounced like it's spelled or "crik." I'm pretty sure it's a "country folk, city folk" thing.
Interesting. Somebody can confirm/deny this, but I think in Chinese, the "X" is pronounced like the American "Sh," which could make this "Shoe-vert." A nice logo of green sneakers would be appropriate.
I don't think the parent was talking about suffering of those fetuses (or whomever) the stem cells were being harvested from, but the suffering of the potentially mangled children born as the first clones.
To add to that, I can't think of any pain and suffereing by any living being (human or otherwise) caused by the science that Copernicus and/or Gallileo were putting forth. That is, unless you count the emotional suffering that those who were having their base belief systems shattered by a different idea might have endured. Some people can't stand the idea that others have different ideas than they do. Then there are people who can't stand the idea of changing something, even as they're changing it.
It's a good thing that all of us are so open minded and can discuss things.
You know, most of the moderation for this topic seems to be "Interesting." Calling something "interesting" isn't calling it "correct" or even "suggested." It's not even calling it "novel." I think it's completely fair to call this post "interesting."
Touche. If I were standing, I would stand humbled.
I can't believe that you forgot:
1) Put an amazingly small amount of money in the bank at an amazingly small interest rate.
2) Wait for an eternity.
3) Profit!!!
Sorry, but you're mistaken. The risk factor in arbitrage trading is financial. If you don't think so, call your local power utility's trading desk and ask.
Slightly OT: Electricity is the only physical commodity that has no shelf life. It makes traders crazy trying to make money at it.
In a pocket-sized box, I'd be looking for Wi-Fi rather than a cabled connection. USB would suffice for music transfers over a cable.
Of course, if its got Ethernet and runs Linux, it'll be hacked into a server in about ten minutes after it's been released to market.
Oh, where are the moderator points when I need them?
This will make Linux better?
Yes, actually, it will. I, for one, don't mind hacking config files, so long as they're well documented. Most of them that I've encountered have been, but then I've only configured some large-project packages like Apache and whatnot. I'm sure there are examples of config files that read like the've been ROT13'ed.
But then I look at a tool like Webmin, and think, gee, it sure is easier to install packages using this thing, and I can configure some of them here, and get on with USING my computer rather than CONFIGURING it.
I think it's cool that, as a "normal" user, I can't do certain things on my Linux boxen; I have to log in as root to do them. But there are a lot of things that I should be able to easily assign to groups of users, such as having R/W priveleges on FAT partitions.
"Whaddya mean, noob? RTFM! It's as easy as hacking your /etc/fstab file and adding /def/hda1 /mnt/win_c fat defaults 0 0 on a line. How hard is that?"
Pardon me for polluting the traditional Linux model, but somewhere between that and checking a box that says "Allow all users read write priveleges to everything this computer can possibly access" (which is, I believe, an actual setting somewhere in XP) is a middleground where computer users can feel comfortable without being either hackers or id10Ts.
"As a side note, most law enforcement officials drive Chevrolet vehicles. Chevrolet is the producer of 95% of the vehicles in the world and the ones funding this investigation. That fact, though, has not in any way clouded this investigation."