The terminal and bash shell are still there. They're just harder to find. I just went to this, and the abrupt change was disconcerting. I suspect I'll get over it.
CentOS doesn't cost RedHat anything other than the work they put into making it so that folks like CentOS can do their thing, which is minimal. What they get in return is that each year some of the folks who use the derivative distributions choose to level up to RHEL. It's like advertising - a numbers game. It's designed that way on purpose. I don't doubt RedHat would be tickled pink if the entire Fortune 1000 migrated to CentOS for everything they're not already paying RHEL for. So, carry on! Build up those line-of-business apps on CentOS, get good and committed. Sooner or later you'll buy some support for something and RedHat will get their money eventually.
Sort of. If we can't build a 4-mile stretch of suburban highway because it might disturb some rodents then surrounding all of Florida's shelf with 50-meter high levees and turning the entire state into an aquaculture farm is socially out of the question. It's also a 200+ year project that ties up a lot of labor and requires a lot of resources. Between Australia and Cambodia is an even larger area that would also do. I did consider levees of up to 50 meters depth - not 50 feet, which would cover a much larger area than you are thinking - though of course the low-hanging fruit would be first taken.
As an engineering problem in the sci-fi sense of the world 300 years from now when there may be 36 billion people to feed and fuel? It's a fun thought experiment that does solve some problems and is physically possible. There are probably other solutions to this problem that are more agreeable. There are challenges, but the worst of them are not the materials and mechanical engineering.
No problem at all. Just build some dikes around Florida. Scrape mud out of the swamps to build the dikes out of. Texas, Louisiana and Georgia too. Gives a huge area (including parts of Florida now nominally above sea level) that should be enough considering that algae can be very space-efficient.
Frankly I prefer a geothermal electric solution, but those big rigs would take a lot of batteries and conversion to hydrox is not very efficient right now.
If I care not about my minions, their toil, their future, then yes, it's profitable - barely. But if shipping costs go up, they organize a union, I move in the slightest unprofitable direction, I try to innovate new products with risk, then all is lost.
In Bellevue, WA, US, there's a filing office where IP is stored. It contains the secrets of Orange, of Sendo, of others who've partnered with Microsoft on the long journey to a useful Microsoft phone. All these gave up their IP for free, under the terms that Microsoft would help them build a mobile future - but Microsoft got their IP out of receivership when the venture failed because they hand the foresight to insist on that in the contract.
They've already racked the filing cabinets where Nokia's IP will be stored.
Well something like two thirds of the market is iPads that cost $500 at least, and I'm pretty sure the Transformer Prime will sell well at that price. So no, $500 is not more than "most people" are willing to spend today. When the Kindle Fire comes out we will see how that goes. A _lot_ of people have been asking my thoughts on the Kindle fire - far more than asked about any other tablet.
It's not really all that profitable. On a $500 laptop they make like $25 in Operating Margin (after everything is paid). They just sell a whole lot of them.
Yeah, it goes great with Netflix streaming, and if you don't watch DVD's very often it's a better deal than the Netflix disc-by-mail subscription. If you have a lot of Redboxes in your local area, you can go to their website and browse a bigger selection or search - and reserve the disc you want.
An Amazon fire costs $200. It has 3G. With it you can buy any thing that is your heart's desire, from a waffle maker to a Caribbean island. You can do this any hour of the day or night, no matter where you are. If you're like me you can use it to buy the exact same tool you have "somewhere in the garage" faster than you could find the actual thing you already own.
Connect it to the right credit card and it's the ultimate bitch-slap to some jerk trying to sell you something at over 2x cost.
Well worth the money. At two benjamins, you could do worse even if you never read an ebook.
Yeah, assembler is great when you're coding for one machine. C subsumed assembler with _asm. That was brilliant. Maybe Dennis Ritchie was smarter than you think. Frankly reading his work his intellectual judo is amazing. You should try it. You would get religion. As I write this the K&R book is under my hand. It was writ in 1988 and since then nothing in it has come untrue. It differs little from the 1978 work.
In 1978 all of the computers on Earth could not in their aggregate compete with a single modern server - not in processor power, not in RAM. In no way. The people who made those things could not imagine our future day. Somehow Dennis Ritchie did and so now the computer in your pocket that's also a phone runs an OS that's compiled in a language he wrote, more than 80 percent of the time running an OS created or inspired by his work on Unix. iOS is derived from the BSD branch of Unix and powers iPhones, iPads and iPods (all writ in C derivatives). Linux is an OS inspired by Unix that powers Android phones and most world-facing servers, and is also writ in C.
libc is writ mostly in C by purpose, and includes only those few bits of assembler required to make the hardware fit. It's a strong point of C that these are the only bits that need rewritten to port Unix to a new chip. This is by purpose. Underlying hardware will differ, and this interface allows chip designers to connect with potential users through a utility called Lex. Compare and contrast Windows Mobile, which needs to be rewrit in assembler from the ground up to make it run on a new chip, with the concomitant debugging starting over from scratch. That's a non-winner. By being, C has influenced hardware designers to be compatible with it.
Remember, the idea of porting an OS, applications and data from one hardware and software architecture to another was a new idea back then. Computers were new and there were only a few of them. Persistence of data and apps as the core utility was a new idea. Dennis Ritchie invented that, and invented a method to serve that need with C and Unix. Some of us old geezers yet live who watched that happen.
In short, you're either confused or arguing with the wrong guy. Have you checked the bulletin board lately?
Thanks. This is fabulous. In the context of TFA this means that excess geothermal energy production can be used to manufacture PV for sites appropriate for PV that don't have geothermal resources but do have solar resources. PV has moved from a storage medium to a generation medium. I think that's cool. If the equator becomes an uninhabitable zone due to global warming it can still be a belt of energy production. This is great news.
Ah, wealth accumulates at the top. The top 1 percent make more than they can ever spend - and then it ruins their heirs, whose profligate spending replenishes the economy while it kills off the line by discouraging ambition. The story is as old as time. It's a karmic balance of a sort, a punishment for greed that the estate you worked so hard to create will provide indulgences and excesses to your heirs until there is none of either. Once it's locked away in the wealth coffins it's not money any more. It's out of circulation and doesn't count until it's spent and does again. As Adolphus A. Busch put it so many years ago, "No matter how rich you are you can still only drink 35-40 beers a day." Sometimes when their active business life is done, they indulge in philanthropy - which has a spectrum of utility from abhorrent to a more intelligent dole than bureaucracy can provide. It doesn't matter in the larger scheme a whit because the wealth of the richest has nothing to do with the level of comfort of the poor. The two things are so distanced as to be in entirely different orbits.
To be happy the obscenely wealthy need ever bigger numbers in their ledger whether it be writ in pencil or electrons or magnetic patterns. To them, that's what "winning" is. Let them have their game. To the rest of us their compulsion matters not at all.
To be happy the poor are more complex. They need two things.
The poor need sustenance: food, shelter, clothing, decent medical care, entertainment in their leisure, support when their productive days are done. We could do better at this. A society as productive as ours could set higher minimum standards for the dole. I think, particularly in medical care, established monopolies are oppressing the poor in an erroneous attempt to maximize their profit. These monopolies just need to be educated better about where the reasonable line is. The retired are a special issue. To not provide for folk when they've come unable to is to encourage youths to reproduce so they can be assured of children who survive to do so. This is a yeast-growth game we're sure to lose. The thing is that "unable" is a more difficult age to predict than "menses".
The poor (most, anyway) also need a sense of purpose: work. This is a serious problem that untreated led to the end of every nation in history that ignored it. Nations generally get more efficient over time and that's a problem. An important role of government is to deplete the surplus productivity of its people. "Idle hands are the devil's workshop." Or perhaps "idle young men are the stuff revolutions are made of." This is not a new problem and the solution isn't new either: build pyramids. Yes, they had this problem in ancient Egypt and that's how they solved it. No, I'm not talking literal pyramids, but metaphorical ones. The pyramids were an aspirational goal, the workers contributing to great works worthy of their efforts: the building of a stairway to heaven. Every detail was an object of pride, immortal fame could be had contributing to this work. The efforts of building, tearing down and rebuilding pyramids and other great works gave workers who would be otherwise idle something worthwhile subjectively to do - some small part in a larger plan. This thinking got the US out of the Great Depression, with the WPA.
We have in the world today a huge mass of idle people yearning for purpose but made redundant by modern efficiencies. Handled correctly this is not a problem, it's an asset. It's a source of power. Ask "what could I do with this many hands" and think huge. Give them something useful to do and sustain them while they do it. Refresh a national highway and rail system. Build out a national geothermal energy system. Put a colony on Phobos or Vesta, or in orbit around our moon. Reach for the stars. Build cities under the sea. Put a teacher's assistant in every classroom. Turn the Detroit metroplex to some useful purpose. Put teams to work painting and landscaping homes in blighted ne
Have they figured out how to make PV elements that over their lifetime generate more energy than the energy required to make them? This is not a troll. I really don't know and want to. Last I checked they hadn't done this, and the issue isn't addressed in your link.
BTW: If you're going to support family members' computers in Linux you might look into VNC server, or another remote desktop or secure shell option. It will save a lot of time and frustration to just remote in and do it for them. For hard cases video chat on their cellphone or tablet can be helpful too, as you can make them show you that it's plugged in and "point the camera at the screen and hold it still" is often quicker and more useful than a screenshot.
You can't email them a link? It's easier and faster to spell words out over the phone? sigh. Apparently your grandma responds better to your approach than mine does. Whatever works for you.
Interestingly there's plate tectonics running pretty much down the Western edge of the entire Americas. Proportionally speaking Central and South America are probably even richer in geothermal resources than the US is. And we all know about Iceland. I wonder what a map like this of Europe and Northern India would look like, and Sichuan province in China. Japan, Indonesia and New Zealand and probably Australia are rich with the stuff. That's like - almost everybody. Maybe free energy has been all around us this whole time.
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How low can they go?
Keep telling yourself that if it helps you sleep better.
Always in motion is the future.
We have to use some numbers to see what's happening. If you don't like these numbers, what have you got that's better?
So compare it to RIM. That should be meaningful.
And the patents on that processor are expired anyway. The work is rightly in the public domain. Why not use it?
The terminal and bash shell are still there. They're just harder to find. I just went to this, and the abrupt change was disconcerting. I suspect I'll get over it.
CentOS doesn't cost RedHat anything other than the work they put into making it so that folks like CentOS can do their thing, which is minimal. What they get in return is that each year some of the folks who use the derivative distributions choose to level up to RHEL. It's like advertising - a numbers game. It's designed that way on purpose. I don't doubt RedHat would be tickled pink if the entire Fortune 1000 migrated to CentOS for everything they're not already paying RHEL for. So, carry on! Build up those line-of-business apps on CentOS, get good and committed. Sooner or later you'll buy some support for something and RedHat will get their money eventually.
>You were joking, right?
Sort of. If we can't build a 4-mile stretch of suburban highway because it might disturb some rodents then surrounding all of Florida's shelf with 50-meter high levees and turning the entire state into an aquaculture farm is socially out of the question. It's also a 200+ year project that ties up a lot of labor and requires a lot of resources. Between Australia and Cambodia is an even larger area that would also do. I did consider levees of up to 50 meters depth - not 50 feet, which would cover a much larger area than you are thinking - though of course the low-hanging fruit would be first taken.
As an engineering problem in the sci-fi sense of the world 300 years from now when there may be 36 billion people to feed and fuel? It's a fun thought experiment that does solve some problems and is physically possible. There are probably other solutions to this problem that are more agreeable. There are challenges, but the worst of them are not the materials and mechanical engineering.
No problem at all. Just build some dikes around Florida. Scrape mud out of the swamps to build the dikes out of. Texas, Louisiana and Georgia too. Gives a huge area (including parts of Florida now nominally above sea level) that should be enough considering that algae can be very space-efficient.
Frankly I prefer a geothermal electric solution, but those big rigs would take a lot of batteries and conversion to hydrox is not very efficient right now.
Nokia is still in business. Why?
If I care not about my minions, their toil, their future, then yes, it's profitable - barely. But if shipping costs go up, they organize a union, I move in the slightest unprofitable direction, I try to innovate new products with risk, then all is lost.
In Bellevue, WA, US, there's a filing office where IP is stored. It contains the secrets of Orange, of Sendo, of others who've partnered with Microsoft on the long journey to a useful Microsoft phone. All these gave up their IP for free, under the terms that Microsoft would help them build a mobile future - but Microsoft got their IP out of receivership when the venture failed because they hand the foresight to insist on that in the contract.
They've already racked the filing cabinets where Nokia's IP will be stored.
Well something like two thirds of the market is iPads that cost $500 at least, and I'm pretty sure the Transformer Prime will sell well at that price. So no, $500 is not more than "most people" are willing to spend today. When the Kindle Fire comes out we will see how that goes. A _lot_ of people have been asking my thoughts on the Kindle fire - far more than asked about any other tablet.
It's not really all that profitable. On a $500 laptop they make like $25 in Operating Margin (after everything is paid). They just sell a whole lot of them.
Yeah, it goes great with Netflix streaming, and if you don't watch DVD's very often it's a better deal than the Netflix disc-by-mail subscription. If you have a lot of Redboxes in your local area, you can go to their website and browse a bigger selection or search - and reserve the disc you want.
A bigger tub of salt would do it. It's not like we're running out of salt.
An Amazon fire costs $200. It has 3G. With it you can buy any thing that is your heart's desire, from a waffle maker to a Caribbean island. You can do this any hour of the day or night, no matter where you are. If you're like me you can use it to buy the exact same tool you have "somewhere in the garage" faster than you could find the actual thing you already own.
Connect it to the right credit card and it's the ultimate bitch-slap to some jerk trying to sell you something at over 2x cost.
Well worth the money. At two benjamins, you could do worse even if you never read an ebook.
Yeah, assembler is great when you're coding for one machine. C subsumed assembler with _asm. That was brilliant. Maybe Dennis Ritchie was smarter than you think. Frankly reading his work his intellectual judo is amazing. You should try it. You would get religion. As I write this the K&R book is under my hand. It was writ in 1988 and since then nothing in it has come untrue. It differs little from the 1978 work.
In 1978 all of the computers on Earth could not in their aggregate compete with a single modern server - not in processor power, not in RAM. In no way. The people who made those things could not imagine our future day. Somehow Dennis Ritchie did and so now the computer in your pocket that's also a phone runs an OS that's compiled in a language he wrote, more than 80 percent of the time running an OS created or inspired by his work on Unix. iOS is derived from the BSD branch of Unix and powers iPhones, iPads and iPods (all writ in C derivatives). Linux is an OS inspired by Unix that powers Android phones and most world-facing servers, and is also writ in C.
libc is writ mostly in C by purpose, and includes only those few bits of assembler required to make the hardware fit. It's a strong point of C that these are the only bits that need rewritten to port Unix to a new chip. This is by purpose. Underlying hardware will differ, and this interface allows chip designers to connect with potential users through a utility called Lex. Compare and contrast Windows Mobile, which needs to be rewrit in assembler from the ground up to make it run on a new chip, with the concomitant debugging starting over from scratch. That's a non-winner. By being, C has influenced hardware designers to be compatible with it.
Remember, the idea of porting an OS, applications and data from one hardware and software architecture to another was a new idea back then. Computers were new and there were only a few of them. Persistence of data and apps as the core utility was a new idea. Dennis Ritchie invented that, and invented a method to serve that need with C and Unix. Some of us old geezers yet live who watched that happen.
In short, you're either confused or arguing with the wrong guy. Have you checked the bulletin board lately?
Thanks. This is fabulous. In the context of TFA this means that excess geothermal energy production can be used to manufacture PV for sites appropriate for PV that don't have geothermal resources but do have solar resources. PV has moved from a storage medium to a generation medium. I think that's cool. If the equator becomes an uninhabitable zone due to global warming it can still be a belt of energy production. This is great news.
Ah, wealth accumulates at the top. The top 1 percent make more than they can ever spend - and then it ruins their heirs, whose profligate spending replenishes the economy while it kills off the line by discouraging ambition. The story is as old as time. It's a karmic balance of a sort, a punishment for greed that the estate you worked so hard to create will provide indulgences and excesses to your heirs until there is none of either. Once it's locked away in the wealth coffins it's not money any more. It's out of circulation and doesn't count until it's spent and does again. As Adolphus A. Busch put it so many years ago, "No matter how rich you are you can still only drink 35-40 beers a day." Sometimes when their active business life is done, they indulge in philanthropy - which has a spectrum of utility from abhorrent to a more intelligent dole than bureaucracy can provide. It doesn't matter in the larger scheme a whit because the wealth of the richest has nothing to do with the level of comfort of the poor. The two things are so distanced as to be in entirely different orbits.
To be happy the obscenely wealthy need ever bigger numbers in their ledger whether it be writ in pencil or electrons or magnetic patterns. To them, that's what "winning" is. Let them have their game. To the rest of us their compulsion matters not at all.
To be happy the poor are more complex. They need two things.
The poor need sustenance: food, shelter, clothing, decent medical care, entertainment in their leisure, support when their productive days are done. We could do better at this. A society as productive as ours could set higher minimum standards for the dole. I think, particularly in medical care, established monopolies are oppressing the poor in an erroneous attempt to maximize their profit. These monopolies just need to be educated better about where the reasonable line is. The retired are a special issue. To not provide for folk when they've come unable to is to encourage youths to reproduce so they can be assured of children who survive to do so. This is a yeast-growth game we're sure to lose. The thing is that "unable" is a more difficult age to predict than "menses".
The poor (most, anyway) also need a sense of purpose: work. This is a serious problem that untreated led to the end of every nation in history that ignored it. Nations generally get more efficient over time and that's a problem. An important role of government is to deplete the surplus productivity of its people. "Idle hands are the devil's workshop." Or perhaps "idle young men are the stuff revolutions are made of." This is not a new problem and the solution isn't new either: build pyramids. Yes, they had this problem in ancient Egypt and that's how they solved it. No, I'm not talking literal pyramids, but metaphorical ones. The pyramids were an aspirational goal, the workers contributing to great works worthy of their efforts: the building of a stairway to heaven. Every detail was an object of pride, immortal fame could be had contributing to this work. The efforts of building, tearing down and rebuilding pyramids and other great works gave workers who would be otherwise idle something worthwhile subjectively to do - some small part in a larger plan. This thinking got the US out of the Great Depression, with the WPA.
We have in the world today a huge mass of idle people yearning for purpose but made redundant by modern efficiencies. Handled correctly this is not a problem, it's an asset. It's a source of power. Ask "what could I do with this many hands" and think huge. Give them something useful to do and sustain them while they do it. Refresh a national highway and rail system. Build out a national geothermal energy system. Put a colony on Phobos or Vesta, or in orbit around our moon. Reach for the stars. Build cities under the sea. Put a teacher's assistant in every classroom. Turn the Detroit metroplex to some useful purpose. Put teams to work painting and landscaping homes in blighted ne
Have they figured out how to make PV elements that over their lifetime generate more energy than the energy required to make them? This is not a troll. I really don't know and want to. Last I checked they hadn't done this, and the issue isn't addressed in your link.
BTW: If you're going to support family members' computers in Linux you might look into VNC server, or another remote desktop or secure shell option. It will save a lot of time and frustration to just remote in and do it for them. For hard cases video chat on their cellphone or tablet can be helpful too, as you can make them show you that it's plugged in and "point the camera at the screen and hold it still" is often quicker and more useful than a screenshot.
You can't email them a link? It's easier and faster to spell words out over the phone? sigh. Apparently your grandma responds better to your approach than mine does. Whatever works for you.
Interestingly there's plate tectonics running pretty much down the Western edge of the entire Americas. Proportionally speaking Central and South America are probably even richer in geothermal resources than the US is. And we all know about Iceland. I wonder what a map like this of Europe and Northern India would look like, and Sichuan province in China. Japan, Indonesia and New Zealand and probably Australia are rich with the stuff. That's like - almost everybody. Maybe free energy has been all around us this whole time.