One would assume the FSF is in a position to help. If by Linux you mean individual distros, some of the larger ones are probably capable of beating off most attacks (that is, ones that aren't bankrolled by people like Microsoft).
And don't forget that the free software community has a history of helping groups that fall under legal trouble (the aftermath of SCO is making free software users more aware of legal risks). So passing the hat around would also be an option. The worst cas is that Microsoft could simultaneously sue free software groups in different countries, over a multitude of different patents. That sort of attack would be very difficult to beat off.
Unfortunately Slashdot isn't the place to get anything done on Mozilla
No kiddding, they don't even allow linking to Bugzilla from slashdot (hence your first link is gronked). But they'll listen to anything serious that you post on Bugzilla-even if they decide not to implement it.
Terribly sorry, meant fusion of course. As for fission, my memory seems to recall the first civilian power station (Shippingport, brought to you by Admiral Rockover) as being built in the 50s (Google leads me to say 1958). Simple PWR reactors are still working hard for us, but there haven't been built recently, and if the present situation continues, there won't be any more built in the US. Period.
Yep, in California the rivers don't run very well during the summer/fall. So the amount of electricity they produce in that time period is a trickle, and in the summer, when everyone is running air conditioners, we tend to be susceptible to power shortages.
Alright dude, but at the farms out here about 5 years is a good number, since these things are typically made of glass and, *surprise*, glass breaks. Last time I drove by a farm (about 5 weeks ago) about a third of the panels were broken-either from punks throwing rocks or just whatever. Just fragile, and that can be a pretty bad thing in the desert.
But there is something. If solar panels could have a lifetime of about 20-30 years of use (right now you'd be lucky to get the things to last 5 years without breaking), then that momentary expenditure of oil will more than pay for itself. It would be better to spend that oil on making efficient solar panels than to burn it in an SUV. No, we're not there yet and we're probably a good decade off, but the only way to improve this is to keep refining the fabrication process.
Solar is attractive because it isn't seasonal (unlike hydroelectric, which is only available during a portion of the year and is usually unavailable during the time we need it most, summer). Solar is unsightly and takes up a lot of real estate, which makes local environmental lobbyists pissed, but where I live (Southern California), it makes sense because we have a perfectly good desert nearby and placing a solar panel farm out there is simple Trying to place one in downtown Chicago is made easier by the panels in this story, since they could be incorporated into most buildings that have a modern, glass-heavy look. But the problem there is that Chicago and many other urban cities don't get nearly enough sunlight to make a panel farm efficient, just like most most areas don't get enough wind to make a propellor farm efficient. Better panels may come along, but there will always be cities that have to rely on other forms of power (nuclear comes to mind, and maybe someday we'll get fission to work-bring on the Duke Nukem Forever jokes).
As for corn ethanol, not only is it wasteful of energy, it's typically more expensive than your average gallon of gas here in the United States. Have to agree with you there.
The trick is that you have to look at solar from a few angles. It isn't a cure all for our energy problems, but it has more than just a few 'niche' applications and it could help make a serious contribution once the technology has matured.
While that's true, some of the employess will porbably seek legal recourse rather than sell their shares back to Google. They're now open to litigation in about 16 states IIRC. Litigation from their own employees could put Google back a bit more than a casual 25 million.
The problem is that it is impossible to get Shrek or Toy Story style sync with modern PC/Macintosh/XBOX hardware. There are hundreds of facial muscles that have to be manipulated perfectly. And the human brain is specifically trained. from infancy, to train eyes onto human faces and pick up subtle body language from it. So it is *really* hard to fool a human being into believing an animated face is real.
With that in mind, DOOM 3 and Half Life 2 have excellent synching, with Half Life 2's appearing to be superior (although we still ahven't seen in-game footage from Valve, which makes me very skeptical that Half Life 2 will deliver).
Well, RTFA dude. The article states that the largest number of jobs are for programmers. The point is that having a system adminstrator position is one thing, but most companies using Linux also need some people to write custom applications or to port applications from Windows/Unix/Whatever (TM).
It's worth noting that the attack on DoubleClick, which is an Evil Corporation (TM), also affected the ~900 sites that use DoubleClick to serve their ads. Those sites had to wait for their ad cycle to time out or something (IANAWD). So quite a few web sites were affected, with slow loading times. Sites that disabled DoubleClick ad banners had to deal with the fact that, for the better part of a day, they lost all banner revenue. So in the end, this DDOS was probably just a Bad Thing (TM).
The two combinations you mention do work perfectly. Firefox 0.9x has solve rendering issues for me, and I never had any rendering problems under Linux (Slackware 9.x, and every Firefox release since 0.7). Every Firefox version before 0.9 gave me serious issues when rendering Slashdot, but it was annoying, and I just learned to deal with it. In fact, whenever I used IE to look at Slashdot, I thought it looked funny.
That actually depends more on environment, since the 60MHz Pentium was rather hot for its day. However, I've heard stories of people running early model Pentium chips without a heatsink, but in a case with a good fan (only one fan back then, remember how quiet they were!) and in an air-conditioned server room kind of environment.
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One would assume the FSF is in a position to help. If by Linux you mean individual distros, some of the larger ones are probably capable of beating off most attacks (that is, ones that aren't bankrolled by people like Microsoft).
And don't forget that the free software community has a history of helping groups that fall under legal trouble (the aftermath of SCO is making free software users more aware of legal risks). So passing the hat around would also be an option. The worst cas is that Microsoft could simultaneously sue free software groups in different countries, over a multitude of different patents. That sort of attack would be very difficult to beat off.
So, will this be as ineffective as the CAN-SPAM act?
Had an old Kensington trackball once, but have since moved on to Logitech.
Tell you what, bundle a legal copy of DOOM 3 and we have a deal.
No kiddding, they don't even allow linking to Bugzilla from slashdot (hence your first link is gronked). But they'll listen to anything serious that you post on Bugzilla-even if they decide not to implement it.
Terribly sorry, meant fusion of course. As for fission, my memory seems to recall the first civilian power station (Shippingport, brought to you by Admiral Rockover) as being built in the 50s (Google leads me to say 1958). Simple PWR reactors are still working hard for us, but there haven't been built recently, and if the present situation continues, there won't be any more built in the US. Period.
Yep, in California the rivers don't run very well during the summer/fall. So the amount of electricity they produce in that time period is a trickle, and in the summer, when everyone is running air conditioners, we tend to be susceptible to power shortages.
Alright dude, but at the farms out here about 5 years is a good number, since these things are typically made of glass and, *surprise*, glass breaks. Last time I drove by a farm (about 5 weeks ago) about a third of the panels were broken-either from punks throwing rocks or just whatever. Just fragile, and that can be a pretty bad thing in the desert.
But there is something. If solar panels could have a lifetime of about 20-30 years of use (right now you'd be lucky to get the things to last 5 years without breaking), then that momentary expenditure of oil will more than pay for itself. It would be better to spend that oil on making efficient solar panels than to burn it in an SUV. No, we're not there yet and we're probably a good decade off, but the only way to improve this is to keep refining the fabrication process.
Solar is attractive because it isn't seasonal (unlike hydroelectric, which is only available during a portion of the year and is usually unavailable during the time we need it most, summer). Solar is unsightly and takes up a lot of real estate, which makes local environmental lobbyists pissed, but where I live (Southern California), it makes sense because we have a perfectly good desert nearby and placing a solar panel farm out there is simple Trying to place one in downtown Chicago is made easier by the panels in this story, since they could be incorporated into most buildings that have a modern, glass-heavy look. But the problem there is that Chicago and many other urban cities don't get nearly enough sunlight to make a panel farm efficient, just like most most areas don't get enough wind to make a propellor farm efficient. Better panels may come along, but there will always be cities that have to rely on other forms of power (nuclear comes to mind, and maybe someday we'll get fission to work-bring on the Duke Nukem Forever jokes).
As for corn ethanol, not only is it wasteful of energy, it's typically more expensive than your average gallon of gas here in the United States. Have to agree with you there.
The trick is that you have to look at solar from a few angles. It isn't a cure all for our energy problems, but it has more than just a few 'niche' applications and it could help make a serious contribution once the technology has matured.
Wow, did I really write all of that?
While that's true, some of the employess will porbably seek legal recourse rather than sell their shares back to Google. They're now open to litigation in about 16 states IIRC. Litigation from their own employees could put Google back a bit more than a casual 25 million.
Trying to download a 4.0 MB file after it's linked to on the front page of Slashdot is never an easy thing, dude.
"Here we are strapped to millions of tons of explosives built by the lowest bidder."
Rock Hound, Armageddon.
I probably got the quote wrong, but the point is that you already have to be a little loony to get shot into space. X-Prize not withstanding.
I predict that the iPod will die, but will rise again after three days have passed.
Two words, man. Nethack.
Laugh, it's good for you.
The problem is that it is impossible to get Shrek or Toy Story style sync with modern PC/Macintosh/XBOX hardware. There are hundreds of facial muscles that have to be manipulated perfectly. And the human brain is specifically trained. from infancy, to train eyes onto human faces and pick up subtle body language from it. So it is *really* hard to fool a human being into believing an animated face is real.
With that in mind, DOOM 3 and Half Life 2 have excellent synching, with Half Life 2's appearing to be superior (although we still ahven't seen in-game footage from Valve, which makes me very skeptical that Half Life 2 will deliver).
Do I keep seeing an error page saying "Nothing to see here, move along." ??
In Firefos, that would be Tools->Options->Web Features, and under the Javascript box use the Advanced tab.
Well, RTFA dude. The article states that the largest number of jobs are for programmers. The point is that having a system adminstrator position is one thing, but most companies using Linux also need some people to write custom applications or to port applications from Windows/Unix/Whatever (TM).
And doing so for a Linux-run business is also time consuming. That's why companies hire and pay people to do it. Hence the jobs nerds like us work at.
That, and forbidding users to use Internet Explorer or Outlook.
Just my $0.02
It's worth noting that the attack on DoubleClick, which is an Evil Corporation (TM), also affected the ~900 sites that use DoubleClick to serve their ads. Those sites had to wait for their ad cycle to time out or something (IANAWD). So quite a few web sites were affected, with slow loading times. Sites that disabled DoubleClick ad banners had to deal with the fact that, for the better part of a day, they lost all banner revenue. So in the end, this DDOS was probably just a Bad Thing (TM).
The two combinations you mention do work perfectly. Firefox 0.9x has solve rendering issues for me, and I never had any rendering problems under Linux (Slackware 9.x, and every Firefox release since 0.7). Every Firefox version before 0.9 gave me serious issues when rendering Slashdot, but it was annoying, and I just learned to deal with it. In fact, whenever I used IE to look at Slashdot, I thought it looked funny.
That actually depends more on environment, since the 60MHz Pentium was rather hot for its day. However, I've heard stories of people running early model Pentium chips without a heatsink, but in a case with a good fan (only one fan back then, remember how quiet they were!) and in an air-conditioned server room kind of environment.