Moreover, much of Frances motivation for having their own nuclear force was to avoid depending on the US, allowing them to pursue a more independent foreign policy.
So they can pretend they still matter.
While acting as a deterrent against the US probably wasn't the major motivation,
Any such "deterrence" is Gallic fantasy.
The EU is building their own GPS system for much the same reasons.
GPS and DNS are sooo fundamentally different in scale, it's pathetic.
I takes a decade or more to set up your own GPS, it take 10 weeks to set up your own root servers (if you want to do it right).
The end of the story was basically his superiors realizing that, instead of losing these hideously expensive computers, they could simply put a human in each bomb to use math to guide it to its destination. After all, human life is cheap and readily available. *wry grin* Probably written back in the day, when computers were the size of rooms and people assumed they'd get smaller, but would probably always be horribly expensive.
Back in the day, Werner von Braun is alleged to have said
Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft... and the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor.
Obviously you haven't been watching the actual competition. All you need to do to stop these things is set some traffic cones out. Or, worse, cast ominous shadows along the ground.
Obviously, you've been living in a cave for the past, oh, 200 years, to not have noticed that when man (specifically Western Man, which now encompasses Japan, South Korea, Taiwan & soon India) puts his mind to technology, it invariably gets faster, better & all around more capable.
Seriously though, I suspect that if autonomous bombs come about, landmines will come back in style.
The US never signed the land mine treaty. Still, they are messy in an urban environment.
Is nntp any better? Like smtp it was designed for a much gentler Internet where security wasn't much of an issue and people didn't try to send 8GB files to 100's of their closest friends.
But that's the point: you don't do that with nntp. Your 8GB file gets uploaded one time along the slow link from your PC to the hi-speed backbone, not hundreds of times, like with email or a local FTP server.
You can lose one disk in a RAID5 and it still works. However, the contents of the failed disk needs to be regenerated on the spare before it's back to its 'redundant' state.
[snip]
This can take quite some time.
On my s/w RAID5, it takes hours.
This is what 15K RPM SCSI drives and expensive RAID controllers are for.
If you think that DS9 is the first Star Trek series where the Federation wasn't the only superpower in the galaxy, where there's no black and white and you can't force others to do the "right thing", you really need to go back and watch TOS, TNG & ST:E.
Don't think so. It's been in the kernel since 2.6.12.
$ uname -r
2.6.13n
$ zcat/proc/config.gz | grep DRM CONFIG_DRM=m # CONFIG_DRM_TDFX is not set # CONFIG_DRM_R128 is not set # CONFIG_DRM_RADEON is not set # CONFIG_DRM_MGA is not set # CONFIG_DRM_SIS is not set # CONFIG_DRM_VIA is not set
Now, whether userland apps take advantage of it or not is a different story.
Ideally you install Firefox once as Admin (coz we trust those Firefox developers not to put anything nasty in the installer), then login to a user account. The user account has permission to run Firefox, but not as Admin, so won't have permission to modify Firefox, the kernel, or whatever. In case of an exploit, you can still destroy your own user files though.
What do you mean ideally? That's what happens every time I run
apt-get install mozilla-firefox
Oh, wait, you're talking about Windows, aren't you? Sucks to be you, I guess.
Unix, traditionally having a less granluar permissions model than NT, has a lot of programs that when run as a user, change themselves to run as Admin.
For those of us who aren't audiophiles, Dobly 5.1 using built-in sound is more than enough. (And the nForce4 chipset is no slouch like the sound installed on the Intel boards.) However, I do realize that there are audiophiles out there who *do* care. That's why I asked about the extra sound card.
Besides, how can you be an audiophile and have a computer that generates lots of fan and spin noise.
To be a true anal-retentive audiophile, you'll be limited to fanless/diskless systems (Via Mini-ITX in expensive radiator-as-part-of-the-case units) that netboot off remote fileservers.
You can buy a very capable system for $300 at Fry's right now. There's a large gulf between capable for today's OS releases and the one coming out in a year.
That is so right.
These 3yo specs are still more than sufficient for the vast majority of people, including (non-teenage boy) gamers:
Athlon XP 2200+
1GB RAM
GeForce 5200
On-board audio or a cheap SoundBlaster
GNOME 2.10
Purposefully no mention of disk space, because that need is always growing.
Did Reagan's SDI (aka "Star Wars") plan have anything to do with Soviet collapse? Not according to the Gorbechev and the KGB. When SDI was announced, Gorby asked if it was a threat, and the KGB said no. They (rightfully) said that any antiballistic missle system has intrinsic engineering challenges that the US couldn't overcome with the technology currently available, or even available in the near term. And effective countermeasures to the proposed systems were already available. But most damning of all, the cheapest countermeasure would be to simply overwhelm the defenses by launching more missles in the first wave.
The USSR spent about 40% of it's budget on the military.
How much more "butter" could the USSR have created if it didn't have to spend so much on "guns"?
I guess that's why it takes 5 hours to compile in Gentoo,
Throw more hardware at it. A quad-CPU SunFire V40z w/ 8GB RAM & 10K RPM SCSI drives would make it scream. (Yes, it would have to be a a chroot, blah blah...)
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Moreover, much of Frances motivation for having their own nuclear force was to avoid depending on the US, allowing them to pursue a more independent foreign policy.
So they can pretend they still matter.
While acting as a deterrent against the US probably wasn't the major motivation,
Any such "deterrence" is Gallic fantasy.
The EU is building their own GPS system for much the same reasons.
GPS and DNS are sooo fundamentally different in scale, it's pathetic.
I takes a decade or more to set up your own GPS, it take 10 weeks to set up your own root servers (if you want to do it right).
Back in the day, Werner von Braun is alleged to have said
boys and girls
Why do people always say that? What about the people in their 20s, 30s & 40s?
Obviously you haven't been watching the actual competition. All you need to do to stop these things is set some traffic cones out. Or, worse, cast ominous shadows along the ground.
Obviously, you've been living in a cave for the past, oh, 200 years, to not have noticed that when man (specifically Western Man, which now encompasses Japan, South Korea, Taiwan & soon India) puts his mind to technology, it invariably gets faster, better & all around more capable.
Seriously though, I suspect that if autonomous bombs come about, landmines will come back in style.
The US never signed the land mine treaty. Still, they are messy in an urban environment.
I have met one person that I know for sure believes in a "young earth"
Doesn't sound very scary to me.
What you want for large files is many2many, it's called bittorrent.
Why? It still makes people (at the ass end of the pipe) send out lots of data on a continual basis.
If most nntp servers didn't have such tiny retention periods for binary file groups, it should be the much preferred way to distribute files
Is nntp any better? Like smtp it was designed for a much gentler Internet where security wasn't much of an issue and people didn't try to send 8GB files to 100's of their closest friends.
But that's the point: you don't do that with nntp. Your 8GB file gets uploaded one time along the slow link from your PC to the hi-speed backbone, not hundreds of times, like with email or a local FTP server.
Could be something tectonic.
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How did the Nazis get to Hyperion 60 years ago???
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There are a lot of pick based systems that have been moved to Linux relatively easily
Wow, must be 15 years since I've seen Pick. Didn't know it was still around.
What if a file has the string "drwx" in it?
And you forgot about dot directories.
it's just that Google has the skills to mine the data effectively.
Wal-Mart does things with data mining that would make Google drool.
They're also pretty amazing at SCM, but Google doesn't really care about that...
You can lose one disk in a RAID5 and it still works. However, the contents of the failed disk needs to be regenerated on the spare before it's back to its 'redundant' state.
[snip]
This can take quite some time.
On my s/w RAID5, it takes hours.
This is what 15K RPM SCSI drives and expensive RAID controllers are for.
s/w RAID is great 99% of the time, but...
If you think that DS9 is the first Star Trek series where the Federation wasn't the only superpower in the galaxy, where there's no black and white and you can't force others to do the "right thing", you really need to go back and watch TOS, TNG & ST:E.
Ah, foolish me. I meant to grep for TPM.
Don't think so. It's been in the kernel since 2.6.12.Now, whether userland apps take advantage of it or not is a different story.
What do you mean ideally? That's what happens every time I runOh, wait, you're talking about Windows, aren't you? Sucks to be you, I guess.
Unix, traditionally having a less granluar permissions model than NT, has a lot of programs that when run as a user, change themselves to run as Admin.
Some, not lot.
For those of us who aren't audiophiles, Dobly 5.1 using built-in sound is more than enough. (And the nForce4 chipset is no slouch like the sound installed on the Intel boards.) However, I do realize that there are audiophiles out there who *do* care. That's why I asked about the extra sound card.
Besides, how can you be an audiophile and have a computer that generates lots of fan and spin noise.
To be a true anal-retentive audiophile, you'll be limited to fanless/diskless systems (Via Mini-ITX in expensive radiator-as-part-of-the-case units) that netboot off remote fileservers.
That is so right.
These 3yo specs are still more than sufficient for the vast majority of people, including (non-teenage boy) gamers:
Purposefully no mention of disk space, because that need is always growing.
Did Reagan's SDI (aka "Star Wars") plan have anything to do with Soviet collapse? Not according to the Gorbechev and the KGB. When SDI was announced, Gorby asked if it was a threat, and the KGB said no. They (rightfully) said that any antiballistic missle system has intrinsic engineering challenges that the US couldn't overcome with the technology currently available, or even available in the near term. And effective countermeasures to the proposed systems were already available. But most damning of all, the cheapest countermeasure would be to simply overwhelm the defenses by launching more missles in the first wave.
The USSR spent about 40% of it's budget on the military.
How much more "butter" could the USSR have created if it didn't have to spend so much on "guns"?
I guess that's why it takes 5 hours to compile in Gentoo,
Throw more hardware at it. A quad-CPU SunFire V40z w/ 8GB RAM & 10K RPM SCSI drives would make it scream. (Yes, it would have to be a a chroot, blah blah...)
In addition, can it open spreadsheets with more than 32,000 lines?
OOo 2
I regularly get csv files with 50-75K lines that are of different formats and would like to be able to open them in a spread sheet, especially OO.
If you're on *ix, use split(1). Or, better yet, use a tool that is designed to handle large numbers of rows.
OOo2 Base might suit your needs.
SLC?
tiny investment of $2 billion
Tiny, eh? Can I be your friend?
can cover the entire US woith 60Meg WiFi.
Not the densly populated areas.
Every square foot of it.
I won't be snarky and ask about Alaska, where there's huge regions that man has never set foot upon. Or even the vast Nevada deserts.
Google can cover all the important stuff by hitting the top two.
Elitist snob, eh?
Someone doesn't realize how very large the US is.
All of the densely and moderately populated areas, but there's no money to be made in doing this in towns (large and small) and rural areas.