Let's keep this all in perspective. I've seen Direct Connect hubs with about 250 TB stored with about 5,000 users. If 5,000 people with nothing more than an ordinary PCs can be 1/2 of Wal Mart's data, the internet as a whole must have much have far more available.
What irks me most is that it's restricted to businesses of a single country, and government aid is prohibited. If the goal is to promote the progress of science, sectarianism is not the way to go.
Odds are a US corporation would still wind up winning, but at least make it fair.
I wonder if they also include lost sales due to people boycotting them because they hate litigious bastards.
Personally, I've just extended my RIAA and BSA boycott to include the MPAA, and unlike music, which I never bought before, I used to occasionally go to the movies (last one I saw was Farenheit 9/11). And Hades will freeze over before I buy any MPAA media.
You couldn't be more correct. As a former MS Windows 98 user who has used Linux (Mandrake 9.1) for about 1.5 years now, I must say that Windows is harder to learn than KDE.
Although it wasn't an issue back when I used Windows (I got out just in time), spyware, adware, viruses, and god-knows-what isn't good for usability. It's extremely easy to notice the difference when one has isn't used to spyware and the like.
My 4 most common tasks (web surfing, email, browsing my home directory, and the Konsole) all have their own little buttons on the lower-left.
I get multiple desktops enabled by default, and after a little fiddling around in the comparitively intuitive control panel I even get a different background for each one.
On the subject of control panels, the windows control panel is a mess. Desktop environment stuff like backgrounds and themes are mixed in with kernel level stuff like virtual memory. With KDE, you have a nicely laid out panel, and you can't cause any real harm (it doesn't require root). For OS-level stuff (like boot orders, or system services) I use Mandrake control panel, but a newbie doesn't need to and can't use it (unless you're trusting enough to give them the root password).
Compiling software (either downloaded or stuff I write) takes a while. It takes about 1/2 hour to compile something big like The GIMP or GTK, and doing a full compile on my rpg game takes about a minute. I'm running on a 750MHz Athlon processor, and although I doubt I'd see much improvement in other areas, bringing down compile times would be nice.
Still, 1 minute to compile 30k lines of C++ code is still a lot better than the 5 minutes it took for my old 33MHz 80386 to compile 1k lines of C++ code (memor.
Quite arrogant, but I wouldn't blame the girl. It's probably the media (thinking back to 11-Sep media coverage) and perhaps the parents that made her so paranoid and ra-ra-Americans-are-supermen. If you saw the shit all the major media networks that was fed nonstop for the first few days and then in heavy doses through today, it's understandable how an impressionable child could think that way considering the stuff works on plenty of adults.
Both consulting and small cap money management can benefit from scale. A large firm can better advertise and boost its prestige, which other large client firms look for. If IBM needs some consulting services, it's more likely to go to a multinational megacorp than Joe and Jane's consulting.
I keep my really sensitive information on clay tablets buried in the back yard. I hear they're good for at least 10,000 years, and can never be hacked into over the internet.
I usually prefer the other way around. In summer when I'm always wearing shorts and tee shirts, I like it warm and in the winter, when I usually wear pants and sweat shirts, I like it cooler.
I guess it's a good thing because I don't get that much control over temperature, especially in the summer. It usually ranges from around 50 Farenheit after a long winter night (daytime is much warmer, perhaps 70) to around 100 Farenheit after a long summer afternoon during a heat wave and with the computers on. 60 to 90 is my comfort range, so long as I dress appropriately.
When I was learning how to program (using QBASIC on MS-DOS), I only knew of the CLS, PRINT, IF, GOTO, +, -, *,/, statements. I didn't know how to make functions or use loops, so I had to use gotos for everything. I even had developed a primitive method for calling 'functions' with a clever usage of gotos, but since I didn't know about arrays, no less stacks, recursion or calling more than one function deep would not work.
If I numbered lines 1, 2, 3, then my GOTOs would all break when I had to insert a line, so that 10, 20, 30 numbering is very useful.
Most is begotten from petrol anyway because cracking the hydrocarbon chain takes less energy than cracking water (which takes nearly twice the amount of useful work energy as you'll get back burning the hydrogen IIRC).
Actually, it's worse than that. Noone in the right minds would use $55/barrel oil when coal, especially dirty lignite coal, is so plentiful and cheap.
Perhaps once having the entire electric grid run on renewables is in sight (like 3-5 years away) a big push for hydrogen for transportation would be advisable if an efficient storage method for electricity isn't found by that time, but even if the whole world was run by hippies tomorrow, it would be at least 15 years for that to happen.
Will the dedicated host provide a TB of storage with the $50/month basic plan? The parent said he has 6000 thumbnails and a picture is 50-300MB. A bit of quick math (175MB * 6000) comes to 1.05 TB for the collection.
Hmm, 1 photo per week is a VERY light load, but 6000 175 MB photos (average of 50 and 500 MB) is a lot of storage.
I would use the Earthlink service, run an FTP or HTTP server (in violation of the TOS, but they are quite lenient from my experience and you're not using much bandwidth... such light use would be quite profitable for them). A 175 MB image will take an hour or two to upload with the 40 kB/sec up speed that you get with Earthlink.
To serve it, I would use an ordinary PC packed with HDDs. 175 MB * 6000 pictures is 1.05 TB of data, so it would take 4 of the new 300 GB HDDs to store the data, and 244 DVDs (about $200 worth of blanks, and will take you a few days to burn, but it's about as cheap as it gets).
Since you only get a hit a week, a standard PC is probably all the reliability you need.
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It's a minor dialemna introduced by copyright law (and certain aspects of contract law) existing in the first place.
If copyright didn't exist (and contracts couldn't be used to replace it), a GPL clause would be of only minor benefit (and if the law was that source code must accompany all binaries, this benefit would cease too) is that it requires source to be made available.
However, copyright does exist. You can think of the GPL as having the maximum possible recursively calculated freedom. The first copy might have a bit less freedom (you can't screw others and make it proprietary with your superior marketing and manipulation skills), but copies further down the line have a lot more freedom than otherwise.
Quite easy when that Windows Server 2003 has been hijacked by the latest spyware, worms, and viruses. All that flux capacitor will do is make even more powerful MS Windows worms.
It had been precedent since George Washington that presidents only serve 2 terms. Until FDR, nobody had tried to serve a third term, so an amendment was not needed.
The parents can always confiscate the game should the kids disobey and buy a naughty game. Losing $50 sure would teach them to disobey their parents.
I do think there is a serious freedom issue because the rating system is seriously undemocratic. Personally, I would rate the South Park Movie PG-13 and most of the Disney cartoons as PG-13. What matters most to me is gratuitous violence, particularly when done by the protagonist (the good guy). Sex and naughtly language don't matter much unless it's violent (ie., rape). To get a G rating the movie/show would have to be like Seseme Street or Dragon Tales. Dragonball Z would get an R rating in my book.
I just don't trust a bunch of appointed people to come up with a fair rating, and I understand that my definition of fair is mutually exclusive with some other people's definition of fair.
I believe the reason is because of the contrails that they contribute so much to global warming. CO2 mixes through the tropophere and stratosphere over about 2 years or so, so where it is emitted isn't that important.
That said, flying cattle class in a mostly filled jumbo jet is the equivalent of driving to your destination in a car that gets about 30 mpg with no passengers. A round trip to Asia for 1 person burns about as much as a 30 mpg car does in an average year (18,000 miles). It gets even worse if you fly in smaller planes or in upper class.
Natural sources are mostly balanced (which humans responsible for most of the debalancing), while human emissions are one way. That's why those 6 Gt are significant.
BTW, I'm not sure if you're counting air to water exchange in your numbers. If so, natural sources are a net sink, but they do have a carrying capacity, and the more CO2 in the ocean, the slower it is absorbed and the higher the final concentration once humans stop emitting CO2.
It would take more than that of plutonium to kill grass. Plutonium isn't all that active (half life over 10,000 years), so you'd probably need closer to a pound to kill grass, which is pretty resilient. Killing a human would take far less, since the dose would accumulate over the years, and humans are not very resilient to radiation damage.
You could convert the seeds of the plant into oil and pump it back into the oil wells. If the oil stayed there for millions of years, I figure we could safely pump freshly made oil back in.
Of course, it is kind of silly to do when we're still pumping oil out. Perhaps with fusion and hydroponics (using grow lamps) it might be practical.
Eighty percent of the world's software is American developed and distributed
I don't know where that figure comes from, but I seriously doubt it. The Japanese have a dominating share of the video game market, and the Europeans on the server market (Even though Apache and Linux are free, then have enourmous use value. India is also a major producer of software (even if most of it is just outsourced US work). I would be suprised if the US had so much as a 50% share.
Intellectual property industries account for 6 per cent of the US gross domestic product, employ more than five million people, and contribute US$626 billion to the US economy, Mr Ashcroft said.
Translation: Intellectual property industries consume 6 percent of our national resources, tie up 6 million workers, and cost the US $626 billion. If free software, freelance artists, charities, government programs, and industry (which will write stuff when it needs it for its operations) could do the job for 1 million workers and 1% of GDP, then that would be a lot of resources for other sectors.
I guess the rest is mostly opinion, but it sure sounds like some pretty rabid and despotic stuff he's spouting
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Let's keep this all in perspective. I've seen Direct Connect hubs with about 250 TB stored with about 5,000 users. If 5,000 people with nothing more than an ordinary PCs can be 1/2 of Wal Mart's data, the internet as a whole must have much have far more available.
This would tend to moderate the effects of global warming, as it would warm the arctic far more than the equator.
I'd be more worried if the wind stations did the reverse. Some arctic cooling will help to keep the ice caps stable.
What irks me most is that it's restricted to businesses of a single country, and government aid is prohibited. If the goal is to promote the progress of science, sectarianism is not the way to go.
Odds are a US corporation would still wind up winning, but at least make it fair.
I wonder if they also include lost sales due to people boycotting them because they hate litigious bastards.
Personally, I've just extended my RIAA and BSA boycott to include the MPAA, and unlike music, which I never bought before, I used to occasionally go to the movies (last one I saw was Farenheit 9/11). And Hades will freeze over before I buy any MPAA media.
You couldn't be more correct. As a former MS Windows 98 user who has used Linux (Mandrake 9.1) for about 1.5 years now, I must say that Windows is harder to learn than KDE.
Although it wasn't an issue back when I used Windows (I got out just in time), spyware, adware, viruses, and god-knows-what isn't good for usability. It's extremely easy to notice the difference when one has isn't used to spyware and the like.
My 4 most common tasks (web surfing, email, browsing my home directory, and the Konsole) all have their own little buttons on the lower-left.
I get multiple desktops enabled by default, and after a little fiddling around in the comparitively intuitive control panel I even get a different background for each one.
On the subject of control panels, the windows control panel is a mess. Desktop environment stuff like backgrounds and themes are mixed in with kernel level stuff like virtual memory. With KDE, you have a nicely laid out panel, and you can't cause any real harm (it doesn't require root). For OS-level stuff (like boot orders, or system services) I use Mandrake control panel, but a newbie doesn't need to and can't use it (unless you're trusting enough to give them the root password).
Compiling software (either downloaded or stuff I write) takes a while. It takes about 1/2 hour to compile something big like The GIMP or GTK, and doing a full compile on my rpg game takes about a minute. I'm running on a 750MHz Athlon processor, and although I doubt I'd see much improvement in other areas, bringing down compile times would be nice.
Still, 1 minute to compile 30k lines of C++ code is still a lot better than the 5 minutes it took for my old 33MHz 80386 to compile 1k lines of C++ code (memor.
Quite arrogant, but I wouldn't blame the girl. It's probably the media (thinking back to 11-Sep media coverage) and perhaps the parents that made her so paranoid and ra-ra-Americans-are-supermen. If you saw the shit all the major media networks that was fed nonstop for the first few days and then in heavy doses through today, it's understandable how an impressionable child could think that way considering the stuff works on plenty of adults.
I feel more sad than angry reading that story.
Both consulting and small cap money management can benefit from scale. A large firm can better advertise and boost its prestige, which other large client firms look for. If IBM needs some consulting services, it's more likely to go to a multinational megacorp than Joe and Jane's consulting.
I keep my really sensitive information on clay tablets buried in the back yard. I hear they're good for at least 10,000 years, and can never be hacked into over the internet.
I usually prefer the other way around. In summer when I'm always wearing shorts and tee shirts, I like it warm and in the winter, when I usually wear pants and sweat shirts, I like it cooler.
I guess it's a good thing because I don't get that much control over temperature, especially in the summer. It usually ranges from around 50 Farenheit after a long winter night (daytime is much warmer, perhaps 70) to around 100 Farenheit after a long summer afternoon during a heat wave and with the computers on. 60 to 90 is my comfort range, so long as I dress appropriately.
It's invasion of privacy, espionage, and cracking. If the data is used to take over identities, then it's identity theft.
Actually, this isn't a bad idea.
/, statements. I didn't know how to make functions or use loops, so I had to use gotos for everything. I even had developed a primitive method for calling 'functions' with a clever usage of gotos, but since I didn't know about arrays, no less stacks, recursion or calling more than one function deep would not work.
When I was learning how to program (using QBASIC on MS-DOS), I only knew of the CLS, PRINT, IF, GOTO, +, -, *,
If I numbered lines 1, 2, 3, then my GOTOs would all break when I had to insert a line, so that 10, 20, 30 numbering is very useful.
How hard would it be just to give credit. I believe it would be fair use, so copyright wouldn't be an issue?
Most is begotten from petrol anyway because cracking the hydrocarbon chain takes less energy than cracking water (which takes nearly twice the amount of useful work energy as you'll get back burning the hydrogen IIRC).
Actually, it's worse than that. Noone in the right minds would use $55/barrel oil when coal, especially dirty lignite coal, is so plentiful and cheap.
Perhaps once having the entire electric grid run on renewables is in sight (like 3-5 years away) a big push for hydrogen for transportation would be advisable if an efficient storage method for electricity isn't found by that time, but even if the whole world was run by hippies tomorrow, it would be at least 15 years for that to happen.
Will the dedicated host provide a TB of storage with the $50/month basic plan? The parent said he has 6000 thumbnails and a picture is 50-300MB. A bit of quick math (175MB * 6000) comes to 1.05 TB for the collection.
Hmm, 1 photo per week is a VERY light load, but 6000 175 MB photos (average of 50 and 500 MB) is a lot of storage.
... such light use would be quite profitable for them). A 175 MB image will take an hour or two to upload with the 40 kB/sec up speed that you get with Earthlink.
I would use the Earthlink service, run an FTP or HTTP server (in violation of the TOS, but they are quite lenient from my experience and you're not using much bandwidth
To serve it, I would use an ordinary PC packed with HDDs. 175 MB * 6000 pictures is 1.05 TB of data, so it would take 4 of the new 300 GB HDDs to store the data, and 244 DVDs (about $200 worth of blanks, and will take you a few days to burn, but it's about as cheap as it gets).
Since you only get a hit a week, a standard PC is probably all the reliability you need.
It's a minor dialemna introduced by copyright law (and certain aspects of contract law) existing in the first place.
If copyright didn't exist (and contracts couldn't be used to replace it), a GPL clause would be of only minor benefit (and if the law was that source code must accompany all binaries, this benefit would cease too) is that it requires source to be made available.
However, copyright does exist. You can think of the GPL as having the maximum possible recursively calculated freedom. The first copy might have a bit less freedom (you can't screw others and make it proprietary with your superior marketing and manipulation skills), but copies further down the line have a lot more freedom than otherwise.
Quite easy when that Windows Server 2003 has been hijacked by the latest spyware, worms, and viruses. All that flux capacitor will do is make even more powerful MS Windows worms.
It had been precedent since George Washington that presidents only serve 2 terms. Until FDR, nobody had tried to serve a third term, so an amendment was not needed.
The parents can always confiscate the game should the kids disobey and buy a naughty game. Losing $50 sure would teach them to disobey their parents.
I do think there is a serious freedom issue because the rating system is seriously undemocratic. Personally, I would rate the South Park Movie PG-13 and most of the Disney cartoons as PG-13. What matters most to me is gratuitous violence, particularly when done by the protagonist (the good guy). Sex and naughtly language don't matter much unless it's violent (ie., rape). To get a G rating the movie/show would have to be like Seseme Street or Dragon Tales. Dragonball Z would get an R rating in my book.
I just don't trust a bunch of appointed people to come up with a fair rating, and I understand that my definition of fair is mutually exclusive with some other people's definition of fair.
I believe the reason is because of the contrails that they contribute so much to global warming. CO2 mixes through the tropophere and stratosphere over about 2 years or so, so where it is emitted isn't that important.
That said, flying cattle class in a mostly filled jumbo jet is the equivalent of driving to your destination in a car that gets about 30 mpg with no passengers. A round trip to Asia for 1 person burns about as much as a 30 mpg car does in an average year (18,000 miles). It gets even worse if you fly in smaller planes or in upper class.
Well, here's how the balance looks:
natural sources:
out: 300 Gt
in: 298 Gt
net: 2 Gt out
humans:
out: 6 Gt
in: 0 Gt
net: 6 Gt out
Natural sources are mostly balanced (which humans responsible for most of the debalancing), while human emissions are one way. That's why those 6 Gt are significant.
BTW, I'm not sure if you're counting air to water exchange in your numbers. If so, natural sources are a net sink, but they do have a carrying capacity, and the more CO2 in the ocean, the slower it is absorbed and the higher the final concentration once humans stop emitting CO2.
It would take more than that of plutonium to kill grass. Plutonium isn't all that active (half life over 10,000 years), so you'd probably need closer to a pound to kill grass, which is pretty resilient. Killing a human would take far less, since the dose would accumulate over the years, and humans are not very resilient to radiation damage.
You could convert the seeds of the plant into oil and pump it back into the oil wells. If the oil stayed there for millions of years, I figure we could safely pump freshly made oil back in.
Of course, it is kind of silly to do when we're still pumping oil out. Perhaps with fusion and hydroponics (using grow lamps) it might be practical.
Eighty percent of the world's software is American developed and distributed
I don't know where that figure comes from, but I seriously doubt it. The Japanese have a dominating share of the video game market, and the Europeans on the server market (Even though Apache and Linux are free, then have enourmous use value. India is also a major producer of software (even if most of it is just outsourced US work). I would be suprised if the US had so much as a 50% share.
Intellectual property industries account for 6 per cent of the US gross domestic product, employ more than five million people, and contribute US$626 billion to the US economy, Mr Ashcroft said.
Translation: Intellectual property industries consume 6 percent of our national resources, tie up 6 million workers, and cost the US $626 billion. If free software, freelance artists, charities, government programs, and industry (which will write stuff when it needs it for its operations) could do the job for 1 million workers and 1% of GDP, then that would be a lot of resources for other sectors.
I guess the rest is mostly opinion, but it sure sounds like some pretty rabid and despotic stuff he's spouting