As somebody who has worked in an environment that has had a thin client deployment for a number of years, let me just say this,...
Ha hah ha he he ehe eh ho.... oh, can't breathe....he he he...
One might think that a thin client is less work but in reality, they end up being even more work and a greater risk than just managing images for desktops. Not only do the servers and network all just add more possible points of failure, but you're in a situation where if one computer has an issue, a number of computers possibly being all of them have problems. Add in that they, for some reason, seem to cost just as much as desktop computer (not including servers), and they really seem to lose all advantages.
Not bad for a bunch of surrender monkeys. Disclaimer: I'm a German and we were, after all, responsible for that oft mentioned surrender but we also admire courage and tenacity even in our (thankfully former) enemies. If you occupants of the Anglo Saxon cultural bubble want to call anybody a bunch of 'Surrender Mokeys' it's us Germans. We did after all surrender twice in the last century, the French only once.
Understand that we are not actually calling French surrender monkeys because we felt they surrendered. In reading books on WW2, although we called the French many things as the war went on, I have not seen that they surrendered come up as an issue during the war. Instead, it is just a cheap shot because of post war politics. It was mostly Charles De Gaulle and France's insults to the US and Britain that set things off. Post war France was determined to be a superpower again and burned a lot of bridges in the attempt. De Gaulle thought that the USSR would win the cold war so broke out of NATO, developed the bomb and ignored testing treaties we had worked out with the USSR, insulted Britain by claiming they were not a nuclear country but just got the bomb from the US, invaded Algeria, and generally conducted a lot of adventurism trying to re-establish themselves as a superpower on the level of the US which led to a lot of bad feelings. After helping to free their country and giving it back to them unconditionally, it was sore spot to have them blatantly insult those who had helped them. Thus, the bit about surrendering and speaking German were just easy attacks to make.
Probably taken from German Reich designs. Don't forget that thousands of US bomber pilots saw foo fighters in WWII. The archives of the German Airforce are still lost.
And that Hans Kammler, the SS General in charge of Nazi secret projects disappeared at the end of the war.
Just out of curiosity why exactly does it take till Wednesday to reach the ISS. Isn't that thing nearby?
Orbital mechanics are hard and time consuming. It will take time and corrections to get into the proper orbit and velocity to match up with the ISS. Car analogy: This isn't like driving to the local store and pulling into the parking lot. This is more like hitting the highway only to have to then cross lots of draw bridges and ferries close to your desitination that are on a particular time table. Miss one and you'll have to wait for the next opportunity.
i'm sure an advanced civilization will master Star Trek type fusion tech before doing something ridiculous like building a starlight collector.
the earth compared to the sun is like a grain of sand to a beachball. where would you get enough matter to build something around a star if the same or similar size ratio will exist in other star systems?
How about the same place you got all the matter for that "fusion tech" that allows you to produce enough energy to dwarf the energy output of the sun? The sun is a very nice, already built fusion reactor that keeps us from having to build our own miniature "starlight collectors" as that's pretty much all that fusion tech is.
He said introduce, and that's what he meant. The iMac was the first computer with a USB port as standard.
Nope. My Fujitsu notebook from a couple years before the iMac had a USB port (around 1998?). I and all the other IT guys had to go on the internet to even figure out what it was. I'm sure other computers also had them. However there was nothing for them at the time. It was simply a new standard that nobody was using. I'd say what he meant was that Apple was the first major company that switched to that standard and led the way for everybody else to also make the jump. I think the same could be said for a lot of similar things: 3.5" floppies, GUIs, built in networking, built in ethernet (even though nobody knew that's what those AAUI ports were for), getting rid of 3.5" floppies, EFI, etc.
No, but "hard to find" which I think he was replying to usually can be associated with "unavailable" (not that anybody actually said "unavailable" to put in quotes to begin with.)
i understand (or at least parse the semantic meaning) that the speed of light through space is fixed, and space can expand fasterthan that. Normally, it seems that the speed of information transmission is also tied to the speed of light, mainly I presume, because paradoxes would arise if it weren't. But can information travel across space at an effective speed uninfluenced by the expansion of space without causing paradoxes? Is it possible that information could still reach us even if light could not?
FIrst off, don't worry about paradoxes, because physics doesn't. As much as it may hurt our brains, according to Tippler's solution for an infinitely long cylinder, Feynman diagrams and other solutions for Einstein's equations for general relativity, it seems that the physics doesn't bear out paradoxes. However, many of these cases are so extreme that we doubt we'll ever see them and its a safe bet to even say they are not actually possible (although nothing prohibits them according to the physics I have seen the math for).
One of those extremes would be a tachyon, a particle moving faster than light. Einstein's equations prohibit anything accelerating to or beyond the speed of light, but have no prohibitions about a particle being created moving at a speed greater than light. However, unless a positron is actually an electron moving backwards in time, we haven't seen any and might not even know what to look for. Last I heard that wasn't pure wishful speculation or unsubstantiated denial, tachyons might have been possible in the early universe but if they could exist, it would be evidence that the universe was at a false vacuum and they would quickly create instability and drop the universe to a more stable energy state. Let's hope we don't create one because that might be the end of the universe as we know it.
Other solutions for FTL travel involve semi-hard science fiction such as warping space, wormholes, or hyperspace. While light and everything else in space must obey the c speed limit, that is the max speed of things travelling through space, whereas space can do whatever it damn well pleases. Once again, they can come up with equations for space warping to the point that such things can happen, but those seem to be so extreme that we're not even sure if they are possible even thought the math works out. Wormholes are a related idea but you really aren't traveling faster than light, but rather taking a short cut where light has a shorter distance to travel. Imagine you are looking at a mountain and to get to the other side, you need to drive around it. Then somebody builds a tunnel through the mountain and you can instead just drive straight across. The speed limits are the same for both routes, but the tunnel (ie wormhole) is a shorter distance. Again, warping space is hard and requires a lot of energy. So much that such wormholes that might actually allow information to travel through might be impossible. There there is hyperspace which stipulates that all of our (3D) space is connected to another space and the physical laws such as c do not apply to that space, or the distances are simply shorter. Imagine the Flatlander being lifted off of Flatland and blown by a wind in 3D space faster than anything can travel in 2D space and then dropped again into Flatland.
Now Apple is going to put Chinese workers out of a job.
Doubtful. One of the main reasons that Apple is not already using robots is because they can retool the entire production line in hours. Can't do that with robots. New part comes in, they wake the workers up, give them a donut, coffee and some training, then get them to work. It'll take longer than that just to swap new robots for the old robots.
After a couple more comments I drilled into something that I've confirmed with multiple other female associates of mine: women don't get hungry for food; women need to get to the point where they 'feel' like they need to eat a specific kind of food.
OMG! It turns out I'm really a woman! That explains so much about my life.
"Any country hostile to the USA would need to devote some of its resources, both money and brains, into similar RAD."
Not really, the Chinese will wait for us to sink the money into the tech, then steal the plans.
Except that was essentially what the USSR was doing with the USA's electronic and computer designs. Trouble was that without the necessary R&D, they really didn't even understand what they were copying. That allowed us to slip them designs that didn't work and resulted in things like the Soviet Urengoy–Surgut–Chelyabinsk natural gas pipeline.
Here in Oklahoma, we are desperately looking for programmers, engineers, and believe it or not: welders. Three local companies have Billboards up looking for welders, who are paid more than engineers!
I believe that. Grew up there and graduated from OU with a degree in engineering. Even if those companies did pay more than my big city pay and no doubt cost of living is cheaper, I still wouldn't move back. There are certainly worse places to live, but I wouldn't move there either. Neither would any of the other Okies I know in the computer industry that migrated around the same time I did. Pretty much everybody I knew from college has fled to at least as far as Texas.
He's not really talking to people who hate Democrats anymore. He did that during the primary.
Now he's talking to independent voters who don't vote straight party ticket. People who hate Democrats are going to vote for him no matter what he says.
No, he'll continue to talk to the people who hate Democrats. The election is not just about getting the undecided voters, but getting even the decided voters to not only get up and go vote on election day, but getting them to give money to help convince undecideds to vote for him as well as convincing the decideds to get out and vote. The trouble is that saying what you need to in order to get the people already on your side to actually cast that vote can often cause an undecided to go out and vote for the other guy to spite you.
I never voted for Obama. I voted against Bush, only to find out that it really didn't matter that much in the areas I cared about.
What? I can't say I've typed anything beyond short sentences on a MacBook, but I'm sure the backspace key is there and in fact works as a backspace key.
Read what is printed on that backspace key, it will mostly likely say the same thing that it says on my MacBook and all my Mac keyboards: "delete".
Ran into that one while working on phone tech support. They gave me a Mac and I was doing support for an application problem on a PC. Giving them exact instructions, I said to hit the "delete" key, which is a totally different key and purpose than a PC keyboard which is labeled "backspace". Luckily, it was during training that I ran across that. The delete key being named "Del" on an extended Apple keyboard. (However, looking at images, it looked like some of the newer metal keyboards drop the "delete" for an arrow on the backspace key.)
It was Japan's containment by the Western powers that led to it's desperation. It's an island nation heavily dependent on imports yet the U.S. and the West were shutting them out of the Asian market.
Not really. It was Japan's forced end of isolationism and unequal treaties by Western powers that made Japan so desperate, and that was back in the 1860's. Once Japan was forced to enter the world stage, they saw the writing on the wall and did everything they could to become a modern, industrialized country like the Western powers which included building their own empire. In 1895 they took Taiwan in a war with China. By 1905, they were winning wars with Western powers and by 1910 had taken over Korea. They had already invaded Manchuria in 1931 and then China proper in 1937. By time WW2 started in Europe, it had already been going on in Asia for years.
True, while discussing the topic of Future Tech, I should assume Future Tech photovoltaics also. Still with Carnot cycle efficiency, we are theoretically dealing with a cold resevoir of 3K and a hot of 373+K which would also put it into a 99% efficiency. (Of course it's not a reversible process so it would be less than that but I can't find the relevant equation right now and already concede the point.)
Yeah but the Japanese are supposed to be rational, intelligent people. I thought they were more intelligent than to abandon Nuclear which is the only real replacement for when the oil becomes scarce. Oh well. Maybe by 2030 when oil skyrockets to $1000 a barrel they will realize they have no choice.
Um, no. Oil doesn't figure into this equation. Oil is used for transportation (gas) and manufacturing, not main load power production which is what nuclear is for. The replacement for nuclear is coal. Perhaps natural gas which is related to oil and will have the same issues, but still not oil. Other replacements would be hydro, wind, and solar, but still not oil.
Well, while talking about giant geosyncronous solar power stations capable of generating enough energy to handle a significant amount of the load back on Earth, you might as well as in space elevators attached to them and then the power can just run down cables back to the ground that are tied in to the grid. After all, wewon't be capable of putting such station up into orbit until such space elevators exist first anyway. Plus, why talk of solar cells when mirrors and a water boiler/steam turbine combo is probably cheap, more reliable, and more efficient? Then, while we're at it, why bother with sending it back to earth, by time we have that sort of infrastructure in space, we'll be living there?
We didn't have any Japanese attacks on American soil after that happened.
Not true. "On the nights of June 21 and 22, 1942, a Japanese submarine fired 17 shells at Fort Stevens, making it the only military installation in the continental United States to receive hostile fire during World War II (the oil fields in Santa Barbara, California that were also shelled by the Japanese, was not considered a military installation)." Santa Barbara could be said to happen before, but the Fort Stevens attack happened after.
Hell, you'd think they would move everyone away and do something to TRIGGER an eruption, when they are ready for it.
Probably the best way to go about it - you can do it on your terms, or you can do it when the mountain wants to do it.
When you figure out how to trigger and eruption, write a paper and claim your Nobel, or just use that knowledge to attempt to blackmail the world as an evil genius.
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As somebody who has worked in an environment that has had a thin client deployment for a number of years, let me just say this,...
Ha hah ha he he ehe eh ho.... oh, can't breathe....he he he...
One might think that a thin client is less work but in reality, they end up being even more work and a greater risk than just managing images for desktops. Not only do the servers and network all just add more possible points of failure, but you're in a situation where if one computer has an issue, a number of computers possibly being all of them have problems. Add in that they, for some reason, seem to cost just as much as desktop computer (not including servers), and they really seem to lose all advantages.
Not bad for a bunch of surrender monkeys. Disclaimer: I'm a German and we were, after all, responsible for that oft mentioned surrender but we also admire courage and tenacity even in our (thankfully former) enemies. If you occupants of the Anglo Saxon cultural bubble want to call anybody a bunch of 'Surrender Mokeys' it's us Germans. We did after all surrender twice in the last century, the French only once.
Understand that we are not actually calling French surrender monkeys because we felt they surrendered. In reading books on WW2, although we called the French many things as the war went on, I have not seen that they surrendered come up as an issue during the war. Instead, it is just a cheap shot because of post war politics. It was mostly Charles De Gaulle and France's insults to the US and Britain that set things off. Post war France was determined to be a superpower again and burned a lot of bridges in the attempt. De Gaulle thought that the USSR would win the cold war so broke out of NATO, developed the bomb and ignored testing treaties we had worked out with the USSR, insulted Britain by claiming they were not a nuclear country but just got the bomb from the US, invaded Algeria, and generally conducted a lot of adventurism trying to re-establish themselves as a superpower on the level of the US which led to a lot of bad feelings. After helping to free their country and giving it back to them unconditionally, it was sore spot to have them blatantly insult those who had helped them. Thus, the bit about surrendering and speaking German were just easy attacks to make.
Probably taken from German Reich designs. Don't forget that thousands of US bomber pilots saw foo fighters in WWII. The archives of the German Airforce are still lost.
And that Hans Kammler, the SS General in charge of Nazi secret projects disappeared at the end of the war.
Just out of curiosity why exactly does it take till Wednesday to reach the ISS. Isn't that thing nearby?
Orbital mechanics are hard and time consuming. It will take time and corrections to get into the proper orbit and velocity to match up with the ISS. Car analogy: This isn't like driving to the local store and pulling into the parking lot. This is more like hitting the highway only to have to then cross lots of draw bridges and ferries close to your desitination that are on a particular time table. Miss one and you'll have to wait for the next opportunity.
i'm sure an advanced civilization will master Star Trek type fusion tech before doing something ridiculous like building a starlight collector.
the earth compared to the sun is like a grain of sand to a beachball. where would you get enough matter to build something around a star if the same or similar size ratio will exist in other star systems?
How about the same place you got all the matter for that "fusion tech" that allows you to produce enough energy to dwarf the energy output of the sun? The sun is a very nice, already built fusion reactor that keeps us from having to build our own miniature "starlight collectors" as that's pretty much all that fusion tech is.
He said introduce, and that's what he meant. The iMac was the first computer with a USB port as standard.
Nope. My Fujitsu notebook from a couple years before the iMac had a USB port (around 1998?). I and all the other IT guys had to go on the internet to even figure out what it was. I'm sure other computers also had them. However there was nothing for them at the time. It was simply a new standard that nobody was using. I'd say what he meant was that Apple was the first major company that switched to that standard and led the way for everybody else to also make the jump. I think the same could be said for a lot of similar things: 3.5" floppies, GUIs, built in networking, built in ethernet (even though nobody knew that's what those AAUI ports were for), getting rid of 3.5" floppies, EFI, etc.
No, but "hard to find" which I think he was replying to usually can be associated with "unavailable" (not that anybody actually said "unavailable" to put in quotes to begin with.)
i understand (or at least parse the semantic meaning) that the speed of light through space is fixed, and space can expand fasterthan that. Normally, it seems that the speed of information transmission is also tied to the speed of light, mainly I presume, because paradoxes would arise if it weren't. But can information travel across space at an effective speed uninfluenced by the expansion of space without causing paradoxes? Is it possible that information could still reach us even if light could not?
FIrst off, don't worry about paradoxes, because physics doesn't. As much as it may hurt our brains, according to Tippler's solution for an infinitely long cylinder, Feynman diagrams and other solutions for Einstein's equations for general relativity, it seems that the physics doesn't bear out paradoxes. However, many of these cases are so extreme that we doubt we'll ever see them and its a safe bet to even say they are not actually possible (although nothing prohibits them according to the physics I have seen the math for).
One of those extremes would be a tachyon, a particle moving faster than light. Einstein's equations prohibit anything accelerating to or beyond the speed of light, but have no prohibitions about a particle being created moving at a speed greater than light. However, unless a positron is actually an electron moving backwards in time, we haven't seen any and might not even know what to look for. Last I heard that wasn't pure wishful speculation or unsubstantiated denial, tachyons might have been possible in the early universe but if they could exist, it would be evidence that the universe was at a false vacuum and they would quickly create instability and drop the universe to a more stable energy state. Let's hope we don't create one because that might be the end of the universe as we know it.
Other solutions for FTL travel involve semi-hard science fiction such as warping space, wormholes, or hyperspace. While light and everything else in space must obey the c speed limit, that is the max speed of things travelling through space, whereas space can do whatever it damn well pleases. Once again, they can come up with equations for space warping to the point that such things can happen, but those seem to be so extreme that we're not even sure if they are possible even thought the math works out. Wormholes are a related idea but you really aren't traveling faster than light, but rather taking a short cut where light has a shorter distance to travel. Imagine you are looking at a mountain and to get to the other side, you need to drive around it. Then somebody builds a tunnel through the mountain and you can instead just drive straight across. The speed limits are the same for both routes, but the tunnel (ie wormhole) is a shorter distance. Again, warping space is hard and requires a lot of energy. So much that such wormholes that might actually allow information to travel through might be impossible. There there is hyperspace which stipulates that all of our (3D) space is connected to another space and the physical laws such as c do not apply to that space, or the distances are simply shorter. Imagine the Flatlander being lifted off of Flatland and blown by a wind in 3D space faster than anything can travel in 2D space and then dropped again into Flatland.
Now Apple is going to put Chinese workers out of a job.
Doubtful. One of the main reasons that Apple is not already using robots is because they can retool the entire production line in hours. Can't do that with robots. New part comes in, they wake the workers up, give them a donut, coffee and some training, then get them to work. It'll take longer than that just to swap new robots for the old robots.
After a couple more comments I drilled into something that I've confirmed with multiple other female associates of mine: women don't get hungry for food; women need to get to the point where they 'feel' like they need to eat a specific kind of food.
OMG! It turns out I'm really a woman! That explains so much about my life.
"Any country hostile to the USA would need to devote some of its resources, both money and brains, into similar RAD."
Not really, the Chinese will wait for us to sink the money into the tech, then steal the plans.
Except that was essentially what the USSR was doing with the USA's electronic and computer designs. Trouble was that without the necessary R&D, they really didn't even understand what they were copying. That allowed us to slip them designs that didn't work and resulted in things like the Soviet Urengoy–Surgut–Chelyabinsk natural gas pipeline.
Here in Oklahoma, we are desperately looking for programmers, engineers, and believe it or not: welders. Three local companies have Billboards up looking for welders, who are paid more than engineers!
I believe that. Grew up there and graduated from OU with a degree in engineering. Even if those companies did pay more than my big city pay and no doubt cost of living is cheaper, I still wouldn't move back. There are certainly worse places to live, but I wouldn't move there either. Neither would any of the other Okies I know in the computer industry that migrated around the same time I did. Pretty much everybody I knew from college has fled to at least as far as Texas.
it's _not_ buggy.
Then it's the first OS ever released by anyone that wasn't.
I'm pretty sure that North Korea has released a non-buggy OS. It made the news because it was programmed by Kim Jung Il himself.
He's not really talking to people who hate Democrats anymore. He did that during the primary.
Now he's talking to independent voters who don't vote straight party ticket. People who hate Democrats are going to vote for him no matter what he says.
No, he'll continue to talk to the people who hate Democrats. The election is not just about getting the undecided voters, but getting even the decided voters to not only get up and go vote on election day, but getting them to give money to help convince undecideds to vote for him as well as convincing the decideds to get out and vote. The trouble is that saying what you need to in order to get the people already on your side to actually cast that vote can often cause an undecided to go out and vote for the other guy to spite you.
I never voted for Obama. I voted against Bush, only to find out that it really didn't matter that much in the areas I cared about.
What? I can't say I've typed anything beyond short sentences on a MacBook, but I'm sure the backspace key is there and in fact works as a backspace key.
Read what is printed on that backspace key, it will mostly likely say the same thing that it says on my MacBook and all my Mac keyboards: "delete".
Ran into that one while working on phone tech support. They gave me a Mac and I was doing support for an application problem on a PC. Giving them exact instructions, I said to hit the "delete" key, which is a totally different key and purpose than a PC keyboard which is labeled "backspace". Luckily, it was during training that I ran across that. The delete key being named "Del" on an extended Apple keyboard. (However, looking at images, it looked like some of the newer metal keyboards drop the "delete" for an arrow on the backspace key.)
Hey, if serial killers can get groupies and girlfriends, anyone can. Wait! Except slahsdotters of course....
Slashdotters could get girlfriends if they wanted, but they have more important things to do.
Macs don't have delete keys.
Wrong. Macs don't have Backspace keys.
It was Japan's containment by the Western powers that led to it's desperation. It's an island nation heavily dependent on imports yet the U.S. and the West were shutting them out of the Asian market.
Not really. It was Japan's forced end of isolationism and unequal treaties by Western powers that made Japan so desperate, and that was back in the 1860's. Once Japan was forced to enter the world stage, they saw the writing on the wall and did everything they could to become a modern, industrialized country like the Western powers which included building their own empire. In 1895 they took Taiwan in a war with China. By 1905, they were winning wars with Western powers and by 1910 had taken over Korea. They had already invaded Manchuria in 1931 and then China proper in 1937. By time WW2 started in Europe, it had already been going on in Asia for years.
True, while discussing the topic of Future Tech, I should assume Future Tech photovoltaics also. Still with Carnot cycle efficiency, we are theoretically dealing with a cold resevoir of 3K and a hot of 373+K which would also put it into a 99% efficiency. (Of course it's not a reversible process so it would be less than that but I can't find the relevant equation right now and already concede the point.)
Yeah but the Japanese are supposed to be rational, intelligent people. I thought they were more intelligent than to abandon Nuclear which is the only real replacement for when the oil becomes scarce. Oh well. Maybe by 2030 when oil skyrockets to $1000 a barrel they will realize they have no choice.
Um, no. Oil doesn't figure into this equation. Oil is used for transportation (gas) and manufacturing, not main load power production which is what nuclear is for. The replacement for nuclear is coal. Perhaps natural gas which is related to oil and will have the same issues, but still not oil. Other replacements would be hydro, wind, and solar, but still not oil.
Well, while talking about giant geosyncronous solar power stations capable of generating enough energy to handle a significant amount of the load back on Earth, you might as well as in space elevators attached to them and then the power can just run down cables back to the ground that are tied in to the grid. After all, wewon't be capable of putting such station up into orbit until such space elevators exist first anyway. Plus, why talk of solar cells when mirrors and a water boiler/steam turbine combo is probably cheap, more reliable, and more efficient? Then, while we're at it, why bother with sending it back to earth, by time we have that sort of infrastructure in space, we'll be living there?
What's it a copy of? Seriously, I've been to see Guernica and I'd like to know what it's based on.
A Roy Lichtenstein painting probably.
We didn't have any Japanese attacks on American soil after that happened.
Not true. "On the nights of June 21 and 22, 1942, a Japanese submarine fired 17 shells at Fort Stevens, making it the only military installation in the continental United States to receive hostile fire during World War II (the oil fields in Santa Barbara, California that were also shelled by the Japanese, was not considered a military installation)." Santa Barbara could be said to happen before, but the Fort Stevens attack happened after.
If you got 2 weeks... a single day off for an interview would be 10%.
Which is why you call in sick to go do interviews.
Hell, you'd think they would move everyone away and do something to TRIGGER an eruption, when they are ready for it.
Probably the best way to go about it - you can do it on your terms, or you can do it when the mountain wants to do it.
When you figure out how to trigger and eruption, write a paper and claim your Nobel, or just use that knowledge to attempt to blackmail the world as an evil genius.