A bit unfair to the 5.X series, don't you think? Don't get me wrong, I have in the past stopped upgrading BSD (at 2.2.8 and 3.4, if I recall) because of shortcomings in a given release(3.[01] and 4.[012], also if I recall), but I don't think 5.2.1 is anywhere near as bad as you suggest.
Is that why all flying things are the same size? Birds, insects, aeroplanes, and so on? The relationship in size may be dictated by physics (though even there there seem to be a huge number of viable flying shapes), but the size is variable within a pretty broad range.
" If regular users switch to any other OS, you will still have problems with mailer-type viruses."
Huh?
If you mean the other users' mail will still clutter up their inboxes, ok. But if you mean they can be infected on a non-MS OS, I have to question your sanity.
Perhaps the dems voted for the war due to relatively broad public support and the upcoming 2002 congressional elections? Of course not! They couldn't be that cynical, could they?
But if a 3d party causes a major party to repeatedly lose, sometimes the 3d party can get its views incorporated into the major party's platform. (cf. Bull Moose Party and Republicans, William Jennings Bryant and Democrats)
You have to watch out. Some states have decided (by statute or precedent) that a non-locksmith possessing lock picks creates a presumption of criminal intent.
150 KPH in a taxis? 95 MPH? what city do you live in ? I'm lucky to reach 100 KPH given traffic. Most days I'm lucky to reach 50 KPH for any more than a minute or two.
I didn't say that their motives were necessarily sinister. (OK, the greedy ones are not respectable...). However if someone wants to save the world, or do public service, and chooses government as the means, then he is inherently interested in telling others what to do. That is the function of government. He may have the best intentions, be a truly enlightened benevolent despot, but if he is telling people to act in ways they would not othewise act, he is despotic.
Now, before I get any more criticism, there are certain legitimate despotic uses of government (eg. preventing violence against another, etc.), but my point is not changed. Yes, there are some few legitimate uses of governmental coercive power. But I do not trust at all those whose first choice of career is the professional use of that power. Especially those who make it a life long vocation.
I disagree. There are two reasons to go into politics: 1) To line your pockets or 2) To tell other people what to do (sometimes dressed up as "save them from themselves" or "better their lives"). This means everyone in politics is either greedy or despotic (or confused and in the wrong field). Thus, I think it a huge mistake to expect politicians will ever be even a somewhat reputable bunch.
As an alternative, allow the stock exchanges to establish reporting standards and police the companies listed. If one exchange got a reputation for listing untrustworthy companies, they would lose credibility.
IBM's personal antitrust suit may be in the distant past, but ask MS about antitrust worries... I don't think IBM will be doing anything to draw the DoJ's attention any time soon.
Do you often find yourself bumping up against this limit? (Personally, even with mechanical help, I find about 100 kph, 27.8 m/s, to be the upper limit of my everyday velocity.)
Not true. I worked for a very large web hosting company, and they were very firmly anti-spam...
Of course, they fully supported the "marketers" who bought space from them. But they were against spam.
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Actually, no. The reactors from the late 80's were full reactors, as I recall the mention of RTGs in the same article. I have to look through my shelves and see if I can find the particular reference.
The one detail I do recall was that many small reactors of the era were using ceramic encapsulated fuel pellets. If I recall correctly, such fuel pellets would be appropriate for true reactors, but the extra insulation of the ceramic casing would not be practical for RTGs.
The only other details I recall are a size of about 2mx2mx2m and energy production on the order of 10^4 or 10^5 Watts, obviously much less than the reactors mentioned in this article. (As would be expected for 2 decades of additional development.)
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Actually, even self-contained is not new. I recall reading in the late 80's about similar "walk-away-safe" self-contained reactors powering radar along the DEW (distant early warning) line.
Is this really news?
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While you focus on energy consumption, you ignore the energy required to manufacture and replace existing items. How much energy used to manufacture these flourescent bulbs, the fixtures to use them and to replace existing fixtures? How much additional waste is generated? How much energy to retool factories to produce more of one and less of the other?
It is the main short coming of "it's so simple" environmental/conservation arguments that they often ignore the costs which are less obvious.
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But what about "Eunuchs(tm)"? (and EUNUCHS(tm) and eunuchs(tm))
UNMNT? Seems a little clearer. Especially as u- is vague, meaning both "un-" and "user-" (umount/umask v. ulimit)
A bit unfair to the 5.X series, don't you think? Don't get me wrong, I have in the past stopped upgrading BSD (at 2.2.8 and 3.4, if I recall) because of shortcomings in a given release(3.[01] and 4.[012], also if I recall), but I don't think 5.2.1 is anywhere near as bad as you suggest.
"tyoing" : Either subtly funny or amusingly ironic... Hoping for the former.
Nice marketing-speak! Will it be object-oriented, three-tiered, scalable, interactive and java-based too?
s/The relationship in size /The relationship between the various dimensions/
s/but the size is variable/but the overall size is variable/
Is that why all flying things are the same size? Birds, insects, aeroplanes, and so on? The relationship in size may be dictated by physics (though even there there seem to be a huge number of viable flying shapes), but the size is variable within a pretty broad range.
" If regular users switch to any other OS, you will still have problems with mailer-type viruses."
Huh?
If you mean the other users' mail will still clutter up their inboxes, ok. But if you mean they can be infected on a non-MS OS, I have to question your sanity.Perhaps the dems voted for the war due to relatively broad public support and the upcoming 2002 congressional elections? Of course not! They couldn't be that cynical, could they?
But if a 3d party causes a major party to repeatedly lose, sometimes the 3d party can get its views incorporated into the major party's platform. (cf. Bull Moose Party and Republicans, William Jennings Bryant and Democrats)
150 KPH in a taxis? 95 MPH? what city do you live in ? I'm lucky to reach 100 KPH given traffic. Most days I'm lucky to reach 50 KPH for any more than a minute or two.
Now, before I get any more criticism, there are certain legitimate despotic uses of government (eg. preventing violence against another, etc.), but my point is not changed. Yes, there are some few legitimate uses of governmental coercive power. But I do not trust at all those whose first choice of career is the professional use of that power. Especially those who make it a life long vocation.
I disagree. There are two reasons to go into politics: 1) To line your pockets or 2) To tell other people what to do (sometimes dressed up as "save them from themselves" or "better their lives"). This means everyone in politics is either greedy or despotic (or confused and in the wrong field). Thus, I think it a huge mistake to expect politicians will ever be even a somewhat reputable bunch.
As an alternative, allow the stock exchanges to establish reporting standards and police the companies listed. If one exchange got a reputation for listing untrustworthy companies, they would lose credibility.
Considering the quality of most people who enter politics keeping out the worse scumbag seems like a pretty sound system.
IBM's personal antitrust suit may be in the distant past, but ask MS about antitrust worries... I don't think IBM will be doing anything to draw the DoJ's attention any time soon.
Or 1.79999x10^12 furlongs per fortnight for those who prefer still other units.
Do you often find yourself bumping up against this limit? (Personally, even with mechanical help, I find about 100 kph, 27.8 m/s, to be the upper limit of my everyday velocity.)
Nope, same sized turtles all the way down. (Yes, this is modified plagarism!)
Wasn't Worldcom the "worldcom of the internet"?
Of course, they fully supported the "marketers" who bought space from them. But they were against spam.
The one detail I do recall was that many small reactors of the era were using ceramic encapsulated fuel pellets. If I recall correctly, such fuel pellets would be appropriate for true reactors, but the extra insulation of the ceramic casing would not be practical for RTGs.
The only other details I recall are a size of about 2mx2mx2m and energy production on the order of 10^4 or 10^5 Watts, obviously much less than the reactors mentioned in this article. (As would be expected for 2 decades of additional development.)
Is this really news?
It is the main short coming of "it's so simple" environmental/conservation arguments that they often ignore the costs which are less obvious.