I agree the times are ripe for the reintroduction of Thin client deployment, obviously a UNIX varient would be the right tool, perhapse even thin clients which pooled resources, data storage taken care of by a NAS and an image server for the initial loading of each machine. It would be weird having a few thousand 3-400 MHz Geode CPU based machines logging on to a distributed cluster which was running on each machine but it would do several things.
1. it would be Frickin' cool 2. it would be cheap compared to either terminal + mainframe or thousands of desktop machines 3. As long as the cluster software was done right and deployed properly it would scale very well (hopefully automatically) 4. If you needed a large amount of power added to the system for a short time you could rent a few beefy machines to hook up to the cluster temporarily. 5. In the future if your computing needs diminish rather than being stuck with semi out dated PC's or more Iron than you need just sell some of the cluster clients to someone who is using a similar system and is in need of additional machines.
Have you looked at eMachines? no really don't laugh, Mine(T2200SE) has been great to me (the motherboard was replaced, but it wasn't their fault I screwed up when I was trying to update the BIOS) My old one (533id2) was great for years, and will probably soon be given to my brother's friend who needs a computer, My brother has one, my girlfriend has one, one of my friends has two, another friend has 3 or 4 of them.
The design of their recent and semi recent ones is compact and, while looking nice on the front doesn't scream for attention from across the room like an alienware. Also they come with Nero rather than depending on windows XP (shitty) CD and DVD writing
Peakoil.com was very insistant that the abiogenic theory is completely bunk, but their linked sources of informaiton seem far less so especially the AAPG site itself Considering that peakoil.com has the goal of causing everyone to use less oil under any circumstance and AAPG is a scientific and professional organization i would give their material more credibility than peakoil.
the site in your sig does not seem to like excessively long values fed into the email input box, now if oyu excuse me i will be looking into how i could possibly drop a few megabytes of junk data in as a submission without using a web browser....
Oil and Natural gas may in fact be renewable, I don't remember where I read it but there are theories that they are produced from carbon in the earth's core and or mantle, i'm too tired to research it but it was an interesting read and you could probably find it if you are interested.
two dimensional barcodes are too difficult to scan and protect from damage, a regular barcode can take a ton of abuse before it is unreadable, a 2D barcode can take far less damage.
WEP is usefull just like a "No Trespassing" sign on a short fence is usefull, it does serve to reasonably notify anyone trying to connect that they are unwelcome on your network.
I am going to make a call of Flagrant Bullshit, The USAPATRIOT act does not require everything to be back doored, otherwise jabber servers allowing heavy duty encryption would be illegal.
not only that but multiple people in the same area on the same ISP get very good speeds and lower cost's for the ISP because they are using less upstream bandwidth
to use as a cheap communication machine while travelling, I would love to have a cheap crappy laptop to plug in and go on.ine when i am away from home.
not quite yet, as it is now you can generate a pair of files which have the same MD5, thought probably not too far in the future it will be possible to take arbitrary data A and generate data C such that arbitrary data B+C has the same MD5 as A, that is when the real problems will start.
Time Warner Digital cable has a large number of uncensored music channels, no music videos just an audio stream with some background images and text for "now playing" but it is pretty cool.
MTV is a cable channel, so they could show porn if they wanted to, but they would lose advertisers and go bankrupt if they tried as all of the local cable companies pulled MTV from their systems.
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Asheron's Call is put out by MS
Joe public sees microsoft in the same way as Sony or even Heinz, something to look out for.
As Do I.
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I agree the times are ripe for the reintroduction of Thin client deployment, obviously a UNIX varient would be the right tool, perhapse even thin clients which pooled resources, data storage taken care of by a NAS and an image server for the initial loading of each machine. It would be weird having a few thousand 3-400 MHz Geode CPU based machines logging on to a distributed cluster which was running on each machine but it would do several things.
1. it would be Frickin' cool
2. it would be cheap compared to either terminal + mainframe or thousands of desktop machines
3. As long as the cluster software was done right and deployed properly it would scale very well (hopefully automatically)
4. If you needed a large amount of power added to the system for a short time you could rent a few beefy machines to hook up to the cluster temporarily.
5. In the future if your computing needs diminish rather than being stuck with semi out dated PC's or more Iron than you need just sell some of the cluster clients to someone who is using a similar system and is in need of additional machines.
Have you looked at eMachines? no really don't laugh, Mine(T2200SE) has been great to me (the motherboard was replaced, but it wasn't their fault I screwed up when I was trying to update the BIOS) My old one (533id2) was great for years, and will probably soon be given to my brother's friend who needs a computer, My brother has one, my girlfriend has one, one of my friends has two, another friend has 3 or 4 of them.
The design of their recent and semi recent ones is compact and, while looking nice on the front doesn't scream for attention from across the room like an alienware. Also they come with Nero rather than depending on windows XP (shitty) CD and DVD writing
Peakoil.com was very insistant that the abiogenic theory is completely bunk, but their linked sources of informaiton seem far less so especially the AAPG site itself Considering that peakoil.com has the goal of causing everyone to use less oil under any circumstance and AAPG is a scientific and professional organization i would give their material more credibility than peakoil.
I am in agreement with the other replies, please post a link....
C) I'd pee in the pool
the site in your sig does not seem to like excessively long values fed into the email input box, now if oyu excuse me i will be looking into how i could possibly drop a few megabytes of junk data in as a submission without using a web browser....
Oil and Natural gas may in fact be renewable, I don't remember where I read it but there are theories that they are produced from carbon in the earth's core and or mantle, i'm too tired to research it but it was an interesting read and you could probably find it if you are interested.
two dimensional barcodes are too difficult to scan and protect from damage, a regular barcode can take a ton of abuse before it is unreadable, a 2D barcode can take far less damage.
sure you can, just recharge it over and over.
won't work, DMCA only applies to encrypting stuff that you own.
well hopefully someone smart enough to be working on dev for apple would be smart enough to post via anonymous proxy.
WEP is usefull just like a "No Trespassing" sign on a short fence is usefull, it does serve to reasonably notify anyone trying to connect that they are unwelcome on your network.
I am going to make a call of Flagrant Bullshit, The USAPATRIOT act does not require everything to be back doored, otherwise jabber servers allowing heavy duty encryption would be illegal.
not only that but multiple people in the same area on the same ISP get very good speeds and lower cost's for the ISP because they are using less upstream bandwidth
to use as a cheap communication machine while travelling, I would love to have a cheap crappy laptop to plug in and go on.ine when i am away from home.
bitching about people writing 'M$' is as cliche as writing 'M$' in the first place, please stop
For twice the price you get 10x the laptop.
However for someone who only needs that much power why pay twice as much for power and battery life they do not need?
not quite yet, as it is now you can generate a pair of files which have the same MD5, thought probably not too far in the future it will be possible to take arbitrary data A and generate data C such that arbitrary data B+C has the same MD5 as A, that is when the real problems will start.
The "Interstate commerce" portion has been expanded to goatse like proportions and now includes "anything, ever, whenever"
Time Warner Digital cable has a large number of uncensored music channels, no music videos just an audio stream with some background images and text for "now playing" but it is pretty cool.
MTV is a cable channel, so they could show porn if they wanted to, but they would lose advertisers and go bankrupt if they tried as all of the local cable companies pulled MTV from their systems.
That was one of my all time favorite games growing up.