LOL..you mean the lying CIA employee who got her hubby a Gov't paid trip to Africa so he could lie about the yellow-cake to advance the Democratic agenda? Plame and her husband are so full of crap, the bad thing is the CIA director actually TRUSTED the guy would do an honest job.
The problem is NOT the patent concept it is the application of the concept by the inept Patent Office. They do half-assed reviews and grant bad patents because 1) they don't have the skills needed to make the "prior art" determination and 2) they are underfunded and under political pressure to grant patents quickly both of which lead to patent battles such as this one. I think a good patent attorney could patent breathing the way things work now.
No it is NOT a reality. I noticed you gave NO evidence, just "scientists at MIT". Are those the same ones that looked at the SCO Code and said Linux infringed?
There is a little place in at the University of Huntsville Alabama(UAH) called the Global Climitology Center that has collected Global Climate data since 1978 for multiples areas of atmosphere. Here is what they said lately in May 2005 Global temperature trend since Nov. 16, 1978: +0.12 C per decade, so that's right at.4C in the last 28 years. That's about.7 degrees F not enough to matter. And who knows if 28 yrs is a local min or a local max? And if there was one year that skewed the average (Yes, 1998)? What about sunspots which can affect weather patterns? Just about 40 yrs ago scientists were saying we might soon have a mini ice-age! So what changed thier minds? Funds from liberal environmental groups. A scientist dares not get different results than what they are paid for, or they will soon be unemployed. How many jobs are there REALLY for climatologists? If you look at the Dec 2005 data (climate.uah.edu) you can see areas that are warmer AND colder which offset. So the argument is FAR from settled. Climate change is a longterm issue, and even IF the USA was to reduce "Greenhouse" emissions do you think China will as their growth causes more automobiles to be used and more factories to be built? The former Soviet states? South America? The rest of Asia? These are all the areas where population growth is going to occur! And if they Don't does the rest of the world make them? If so how? War? Trade Sanctions? Treaties like Kyoto are not worth the paper they are written on, it's political grandstanding to appease the Greens in those nations that signed (FYI - several have now backed out).
You got PROOF of that bullshit statement? And I mean HARD evidence not "talking points" or something the NY Times, Washington Post, CNN, etc. cooked up. If you work for ANY agency or company and speak publically you MUST be clear on what is YOUR opinion and what is company/agency policy.
This review policy has been in place at NASA for a large # of years. I last worked at NASA 3 yrs ago and it was the practice then. NASA has a "public statement" practice,in fact they have a whole office for just that purpose. If this person had said his research was, versus policy should be, then he would have been OK. If he had said something like "NASA policy should be to not spend money except on projects to the outer planets" he would have gotten the same discipline
SALES Tax is NOT the same as income tax. And you are (as of now) given a Fed Tax Deduction on Schedule A for State Sales Taxes paid, and if you can prove the purchase the tax on that yacht can be deducted too. But that deduction is only if you itemize.
Oh, and by the way you just proved that the "trickle down" economics that come from tax CUTS actually generate more tax revenue. If the investor didn't get the money he needed (after tax) from his investments he isn't buying a Cheeseburger or a Yacht so the money does not get recycled and those other taxes collected.
The post I responded to didn't say COMBINED Taxes, just the portion the person pays.
No, it would NOT be passed on as higher wages. It would be moved to the bottom line.
The SS limit was a typo, I got the # from the same place you did. I'll hit the limit in about August if all goes to plan.
No. The deciding factors will be power, heat and board space. The data centers are running out of power and cooling and floor space. Desktops are not the be all of the market. I think soon you'll see desktop and server chips diverging in architecture and speeds.
WRONG!! Typical liberal doesn't even know how to do the Math.
The limits on SS Tax is 6.2% on your earnings up to 96,400. The Medicaid tax is 1.45% but the Medicaid tax does not stop at 96,400. If you are paying 12K in combined FICA taxes you are making a lot more than Middle class wages! When you SS tax stops at 96.4K you have paid a combined $7374 for the year. To get the other 1.45% to total to $4626 you have to make another 316K in income for a total incomeof over 400K!! That puts you in the Top 1% of all taxpayers.
If you trade stocks for a living and live off the capital gains you are a very small minority and you also take a lot of risks. Any gain in the stocks is a reward for your risk, and the Gov't takes 1/8 just because it can. Most investors don't want the capital gains NOW they want them later so they put the money in tax deferred (401K) accounts. Other investors live off dividends from investment but these are taxed as ordinary income, which means a top rate of 35%. But dividends are taxed TWICE, once as coporate income then again as personal income, that is NOT right. So for each dollar of earnings paid in dividends the investor really only sees at most 50 cents of the real profit.
I suggest you gain a deeper understanding of the Tax Laws before running off with your wild numbers.
The time (labor) and the years of time building the knowledge of the vinters to blend it just right, and time to age it just right. Next thing you know they'll be turning Beer into Champagne for those who can't afford the real thing! I don't think this will affect the high end wine brands. Many wine brands are recoginized as premium and consumers will pay the higher price when the wine really does not have the quality to demand the price.
Using court summons to demand that companies aid the research phase of only one side of a political debate -- serious issue
This is done ALL the time in the Government, regardless of which party is in control. Congress quite often "subpeonas" documents/people to support one side of a debate, even though the subpoenas carry very little legal weight. The FDA "requests" drug information, the EPA "requests" environmental data, and if they don't get it voluntarily they get a "court order".
If there is an active legal case moving thru the court system challenging a law, then the DOJ is well within thier rights as the defendant to request (via court order and if that doesn't work a subpoena) information they think will help thier case (i.e. discovery). If they didn't do it then they would NOT be doing thier job as lawyers for the Government.
Medically safe batteries have been around a long time. Think about pacemakers and other implanted devices such as used to control seizures use batteries. Some of the batteries can be recharged thru the skin using RF.
You MS FUD guys are SO Funny. Grow up and join the REAL IT world where portability IS important. Your application may need to support Windows, Unix, handhelds and other devices. You can't do that with.NET.
Oh, and all the Java tools and software from Sun are FREE and soon a lot of it will be open source. MS would never do that.
I can see you don't understand programming at all. The speed of the application is more commonly a factor of how badly or well the programmer wrote the code than the systems Architecture (J2EE or.NET). If he/she wrote the code to take advantage of certain features of the.NET app server and/or operating system (which makes it non-portable and hard to maintain) it will run faster than code that does not such as J2EE.
SUN still owns the Java standard, but has NOT introduced a "Java accelerator" nor has anyone else. Java doesn't NEED it so I don't forsee anyone doing it.
I'm tired of arguing with those who are just re-hasing MS FUD. This thread is dead, I have better ones to waste my time on.
Really? I have it on my XP desktop right now, and on my Cell phone too. It's behind many many web sites, a hell of a lot more than.NET. Java makes it so easy to port from one platform to another that running Java on Windows is trivial. There are 1000's of Java apps that run on Windows.
I think you need to re-examine the Sun-MS battle. MS was trying to pirate the Java langauge and make it run on NOTHING BUT Windows by adding proprieraty extensions as part of the "Standard". They are now trying the same trick in the EU with MS-Office.
Not quite, YOU have a password you put in (like a PIN) that is used as part of the "seed" to generate the random password or can be included as part of the password code. Put in the the wrong PIN and the password is useless, try that three times in a row and they disable the card. These sorts of devices are available from many suppliers, I used to have one from RSA that was a key chain fob, the one I have now is about the size of a credit card with a small one-line LCD screen.
How all this works is beyond the scope of your question. It is quite secure.
Java by itself doesn't "BREAK". Applications that are poorly written BREAK. Some application crashes CAN crash the JVM and you lose all your Java apps but if you need 100% uptime there are ways to configure the JVM to deal better with the errors. You could also look into some of the newer operating systems such as Solaris 10(Containers, Predictive Self-Healing, DTrace tool), or virtualization. Modern Java servers such as Websphere/WebLogic can be setup where one flaky program only kills one instance of the JVM, all the other JVMs and thier programs continue to run just fine.
ROTLMAO..The last time Sun took on MS they WON. Or have you not been around long enough to remember the Java battle?
The part I don't get is the Oracle Middleware, Sun has a whole set of Java Services that can function as middleware and even integrate with.NET to provide Web Services. This seems to be taking money away from Sun's software group.
So you're suggesting that optimising your code based not on the documented and supported behaviour of an API, but how one specific implementation of it behaves, is a good idea ? Or are you suggesting that writing an application that relies on your modifications to someone else's code to run is a good idea ?
Yes, in some cases. How much hard real-time code have YOU written where being off by a microsecond can kill someone? In those cases you HAVE to know more than just what the API says. I have worked with several OSes that we had to get source code for and "tweak" to get best performance. It is a totally different world, and with Windows (and Linux) showing up in real-time situations it is in the programmers best interest to know.
Windows NT was NOT designed from the ground up to be a multi-user OS. It was to be more network aware and to support the full 32 bit model on the Intel chips. It did include some enchanced security concepts but it was still able to run older Windows programs so it was NOT a blank sheet OS, it was an extension to Windows 3.X. with added features.
This is wrong in just about every way possible. I can only urge you to go out and educate yourself on the subject before
Let me straighten you out...You have a lot of things wrong.
The first version of Windows NT (3.1) was released in 1993 and had the same GUI as the normal Windows Operating System (told ya), however it was a pure 32 bit OS (said that), but provided the ability to also run older DOS and Windows apps, as well as character mode OS/2 1.3 programs. NT had a ton of new things but it HAD to maintain backward compatiability which caused issues and IMHO made it not as good as it could have been.
The two big postives were a better security model and real multi-tasking (NOT MULTI-USER). The advanced features in NT were copied from VAX/VMS, Microsoft hired a group of 6 VMS developers from Digital Equipment Corporation led by Dave Cutler to build Windows NT, and many elements of the design reflect earlier DEC experience with VMS and RSX-11.So, It WAS NOT a clean sheet design from Redmond, it was a VAX/VMS security model on top ofthe Win3.1 GUI compatiability and other code for backward compatiabilty. It was a hybird, Win2000 was more "pure". It WAS new technology to MS, hence the name from Marketing, the developers said it was N-Ten but that isn't a sexy name.
Windows NT 3.1 ran on x86, Alpha, and MIPS processors. Windows NT 3.51 added PowerPC. Intergraph Corporation ported Windows NT to its Clipper architecture and later SPARC, but neither version was sold to the public (I remember Alpha and MIPS boxes with NT).
You can't change history no matter how much MS wants to. It is what it is. You are the one who got sucked in to the Windows Marketing Machine. I told you I was neutral, as someone who has done deep dives into Windows AND Unix I know what I'm talking about.
No go back to keeping your Windows boxes online while my Solaris boxes take care of themselves. I'm done with this thread, it's a waste of time.
You haven't see the latest SPARC T1 chip then. It blows away the X86s in power, performance and heat for about the same price. When you have a 8 core system that works like a 32 way server and costs under 15K that changes the math!
You have never dealt with the FOSS software world have you? If you had you would know your statement is total CRAP. The premise is FOSS can be reused, extended and IMPROVED by the joint work of the community. It's not at all about breaking things.
No financial consequences? How stupid are you? Novell, RedHat, Sun don't have to worry about consequences of the open source OSes (SUSE, RHEL, and Solaris) and software (JES) they sell? They most certainly do if they want to stay in business!
When I was a CS Student many moons ago, the IBM OS360 and the VAX/VMS code was what we studied in our OS classes. That is at least as complex as Windows. However, the basic concepts of OSes can be studied using most any multi-tasking OS as an example.
There are lots of reasons to see the source code of something you are interfacing too. Optimization of the interface comes to mind. If the interface is called 1000 times a minute then saving time in the code, and space on the stack/memory by sending only the minimum of data can be useful. Knowing if the routine you are calling is changing the data you send it via parameters, knowing if the routine blocks, knowing if it calls 7 other routines. The more you know the better code you can write. Instead of trusting the API to be right, you can look at the code and KNOW it is right.
Windows NT was NOT designed from the ground up to be a multi-user OS. It was to be more network aware and to support the full 32 bit model on the Intel chips. It did include some enchanced security concepts but it was still able to run older Windows programs so it was NOT a blank sheet OS, it was an extension to Windows 3.X. with added features.
I'm not a Windows basher nor a Windows proponent, just someone who has been around many OSes and many generations of computers since 1977 when we had teletypes and is stating facts based on experience/
If we made Mj legal wouldn't we have the same issues as drunk driving? Maybe it hasn't killed anyone YET but it could be just as bad as alcohol if mixed with driving. Power to use comes with power to abuse. If we make weed legal then next people will want crack, LSD, Herion, PCP, etc. made legal. Where do you draw the line?????
Yes, legalizing it could reduce crime...maybe..from what I see/hear a lot of the distribution of it is done by the same groups that push Crack, Herion, etc. So I'm not sure that would cause as dramatic a reduction as you may think. And think of the turf wars when the dealers who sold just weed had to find new drugs to sell. There might actually be MORE crime short term.
Yes,the WOD has become almost a Law Enforcement "entitlement program". If the money was used properly I think it would do some good, however, most of the local "Bubba's" take the money and fritter it away on shit that does nothing to reduce ANY kind of crime. The DOJ needs to watch more closely how the money is spent.
Getting the Government to admit they are wrong on ANY subject is very very difficult, the WOD is not any different.
It's also a decent solvent which means it might damage the chips or insulation on wires. Any non-conducting liquid would work. They just wanted a cheap and transparent solution. The next mod they need is an "oil cooler" to keep the box as cool as possible, I'm suspect the Plexiglass case does not transfer the internal heat very well.
Prescription drugs ARE covered by Fed Law, ever heard of the FDA?
War on Drugs was NOT invented by the Religious Right, it has been going on for a very long time, well before it was called this and well before the 1980s when the term "Religious Right" was coined.It just didn't have a lot of press coverage.
You can eat/drink/smoke whatever illegal things u like in the privacy of your home. But if you get sick, don't come to me or the Government expecting free/cheap health care for your problems. If folks would take the good with the bad and don't burden others with the results of thier stupidity (such as driving high/drunk) then I'm OK with a lot of things that are illegal. They are illegal BECAUSE we can't trust people to be responsble "consumers".
If you read the whole article, they say on the last page that Motor Oil would be better than Veggie oil. But 5 gals of 1W/30 oil would be expensive!!! I wonder if synthetic oil would be better than petroleum based oils?
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LOL..you mean the lying CIA employee who got her hubby a Gov't paid trip to Africa so he could lie about the yellow-cake to advance the Democratic agenda? Plame and her husband are so full of crap, the bad thing is the CIA director actually TRUSTED the guy would do an honest job.
The problem is NOT the patent concept it is the application of the concept by the inept Patent Office. They do half-assed reviews and grant bad patents because 1) they don't have the skills needed to make the "prior art" determination and 2) they are underfunded and under political pressure to grant patents quickly both of which lead to patent battles such as this one. I think a good patent attorney could patent breathing the way things work now.
No it is NOT a reality. I noticed you gave NO evidence, just "scientists at MIT". Are those the same ones that looked at the SCO Code and said Linux infringed? There is a little place in at the University of Huntsville Alabama(UAH) called the Global Climitology Center that has collected Global Climate data since 1978 for multiples areas of atmosphere. Here is what they said lately in May 2005 Global temperature trend since Nov. 16, 1978: +0.12 C per decade, so that's right at .4C in the last 28 years. That's about .7 degrees F not enough to matter. And who knows if 28 yrs is a local min or a local max? And if there was one year that skewed the average (Yes, 1998)? What about sunspots which can affect weather patterns? Just about 40 yrs ago scientists were saying we might soon have a mini ice-age! So what changed thier minds? Funds from liberal environmental groups. A scientist dares not get different results than what they are paid for, or they will soon be unemployed. How many jobs are there REALLY for climatologists? If you look at the Dec 2005 data (climate.uah.edu) you can see areas that are warmer AND colder which offset. So the argument is FAR from settled. Climate change is a longterm issue, and even IF the USA was to reduce "Greenhouse" emissions do you think China will as their growth causes more automobiles to be used and more factories to be built? The former Soviet states? South America? The rest of Asia? These are all the areas where population growth is going to occur! And if they Don't does the rest of the world make them? If so how? War? Trade Sanctions? Treaties like Kyoto are not worth the paper they are written on, it's political grandstanding to appease the Greens in those nations that signed (FYI - several have now backed out).
You got PROOF of that bullshit statement? And I mean HARD evidence not "talking points" or something the NY Times, Washington Post, CNN, etc. cooked up. If you work for ANY agency or company and speak publically you MUST be clear on what is YOUR opinion and what is company/agency policy.
This review policy has been in place at NASA for a large # of years. I last worked at NASA 3 yrs ago and it was the practice then. NASA has a "public statement" practice,in fact they have a whole office for just that purpose. If this person had said his research was, versus policy should be, then he would have been OK. If he had said something like "NASA policy should be to not spend money except on projects to the outer planets" he would have gotten the same discipline
SALES Tax is NOT the same as income tax. And you are (as of now) given a Fed Tax Deduction on Schedule A for State Sales Taxes paid, and if you can prove the purchase the tax on that yacht can be deducted too. But that deduction is only if you itemize. Oh, and by the way you just proved that the "trickle down" economics that come from tax CUTS actually generate more tax revenue. If the investor didn't get the money he needed (after tax) from his investments he isn't buying a Cheeseburger or a Yacht so the money does not get recycled and those other taxes collected.
The post I responded to didn't say COMBINED Taxes, just the portion the person pays. No, it would NOT be passed on as higher wages. It would be moved to the bottom line. The SS limit was a typo, I got the # from the same place you did. I'll hit the limit in about August if all goes to plan.
No. The deciding factors will be power, heat and board space. The data centers are running out of power and cooling and floor space. Desktops are not the be all of the market. I think soon you'll see desktop and server chips diverging in architecture and speeds.
WRONG!! Typical liberal doesn't even know how to do the Math.
The limits on SS Tax is 6.2% on your earnings up to 96,400. The Medicaid tax is 1.45% but the Medicaid tax does not stop at 96,400. If you are paying 12K in combined FICA taxes you are making a lot more than Middle class wages! When you SS tax stops at 96.4K you have paid a combined $7374 for the year. To get the other 1.45% to total to $4626 you have to make another 316K in income for a total incomeof over 400K!! That puts you in the Top 1% of all taxpayers.
If you trade stocks for a living and live off the capital gains you are a very small minority and you also take a lot of risks. Any gain in the stocks is a reward for your risk, and the Gov't takes 1/8 just because it can. Most investors don't want the capital gains NOW they want them later so they put the money in tax deferred (401K) accounts. Other investors live off dividends from investment but these are taxed as ordinary income, which means a top rate of 35%. But dividends are taxed TWICE, once as coporate income then again as personal income, that is NOT right. So for each dollar of earnings paid in dividends the investor really only sees at most 50 cents of the real profit.
I suggest you gain a deeper understanding of the Tax Laws before running off with your wild numbers.
The time (labor) and the years of time building the knowledge of the vinters to blend it just right, and time to age it just right. Next thing you know they'll be turning Beer into Champagne for those who can't afford the real thing! I don't think this will affect the high end wine brands. Many wine brands are recoginized as premium and consumers will pay the higher price when the wine really does not have the quality to demand the price.
Using court summons to demand that companies aid the research phase of only one side of a political debate -- serious issue
This is done ALL the time in the Government, regardless of which party is in control. Congress quite often "subpeonas" documents/people to support one side of a debate, even though the subpoenas carry very little legal weight. The FDA "requests" drug information, the EPA "requests" environmental data, and if they don't get it voluntarily they get a "court order".
If there is an active legal case moving thru the court system challenging a law, then the DOJ is well within thier rights as the defendant to request (via court order and if that doesn't work a subpoena) information they think will help thier case (i.e. discovery). If they didn't do it then they would NOT be doing thier job as lawyers for the Government.
Medically safe batteries have been around a long time. Think about pacemakers and other implanted devices such as used to control seizures use batteries. Some of the batteries can be recharged thru the skin using RF.
You MS FUD guys are SO Funny. Grow up and join the REAL IT world where portability IS important. Your application may need to support Windows, Unix, handhelds and other devices. You can't do that with .NET.
Oh, and all the Java tools and software from Sun are FREE and soon a lot of it will be open source. MS would never do that.
I can see you don't understand programming at all. The speed of the application is more commonly a factor of how badly or well the programmer wrote the code than the systems Architecture (J2EE or .NET). If he/she wrote the code to take advantage of certain features of the .NET app server and/or operating system (which makes it non-portable and hard to maintain) it will run faster than code that does not such as J2EE.
SUN still owns the Java standard, but has NOT introduced a "Java accelerator" nor has anyone else. Java doesn't NEED it so I don't forsee anyone doing it.
I'm tired of arguing with those who are just re-hasing MS FUD. This thread is dead, I have better ones to waste my time on.
Really? I have it on my XP desktop right now, and on my Cell phone too. It's behind many many web sites, a hell of a lot more than .NET. Java makes it so easy to port from one platform to another that running Java on Windows is trivial. There are 1000's of Java apps that run on Windows.
I think you need to re-examine the Sun-MS battle. MS was trying to pirate the Java langauge and make it run on NOTHING BUT Windows by adding proprieraty extensions as part of the "Standard". They are now trying the same trick in the EU with MS-Office.
Not quite, YOU have a password you put in (like a PIN) that is used as part of the "seed" to generate the random password or can be included as part of the password code. Put in the the wrong PIN and the password is useless, try that three times in a row and they disable the card. These sorts of devices are available from many suppliers, I used to have one from RSA that was a key chain fob, the one I have now is about the size of a credit card with a small one-line LCD screen. How all this works is beyond the scope of your question. It is quite secure.
Java by itself doesn't "BREAK". Applications that are poorly written BREAK. Some application crashes CAN crash the JVM and you lose all your Java apps but if you need 100% uptime there are ways to configure the JVM to deal better with the errors. You could also look into some of the newer operating systems such as Solaris 10(Containers, Predictive Self-Healing, DTrace tool), or virtualization. Modern Java servers such as Websphere/WebLogic can be setup where one flaky program only kills one instance of the JVM, all the other JVMs and thier programs continue to run just fine.
ROTLMAO..The last time Sun took on MS they WON. Or have you not been around long enough to remember the Java battle? The part I don't get is the Oracle Middleware, Sun has a whole set of Java Services that can function as middleware and even integrate with .NET to provide Web Services. This seems to be taking money away from Sun's software group.
So you're suggesting that optimising your code based not on the documented and supported behaviour of an API, but how one specific implementation of it behaves, is a good idea ? Or are you suggesting that writing an application that relies on your modifications to someone else's code to run is a good idea ? Yes, in some cases. How much hard real-time code have YOU written where being off by a microsecond can kill someone? In those cases you HAVE to know more than just what the API says. I have worked with several OSes that we had to get source code for and "tweak" to get best performance. It is a totally different world, and with Windows (and Linux) showing up in real-time situations it is in the programmers best interest to know. Windows NT was NOT designed from the ground up to be a multi-user OS. It was to be more network aware and to support the full 32 bit model on the Intel chips. It did include some enchanced security concepts but it was still able to run older Windows programs so it was NOT a blank sheet OS, it was an extension to Windows 3.X. with added features. This is wrong in just about every way possible. I can only urge you to go out and educate yourself on the subject before Let me straighten you out...You have a lot of things wrong. The first version of Windows NT (3.1) was released in 1993 and had the same GUI as the normal Windows Operating System (told ya), however it was a pure 32 bit OS (said that), but provided the ability to also run older DOS and Windows apps, as well as character mode OS/2 1.3 programs. NT had a ton of new things but it HAD to maintain backward compatiability which caused issues and IMHO made it not as good as it could have been. The two big postives were a better security model and real multi-tasking (NOT MULTI-USER). The advanced features in NT were copied from VAX/VMS, Microsoft hired a group of 6 VMS developers from Digital Equipment Corporation led by Dave Cutler to build Windows NT, and many elements of the design reflect earlier DEC experience with VMS and RSX-11.So, It WAS NOT a clean sheet design from Redmond, it was a VAX/VMS security model on top ofthe Win3.1 GUI compatiability and other code for backward compatiabilty. It was a hybird, Win2000 was more "pure". It WAS new technology to MS, hence the name from Marketing, the developers said it was N-Ten but that isn't a sexy name. Windows NT 3.1 ran on x86, Alpha, and MIPS processors. Windows NT 3.51 added PowerPC. Intergraph Corporation ported Windows NT to its Clipper architecture and later SPARC, but neither version was sold to the public (I remember Alpha and MIPS boxes with NT). You can't change history no matter how much MS wants to. It is what it is. You are the one who got sucked in to the Windows Marketing Machine. I told you I was neutral, as someone who has done deep dives into Windows AND Unix I know what I'm talking about. No go back to keeping your Windows boxes online while my Solaris boxes take care of themselves. I'm done with this thread, it's a waste of time.
You haven't see the latest SPARC T1 chip then. It blows away the X86s in power, performance and heat for about the same price. When you have a 8 core system that works like a 32 way server and costs under 15K that changes the math!
You have never dealt with the FOSS software world have you? If you had you would know your statement is total CRAP. The premise is FOSS can be reused, extended and IMPROVED by the joint work of the community. It's not at all about breaking things.
No financial consequences? How stupid are you? Novell, RedHat, Sun don't have to worry about consequences of the open source OSes (SUSE, RHEL, and Solaris) and software (JES) they sell? They most certainly do if they want to stay in business!
When I was a CS Student many moons ago, the IBM OS360 and the VAX/VMS code was what we studied in our OS classes. That is at least as complex as Windows. However, the basic concepts of OSes can be studied using most any multi-tasking OS as an example.
There are lots of reasons to see the source code of something you are interfacing too. Optimization of the interface comes to mind. If the interface is called 1000 times a minute then saving time in the code, and space on the stack/memory by sending only the minimum of data can be useful. Knowing if the routine you are calling is changing the data you send it via parameters, knowing if the routine blocks, knowing if it calls 7 other routines. The more you know the better code you can write. Instead of trusting the API to be right, you can look at the code and KNOW it is right.
Windows NT was NOT designed from the ground up to be a multi-user OS. It was to be more network aware and to support the full 32 bit model on the Intel chips. It did include some enchanced security concepts but it was still able to run older Windows programs so it was NOT a blank sheet OS, it was an extension to Windows 3.X. with added features.
I'm not a Windows basher nor a Windows proponent, just someone who has been around many OSes and many generations of computers since 1977 when we had teletypes and is stating facts based on experience/
If we made Mj legal wouldn't we have the same issues as drunk driving? Maybe it hasn't killed anyone YET but it could be just as bad as alcohol if mixed with driving. Power to use comes with power to abuse. If we make weed legal then next people will want crack, LSD, Herion, PCP, etc. made legal. Where do you draw the line????? Yes, legalizing it could reduce crime...maybe..from what I see/hear a lot of the distribution of it is done by the same groups that push Crack, Herion, etc. So I'm not sure that would cause as dramatic a reduction as you may think. And think of the turf wars when the dealers who sold just weed had to find new drugs to sell. There might actually be MORE crime short term. Yes,the WOD has become almost a Law Enforcement "entitlement program". If the money was used properly I think it would do some good, however, most of the local "Bubba's" take the money and fritter it away on shit that does nothing to reduce ANY kind of crime. The DOJ needs to watch more closely how the money is spent. Getting the Government to admit they are wrong on ANY subject is very very difficult, the WOD is not any different.
It's also a decent solvent which means it might damage the chips or insulation on wires. Any non-conducting liquid would work. They just wanted a cheap and transparent solution. The next mod they need is an "oil cooler" to keep the box as cool as possible, I'm suspect the Plexiglass case does not transfer the internal heat very well.
Prescription drugs ARE covered by Fed Law, ever heard of the FDA? War on Drugs was NOT invented by the Religious Right, it has been going on for a very long time, well before it was called this and well before the 1980s when the term "Religious Right" was coined.It just didn't have a lot of press coverage. You can eat/drink/smoke whatever illegal things u like in the privacy of your home. But if you get sick, don't come to me or the Government expecting free/cheap health care for your problems. If folks would take the good with the bad and don't burden others with the results of thier stupidity (such as driving high/drunk) then I'm OK with a lot of things that are illegal. They are illegal BECAUSE we can't trust people to be responsble "consumers".
If you read the whole article, they say on the last page that Motor Oil would be better than Veggie oil. But 5 gals of 1W/30 oil would be expensive!!! I wonder if synthetic oil would be better than petroleum based oils?
Do you have to change the oil and filter every 3000 programs? On the bright side, you can use to old oil to make bio-diesel!