The network was down a little last night, and I'm getting bombarded with emails from it from people with the purdue.edu domain. The university's put people on alert, but there's still people stupid enough to open up random executables at school.
Really, how does AOL make any money? They run their connection out of this innately slow program, they charge the price of broadband in some places, and it overall just sucks. I called AOL customer service one time to ask why I was getting a lot of signal interruptions, and the answer I got was "change your access numbers". I had done this many times before, and told the servicewoman so, but, no, it'll work this time, because she told me to do it.
Is the real reason AOL makes money is because the masses don't know better? That you can check your email, IM people, AND browse the web outside the safety of AOL's little memory hog?
Sorry about my rant... I just have a lot of angst about these people.
I always find it extremely ironic that the sites that get slashdotted the most are the ones talking about recent news in hardware. Someone's got to make the witty comment that the new hardware can't handle the barrage of slashdotters, but, yet, it's gotta be on the hardware, doesn't it...
Exactly the same level of nuclear technology? That's a pretty hard thing to prove. China hasn't been able to put on the kinds of arms race with the United States that occured between the US and Soviet Union during the Cold War. Plus, it's negotiable that the US would use nukes in a conflict with China, unless it escalated into a theater war, where any number of things could happen.
Would the USA want to lose it's lucrative trade with China? The USA will hurt itself if it applies sanctions on Chinese goods, and China has a lot of trading partners.
So you're implying that the US would lose more from cutting off trade with China than China would? That's completely absurd. America has its thumb up everyone's trade butt; it also basically controls the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, and is the forerunner in making free trade agreements with multiple countries.
China, on the other hand, is still very much developing its country; it has only recently seen a large boost in economic development. It, however, does not do nearly as much trade as the United States does. Basically China trades with the US, Japan, and South Korea.
And by land war I mean a war fought on Taiwan's land. It's pretty easy to cross the Taiwan Strait, because they make these things called boats. It would be similar to that other cross-water invasion that took place on June 6, 1945.
There is little possibility of a land war between Taiwan and China, and there always has been. Taiwan's been non-hostile towards China for the last, oh, 50 years, since Chiang Kai-shek retreated his forces there after the Chinese Communist Revolution. They have, however, built up enough military defense to fend off the sizeable Chinese military force, so a land invasion by China would be one hell of a battle that China would have trouble winning. Also, the Taiwanese government would have to draw in the Americans into the war to, well, protect economic interests, as usually is the reason for most American military intervention. So what we would have would be another Vietnam, or more plausibly, another Korea where the Americans and Chinese are fighting war against each other through a third nation.
But as I said before, a war between the two countries isn't likely. China knows the consequences of going into Taiwan; it would lead to American intervention and probably put an end to Chinese economic development and lucrative trade China does with the United States.
I would think that Sun is giving away the x86 Solaris for free because they just want to draw more users from the open source and free-as-in-speech community to look at what it has to offer...
...although they are only offering the binary for download.
Sun makes enough from licensing Solaris to big SPARC machines (that it makes) and that Solaris is originally supposed to run on. It's kind of like baiting penguins with processed tuna fish... when the penguins already know that there's fresh fish a lot more readily accessible. Some of the penguins might play with it, but they won't eat it religiously.
I, for one, would like to see the open source community making open source chipsets, from the design, material, and the software to make it work. This is basically rebuilding the computer from the ground up, except with an open source backing of it. Why should major companies control the architechures that we are using? Although, the manafacteur of these chips may be a problem, but it would be very interesting to see electrical and computer engineers working on an open project to make a suprerior chip. This could, in fact, prove Moore totally wrong.
Or, I'm just being fanatical and ranting about nothing, whatever.
Yeah right. There's 4 two socket outlets between my roommate and me, and we still need 3 power strips to power all our stuff, not counting the ridiculous thing that comes with the desk that's as wide as the desk, but only comes with 3 outlets.
Slashdot Mirror
Apparently college doesn't weed out the idiots.
Is the real reason AOL makes money is because the masses don't know better? That you can check your email, IM people, AND browse the web outside the safety of AOL's little memory hog?
Sorry about my rant... I just have a lot of angst about these people.
Then I get some kind of message like, "fckin campr!!!1 stp cmping u fag" and then I get booted of the server.
I always find it extremely ironic that the sites that get slashdotted the most are the ones talking about recent news in hardware. Someone's got to make the witty comment that the new hardware can't handle the barrage of slashdotters, but, yet, it's gotta be on the hardware, doesn't it...
Finally, an open source version of nibbles. I knew this day would come.
We've seen this already with games sales in China.
Would the USA want to lose it's lucrative trade with China? The USA will hurt itself if it applies sanctions on Chinese goods, and China has a lot of trading partners.
So you're implying that the US would lose more from cutting off trade with China than China would? That's completely absurd. America has its thumb up everyone's trade butt; it also basically controls the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, and is the forerunner in making free trade agreements with multiple countries.
China, on the other hand, is still very much developing its country; it has only recently seen a large boost in economic development. It, however, does not do nearly as much trade as the United States does. Basically China trades with the US, Japan, and South Korea.
And by land war I mean a war fought on Taiwan's land. It's pretty easy to cross the Taiwan Strait, because they make these things called boats. It would be similar to that other cross-water invasion that took place on June 6, 1945.
But as I said before, a war between the two countries isn't likely. China knows the consequences of going into Taiwan; it would lead to American intervention and probably put an end to Chinese economic development and lucrative trade China does with the United States.
Sun makes enough from licensing Solaris to big SPARC machines (that it makes) and that Solaris is originally supposed to run on. It's kind of like baiting penguins with processed tuna fish... when the penguins already know that there's fresh fish a lot more readily accessible. Some of the penguins might play with it, but they won't eat it religiously.
That was an awesome analogy. I rule.
Or, I'm just being fanatical and ranting about nothing, whatever.
I mean, come on, you guys need to work a little harder, here. The Austin Powers association was WAY too easy. *shakes his head in shame*
I'm really impressed with this computer. I think it's going to be the first computer that can finish an infinite loop in under an hour.
Yeah right. There's 4 two socket outlets between my roommate and me, and we still need 3 power strips to power all our stuff, not counting the ridiculous thing that comes with the desk that's as wide as the desk, but only comes with 3 outlets.
Eh, and so it begins... we have our Terminators... and they're based on Segways. And you'd think they'd be a bit more intimidating, no?