"The energy to convert plants to ethanol" is most definetly part of what I quoted. "If you could decrease the energy requirement for producing the ethanol". How are those two things not completely the same?;-)
I'm not quite smart enough to grasp the rest of your comment yet.:-D
Apparently you were so busy analyzing, and bashing, the science you neglected the _plot_.
In that particular episode the humans were essentially out of water. They had been on half rations for quite some time and had less then 5 days supply of water left at their usuage rate.
Think of the immensity of the problem: You have 30,000 people who use roughly 30 Liters of water PER DAY.
If memory serves they needed a 30 day supply in this episode so would need to find ~ 27 MILLION liters of water..and you need to find it right now so you can start gathering it up before your population dies.
You also have to do it in space, with hostile cyborgs/robots operating in the area actively searching for you.
Don't use too much fuel doing it either, because we are alomst out of that as well.
Don't expose too much of your fleet lest the hostiles find you and kill you all.
It's sad, a very gritty dramatic episode and all you focused on was some _percieved_ "psuedoscience" problem.
I've got no problem with Macintosh computers or their OS, they are good tools.
I've got no problem with Linux, I spend a considerable amount of time with it. I'm installing Fedora Core 4 to my laptop right now and this post is coming to you from a machine running Ubuntu 5.04. My desktop at work is running Suse 9.3 Pro.
I've got no problem with Windows either, if it worked like it was supposed to I'd be out of a job!:::grins, ducks, runs:::
Not a word I typically use, dunno why I chose to user it there. If that caused you to stop reading though, then the content value wasn't high enough in the first place!
I have no idea who modded you "insightful" because your comment is the exact opposite of that. It should be modded "doubleplusmoronic" or perhaps "flamebait".
In response to your post though, most fools can probably get a desktop PC running, but that doesn't mean they _should_.
Most users cannot CORRECTLY setup OR EVEN MAINTAIN a windows box, which is why there are approximately 15 Billion private computer companies (consultants) making good money doing it for them.
So your mythical corporation saved $100 on the install by doing it themselves, but spent $300, or more, on having a consultant come back later and recover data from their spyware, worm, trojan and root kit infested machine and then re-install the OS and reconnect it to the network.
Then they clean the rest of the network from the same spyware, trojans, worms and rootkits.
While they are there someone mentions that their Exchange server get's a lot of bounced messages. After an exhaustive 3 hour search turns up an employee who knows the, undocumented, administrator password, they check and the Exchange server that some looney CPA setup "good enough" has now been blacklisted as an open relay.
When they are done with the Exchange server they look at the file server and discover that it hasn't done a backup in 12 months because the drive failed and no one noticed...the secretary just keep changing tapes as normal.
When they get that fixed they find out that backup won't fit on a tape ANYWAY because someone's 50 Gig porn/mp3/funny video/funny pictures collection is sitting on the server.
Then it's on to the roughly fifty drive shares that have full permissions assigned to "everyone", including the "accounting" share that has the company financials and payroll data.
Then they shut off IIS since it was pwned about 8 months ago due to someone plugging the network DIRECTLY into their "high speed internet" with no firewall in place and assigning a second IP address to the Server NIC to "make it work".
While they are in there they notice the mirror drive failed sometime last fall and the single running hard drive is throwing I/O errors, which no one noticed because checking the event logs "takes too much time.".
The whole network has statically assigned IP addresses, with no documentation, because when the server was setup no one could figure out how to correctly configure DHCP....and the list goes on and on and on and on...
If you think I'm exaggerating you better check yourself, I've seen every one of these scenarios in the last 12 month and so has every other consultant in the country.
Lots of people seem to think that they "know" I.T., most of them barely know how to wipe their ass. Most of them have opinions just like the one you posted...until their server gets it's nuts crushed by some random script kiddie. Then I come in and bill them 10 grand, or more, for cleaning up the mess that they created with their "I know how to do this!" attitude.
Businesses should concentrate on what they do best, and leave the rest to people who know what they are doing.
Interesting. The new digital tuners all got designed (and built) with the Bclast flag functionality. Then the FCC gets shot down on mandating it...now they want to move the implementation timetable up.
Effectively removing any redesign or rebuild time that the manufacturers would have had to change things around.
I doubt it.
MS has stayed consistently behind Citrix with their thin technology since the beginning.
I know that MS originally licensed the thin technology from Citrix, and I suspect they are still doing so...which is why they stay two years behind.
As a CCEA (Citrix Certified Enterprise Administrator) I'm at least partially biased but...
First lets clear up a misnomer, the TS Cal that comes with Windows XP is ONLY valid with MS Terminal Server 2000, NOT 2003. If you are using TS 2003 you STILL need to buy a TS CAL...even for your Windows XP boxes.
Now, let's look at what Citrix gives you...besides the nifty management utilities.
Citrix gives you UPD I & II (Universal Printer Drivers roxxors)
Citrix gives you the ICA protocol, more efficient bandwidth usuage.
Citrix gives you Secure Access Gateway for SSL Encrypted sessions through any web browser.
Citrix gives you published applications. (awesome)
Citrix gives you load balancing.
Citrix gives you MultiMedia, Browser, and Flash acceleration.
Citrix gives you a common clipboard with a local desktop.
Citrix gives you TS specific policies that allow you to tailor things like printer bandwidth, session bandwidth etc by user, group, subnet or machine name.
Citrix gives you dynamic client names.
Citrix gives you silent client rollout.
In all honesty I could probably put about another thirty things in here, but I think my point is made.
Long story short, if you think that all Citrix gives you is some nifty management tools then you REALLY need to look at the product.
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I understand the arguement PERFECTLY, but the reality is that empirically the arguement is total crap.
"The energy to convert plants to ethanol" is most definetly part of what I quoted. "If you could decrease the energy requirement for producing the ethanol". How are those two things not completely the same? ;-)
:-D
I'm not quite smart enough to grasp the rest of your comment yet.
Actually I saw the whole intel/ipod theory expressed here several days ago. ;-)
Hmmm, that sounds suspically like perpetual motion...
"If you could decrease the energy requirement for producing the ethanol so it was less than the energy content of the ethanol produced,"
try www.digg.com I'm not a shill for them, but they sure make a nice counterpoint to /.
Apparently you were so busy analyzing, and bashing, the science you neglected the _plot_.
In that particular episode the humans were essentially out of water. They had been on half rations for quite some time and had less then 5 days supply of water left at their usuage rate.
Think of the immensity of the problem: You have 30,000 people who use roughly 30 Liters of water PER DAY.
If memory serves they needed a 30 day supply in this episode so would need to find ~ 27 MILLION liters of water..and you need to find it right now so you can start gathering it up before your population dies.
You also have to do it in space, with hostile cyborgs/robots operating in the area actively searching for you.
Don't use too much fuel doing it either, because we are alomst out of that as well.
Don't expose too much of your fleet lest the hostiles find you and kill you all.
It's sad, a very gritty dramatic episode and all you focused on was some _percieved_ "psuedoscience" problem.
Those things are cool! I've seen old computer parts recycled into a lot of things before, but never anything quite that small and nifty.
Congrats!
I don't want to start a brawl but what you are saying seems to be inconsistent with what I know and hear.
If things are going "well" in Cuba, then why are so many Cubans risking their lives on anything that floats in order to get HERE?
Something is not adding up, perhaps you could enlighten me?
Yes, but the REAL question is...How long did you stay connected after your download was done? :-)
I've got no problem with Macintosh computers or their OS, they are good tools.
:::grins, ducks, runs:::
I've got no problem with Linux, I spend a considerable amount of time with it. I'm installing Fedora Core 4 to my laptop right now and this post is coming to you from a machine running Ubuntu 5.04. My desktop at work is running Suse 9.3 Pro.
I've got no problem with Windows either, if it worked like it was supposed to I'd be out of a job!
I was wondering about the moderation myself! I guess the Microsoft shills are out in full force today! :-D
:::shrug:::
Not a word I typically use, dunno why I chose to user it there. If that caused you to stop reading though, then the content value wasn't high enough in the first place!
Cheers!
I have no idea who modded you "insightful" because your comment is the exact opposite of that. It should be modded "doubleplusmoronic" or perhaps "flamebait".
...and the list goes on and on and on and on...
In response to your post though, most fools can probably get a desktop PC running, but that doesn't mean they _should_.
Most users cannot CORRECTLY setup OR EVEN MAINTAIN a windows box, which is why there are approximately 15 Billion private computer companies (consultants) making good money doing it for them.
So your mythical corporation saved $100 on the install by doing it themselves, but spent $300, or more, on having a consultant come back later and recover data from their spyware, worm, trojan and root kit infested machine and then re-install the OS and reconnect it to the network.
Then they clean the rest of the network from the same spyware, trojans, worms and rootkits.
While they are there someone mentions that their Exchange server get's a lot of bounced messages. After an exhaustive 3 hour search turns up an employee who knows the, undocumented, administrator password, they check and the Exchange server that some looney CPA setup "good enough" has now been blacklisted as an open relay.
When they are done with the Exchange server they look at the file server and discover that it hasn't done a backup in 12 months because the drive failed and no one noticed...the secretary just keep changing tapes as normal.
When they get that fixed they find out that backup won't fit on a tape ANYWAY because someone's 50 Gig porn/mp3/funny video/funny pictures collection is sitting on the server.
Then it's on to the roughly fifty drive shares that have full permissions assigned to "everyone", including the "accounting" share that has the company financials and payroll data.
Then they shut off IIS since it was pwned about 8 months ago due to someone plugging the network DIRECTLY into their "high speed internet" with no firewall in place and assigning a second IP address to the Server NIC to "make it work".
While they are in there they notice the mirror drive failed sometime last fall and the single running hard drive is throwing I/O errors, which no one noticed because checking the event logs "takes too much time.".
The whole network has statically assigned IP addresses, with no documentation, because when the server was setup no one could figure out how to correctly configure DHCP.
If you think I'm exaggerating you better check yourself, I've seen every one of these scenarios in the last 12 month and so has every other consultant in the country.
Lots of people seem to think that they "know" I.T., most of them barely know how to wipe their ass. Most of them have opinions just like the one you posted...until their server gets it's nuts crushed by some random script kiddie. Then I come in and bill them 10 grand, or more, for cleaning up the mess that they created with their "I know how to do this!" attitude.
Businesses should concentrate on what they do best, and leave the rest to people who know what they are doing.
Actually I quite can have my cake AND it eat it.
;-)
I suspect though that eating my cake AND having it would be rather more difficult.
Interesting. The new digital tuners all got designed (and built) with the Bclast flag functionality. Then the FCC gets shot down on mandating it...now they want to move the implementation timetable up.
Effectively removing any redesign or rebuild time that the manufacturers would have had to change things around.
Now this is an explanation I can accept. :-) Sorry, I was in a pissy mood last night...I usually wouldn't care one way or the other.
When I hit the "submit" button there were to parent posts and NO children in either of them.
.01 seconds faster then mine. It doesn't make me redundant...it does however make the moderators stupid.
His "submit" button was
If you want to get "actual" when I hit the submit button there was a sum total of TWO parent posts with no children.
:28 post must have hit submit less then 1 second before me.
I responded directly to a parent post with no children. The guy who got the
That DOESN'T make me redundant, it just makes his submit button a mite quicker.
This is one of the things that really irritates me about slashdot...the stupid moderation.
Great,
/. moderators...
I posted the list first but *I'M* the one who get's modded "redundant". Gotta freaking love moronic
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Citrix Metaframe does this too. :-)
I'd actually like to see those calculations if you still have them somewhere and would be willing to share.
I've found that while all the licensing involved is pricey, it can make sense to do it all the way down to about 20 nodes or so.
Would you be willing to show me what you used for your ROI?
I doubt it. MS has stayed consistently behind Citrix with their thin technology since the beginning. I know that MS originally licensed the thin technology from Citrix, and I suspect they are still doing so...which is why they stay two years behind.
Mmmm,
As a CCEA (Citrix Certified Enterprise Administrator) I'm at least partially biased but...
First lets clear up a misnomer, the TS Cal that comes with Windows XP is ONLY valid with MS Terminal Server 2000, NOT 2003. If you are using TS 2003 you STILL need to buy a TS CAL...even for your Windows XP boxes.
Now, let's look at what Citrix gives you...besides the nifty management utilities.
Citrix gives you UPD I & II (Universal Printer Drivers roxxors)
Citrix gives you the ICA protocol, more efficient bandwidth usuage.
Citrix gives you Secure Access Gateway for SSL Encrypted sessions through any web browser.
Citrix gives you published applications. (awesome)
Citrix gives you load balancing.
Citrix gives you MultiMedia, Browser, and Flash acceleration.
Citrix gives you a common clipboard with a local desktop.
Citrix gives you TS specific policies that allow you to tailor things like printer bandwidth, session bandwidth etc by user, group, subnet or machine name.
Citrix gives you dynamic client names.
Citrix gives you silent client rollout.
In all honesty I could probably put about another thirty things in here, but I think my point is made.
Long story short, if you think that all Citrix gives you is some nifty management tools then you REALLY need to look at the product.