The first thing that ran through my mind is "I remember that name from somewhere..." That's right, it's the Ian Murdock of Debian. Give the guy some credit before you bash his vision of the near future.
OTOH, here's an article from 4 years ago about Progeny. It looks like the vision was the same then, but they haven't gotten very far.
Read the appropriate section of the book Natural Capitalism by Hunter S. Lovins.
Green Buildings and Bright Workers
Go for lots of windows (natural light), proper temperature, low noise, and you'll see a good jump in productivity.
The rest of the book is a great read, too.
Here's the I2 picture from when the RIT DC hub was shut down about a year ago. Notice the growth in the bottom long-term graph. That hub was open to everyone, if I remember correctly. MRTG stats
While your conspiracy theory is kind of exciting, it's a misinterpretation of the facts.
FACT: Oil companies, aka "energy companies" make a business out of providing their customers with energy (currently in the form of oil). FACT: Oil reserves will be depleted in ~40 years.
How will they make money then??? Of course they'll use all their current available resourses to develop new sources of energy that they could then sell.
I would like to add that I totally agree about LabView. NI may tout it's ease of use, but you just wind up with poorly documented, convoluted diagrams. The research group I was in had some complex Labview VIs written by previous grad students that I COULD NOT for the life of me figure out and make simple changes to. I'm also told that the current grad student in the group is cursing my name while working with my code (which i thought was rather simple as i was writing it):)
One thing to note is that there is no built-in way to properly document things. Going to the text box under File->Properties->Documentation tab is not convenient, and no VI I used had more than a couple of paragraphs there.
NI would be better off offering a better C/C++/ API.
Parent should not be (+5, Interesting) but (+5, Informative). It is a fact that nuclear power is very safe. The people that think it's dangerous are the same people who think flying in an airplane is dangerous, but are perfectly willing to drive places.
It's installing it that's difficult! If you install Real yourself, you can be sure that it won't hijack all the file-type associations. You can also set its preferences appropriately, turning off all the "reminders" and "auto-updates", etc.
If you don't install it, the first time your parents want to see a Real stream, they'll install it themselves, and have it do all that nasty stuff.
Moral: install everything your parents might ever need and configure it properly. That's what Linux distros do!
These Exxon fascists would also say that global warming is a myth, because it's cold today... well it's warmer than it was 20 years ago. In about 30 years, you'll be paying for dikes to protect New York and Los Angeles from being flooded, ignorant bastard. Weather will be erratic and catastrophic. But that's not your problem today, now is it?
While the radical weather changes MAY happen in the near future, they will not be caused by industrial production of C02. So yes, we should worry about global warming, but we should not enact sweeping economic policy that prevents production of C02, because that won't affect the global warming at all.
Mod parent up! And learn to sense the sarcasm, too.
This chart comes up very often in debates on global warming. The fact is, it shows a small temperature change over a VERY SHORT period of time. A professor at my uni has a similar chart that spans about a million year, that shows us at the bottom of the curve. Btw, we're going to be coming out of the ice age soon.
Anyway, the point is that sweeping economic policy (i.e. the Kyoto Protocol) should not be based on pure conjecture that isn't backed up by hard scientific facts.
A cool solution would be for someone to set up ISP-Specific Direct Connect hubs, like those that exist underground at most large univerities. ISPs/schools care much less about how much you download if you're downloading from other people on the network, instead of someplace in Sweden. For example, northern New York State only has Time Warner's RoadRunner for cable internet with the 66.67.*.* ip range...
I can't believe no one has mentioned UDP Cast yet. I recently cloned 55 XP machines with no problems. It's basically just like dd over the network, booting from a simple floppy. Our lab machines are in a domain, so there was no need to run Sysprep, though we did have to manually join each machine to the domain after cloning.:(
Pro: don't need a server - clone N computers from any one of them.
Con: make sure you disconnect the network segment when you do the udpcast, or people upstream start complaining:)
So hang on a second... based on one post, which contains no evidence, just a few strong unsubstantiated opinions, we're supposed to believe that Global Warming is such a big deal?
It'd be nice if you provided "evidence" that these studies were funded by oil companies, or a link to a statement from the scientific community showing these studies to be flawed. I happen to belong to the scientific community...
One thing I can say for sure is, there is little actual evidence in either direction of the Global Warming dispute, and lots of heated rhetoric, as exemplified by the parent post.
I attended the Visual Studio.NET launch about a year ago in NYC. They gave me a copy of Windows XP and a stack of VS.NET Academic Edition CDs, along with a single piece of paper with lots of small print legalese on it.
I immediately installed VS.NET on my machine and played with it for a while, but a hard drive crash a few weeks later forced me to reinstall everything. When i installed VS.NET again (all 4.5GB of it!), it made me call MS to re-activate the software. The MS dude on the other end of the line called over his manager, who gave me his fax # and said i need to fax him the license for the software. By that time, i had no idea where the little sheet with all the small print on it went...
Slashdot Mirror
OTOH, here's an article from 4 years ago about Progeny. It looks like the vision was the same then, but they haven't gotten very far.
SUSE now also has a free version of their arguably very polished distribution. Might want to hand some of those out too. http://www.suse.com/us/private/download/ftp/person al_iso_int.html
Here's a mirror of the 3.84MB video.
The hammer sure looks nice. The Home Depot site already has it for $30.
Read the appropriate section of the book Natural Capitalism by Hunter S. Lovins. Green Buildings and Bright Workers Go for lots of windows (natural light), proper temperature, low noise, and you'll see a good jump in productivity. The rest of the book is a great read, too.
Would it be possible for you to post your script someplace? It would make the lives of many of us easier.
Here's the I2 picture from when the RIT DC hub was shut down about a year ago. Notice the growth in the bottom long-term graph. That hub was open to everyone, if I remember correctly. MRTG stats
While your conspiracy theory is kind of exciting, it's a misinterpretation of the facts.
FACT: Oil companies, aka "energy companies" make a business out of providing their customers with energy (currently in the form of oil).
FACT: Oil reserves will be depleted in ~40 years.
How will they make money then??? Of course they'll use all their current available resourses to develop new sources of energy that they could then sell.
I would like to add that I totally agree about LabView. NI may tout it's ease of use, but you just wind up with poorly documented, convoluted diagrams. The research group I was in had some complex Labview VIs written by previous grad students that I COULD NOT for the life of me figure out and make simple changes to. I'm also told that the current grad student in the group is cursing my name while working with my code (which i thought was rather simple as i was writing it) :)
One thing to note is that there is no built-in way to properly document things. Going to the text box under File->Properties->Documentation tab is not convenient, and no VI I used had more than a couple of paragraphs there.
NI would be better off offering a better C/C++/ API.
Parent should not be (+5, Interesting) but (+5, Informative). It is a fact that nuclear power is very safe. The people that think it's dangerous are the same people who think flying in an airplane is dangerous, but are perfectly willing to drive places.
If you don't install it, the first time your parents want to see a Real stream, they'll install it themselves, and have it do all that nasty stuff.
Moral: install everything your parents might ever need and configure it properly. That's what Linux distros do!
Yeah, he is. His uid is almost exactly 1/10 of mine... I remember when CowboyNeal didn't drink Pepsi, and look at him now...
Dell Recycling will pick up your old computer for like $10 AND give you a coupon for Dell's website.
Dell Recycling
Mod parent up! And learn to sense the sarcasm, too.
This chart comes up very often in debates on global warming. The fact is, it shows a small temperature change over a VERY SHORT period of time. A professor at my uni has a similar chart that spans about a million year, that shows us at the bottom of the curve. Btw, we're going to be coming out of the ice age soon.
Anyway, the point is that sweeping economic policy (i.e. the Kyoto Protocol) should not be based on pure conjecture that isn't backed up by hard scientific facts.
Care to link one? I took a class on environmental stuff at my uni and we couldn't find any definitive data on global warming.
I sure don't!
A cool solution would be for someone to set up ISP-Specific Direct Connect hubs, like those that exist underground at most large univerities. ISPs/schools care much less about how much you download if you're downloading from other people on the network, instead of someplace in Sweden. For example, northern New York State only has Time Warner's RoadRunner for cable internet with the 66.67.*.* ip range...
The parent says "don't buy more pixels than your source supports".
The reply says "buy more pixels and use a better source".
The main difference is the costs :)
Pro: don't need a server - clone N computers from any one of them.
Con: make sure you disconnect the network segment when you do the udpcast, or people upstream start complaining :)
UDP Cast
You mean, like trolleybuses? http://users.skynet.be/bk263873/Trolleybus5.html
Where's the "donkey" in Donkey Kong?
So hang on a second... based on one post, which contains no evidence, just a few strong unsubstantiated opinions, we're supposed to believe that Global Warming is such a big deal?
It'd be nice if you provided "evidence" that these studies were funded by oil companies, or a link to a statement from the scientific community showing these studies to be flawed. I happen to belong to the scientific community...
One thing I can say for sure is, there is little actual evidence in either direction of the Global Warming dispute, and lots of heated rhetoric, as exemplified by the parent post.
I attended the Visual Studio .NET launch about a year ago in NYC. They gave me a copy of Windows XP and a stack of VS.NET Academic Edition CDs, along with a single piece of paper with lots of small print legalese on it.
I immediately installed VS.NET on my machine and played with it for a while, but a hard drive crash a few weeks later forced me to reinstall everything. When i installed VS.NET again (all 4.5GB of it!), it made me call MS to re-activate the software. The MS dude on the other end of the line called over his manager, who gave me his fax # and said i need to fax him the license for the software. By that time, i had no idea where the little sheet with all the small print on it went...
So that's why i use gcc now.
No HTML version? Why not? I don't want to fire up a separate app just to read your resume...