You need a license to drive a car, pilot an aircraft, and handle some hazardous chemicals, but any moron can pump out a dozen squalling brats with less consideration than society gives to having a litter of puppies.
When we go to space there are several necessary adaptations which would take far to long to arise naturally. First and foremost would be increased radiation resistance. Next would be to have the bones maintain their strength rather than dumping their calcium if they're not stressed. Mobility adaptations would be good, spacial orientation improvements, a lot of other minor changes would be useful but would take centuries to arise naturally. And wouldn't it be cool to have a prehensile tail?
I can see a speciation event in our near future, a divergence from homo sapiens (wise man) to homo specium (space man).
Yeah, it's a sulfur bacterium, they reproduce asexually. They live a pretty low-energy lifestyle, pretty much any deviation from the minimalist list of activities of which they're capable will be selected against.
Uh, no. Sure, there's a whole lot of that drudgery, but there's a frack of a lot of other work involved. Security system design and implementation (my profession), air flow design, work flow design, interior walls need to be constructed, UPS design and installation, fire system needs to be redone entirely, AC system for a data center is entirely different than the one that was installed for a factory, logistics and scheduling of material delivery, it's a huge amount of work. The actual installation of servers is a bit of an anticlimax.
Interesting. Potatoes are stored in bins so enormous that the slightly heavier nitrogen sinks to the bottom, displaces the lighter oxygen, and makes an oxygen-deprived environment all on its own. Near where I grew up a farmer and his three sons died because he climbed to the bottom of an empty bin, passed out, his son saw him there, climbed down to rescue him, passed out, etc.
Huh, Power PC, another great CPU architecture abandoned by the bean counters because (as far as I can tell) Intel had a bigger advertising budget that they shared with resellers. Possibly also because Intel spread its management people throughout the industry like pollen, and those stock options they had been paid in would become worthless if another architecture were to succeed, but then maybe that's just the conspiracy theorist in me talking.
Most RTGs that fail to achieve orbit are fished out of the ocean or dug out of the tundra, refurbished, and used on later missions. The only exception is the first RTG which suffered launch failure, which came apart over (IIRC) the Indian Ocean.
It makes administration and troubleshooting a frack of a lot nicer, especially for someone who doesn't do server automation all day every day. I haven't seen the point of no-GUI operating systems since servers started supporting more than 64 mb of RAM, the savings are minimal and the headaches are large. Unless the point is to sneer, "I'm superior because I don't need a GUI."
The margins (if anyone were to try to make an industrial device out of this thing) aren't anywhere near what could make it worth their while
Why? They've already got to port Win 10 for the ARM for their phone and tablet businesses anyway, so there should be minimal if any extra cost to doing it for the Pi. Win 10 is going to run essentially the same kernel across **ALL** versions, from Phone to Server, so many tools are going to be the same as for the other versions of the OS.
simply to meet a release date
Maybe you missed it, but Ballmer is gone. MS now has an actual techie running the company again, rather than a sales and marketing guy.
Any number of robotics packages, timers, sensors, actuators, whatever else you can plug into a Raspberry Pi. Not sure where you get the idea that anyone is going to use a Pi as a substitute for their desktop PC, that's not what they're aiming at.
I remote into literally a hundred or more Windows servers worldwide in the course of a month. None of them have keyboards or monitors. My co-worker runs scripts on five times that many every month without logging into any of them with even a remote desktop session.
Not necessarily. There are plenty of people with basic Windows coding skills that could whip up a configuration interface for whatever device these controllers will run in just a few days, but if they were to do the same thing with Linux the manufacturer would either have to retrain their own people or contract with outsiders (and Linux programmers tend to be more expensive than Windows programmers).
Win CE? That was so long ago I barely remember it. Wasn't that Win95-based? Windows Embedded was Win XP-based, and I don't think there was a Win 2000 embedded version so you're talking about an operating system that is over fifteen years old as though it were current. BTW, Windows Embedded worked great. There are thousands of dedicated DVRs scattered around the world running it, and they're a **LOT** more stable then the cheap POS Linux DVRs out there (I worked with both kinds for most of a decade).
The Windows store now has as many apps as the Apple store. Of course more advertising is spent on apps in the Apple store since that's what Apple users respond to.
Win 10 for phone is apparently quite good, probably better than 8.1 and certainly better than the previous crippled Win Embedded versions. Supposedly the Win 10 kernel is going to be the same across all versions of the OS, from Phone to Server. If they're still saying that at this late date it's likely to be close to the truth.
Windows ran on the Alpha and Tandem CPUs until Compaq bought them and decided on their own to discontinue development. At a time when our fastest Intel server was a Pentium 166 the DEC database server had a 533 mhz CPU. Microsoft was shocked by Compaq's decision to discontinue the Alpha, they had a lab in Bellevue where DEC and MS staff were working to port Win 2000 Server to that CPU. They were close to wrapping up the project when Compaq laid off the developers.
Developers. (The one thing that Balmer had right.) There are a gazillion Windows developers, in Seattle you can't throw a stone without hitting one. There are a few thousand Linux developers. Windows development is taught in high schools all over the world, and a lot of the tools are free to students. Linux development is mostly limited to commercial programmers and the more advanced hobbyists.
The "extinguish" part came about when people realized that netbooks were essentially useless unless for any sort of work, and would have happened soon whether MS got involved in the market or not.
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Please let's not start fighting ignorance with stupidity.
Of if we do, please televise the battles so that people can choose which side they belong to.
You need a license to drive a car, pilot an aircraft, and handle some hazardous chemicals, but any moron can pump out a dozen squalling brats with less consideration than society gives to having a litter of puppies.
When we go to space there are several necessary adaptations which would take far to long to arise naturally. First and foremost would be increased radiation resistance. Next would be to have the bones maintain their strength rather than dumping their calcium if they're not stressed. Mobility adaptations would be good, spacial orientation improvements, a lot of other minor changes would be useful but would take centuries to arise naturally. And wouldn't it be cool to have a prehensile tail?
I can see a speciation event in our near future, a divergence from homo sapiens (wise man) to homo specium (space man).
The only way I can see this passing so quickly in Britain is if one of the (horribly inbred) royal families is affected. How common are mRNA diseases?
Yeah, it's a sulfur bacterium, they reproduce asexually. They live a pretty low-energy lifestyle, pretty much any deviation from the minimalist list of activities of which they're capable will be selected against.
Uh, no. Sure, there's a whole lot of that drudgery, but there's a frack of a lot of other work involved. Security system design and implementation (my profession), air flow design, work flow design, interior walls need to be constructed, UPS design and installation, fire system needs to be redone entirely, AC system for a data center is entirely different than the one that was installed for a factory, logistics and scheduling of material delivery, it's a huge amount of work. The actual installation of servers is a bit of an anticlimax.
When you're perfectly adapted any change is deleterious and will be selected against.
It's Atlanta, the sane have all left long ago . . .
Yes, you're right. Nitrogen is pumped into apple storage bins. Combined the two in my mind.
My version of your post would go:
using my cash to pay means the store does not get my CC number, thus a hacker cannot ever get it...
Interesting. Potatoes are stored in bins so enormous that the slightly heavier nitrogen sinks to the bottom, displaces the lighter oxygen, and makes an oxygen-deprived environment all on its own. Near where I grew up a farmer and his three sons died because he climbed to the bottom of an empty bin, passed out, his son saw him there, climbed down to rescue him, passed out, etc.
Huh, Power PC, another great CPU architecture abandoned by the bean counters because (as far as I can tell) Intel had a bigger advertising budget that they shared with resellers. Possibly also because Intel spread its management people throughout the industry like pollen, and those stock options they had been paid in would become worthless if another architecture were to succeed, but then maybe that's just the conspiracy theorist in me talking.
Most RTGs that fail to achieve orbit are fished out of the ocean or dug out of the tundra, refurbished, and used on later missions. The only exception is the first RTG which suffered launch failure, which came apart over (IIRC) the Indian Ocean.
It makes administration and troubleshooting a frack of a lot nicer, especially for someone who doesn't do server automation all day every day. I haven't seen the point of no-GUI operating systems since servers started supporting more than 64 mb of RAM, the savings are minimal and the headaches are large. Unless the point is to sneer, "I'm superior because I don't need a GUI."
The margins (if anyone were to try to make an industrial device out of this thing) aren't anywhere near what could make it worth their while
Why? They've already got to port Win 10 for the ARM for their phone and tablet businesses anyway, so there should be minimal if any extra cost to doing it for the Pi. Win 10 is going to run essentially the same kernel across **ALL** versions, from Phone to Server, so many tools are going to be the same as for the other versions of the OS.
simply to meet a release date
Maybe you missed it, but Ballmer is gone. MS now has an actual techie running the company again, rather than a sales and marketing guy.
What are the kids going to run on this?
Any number of robotics packages, timers, sensors, actuators, whatever else you can plug into a Raspberry Pi. Not sure where you get the idea that anyone is going to use a Pi as a substitute for their desktop PC, that's not what they're aiming at.
I remote into literally a hundred or more Windows servers worldwide in the course of a month. None of them have keyboards or monitors. My co-worker runs scripts on five times that many every month without logging into any of them with even a remote desktop session.
Not necessarily. There are plenty of people with basic Windows coding skills that could whip up a configuration interface for whatever device these controllers will run in just a few days, but if they were to do the same thing with Linux the manufacturer would either have to retrain their own people or contract with outsiders (and Linux programmers tend to be more expensive than Windows programmers).
Win CE? That was so long ago I barely remember it. Wasn't that Win95-based? Windows Embedded was Win XP-based, and I don't think there was a Win 2000 embedded version so you're talking about an operating system that is over fifteen years old as though it were current. BTW, Windows Embedded worked great. There are thousands of dedicated DVRs scattered around the world running it, and they're a **LOT** more stable then the cheap POS Linux DVRs out there (I worked with both kinds for most of a decade).
The Windows store now has as many apps as the Apple store. Of course more advertising is spent on apps in the Apple store since that's what Apple users respond to.
Not sure if you missed it, but Balmer is no longer in charge. Things are changing.
Win 10 for phone is apparently quite good, probably better than 8.1 and certainly better than the previous crippled Win Embedded versions. Supposedly the Win 10 kernel is going to be the same across all versions of the OS, from Phone to Server. If they're still saying that at this late date it's likely to be close to the truth.
Windows ran on the Alpha and Tandem CPUs until Compaq bought them and decided on their own to discontinue development. At a time when our fastest Intel server was a Pentium 166 the DEC database server had a 533 mhz CPU. Microsoft was shocked by Compaq's decision to discontinue the Alpha, they had a lab in Bellevue where DEC and MS staff were working to port Win 2000 Server to that CPU. They were close to wrapping up the project when Compaq laid off the developers.
Developers. (The one thing that Balmer had right.) There are a gazillion Windows developers, in Seattle you can't throw a stone without hitting one. There are a few thousand Linux developers. Windows development is taught in high schools all over the world, and a lot of the tools are free to students. Linux development is mostly limited to commercial programmers and the more advanced hobbyists.
The "extinguish" part came about when people realized that netbooks were essentially useless unless for any sort of work, and would have happened soon whether MS got involved in the market or not.