I would totally agree with your post, except that it's all wrong, without a shred of truth to it and even offtopic.
In a truer sense, Sun needs to open source Java and J2EE That's your opinion. It can be argued efficiently against it: Sun has released and well documented all of the API. It has nothing to gain from opensourcing Java, except making happy a few Slashdot readers.
They've sold their high end server business, Of course, this is totally your imagination and it has no bearing to reality.
unlike HP they don't have a PC market. They definitely do, and apparently, a strong one, with JDS deals in China and with Wal-Mart.
It wasn't so long ago DEC was #2 in the computer industry, now they're just a memory. Sun unfortunately will most likely be the same. Sun, compared to DEC: - has a better financial position - is selling a much larger volume of UNIX servers - is more flexible in terms of hardware(just released excellent 1,2 and 4-Opteron servers and 1 and 2 opteron Blade servers) - delivers a desktop OS upon which they have complete control (Gnome + StarOffice + Gaim...) - has a detailed CPU roadmap for the years to come
Interestingly, your post has no connection with the topic at hand (Sun introducing software subscription model). You just though it would be a good opportunity to bash Sun, and you went for it. After all, this is Slashdot! So I will try to bring this thread closer to the main subject: seeing the other two biggest software manufacturers that do use a subscription model - RedHat and Microsoft - making a sweat profit, I don't think Sun's decision is a mistake.
Not to mention the tungstene carbide (which is something like steel, just with tungstene instead of iron). Tungstene is one of the most expensive metals on Earth.
LOL! That was a great story. And I'm glad your mom has her priorities well put. I agree with her. I know people can recover from accidents like yours, but I have never ever met (I guess they exist) a single druggy that ditched his addiction.
Best of luck to you in finding a job and otherwise.
I'm quite impressed that a pigeon can do 100km in 2.5 hours though, I had no idea they were *that* fast...
Yeah, they definitely are some pretty interesting little buggers, expecially since you would never think that of these deprecated and ubiquitous birds.
Consider their capacity to learn the route, in additional to the purely physical fait of flying the distance.
Yes, that's my assumption. You are correct that it may turn out that the air-breathing engine adds more overhead than the oxygen otherwise necessary. I think the odds for that are slim, but yeah, my original post was written in an over-optimistic tone.
From the article: Starting with the first flight this summer, the vehicle's first stage will be reusable.
After propelling the second stage and payload to 56 mi. and Mach 9, a 75-ft. parachute will be blasted out of the first stage nose by a 10,000-lb.-thrust mortar. The chute will lower the vehicle to a splashdown 500 mi. off Baja California, where it will be recovered for $50,000 by the crew of the salvage tug Aahu.
So, they're not just copycats, they introduce innovative technologies to keep the costs down.
So, there'll probably be some fierce competition in the space delivery business before the scramjet tech becomes viable. After that point it's anybody's guess which companies will come on top.
A very sudden and short-lived one, yes. But seeing as how prions affect the brain and how the people affected by CJD get to live a long debilitating half-life, I am not thrilled about the prospect.
I am here making the far-fetched assumption that brain damage caused by C60 would be similar to the one caused by prions.
I don't see how carbon can steal electrons. This nano-chemistry stuff sounds more interesting every minute.
Thanks for the "OIL RIG" mnemonic. Remember, I have not studied or lived in an English-speaking country, so no mnemonic of this kind for me to remember. Up to your post, that is.
Welp, what I wanted to say is that buckyballs do the exact opposite as hydrogen peroxide or chlorine. And, also you do use the word "reduction" for the process (opposite of oxidation), which was a total guess on my part:o)
Speak for yourself. I wuld rather NOT die of brain-damage. It's one of my greatest fears that I might be affected of some mind-debilitating disease like Alzheimer, in the last years of my life. I have seen my grandfather affected by it.
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"Stealing" oxigen is not really oxidation, it's reduction or whatever it's called in english. Chemically, this means that buckyballs (which I don't quite understand how are formed - anyone care to point to some good reference?) act in the opposite way as chlorine or hydrogen peroxide, which are efficient oxidants.
I agree and disagree at the same time. I know that you are right in that animals are not necessarily afraid, as long as the culture of the people living there is of a respectful kind. I live in Finland, and here people seem to genuinely like the wildlife, and take pride in the peaceful, almost harmonious coexistence that even urban areas like the capital itself, enjoy. I can personally say that there's nothing as relaxing after a hard day at work as watching a bunch of squirrels chasing each other, in front of my feet, or interacting with me in funny ways that surprise me many times. These little beasts have saved me from countless burnouts. The wild rabbits and pheasants are nice, too. The bears may not be as nice, but I have not met them personally, yet. They really do try to keep away from humans.
Now, said all that, I also have to add that it's not just the animals' choice: unfortunately, human population is increasing unstoppably, gradually encroaching the natural habitat of these beasts. Most people's solution to this problem is to hunt down the animals. I find that barbaric, and in the long run, devastating for humanity itself.
Maybe a place of historical heritage... Fact is, it's not really suitable for people to use it for living, and won't be, for the foreseable future. But even if it was, living there would almost be like desacrating a graveyard.
Quite interesting that the author (the biker girl) confirmed what I thought all along: the place has become a heaven for wildlife. Animals don't care about shorter life expectancy, as long as they are freed from the intimidating human presence.
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I would totally agree with your post, except that it's all wrong, without a shred of truth to it and even offtopic.
In a truer sense, Sun needs to open source Java and J2EE
That's your opinion. It can be argued efficiently against it: Sun has released and well documented all of the API. It has nothing to gain from opensourcing Java, except making happy a few Slashdot readers.
They've sold their high end server business,
Of course, this is totally your imagination and it has no bearing to reality.
unlike HP they don't have a PC market.
They definitely do, and apparently, a strong one, with JDS deals in China and with Wal-Mart.
It wasn't so long ago DEC was #2 in the computer industry, now they're just a memory. Sun unfortunately will most likely be the same.
Sun, compared to DEC:
- has a better financial position
- is selling a much larger volume of UNIX servers
- is more flexible in terms of hardware(just released excellent 1,2 and 4-Opteron servers and 1 and 2 opteron Blade servers)
- delivers a desktop OS upon which they have complete control (Gnome + StarOffice + Gaim...)
- has a detailed CPU roadmap for the years to come
Interestingly, your post has no connection with the topic at hand (Sun introducing software subscription model). You just though it would be a good opportunity to bash Sun, and you went for it. After all, this is Slashdot!
So I will try to bring this thread closer to the main subject: seeing the other two biggest software manufacturers that do use a subscription model - RedHat and Microsoft - making a sweat profit, I don't think Sun's decision is a mistake.
You are not qualified because you are an idiot.
Not to mention the tungstene carbide (which is something like steel, just with tungstene instead of iron). Tungstene is one of the most expensive metals on Earth.
Interestingly, most nuclear tests were done deep underground. And yet, the world still didn't explode.
My first mistake was to not get mine with the option of returning it. Also, being in Europe restricts my choices very considerably.
Alas, I might get me a new video stabilizer, after all.
BTW, your nickname suggests you might be celebrating Pesach. In that case, chag sameach! Otherwise, my apologies.
That TBC-1000 would be nice, if it wasn't for the fact that it's NTSC-only. That would solve only about 60% of my collection.
Still, your post is choke full of good info, I have quite a homework now.
Thanks!
This is exactly the reason why I was unable to digitize and backup some of my old and out-of-print movies on VHS.
I bought a vidoe stabliizer, but it proved not to solve the problem.
LOL! That was a great story. And I'm glad your mom has her priorities well put. I agree with her. I know people can recover from accidents like yours, but I have never ever met (I guess they exist) a single druggy that ditched his addiction.
Best of luck to you in finding a job and otherwise.
Brazil has a very viable capitalistic system, too.
Unfortunately 95% of the people are quite poor but for the rest it's an excellent place.
Once the USA had it's middle-class destroyed, too, it will definitely resemble Brazil.
I'm quite impressed that a pigeon can do 100km in 2.5 hours though, I had no idea they were *that* fast...
Yeah, they definitely are some pretty interesting little buggers, expecially since you would never think that of these deprecated and ubiquitous birds.
Consider their capacity to learn the route, in additional to the purely physical fait of flying the distance.
You may think this is a big deal, but just think about the Russian nuclear submarines that have been disposed in the oceans, during the last 30 years.
Only one problem with HONClBrIF: how am I supposed to memorize that? That is, what does it mean?
Yes, that's my assumption. You are correct that it may turn out that the air-breathing engine adds more overhead than the oxygen otherwise necessary. I think the odds for that are slim, but yeah, my original post was written in an over-optimistic tone.
From the article:
Starting with the first flight this summer, the vehicle's first stage will be reusable.
After propelling the second stage and payload to 56 mi. and Mach 9, a 75-ft. parachute will be blasted out of the first stage nose by a 10,000-lb.-thrust mortar. The chute will lower the vehicle to a splashdown 500 mi. off Baja California, where it will be recovered for $50,000 by the crew of the salvage tug Aahu.
So, they're not just copycats, they introduce innovative technologies to keep the costs down.
So, there'll probably be some fierce competition in the space delivery business before the scramjet tech becomes viable. After that point it's anybody's guess which companies will come on top.
A very sudden and short-lived one, yes. But seeing as how prions affect the brain and how the people affected by CJD get to live a long debilitating half-life, I am not thrilled about the prospect.
I am here making the far-fetched assumption that brain damage caused by C60 would be similar to the one caused by prions.
I don't see how carbon can steal electrons. This nano-chemistry stuff sounds more interesting every minute.
Thanks for the "OIL RIG" mnemonic. Remember, I have not studied or lived in an English-speaking country, so no mnemonic of this kind for me to remember. Up to your post, that is.
Welp, what I wanted to say is that buckyballs do the exact opposite as hydrogen peroxide or chlorine. And, also you do use the word "reduction" for the process (opposite of oxidation), which was a total guess on my part :o)
Speak for yourself. I wuld rather NOT die of brain-damage. It's one of my greatest fears that I might be affected of some mind-debilitating disease like Alzheimer, in the last years of my life. I have seen my grandfather affected by it.
"Stealing" oxigen is not really oxidation, it's reduction or whatever it's called in english. Chemically, this means that buckyballs (which I don't quite understand how are formed - anyone care to point to some good reference?) act in the opposite way as chlorine or hydrogen peroxide, which are efficient oxidants.
Thanks for posting this, it does confirm exactly what I was thinking.
I agree and disagree at the same time. I know that you are right in that animals are not necessarily afraid, as long as the culture of the people living there is of a respectful kind. I live in Finland, and here people seem to genuinely like the wildlife, and take pride in the peaceful, almost harmonious coexistence that even urban areas like the capital itself, enjoy. I can personally say that there's nothing as relaxing after a hard day at work as watching a bunch of squirrels chasing each other, in front of my feet, or interacting with me in funny ways that surprise me many times. These little beasts have saved me from countless burnouts. The wild rabbits and pheasants are nice, too. The bears may not be as nice, but I have not met them personally, yet. They really do try to keep away from humans.
Now, said all that, I also have to add that it's not just the animals' choice: unfortunately, human population is increasing unstoppably, gradually encroaching the natural habitat of these beasts. Most people's solution to this problem is to hunt down the animals. I find that barbaric, and in the long run, devastating for humanity itself.
Can you tell us what exactly is your job?
Maybe a place of historical heritage... Fact is, it's not really suitable for people to use it for living, and won't be, for the foreseable future. But even if it was, living there would almost be like desacrating a graveyard.
Quite interesting that the author (the biker girl) confirmed what I thought all along: the place has become a heaven for wildlife. Animals don't care about shorter life expectancy, as long as they are freed from the intimidating human presence.
I'm just amused because not long ago we were discussing about if Red Hat was becoming the next Microsoft, and now it seems the other way round.
Wait, did Microsoft enter into the Linux business? I missed the story.
Your post reminds me of a colleague that has his terminals configured with pink background and slightly lighter pink for foreground. THAT was scary!