sweet, a billion will take of, quite nearly, one whole large city.
How does that make any sense? I still can not figure out what you are trying to say.
And no, I'm not an industry shill. By moving to a hydrogen econonmy several things would be fixed. Emissions would be greatly reduced. And by freeing up oil reserves to be used in other countries their economies could be improved. To say nothing of providing hyrdogen technology to those countries as well. Those with direct access to the oceans would have a relatively cheap clean energy supply. By making energy cheaper many other things become cheaper making them more available to everyone. Improve living standards and you decrease many of the things that cause disease. If we keep doing the same things we have in the past there will be little to show for it. And the problems will not get fixed. We need to try something much different. Giving money to the U.N. has not produced the results desired, other than lining the pockets of certain U.N. delegates. Giving money to the governments in third world countries does not do much more than line the pockets of government officials. We need a fundamental change to occur. One that is achievable is to change from an oil based economy to a hyrdrogen based economy. Such change should impact everyone and everything.
Seriously, Microsoft is going to have so much "plausible deniability", IBM'll probably have a hard time proving they've ever been to Redmond, Washington.
To say nothing of the plausible deniability of Microsoft being in the computer software business.
That would be throwing good money after bad. Better to spend it on research to build a hydrogen vehicle and infrastructure. That would have a bigger impact on the world than giving the money away. Imagine a billion dollar effort over the next 5 to 10 years. All the problems could be solved and the infrastructure could be started to replace oil as the prefered source of energy.
How aboud spending a billion dollars on providing a hydrogen based vehicle and support infrastructure? Provide the vehicle designs to the auto makers and the cracking facility designs to the oil companies and have them build the things. They could get this rolling and in 10 to 15 years start phasing out gasoline based vehicles. Would need to start building nuclear plants to provide energy to the cracking facilities.
Now that would have a tremendous impact on the world.
Either that or spend the billion on dolphins with fricken lasers on their heads.
Then the fact that Sun now gives its Solaris OS away for free probably tilted the stats a little. That and there have been a large number of consolidation efforts to decrease the number of boxes in a data center.
Going by dollar amounts alone is not a good indicator. There are a number of other factors that should be measured.
What was the upgrade method for 95 to 98? Or 2000 to XP? 2000 to 2003? I don't expect it to be much different in this case. Part of the reason for it to be that difficult is due to the checks they will have in place to prevent pirate copies.
Three Vistas for the Euro-kings under the sky,
Three for the Corporate-Users in their halls of stone,
Two for the Home-Users doomed to die,
One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne
In the Land of Redmond where the Shadows lie.
One DRM to rule them all, One DRM to find them,
One DRM to bring them all and in the darkness bind them
In the Land of Redmond where the Shadows lie.
Maybe better answered with another question - if I buy "Windows Home Premium", can I "upgrade" to "Windows Vista Business" for a reduced cost?
Upgrade from one version to another? Get serious! And be ready to do a complete reinstall. And don't forget that you will have to have a valid license because you will have to activate it over the Internet. Most people will want the ultimate version but the costs will prevent it.
Vista will become the new definition for cripple ware. Oops, sorry can't run more than 10 network connections with that version, you need the business preimum version. That will be another $100 please. Oh, you want to run a web server, that is the business deluxe version, another $100 please and another $250 for the web server.
Oh, and by the way, if you want to upgrade from the home version to home premium version you have to reinstall. There will be no upgrade method provided. But then most Windows users are used to having to reinstall their systems at least once a year anyways to fix the mangled registry.
And the really neat feature is the license system will keep most people from being able to install the full blown non-crippled version of Vista. You won't be able to snag a copy from work and load it on your home systems, assuming you have powerful enough hardware, because it will have to check back with Microsofts central site before it will work. The same thing will happen when you change hardware on your system. Upgrade that harddrive, call Microsoft to reenable your system. Swap out video cards, call Microsoft to eanble it. Add more memory, call.......Oops! You have modified to many things and Microsoft won't reenable your system for you this time. You have to buy a new license.
Plan on using Vista on an isolated LAN with no Internet access? Sorry, you have to expose the machines at least once to the Internet to get them activated. Whoops! There goes security.
This is what happens when the State Department outsources its reclassification program to the lowest bidder. In this case the patent office was the lowest bidder. The same people that grant all the ridiculous patents are now doing the reclassification work. Don't be surprised when they reclassify the Declaration of Independance as top secret. Their reasoning being that the signers might be prosecuted by the King of England.
In other news port operations for 6 major ports on the East Coast of the U.S. will be turned over to Hamas. They submitted the lowest bid for the contract. Fall out from this contract will start figuratively immediately and literally in about 6 months, about the time Iran completes their first nuclear weapons.
Actually several such devices have been developed. The oil industry however squelched them by buying them out or killing the inventors. There is to much money in oil at the moment for such devices to be allowed in the market.
Besides, if power suddenly became free there would not be much money in that. There might be money in building such power plants and in supplying the raw materials to build those plants. But there would be very little money in the generation of the power itself. The big effect it would have would be reducing the costs of almost everything else. No power costs, other than transmission infrastructure, should in a free economy translate into cheaper prices for all other goods. Which would in turn cause economies all over the global to collapse because they are used to the higher costs. It would result in deflation of worlds money supplies. At least for the short term. Lots of unemployment, starving people, increase in homelessness.
Its a good thing that the big businesses and governments of the world have kept such things off the market. It would be a disaster!
For the most part the last few thousand years have been relatively mild, assuming the doomsayers are right this time. But those changes won't happen in our life times. So there is not much to worry about.
What will be interesting if if/when we manage to move to a nuclear/hydrogen econonmy. I would like to see that happen. But I think that is atleast 100 years out.
You best bet at "mitigating" this is to buy land far inland and invest in alternative energy sources. Adaptation is going to be the critical skill needed in the future. And if we can get self sustaining colonies established off planet all the better. That will also allow us to start shipping materials and energy back to the Earth to sustain those still on the planet.
Not so dumb. Personally I have been hoping that they finish patenting everything in the next few years. Then in about 50 to 100 years they will look back on this period of time as a second dark age, where the patent laws were used to squelch advances and prevent deployment of many useful inventions. But once they have patented everything they will run out and all those ideas will be released to people that can actually use them to deploy real products and make the advances that will improve things for every one.
You should check out mythtv. You can put together your own DVR that not only does not have a monthly subscription but allows you to auto skip most commercials. And mythtv allows you to have multiple front end systems that can view any of the shows recorded by the backend systems.
I currently have four encoder cards running and have 1TB in a file system for recordings.
If you are concerned with keeping communications over the Internet private you don't change the Internet, you encrypt the traffic you are trying to keep private. There are a number of good options available ranging from encrypting your messages to establishing VPN connections with the systems you communicate with.
I hear this already happened. There was this guy I heard about, see, who met this nice looking woman in a bar. She invited him up to her room, spiked his drink with some kind of knock-out agent. When he woke up, he was in a bathtub full of ice and his arm was gone.
And the guy in the room next door was missing an arm and a kidney.
Well it would explain the terrorist problem. Blowing ones self up does not seem like a particularly good thing for the host, but apparently the parasites think it is good.
The reason they would take the whole arm is that it would probably be difficult to dig around in the arm to find the implant. Much quicker to just use a hacksaw and take the arm. Plus they might damage the RFID chip while trying to extract it.
The whole idea is about as silly as it can be. While it sounds hi-tech and probably would impress most managers it does nothing NOTHING to improve security.
Although it might be good to use as a method to tag point haired bosses so we can track their movement through the various companies during their careers.
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sweet, a billion will take of, quite nearly, one whole large city.
How does that make any sense? I still can not figure out what you are trying to say.
And no, I'm not an industry shill. By moving to a hydrogen econonmy several things would be fixed. Emissions would be greatly reduced. And by freeing up oil reserves to be used in other countries their economies could be improved. To say nothing of providing hyrdogen technology to those countries as well. Those with direct access to the oceans would have a relatively cheap clean energy supply. By making energy cheaper many other things become cheaper making them more available to everyone. Improve living standards and you decrease many of the things that cause disease. If we keep doing the same things we have in the past there will be little to show for it. And the problems will not get fixed. We need to try something much different. Giving money to the U.N. has not produced the results desired, other than lining the pockets of certain U.N. delegates. Giving money to the governments in third world countries does not do much more than line the pockets of government officials. We need a fundamental change to occur. One that is achievable is to change from an oil based economy to a hyrdrogen based economy. Such change should impact everyone and everything.
Seriously, Microsoft is going to have so much "plausible deniability", IBM'll probably have a hard time proving they've ever been to Redmond, Washington.
To say nothing of the plausible deniability of Microsoft being in the computer software business.
It did not make any sense. What where you trying to say?
sweet, a billion will take of, quite nearly, one whole large city.
:)
Drinking and typing don't mix! Try responding again when you are sober.
That would be throwing good money after bad. Better to spend it on research to build a hydrogen vehicle and infrastructure. That would have a bigger impact on the world than giving the money away. Imagine a billion dollar effort over the next 5 to 10 years. All the problems could be solved and the infrastructure could be started to replace oil as the prefered source of energy.
How aboud spending a billion dollars on providing a hydrogen based vehicle and support infrastructure? Provide the vehicle designs to the auto makers and the cracking facility designs to the oil companies and have them build the things. They could get this rolling and in 10 to 15 years start phasing out gasoline based vehicles. Would need to start building nuclear plants to provide energy to the cracking facilities.
Now that would have a tremendous impact on the world.
Either that or spend the billion on dolphins with fricken lasers on their heads.
Then the fact that Sun now gives its Solaris OS away for free probably tilted the stats a little. That and there have been a large number of consolidation efforts to decrease the number of boxes in a data center.
Going by dollar amounts alone is not a good indicator. There are a number of other factors that should be measured.
What was the upgrade method for 95 to 98? Or 2000 to XP? 2000 to 2003? I don't expect it to be much different in this case. Part of the reason for it to be that difficult is due to the checks they will have in place to prevent pirate copies.
Three Vistas for the Euro-kings under the sky,
Three for the Corporate-Users in their halls of stone,
Two for the Home-Users doomed to die,
One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne
In the Land of Redmond where the Shadows lie.
One DRM to rule them all, One DRM to find them,
One DRM to bring them all and in the darkness bind them
In the Land of Redmond where the Shadows lie.
I think it works just fine.
Maybe better answered with another question - if I buy "Windows Home Premium", can I "upgrade" to "Windows Vista Business" for a reduced cost?
Upgrade from one version to another? Get serious! And be ready to do a complete reinstall. And don't forget that you will have to have a valid license because you will have to activate it over the Internet. Most people will want the ultimate version but the costs will prevent it.
Vista will become the new definition for cripple ware. Oops, sorry can't run more than 10 network connections with that version, you need the business preimum version. That will be another $100 please. Oh, you want to run a web server, that is the business deluxe version, another $100 please and another $250 for the web server.
Oh, and by the way, if you want to upgrade from the home version to home premium version you have to reinstall. There will be no upgrade method provided. But then most Windows users are used to having to reinstall their systems at least once a year anyways to fix the mangled registry.
And the really neat feature is the license system will keep most people from being able to install the full blown non-crippled version of Vista. You won't be able to snag a copy from work and load it on your home systems, assuming you have powerful enough hardware, because it will have to check back with Microsofts central site before it will work. The same thing will happen when you change hardware on your system. Upgrade that harddrive, call Microsoft to reenable your system. Swap out video cards, call Microsoft to eanble it. Add more memory, call.......Oops! You have modified to many things and Microsoft won't reenable your system for you this time. You have to buy a new license.
Plan on using Vista on an isolated LAN with no Internet access? Sorry, you have to expose the machines at least once to the Internet to get them activated. Whoops! There goes security.
This is what happens when the State Department outsources its reclassification program to the lowest bidder. In this case the patent office was the lowest bidder. The same people that grant all the ridiculous patents are now doing the reclassification work. Don't be surprised when they reclassify the Declaration of Independance as top secret. Their reasoning being that the signers might be prosecuted by the King of England.
In other news port operations for 6 major ports on the East Coast of the U.S. will be turned over to Hamas. They submitted the lowest bid for the contract. Fall out from this contract will start figuratively immediately and literally in about 6 months, about the time Iran completes their first nuclear weapons.
Actually several such devices have been developed. The oil industry however squelched them by buying them out or killing the inventors. There is to much money in oil at the moment for such devices to be allowed in the market.
Besides, if power suddenly became free there would not be much money in that. There might be money in building such power plants and in supplying the raw materials to build those plants. But there would be very little money in the generation of the power itself. The big effect it would have would be reducing the costs of almost everything else. No power costs, other than transmission infrastructure, should in a free economy translate into cheaper prices for all other goods. Which would in turn cause economies all over the global to collapse because they are used to the higher costs. It would result in deflation of worlds money supplies. At least for the short term. Lots of unemployment, starving people, increase in homelessness.
Its a good thing that the big businesses and governments of the world have kept such things off the market. It would be a disaster!
For the most part the last few thousand years have been relatively mild, assuming the doomsayers are right this time. But those changes won't happen in our life times. So there is not much to worry about.
What will be interesting if if/when we manage to move to a nuclear/hydrogen econonmy. I would like to see that happen. But I think that is atleast 100 years out.
In other news, suspicions that the giant magnifying glass in orbit is causing the glaciers to melt was dismissed as just being to silly.
You best bet at "mitigating" this is to buy land far inland and invest in alternative energy sources. Adaptation is going to be the critical skill needed in the future. And if we can get self sustaining colonies established off planet all the better. That will also allow us to start shipping materials and energy back to the Earth to sustain those still on the planet.
This will be short lived. The patent clerk that denied this patent has been dismissed. As such no more patents will be denied.
I'm submitting one for a molecular transporter....
Not so dumb. Personally I have been hoping that they finish patenting everything in the next few years. Then in about 50 to 100 years they will look back on this period of time as a second dark age, where the patent laws were used to squelch advances and prevent deployment of many useful inventions. But once they have patented everything they will run out and all those ideas will be released to people that can actually use them to deploy real products and make the advances that will improve things for every one.
You should check out mythtv. You can put together your own DVR that not only does not have a monthly subscription but allows you to auto skip most commercials. And mythtv allows you to have multiple front end systems that can view any of the shows recorded by the backend systems.
I currently have four encoder cards running and have 1TB in a file system for recordings.
If you are concerned with keeping communications over the Internet private you don't change the Internet, you encrypt the traffic you are trying to keep private. There are a number of good options available ranging from encrypting your messages to establishing VPN connections with the systems you communicate with.
Time to move on to postgresql. Actually, I did that a while back.
I hear this already happened. There was this guy I heard about, see, who met this nice looking woman in a bar. She invited him up to her room, spiked his drink with some kind of knock-out agent. When he woke up, he was in a bathtub full of ice and his arm was gone.
And the guy in the room next door was missing an arm and a kidney.
Well it would explain the terrorist problem. Blowing ones self up does not seem like a particularly good thing for the host, but apparently the parasites think it is good.
Or maybe they just think it is a big joke.
The reason they would take the whole arm is that it would probably be difficult to dig around in the arm to find the implant. Much quicker to just use a hacksaw and take the arm. Plus they might damage the RFID chip while trying to extract it.
The whole idea is about as silly as it can be. While it sounds hi-tech and probably would impress most managers it does nothing NOTHING to improve security.
Although it might be good to use as a method to tag point haired bosses so we can track their movement through the various companies during their careers.
I was just enjoying the thought of mooning them every day.
But could you put up with all the sexual harrasment suits?