I almost purchased an XPS a couple months ago but wanted to run multiple monitors. Dell said they don't have a docking station for it so all you get is HDMI. Yeah.... no. I opted instead to build a micro-atx system. Not as portable but I've got dual heads, tons of ram, SSD, 8 cores, 4 VGA Outs, and a water cooled CPU. All for about the same price. If Dell would have offered dual head support through a docking station I probably would have been sold but kind of glad they don't now.
"Once a corral of wooden stakes was placed around two of the rocks. The team then left. (Remember, the rocks won't move when anyone is around.) When they returned, one rock had moved out, while the other stayed in the corral. The rocks seem to slide rather than roll, but to this day, no one knows why. The only certainty is that something is either pushing or pulling them."
TFA is a good theory for Ireland but there must be something else at work in Death Valley. Ice has been ruled out as well.
Late 80's: there were a lot of skilled trades and professional labor in the US. Cars, Steel, Mass production, Agriculture, skilled trades, software development, science, NASA, everything was going pretty well compared to today.
mid 90's: NAFTA took root. Companies began leaving in droves to offshore labor to the far east and Mexico. Many companies who wanted to keep the labor at home, had no choice but to follow the leader because they couldn't compete with such cheap labor.
Late 90's Early 00's: software development, tech support and engineering started heading for India and other regions. Workers were told "too bad" and laid off in huge numbers. Corporations were swimming in revenue.
Today: Michigan, the hub of manufacturing in the US has no economy to speak of. Detroit is the most dangerous city to live in. The US no longer has much of a Scientific community. It's all been sold off or off-shored. We have no manufacturing to speak of. Most of what people buy now comes out of a Chinese shipping container.
The industry is crying that we have no engineers, software developers or scientific professionals and act like they have no idea why. Now companies want to float a boat out in international waters so they can ship in more cheap labor and not have pay for visas and probably skirt a shitload of tax revenue that would otherwise go into the US economy? Yeah, great idea.
The problem with climate change is the rate. The dinosaurs, were here for 160 MILLION years. The amount of time it took for the type of climate change the research is suggesting (due to excrement) is hard to agree with. There could have been a lot of other naturally contributing factors in that timescale.
The amount of climate change brought about in the past 100 years, however, is largely due to anthropogenic emissions. People consuming resources, driving, industry, cows (yes meat production and transportation as well as dairy farm methane), depletion of natural carbon sinks, irresponsible land use and the list goes on.
So stop trying to push climate change off as a totally natural occurrence that we have nothing to worry about. The earth's climate has never remained the same for long, and yes it's had plenty of warm and cold spells in the past but never, ever have we been able to find that rate of change occurring over the course of a measly 100 years. This is the worrisome part. People need to accept that we have changed the course of climate on this planet at a rate never seen before and the earth will continue to warm unless we start changing the way we live. And soon.
Never figured Syria had a large gaming economy. Sanctions were supposedly imposed when Syria supposedly started supplying weapons to Iraq. Probably just as much BS as the rest of what Bush said but I doubt it was to ruin the gaming industry there.
If you want to automate and mess about inside a *nix system, python and shell are really the best. Perl is nice, but you need much more asbestos when trying to get help with it.
Want to do things for the 'web'? Javascript, or Ruby on Rails.
Mobile programming? If you like straight jackets and anal lube go with objective C and iOS. If you want more freedom to innovate, Java/Android.
If you want to write Desktop games, it's going to be SDL for linux (C, C++) or the equivalent in Windows land (used to be Visual Studio, havne't touched it in years).
it's nowhere close to the water level found on Earth
The evidence for larger quantities of water may lie well below the surface. Far out of reach of the current rovers. Hence the reason for Curiosity. Stay tuned...
If you just use LVM and group all your disks together into one PV, that would make the array appear as "one big drive" to the system.
Redundancy (RAID) would not work so well because your array would be limited by the smallest disk in the array. Sure, raid the 300GB to the 1TB, but you end up with a RAID-1 array of 300G.
I've been reading too much Oracle/Java hate on slashdot.
Nobody really admires Oracle except for corporate CEO types. The rest of us have what equates to the same admiration for a dentist's drill. The licensing model is basically un-consentual sex. Having Oracle gunning for more IP just makes everyone uncomfortable.
Foreign nations are actively penetrating and stealing sensitive information from the United States
That fact that the sensitive info is on a public network, or networks connected to the internet, is reason enough to believe there is incompetence involved. Incompetence is the largest factor in a compromised network.
If you don't want your fruit picked, don't leave it so close to the ground.
* They employ and "incredible" number of people (34,000 in 2009, 47,000 in TFA) by comparison, Walmart employs 1.8 million. That's more than 300x more incredible.
* They have "more than 500,000 jobs for U.S. workers -- from the people who create components for our products". Must be a lot of americans working in china. How is 47,000 a "vast majority" of the workforce?
* "Apple has conducted all of its business with the highest of ethical standards". lol Yes, and all the child labor and suicide data will back that up.
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Seems there's another issue here besides the jukebox.
Are Americans going to tolerate this?
Most will, yes.
I almost purchased an XPS a couple months ago but wanted to run multiple monitors. Dell said they don't have a docking station for it so all you get is HDMI. Yeah.... no. I opted instead to build a micro-atx system. Not as portable but I've got dual heads, tons of ram, SSD, 8 cores, 4 VGA Outs, and a water cooled CPU. All for about the same price. If Dell would have offered dual head support through a docking station I probably would have been sold but kind of glad they don't now.
"Once a corral of wooden stakes was placed around two of the rocks. The team then left. (Remember, the rocks won't move when anyone is around.) When they returned, one rock had moved out, while the other stayed in the corral. The rocks seem to slide rather than roll, but to this day, no one knows why. The only certainty is that something is either pushing or pulling them."
TFA is a good theory for Ireland but there must be something else at work in Death Valley. Ice has been ruled out as well.
http://voices.yahoo.com/moving-rocks-death-valley-national-park-13323.html
can we tell the difference between a change that took a day (i.e. massive catastrophe), or a century, or 10,000 years?
Yes. Both in seafloor sediment and the carbon content in mollusk shells found in the stratified layers. http://www.boscorf.org/education.html
Late 80's: there were a lot of skilled trades and professional labor in the US. Cars, Steel, Mass production, Agriculture, skilled trades, software development, science, NASA, everything was going pretty well compared to today.
mid 90's: NAFTA took root. Companies began leaving in droves to offshore labor to the far east and Mexico. Many companies who wanted to keep the labor at home, had no choice but to follow the leader because they couldn't compete with such cheap labor.
Late 90's Early 00's: software development, tech support and engineering started heading for India and other regions. Workers were told "too bad" and laid off in huge numbers. Corporations were swimming in revenue.
Today: Michigan, the hub of manufacturing in the US has no economy to speak of. Detroit is the most dangerous city to live in. The US no longer has much of a Scientific community. It's all been sold off or off-shored. We have no manufacturing to speak of. Most of what people buy now comes out of a Chinese shipping container.
The industry is crying that we have no engineers, software developers or scientific professionals and act like they have no idea why. Now companies want to float a boat out in international waters so they can ship in more cheap labor and not have pay for visas and probably skirt a shitload of tax revenue that would otherwise go into the US economy? Yeah, great idea.
OK, so how, precisely, are we to adhere to IEEE standards when viewing the standard is FUCKING PAYWALLED?
Wait for a seeder? Just sayin...
or sha1sum if you prefer. Automate in cron against a list of knowns.
eg: /home/wilbur/Documents/* > /home/wilbur/Docs.md5 /home/wilbur/Docs.md5
$ md5sum
$ md5sum -c
The problem with climate change is the rate. The dinosaurs, were here for 160 MILLION years. The amount of time it took for the type of climate change the research is suggesting (due to excrement) is hard to agree with. There could have been a lot of other naturally contributing factors in that timescale.
The amount of climate change brought about in the past 100 years, however, is largely due to anthropogenic emissions. People consuming resources, driving, industry, cows (yes meat production and transportation as well as dairy farm methane), depletion of natural carbon sinks, irresponsible land use and the list goes on.
So stop trying to push climate change off as a totally natural occurrence that we have nothing to worry about. The earth's climate has never remained the same for long, and yes it's had plenty of warm and cold spells in the past but never, ever have we been able to find that rate of change occurring over the course of a measly 100 years. This is the worrisome part. People need to accept that we have changed the course of climate on this planet at a rate never seen before and the earth will continue to warm unless we start changing the way we live. And soon.
Never figured Syria had a large gaming economy. Sanctions were supposedly imposed when Syria supposedly started supplying weapons to Iraq. Probably just as much BS as the rest of what Bush said but I doubt it was to ruin the gaming industry there.
If you want to automate and mess about inside a *nix system, python and shell are really the best. Perl is nice, but you need much more asbestos when trying to get help with it.
Want to do things for the 'web'? Javascript, or Ruby on Rails.
Mobile programming? If you like straight jackets and anal lube go with objective C and iOS. If you want more freedom to innovate, Java/Android.
If you want to write Desktop games, it's going to be SDL for linux (C, C++) or the equivalent in Windows land (used to be Visual Studio, havne't touched it in years).
Thanks MS. Another opportunistic moment to point out to the world your not the only f*uck-up in the solar system.
The irony is, it's the same processor running the galaxy s III. http://www.phonearena.com/news/Processor-on-next-Apple-iPhone-to-be-produced-via-Samsungs-32nm-process_id29024
gigantic waste of time and money
When's the last time you saw a copyright lawsuit that wasn't?
unless the name and file type looks halfway legit and you can trust the person 100%
did you even read the summary?
"The problem was that the fellow activist had already been arrested and could not have started the chat."
Historically speaking, entering any kind of business deal with Microsoft usually ends badly.
it's nowhere close to the water level found on Earth
The evidence for larger quantities of water may lie well below the surface. Far out of reach of the current rovers. Hence the reason for Curiosity. Stay tuned...
If you just use LVM and group all your disks together into one PV, that would make the array appear as "one big drive" to the system.
Redundancy (RAID) would not work so well because your array would be limited by the smallest disk in the array. Sure, raid the 300GB to the 1TB, but you end up with a RAID-1 array of 300G.
http://ia601208.us.archive.org.nyud.net/32/items/FbiReturnsRiseupServerToMayFirstpeopleLinkCabinet/fbi-returns-seized-server.ogg
I've been reading too much Oracle/Java hate on slashdot.
Nobody really admires Oracle except for corporate CEO types. The rest of us have what equates to the same admiration for a dentist's drill. The licensing model is basically un-consentual sex. Having Oracle gunning for more IP just makes everyone uncomfortable.
This is almost as painful to watch.
Like fallout from nuclear testing and nuclear disasters.
Foreign nations are actively penetrating and stealing sensitive information from the United States
That fact that the sensitive info is on a public network, or networks connected to the internet, is reason enough to believe there is incompetence involved. Incompetence is the largest factor in a compromised network.
If you don't want your fruit picked, don't leave it so close to the ground.
Apple responds to the nytimes article[1] . Lame.
* They employ and "incredible" number of people (34,000 in 2009, 47,000 in TFA) by comparison, Walmart employs 1.8 million. That's more than 300x more incredible.
* They have "more than 500,000 jobs for U.S. workers -- from the people who create components for our products". Must be a lot of americans working in china. How is 47,000 a "vast majority" of the workforce?
* "Apple has conducted all of its business with the highest of ethical standards". lol Yes, and all the child labor and suicide data will back that up.
[1] - http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/29/business/apples-response-on-its-tax-practices.html
So what are the likely consequences of this terrible, terrible idea?
The 1% will not only control congress and copyright, but also the patent system.