If it isn't tangible, it doesn't exist. How much value can be placed in data that is nothing more than electrons and magnetic images kept in a media grid of some sort?
This sort of occurrence perhaps illustrates how some frightenly important industries are perhaps overly reliant on computerization. Perhaps it also illustrates how far removed some industries have become toward anticipating consequences associated to their high cost automation and computation systems.
I would think that financial institutions would have a reasonable (read that as "hard copy") method to insure such an occurrence wouldn't have this impact.
So now we have something else lurking and competing for space around the 'puter and peripherals.
Is this any worse than potato chip crumbs and errant staples?
If the enviro-nuts want to gin up a substantial reason to worry, perhaps we can guide their attention to money and brain power wasted on "So what!" research. Good Christ! Business professionals have been sitting in front of these boxes for 20 years and they've become a home appliance steadily for the last 15 years. Given the raison d'etre for this sort of effort, the next step is to suggest that these compounds caused AIDS, massive hair loss and obese buttocks.
So much for that trickle down economic bullshit if you ask me. When the rich make more profits... They simply make more profits:) The workers dont see it.
This is the usual marxian regurgitation and one that doesn't take into account that the "workers" negotiate the exchange in value for delivering whatever skill or experience that has a value to "the rich".
While realizing the basic truth in that, what you obviously crave is the circumstance in which some elitist, unnamed, monolithic entity does something that you can't do on your own; Stupidly trying to screw "the rich" to your betterment.
To sum up - "The rich" don't stay that way by being stupid and you're obviously not wealthy.
Given the nature of what it would require to insure not aging (constant repair of every cell in the body) these treatments would have to start at least by age 25 for most people.
I can remember what I was like at that age...
With age comes wisdom as a result of the physical changes your body tends to force upon you. It's how we learn patience, empathy, logical progressive thought patterns, and so on and so on.
Are you telling me that someone is seriously considering making every twenty-something immortal?
I don't see anything negative about this, since Sun practically gives away the OS with a hardware purchase now.
From Sun's point of view, by releasing the source for Solaris they'll enjoy what Linux vendors now enjoy; A reduction in support and development costs necessary to keep up with current trends. There are thousands of trained, experienced programmers out there who can support their own hacks and bug fixes. There are thousands of Solaris Admins who can gin up one-off modifications as necessary based on the code itself. And because it's open source, those hacks and bug fixes are in the public domain.
It elevates Solaris to Linux status and gives Sun the benefit of having a ready market for their hardware and perhaps can turn their support overhead into a profit center, kinda like RedHat.
I recall the same hysteria and the same number being bandied about 25 years ago.
"We'll be out of oil in 50 years!", was the war cry but it was being used to push for alternative energy. Like nuclear power. Like wind generators. Like higher efficiencies in electrical appliances. And on and on and on...
My first question is - How certain are we for when we'll "run out of oil"?
My second question is - How much of the jaw exercise is used to generate interest in research grants, investment by nervous benefactors, etc?
Typically an onboard chip/network card will use more proccesor and memory resources then a regular add in card, while the performance will vary, I have noticed that 3com's 3c905 series will off load the most and will be the fastest with the least amount of extra resource draw.
So we've got political competence combined with warrior incompetence, and a war. Probably the worst war the US has seen since WWII - and there's no limit to what's to come. I never felt so bad about being right.
A three week campaign finishing off the Iraqi regulars and now we're door-to-door shaking the rats out... *that* in your estimation is something equal to WWII?
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If it isn't tangible, it doesn't exist. How much value can be placed in data that is nothing more than electrons and magnetic images kept in a media grid of some sort?
This sort of occurrence perhaps illustrates how some frightenly important industries are perhaps overly reliant on computerization. Perhaps it also illustrates how far removed some industries have become toward anticipating consequences associated to their high cost automation and computation systems.
I would think that financial institutions would have a reasonable (read that as "hard copy") method to insure such an occurrence wouldn't have this impact.
I'm not too crazy about the idea of wearing a phone on my wrist, wearing a TV on my wrist is better?
Ever felt that you're being herded? MOO!
So now we have something else lurking and competing for space around the 'puter and peripherals.
Is this any worse than potato chip crumbs and errant staples?
If the enviro-nuts want to gin up a substantial reason to worry, perhaps we can guide their attention to money and brain power wasted on "So what!" research. Good Christ! Business professionals have been sitting in front of these boxes for 20 years and they've become a home appliance steadily for the last 15 years. Given the raison d'etre for this sort of effort, the next step is to suggest that these compounds caused AIDS, massive hair loss and obese buttocks.
This is the usual marxian regurgitation and one that doesn't take into account that the "workers" negotiate the exchange in value for delivering whatever skill or experience that has a value to "the rich".
While realizing the basic truth in that, what you obviously crave is the circumstance in which some elitist, unnamed, monolithic entity does something that you can't do on your own; Stupidly trying to screw "the rich" to your betterment.
To sum up - "The rich" don't stay that way by being stupid and you're obviously not wealthy.
Given the nature of what it would require to insure not aging (constant repair of every cell in the body) these treatments would have to start at least by age 25 for most people.
I can remember what I was like at that age...
With age comes wisdom as a result of the physical changes your body tends to force upon you. It's how we learn patience, empathy, logical progressive thought patterns, and so on and so on.
Are you telling me that someone is seriously considering making every twenty-something immortal?
[shudder]
I don't see anything negative about this, since Sun practically gives away the OS with a hardware purchase now.
From Sun's point of view, by releasing the source for Solaris they'll enjoy what Linux vendors now enjoy; A reduction in support and development costs necessary to keep up with current trends. There are thousands of trained, experienced programmers out there who can support their own hacks and bug fixes. There are thousands of Solaris Admins who can gin up one-off modifications as necessary based on the code itself. And because it's open source, those hacks and bug fixes are in the public domain.
It elevates Solaris to Linux status and gives Sun the benefit of having a ready market for their hardware and perhaps can turn their support overhead into a profit center, kinda like RedHat.
I recall the same hysteria and the same number being bandied about 25 years ago. "We'll be out of oil in 50 years!", was the war cry but it was being used to push for alternative energy. Like nuclear power. Like wind generators. Like higher efficiencies in electrical appliances. And on and on and on... My first question is - How certain are we for when we'll "run out of oil"? My second question is - How much of the jaw exercise is used to generate interest in research grants, investment by nervous benefactors, etc?
And how would a 3c905 do this - magic?
A three week campaign finishing off the Iraqi regulars and now we're door-to-door shaking the rats out... *that* in your estimation is something equal to WWII?