"Despotic regimes in the past recognised that torture was not a method of getting information but a way of getting a signature on a prepared statement or a way to terrify people."
Fear often leads to gain favorable position (often lies) for one under stress/pain, not oppressor. If you want to hear what you want to hear, implant fear, but if you need truth, first weaken his will and put doubts in his mind. That's how torture works or at least that's how torture should be done.
If you were married to a woman, you'd know exactly what I'm talking about.:p
Freedom? You mean, that same freedom written about in Constitution?
There are similarity between Slashdot and Constitution; The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. We are not responsible for them in any way."
Yeah, it says that on the back of the Constitution. No, Really!
We backup approximately 12TB of data per night with about 3TB of that going to a disk backup on an EMC Clarion CX600. We're primarily looking for something that will give us some room for growth and be cost effective.
That's a lot to backup and mouthful. This question seems to direct more toward business requirement. If the rate of the backup required excedes and outgrows the rate of revenue gain or loss due to insufficient backup, the risk must come from the management, I think. The backup cost investment variable must be equally or comparably matched against the growth of the business revenue, hence parallelly effective, not negatively affected or wasted against the entity's objectives and investment.
So the $64,000 question, I think, should be, how much cost can your business bare for a backup solution with the rate of your backup requirement in comparison to the rate of your business revenue growth? If $2 million sounds like a drop in the bucket for your mid-size business, the best approach is to find a best solution that fits that amount of investment.
Perhaps the best solution may not be a backup, but more time or less backup or extension of your current backup infrastructure.
"In making tactical dispositions, the highest pitch you can attain is to conceal them; conceal your dispositions, and you will be safe from the prying of the subtlest spies, from the machinations of the wisest brains."
In a war of "anything goes", "save my ass first" law comes before "save my constitutional right" law.
OK, I'm going to exercise my "shut my trap" constitutional right, now.
...I won't pay for a CD I can't listen to, or a book I can't read...
It's tough to be deaf and illiterate these days... How you post your comments on Slashdot facing with all those obsticles, it's just beyond me. I applaud you for putting such an effort. (clap clap... clap.. clap)
So I was watching "24" on my "Wednesday" (Heh hem! cough! thanks to BT), and thought, what if Jack Bower had to go through all those red tapes to get things done to prevent the terrorists plots, or head of CTU/administration had to go through "15 days public hearing" disclosure before making any decision.
And then I wonder... what if terrorists also had to go through "15 days public hearing" disclosure before the attack?
Yeah, this could mean, a very long season for "24".
Since my artsd (set on high priority, can you tell i'm using KDE?) lag with 1.5 second sound delay on wine IE6 w/ flash shockwave installed using Fedora Core 4 (kernel 2.6.15-1.1833_FC4smp) with mtrr register for nVidia 256M, I have scored only my mother can be proud of.
I am an idiot...
Last time I checked, UNIX was a trademark
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Yup. UNIX isn't an OS. It's a trademark and a standard. And Linux is a kernel, not an OS.
Also Windows aren't OS. It's an opening constructed in a wall or roof that functions to admit light or air.
Lastly Apple is not a company. It's a god damn fruit. Why is that ESPECIALLY MacOS users don't seem to get that Apple Computers are PC!?!? Try to ask a MacOS user this. "Do you have a PC?" I bet, 99% of them will say "No, I don't have PC, but I have a Mac." WTF??
"You must be on crack." Must be. After all, I'm responding to your nut job comment.
"The BIOS on all Dell systems made in the past 4-5 years, maybe longer, can now be updated from Linux. You don't even need to reboot into DOS. Did others put that kind of effort in supporting customers?" I have news for you. HP has been doing it for few years. I believe IBM as well. Matter of fact, every Linux embedded device manufactures has been.
"That crack must be really good." Must be. Your rampant ignorance is starting to make me dazed.
"Dell has in my opinion been doing a decent job, given the constraints." Huh? What constratins are you talking about? Oh you mean, like outsource call centers to India? If Dell doesn't want to support Linux, that's fine. Good for them. But if Dell is going to support Linux, at least do a half way decent job of doing it. It has been less than half ass device support and inadaquate engineers filling up Dell Linux department since 2001. For instance, getting Dell's onboard SATA chipset with kernel 2.4.x was pulling teeth. I was fraustrated up to my eye balls with their engineering staffs and ended up emailing the motherboard manufacture for support which emailed me within 10 minutes with module tarball attachment.
"Everything in my 600m is supported." I'm happy for you. I really am.
"On my PowerEdge running Fedora, I can even tell which DIMM bank has been causing parity errors." Yeah, that's great. So can you with memtest86+. http://www.memtest86.com/ I think, it's been around for several years now. It seems, you get amuzed a lot. Install memtest86 rpm package from Fedora distro CD and run memtest-setup from Fedora and grub will give you an option to boot you right into memtest86+.
"Their engineers have been more helpful than they were required to." Really? Did they fix your car or something? Because they are supposed to resolve issues with every items they sell.
Alright, I don't mean to bash Dell fanboys out there, but this bs has to stop. Having low expectation from vendors and manufactures for supporting Linux makes you applaude for what they are "supposed" to do, then go right ahead. Just don't bitch about same type of support for Windows installed systems.
The story of a man... will change everything... from a decadent time... a war torn nation... love for his country... BUT it will never be the same...
blah blah
Simple fact is that movie-going is no longer a past time activity. It's becoming more and more a privilege to be entertained rather than being entertainment for the common man/woman/child/old people.
I can take the crowded theater, high price of pop corn, sticky floor, crappy seat, and the guy/gal sitting behind me talking on the phone. However what I cannot take are;
1) treated like 2nd class citizen with empty center seats for higher prices 2) double and triple gated entrances to theater seating, treating everyone like little kids sneaking into movies 3) "Piracy is illegal" message then FBI Warning right after, treating everyone like criminals or just plain ignorant 4) Remake of Remake of Remake of another Remake of the original from 1942 5) high price tickets forcing me to make a decision between films
Going to movies used to be "entertainment", a mindless fun and/or enlightment, now it's a chore, a responsibility, a time taking investment.
I used to go to movies every week, watching at least 1 or 2 movies (paying every penny), regardless of its critical acclaim from so called "experts". Now, first I have to check out box office number and reviews (watch what's worth money).
Then I have to put up with checking with 2 to 3 different ticket checkers to get into the seat. If that is not enough, now I have to put up with long public annoucements and commercials that tells me "stealing is bad" message. Ironically yet another message telling me to buy food and drink with highway robbery prices.
If insulting is the way to inform the public, then this one tops the chart. A bright red seats in the center of theater for even higher price with its own popcorn and drink stand. Even more insulting when those seats are totally empty.
Especially ironic when the movie we are watching is either about main characters being compassionate criminal, murderer, or rebel.
The movies portays breaking the rule and going against authority is cool, and movie threater chains to label movie-goers with 2nd class ignorant citizens is perfectly fine, but when the box office doesn't do well, it's not entirely because movie sucks, maybe and MAYBE people like myself don't want to be in such place. After all, if I'm going to be insulted and annoyed, I rather be insulted and annoyed at home watching the movie on cable or DVD.
"If the Linux desktops could converge at their cores, such a common platform would make it easier to support. Or, if there was a leading or highly preferred version that a majority of users would want, we'd preload it."
For a company which has been supplying $300 low end machines with scrap hardware and shady driver, this doesn't make much sense to me. Even with failed venture in Linux market with Red Hat back in 2001, I don't ever recall Dell ever putting any effort in supporting customers half way decent.
Sure, they had "support Red Hat and SuSE or United Linux" logo. And because of that, Dell's association with so called "leading or highly preferred version", it treated Linux as an OS, not a kernel. and when someone states "I support Linux" normally you don't convertly support only "some portion" of GNU/Linux distro, but work with Linux kernel developers with half way decent driver support so that EVERY distro can benefit from it.
Even today, Michael Dell either can't see it or is too naive. One would think, Dell had learned their lesson and support Linux kernel developement and community and not "leading or highly preferred version" distros. However this goes to show, Dell didn't.
I had an honor of meeting up with him and chatted for a moment back in 2001/2002 Linux Expo at Jacob Javits center.
While I was reading the article (and yes, I read the whole thing), I couldn't help recognizing this quote with a smile on my face.
The word "just" normally sets me off as well, when it is applied to a person, as in "I am just a user, or I am just a teacher." Every human is unique, they are not "just" anything.
During the conversation with Jon at the 2001/2002 Linux Expo, I've said 'Maddog, you are the master, and I'm `just` a user compare to you.' Then he gently smiled (and no, he didn't get "mad" or angry) and told me, 'No. You are not `just` a user. I am a user, you are a user, and we all are users."
How true indeed. The article carries very good impression I had about Jon since then on, the true passion and dedication Jon has for users, not "just" users or specific group of people, but for everyone.
What good is it, if I can't play copies of my DVDs, MP3s and games on it? Will it even let me install whatever OS I want on it? Don't get me wrong, I love to have 20%+ performance boost, but I don't love it that much.
Give me freedom or Give me 486 (so I can run Slack on it)!
"The chart features in OpenOffice are like a mystery-lover's dream vacation: a huge, mysterious old house with lots of long halls, secret bookcases, dark closets and creaky doors that, when you peer behind them, reveal wonderful secrets."
Somehow when I read that, I kinda figured the article had to be written by a woman. If it was written by a man, it perhaps could have been written like this;
"Some of the chart features in OOo are convoluted and hidden. Some may find it annoying, and others may find it surprisingly enriching."
Actually Foundry is pretty well under-evaluated in my opinion. It's pretty good product to be honest, cmd interface is quite simiar with Cisco IOS, so the learning curve was lot easier. Their product lines are bit confusing and convoluted at times, but over all, it's cost effective and does what it should do without fancy bells and whistle.
Alcatel is mostly big choice for telco in Europe. Couple of years ago, Alcatel was trying to push their product lines and pretty much failed miserably in US. Call it a bad timing (dotCom burst) or Cisco stronghold market in US was too aggressive. Either way, Alcatel is a direct competition with Cisco, not Linksys. Although Alcatel "tried" to push for consumer market with low end product, I don't think it went well either.
Well, technically you are right. It's layer 4-7, but it's logical to think, for something that support L7 switching, L4 is a given baseline feature, I'd to assume. By the way, look up Foundry and Alcatel. Both are considered to be big players as well.
Sounds awefully like clustering JVM. One thing I am not sure is that; 1. failover is done by manager node? 2. application distribution over what stack? shared pool doesn't necessarily mean shared memory space. 3. parrallel or distributed processing or session clustering?
The more I think about it, this company sounds like a hype. $100,000 for 40 node pool and $5K per node is a bit of stretch in anyone's pocket in my opinion.
So instead of bitching about NASA draining on economy and tax money, what about donations? Can't NASA just ask for public funding through donations from multi-billion corporations? I'm sure 40 million can be used as tax write off for them. Hell, worst comes to worst, at least I don't think, I'd mind seeing "NASA - United State of America (sponsored by CocaCola, the real thing)" logo flashing next to solar panel when passing asteroid.
For some reason, people tend to get more excited about silly sci-fi movies than real life scientific explorations. "Firefly" and "Star Trek" comes to mind, creating cult and asking for donations to continue on a silly melodrama for entertainment.
0.042 ounces of oil per 3.5 ounces of cow dung 1.2% volume yield
551,155 tons of cow dung produced in Japan annually (according to article) 250,000,000 tons of oil consumption in Japan annually (rough estimate from Wikipedia)
6,614 tons of oil extracted from cow dung annually (1.2% of 551,155 tons)
I am not even sure how much electricity/energy requires to produce 6,614 tons of oil, but it may well be from cow dung oil.
Roughly around 7.4 barrels are equal to 1 ton, therefore 6,614 tons comes out to be about 49,008 barrels of oil. According to Wikipedia and my guess, with about 5,500,000 barrels per day consumption in Japan, that 49,008 barrels of cow dung oil only lasts about.. hmm I don't know... like 12 minutes? Well, at least it's good to know that when oil runs out, cow dung can be used to run the entire Japan for about 12 minutes...
"The IRS rule for transforming coal into synfuel--and getting the tax credit--requires only that the substance be chemically altered in some way."
You are the one who's not reading my post. Charcoal sprinkled with pine tar isn't a scam. It's an actual process to extract valid chemicals to produce alternative fuels cheaply. I see no loophole, just bunch of low life scumbags out to make a buck.
"I'm sick to death of people saying we've made 11 albums that sounds exactly the same, Infact, we've made 12 albums that sound exactly the same" -Angus Young "AC/DC"
If you don't get this post, I deserve -Troll, -Offtopic and -Flambait karma from each and every one of you.
Ummm.. ok, so what's wrong with that? Last time I checked, carbonization (heating and compressing wood) produce coal tar and pine tar which also is used to produce acetic acid, methanol, and turpentine.
Excerpt from Wikipedia about acetic acid: "Liquid acetic acid is a hydrophilic (polar) protic solvent, similar to ethanol and water. With a moderate dielectric constant of 6.2, it can dissolve not only polar compounds such as inorganic salts and sugars, but also non-polar compounds such as oils and elements such as sulfur and iodine. It readily mixes with many other polar and non-polar solvents such as water, chloroform, and hexane. This dissolving property and miscibility of acetic acid makes it a widely used industrial chemical." Another word, it gives off extra Hydrogen when mixed with water. So it's used to produce hydrogen cheaply... hmm that's a bad thing?
Excerpt from Wikipedia about methanol: "Methanol is used on a limited basis to fuel internal combustion engines, mainly by virtue of the fact that it is not nearly as flammable as gasoline. Methanol blends are the fuel of choice in open wheel racing circuits like Champcars, as well as in radio controlled model airplanes, cars and trucks. Dirt circle track racecars such as Sprint cars, Late Models, and Modifieds use methanol to fuel their engines. Drag racers and mud racers also use methanol as their primary fuel source. Methanol is required with a supercharged engine in a Top Alcohol Dragster and all vehicles in the Indianapolis 500 have to run methanol. Mud racers have mixed methanol with gasoline and nitrous oxide to produce more power than gasoline and nitrous oxide alone." hmm... sounds like alternative fuel to me... or maybe I'm not getting this article's punch line.
Umm.. so what am I missing here? Is there supposed to be a punch line in the article where I supposed to go "Ah, those GOP rascals!?"
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"Despotic regimes in the past recognised that torture was not a method of getting information but a way of getting a signature on a prepared statement or a way to terrify people."
:p
Fear often leads to gain favorable position (often lies) for one under stress/pain, not oppressor. If you want to hear what you want to hear, implant fear, but if you need truth, first weaken his will and put doubts in his mind. That's how torture works or at least that's how torture should be done.
If you were married to a woman, you'd know exactly what I'm talking about.
Freedom? You mean, that same freedom written about in Constitution?
There are similarity between Slashdot and Constitution;
The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. We are not responsible for them in any way."
Yeah, it says that on the back of the Constitution. No, Really!
We backup approximately 12TB of data per night with about 3TB of that going to a disk backup on an EMC Clarion CX600. We're primarily looking for something that will give us some room for growth and be cost effective.
That's a lot to backup and mouthful. This question seems to direct more toward business requirement. If the rate of the backup required excedes and outgrows the rate of revenue gain or loss due to insufficient backup, the risk must come from the management, I think. The backup cost investment variable must be equally or comparably matched against the growth of the business revenue, hence parallelly effective, not negatively affected or wasted against the entity's objectives and investment.
So the $64,000 question, I think, should be, how much cost can your business bare for a backup solution with the rate of your backup requirement in comparison to the rate of your business revenue growth? If $2 million sounds like a drop in the bucket for your mid-size business, the best approach is to find a best solution that fits that amount of investment.
Perhaps the best solution may not be a backup, but more time or less backup or extension of your current backup infrastructure.
Art of War - by Sun Tzu
"In making tactical dispositions, the highest pitch you can attain is to conceal them; conceal your dispositions, and you will be safe from the prying of the subtlest spies, from the machinations of the wisest brains."
In a war of "anything goes", "save my ass first" law comes before "save my constitutional right" law.
OK, I'm going to exercise my "shut my trap" constitutional right, now.
...I won't pay for a CD I can't listen to, or a book I can't read...
... clap .. clap)
It's tough to be deaf and illiterate these days... How you post your comments on Slashdot facing with all those obsticles, it's just beyond me. I applaud you for putting such an effort. (clap clap
So I was watching "24" on my "Wednesday" (Heh hem! cough! thanks to BT), and thought, what if Jack Bower had to go through all those red tapes to get things done to prevent the terrorists plots, or head of CTU/administration had to go through "15 days public hearing" disclosure before making any decision.
And then I wonder... what if terrorists also had to go through "15 days public hearing" disclosure before the attack?
Yeah, this could mean, a very long season for "24".
Since my artsd (set on high priority, can you tell i'm using KDE?) lag with 1.5 second sound delay on wine IE6 w/ flash shockwave installed using Fedora Core 4 (kernel 2.6.15-1.1833_FC4smp) with mtrr register for nVidia 256M, I have scored only my mother can be proud of.
I am an idiot...
Yup. UNIX isn't an OS. It's a trademark and a standard. And Linux is a kernel, not an OS.
http://www.unix.org/
http://www.kernel.org/
Also Windows aren't OS. It's an opening constructed in a wall or roof that functions to admit light or air.
Lastly Apple is not a company. It's a god damn fruit. Why is that ESPECIALLY MacOS users don't seem to get that Apple Computers are PC!?!? Try to ask a MacOS user this. "Do you have a PC?" I bet, 99% of them will say "No, I don't have PC, but I have a Mac." WTF??
http://www.monarchcomputer.com/Merchant2/merchant. mvc ts/clients/workstationcert.html
http://www.ibexpc.com/linuxsystems.html
http://gnupc.com/
http://www.sunsetsystems.com/
http://h10018.www1.hp.com/wwsolutions/linux/produ
"You must be on crack."
Must be. After all, I'm responding to your nut job comment.
"The BIOS on all Dell systems made in the past 4-5 years, maybe longer, can now be updated from Linux. You don't even need to reboot into DOS. Did others put that kind of effort in supporting customers?"
I have news for you. HP has been doing it for few years. I believe IBM as well. Matter of fact, every Linux embedded device manufactures has been.
"That crack must be really good."
Must be. Your rampant ignorance is starting to make me dazed.
"Dell has in my opinion been doing a decent job, given the constraints."
Huh? What constratins are you talking about? Oh you mean, like outsource call centers to India? If Dell doesn't want to support Linux, that's fine. Good for them. But if Dell is going to support Linux, at least do a half way decent job of doing it. It has been less than half ass device support and inadaquate engineers filling up Dell Linux department since 2001. For instance, getting Dell's onboard SATA chipset with kernel 2.4.x was pulling teeth. I was fraustrated up to my eye balls with their engineering staffs and ended up emailing the motherboard manufacture for support which emailed me within 10 minutes with module tarball attachment.
"Everything in my 600m is supported."
I'm happy for you. I really am.
"On my PowerEdge running Fedora, I can even tell which DIMM bank has been causing parity errors."
Yeah, that's great. So can you with memtest86+. http://www.memtest86.com/ I think, it's been around for several years now. It seems, you get amuzed a lot. Install memtest86 rpm package from Fedora distro CD and run memtest-setup from Fedora and grub will give you an option to boot you right into memtest86+.
"Their engineers have been more helpful than they were required to."
Really? Did they fix your car or something? Because they are supposed to resolve issues with every items they sell.
Alright, I don't mean to bash Dell fanboys out there, but this bs has to stop. Having low expectation from vendors and manufactures for supporting Linux makes you applaude for what they are "supposed" to do, then go right ahead. Just don't bitch about same type of support for Windows installed systems.
The story of a man... will change everything... from a decadent time... a war torn nation... love for his country... BUT it will never be the same...
blah blah
Simple fact is that movie-going is no longer a past time activity. It's becoming more and more a privilege to be entertained rather than being entertainment for the common man/woman/child/old people.
I can take the crowded theater, high price of pop corn, sticky floor, crappy seat, and the guy/gal sitting behind me talking on the phone. However what I cannot take are;
1) treated like 2nd class citizen with empty center seats for higher prices
2) double and triple gated entrances to theater seating, treating everyone like little kids sneaking into movies
3) "Piracy is illegal" message then FBI Warning right after, treating everyone like criminals or just plain ignorant
4) Remake of Remake of Remake of another Remake of the original from 1942
5) high price tickets forcing me to make a decision between films
Going to movies used to be "entertainment", a mindless fun and/or enlightment, now it's a chore, a responsibility, a time taking investment.
I used to go to movies every week, watching at least 1 or 2 movies (paying every penny), regardless of its critical acclaim from so called "experts". Now, first I have to check out box office number and reviews (watch what's worth money).
Then I have to put up with checking with 2 to 3 different ticket checkers to get into the seat. If that is not enough, now I have to put up with long public annoucements and commercials that tells me "stealing is bad" message. Ironically yet another message telling me to buy food and drink with highway robbery prices.
If insulting is the way to inform the public, then this one tops the chart. A bright red seats in the center of theater for even higher price with its own popcorn and drink stand. Even more insulting when those seats are totally empty.
Especially ironic when the movie we are watching is either about main characters being compassionate criminal, murderer, or rebel.
The movies portays breaking the rule and going against authority is cool, and movie threater chains to label movie-goers with 2nd class ignorant citizens is perfectly fine, but when the box office doesn't do well, it's not entirely because movie sucks, maybe and MAYBE people like myself don't want to be in such place. After all, if I'm going to be insulted and annoyed, I rather be insulted and annoyed at home watching the movie on cable or DVD.
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http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000B0WOHG/103-4
Perhaps this has little to do with the low sales, but I'm sure not being on Amazon count for something.
"If the Linux desktops could converge at their cores, such a common platform would make it easier to support. Or, if there was a leading or highly preferred version that a majority of users would want, we'd preload it."
For a company which has been supplying $300 low end machines with scrap hardware and shady driver, this doesn't make much sense to me. Even with failed venture in Linux market with Red Hat back in 2001, I don't ever recall Dell ever putting any effort in supporting customers half way decent.
Sure, they had "support Red Hat and SuSE or United Linux" logo. And because of that, Dell's association with so called "leading or highly preferred version", it treated Linux as an OS, not a kernel. and when someone states "I support Linux" normally you don't convertly support only "some portion" of GNU/Linux distro, but work with Linux kernel developers with half way decent driver support so that EVERY distro can benefit from it.
Even today, Michael Dell either can't see it or is too naive. One would think, Dell had learned their lesson and support Linux kernel developement and community and not "leading or highly preferred version" distros. However this goes to show, Dell didn't.
I had an honor of meeting up with him and chatted for a moment back in 2001/2002 Linux Expo at Jacob Javits center.
While I was reading the article (and yes, I read the whole thing), I couldn't help recognizing this quote with a smile on my face.
The word "just" normally sets me off as well, when it is applied to a person, as in "I am just a user, or I am just a teacher." Every human is unique, they are not "just" anything.
During the conversation with Jon at the 2001/2002 Linux Expo, I've said 'Maddog, you are the master, and I'm `just` a user compare to you.' Then he gently smiled (and no, he didn't get "mad" or angry) and told me, 'No. You are not `just` a user. I am a user, you are a user, and we all are users."
How true indeed. The article carries very good impression I had about Jon since then on, the true passion and dedication Jon has for users, not "just" users or specific group of people, but for everyone.
old article indicated that it's actually x86 extension on 64bit processor, Conroe.
What good is it, if I can't play copies of my DVDs, MP3s and games on it? Will it even let me install whatever OS I want on it? Don't get me wrong, I love to have 20%+ performance boost, but I don't love it that much.
Give me freedom or Give me 486 (so I can run Slack on it)!
"The chart features in OpenOffice are like a mystery-lover's dream vacation: a huge, mysterious old house with lots of long halls, secret bookcases, dark closets and creaky doors that, when you peer behind them, reveal wonderful secrets."
Somehow when I read that, I kinda figured the article had to be written by a woman. If it was written by a man, it perhaps could have been written like this;
"Some of the chart features in OOo are convoluted and hidden. Some may find it annoying, and others may find it surprisingly enriching."
Actually Foundry is pretty well under-evaluated in my opinion. It's pretty good product to be honest, cmd interface is quite simiar with Cisco IOS, so the learning curve was lot easier. Their product lines are bit confusing and convoluted at times, but over all, it's cost effective and does what it should do without fancy bells and whistle.
Alcatel is mostly big choice for telco in Europe. Couple of years ago, Alcatel was trying to push their product lines and pretty much failed miserably in US. Call it a bad timing (dotCom burst) or Cisco stronghold market in US was too aggressive. Either way, Alcatel is a direct competition with Cisco, not Linksys. Although Alcatel "tried" to push for consumer market with low end product, I don't think it went well either.
Well, technically you are right. It's layer 4-7, but it's logical to think, for something that support L7 switching, L4 is a given baseline feature, I'd to assume. By the way, look up Foundry and Alcatel. Both are considered to be big players as well.
You mean, compare to any 40+ port density layer 7 switch.
http://www.haifa.ibm.com/projects/systems/cjvm/ind ex.html
Sounds awefully like clustering JVM. One thing I am not sure is that;
1. failover is done by manager node?
2. application distribution over what stack? shared pool doesn't necessarily mean shared memory space.
3. parrallel or distributed processing or session clustering?
The more I think about it, this company sounds like a hype. $100,000 for 40 node pool and $5K per node is a bit of stretch in anyone's pocket in my opinion.
So instead of bitching about NASA draining on economy and tax money, what about donations? Can't NASA just ask for public funding through donations from multi-billion corporations? I'm sure 40 million can be used as tax write off for them. Hell, worst comes to worst, at least I don't think, I'd mind seeing "NASA - United State of America (sponsored by CocaCola, the real thing)" logo flashing next to solar panel when passing asteroid.
For some reason, people tend to get more excited about silly sci-fi movies than real life scientific explorations. "Firefly" and "Star Trek" comes to mind, creating cult and asking for donations to continue on a silly melodrama for entertainment.
0.042 ounces of oil per 3.5 ounces of cow dung
.. hmm I don't know... like 12 minutes? Well, at least it's good to know that when oil runs out, cow dung can be used to run the entire Japan for about 12 minutes...
1.2% volume yield
551,155 tons of cow dung produced in Japan annually (according to article)
250,000,000 tons of oil consumption in Japan annually (rough estimate from Wikipedia)
6,614 tons of oil extracted from cow dung annually (1.2% of 551,155 tons)
I am not even sure how much electricity/energy requires to produce 6,614 tons of oil, but it may well be from cow dung oil.
Roughly around 7.4 barrels are equal to 1 ton, therefore 6,614 tons comes out to be about 49,008 barrels of oil. According to Wikipedia and my guess, with about 5,500,000 barrels per day consumption in Japan, that 49,008 barrels of cow dung oil only lasts about
"The IRS rule for transforming coal into synfuel--and getting the tax credit--requires only that the substance be chemically altered in some way."
You are the one who's not reading my post. Charcoal sprinkled with pine tar isn't a scam. It's an actual process to extract valid chemicals to produce alternative fuels cheaply. I see no loophole, just bunch of low life scumbags out to make a buck.
"I'm sick to death of people saying we've made 11 albums that sounds exactly the same, Infact, we've made 12 albums that sound exactly the same"
-Angus Young "AC/DC"
If you don't get this post, I deserve -Troll, -Offtopic and -Flambait karma from each and every one of you.
"... spraying coal with pine tar qualifies..."
Ummm.. ok, so what's wrong with that? Last time I checked, carbonization (heating and compressing wood) produce coal tar and pine tar which also is used to produce acetic acid, methanol, and turpentine.
Excerpt from Wikipedia about acetic acid:
"Liquid acetic acid is a hydrophilic (polar) protic solvent, similar to ethanol and water. With a moderate dielectric constant of 6.2, it can dissolve not only polar compounds such as inorganic salts and sugars, but also non-polar compounds such as oils and elements such as sulfur and iodine. It readily mixes with many other polar and non-polar solvents such as water, chloroform, and hexane. This dissolving property and miscibility of acetic acid makes it a widely used industrial chemical."
Another word, it gives off extra Hydrogen when mixed with water. So it's used to produce hydrogen cheaply... hmm that's a bad thing?
Excerpt from Wikipedia about methanol:
"Methanol is used on a limited basis to fuel internal combustion engines, mainly by virtue of the fact that it is not nearly as flammable as gasoline. Methanol blends are the fuel of choice in open wheel racing circuits like Champcars, as well as in radio controlled model airplanes, cars and trucks. Dirt circle track racecars such as Sprint cars, Late Models, and Modifieds use methanol to fuel their engines. Drag racers and mud racers also use methanol as their primary fuel source. Methanol is required with a supercharged engine in a Top Alcohol Dragster and all vehicles in the Indianapolis 500 have to run methanol. Mud racers have mixed methanol with gasoline and nitrous oxide to produce more power than gasoline and nitrous oxide alone."
hmm... sounds like alternative fuel to me... or maybe I'm not getting this article's punch line.
Umm.. so what am I missing here? Is there supposed to be a punch line in the article where I supposed to go "Ah, those GOP rascals!?"