nanotubes which are now used for many industrial developments, have similar shapes as fibers like asbestos, being long and extremely thin.
although similar structures can mean similar results doesnt mean itll always be that way. although this is a bad example, it gets the point across. Sodium, poison the human; Chlorine, poison to the human; NaCl, eccential to the human.
also "being long and extremely thin" is not something a chemist would exactly say is a good reason for similar structure. hell, gasoline or diesel is a carbon chain if i remember correctly, sounds long and thin, not exactly TOO harmful (controversy, but it's no asbestos).
you might think it's a good deed for society, donated quality code to the public, but what would a business care about good deeds. they are doing business, which into itself stifles good competition, creating a better market, which does benefit society.
the only way you can convince him is to state the advatages it gives your company, and not what it gives society.
1. other people can fix your bugs and security holes for you
2. other people can add features for you
3. no need to pay for beta testers
tell him you can still maintain your rights of it in that you still have the final say in what gets merged into the source code, and that code vandalism wont happen (people putting in their own backdoors)(as if anyone can immediately donate code and have it show up).
do tell him that one negative of it is your competitors could also use your code, you wouldnt want to get fired for not telling him that someday.
i find it a shame that these projects, which seem to be the only things that could save us from x11 (along with its 16-bit code), are going downhill from negligence.
its all complicated code that's hard to contribute too, mixed with slow progress that will lose fans. ive been looking at y-windows ever since it appeared on slashdot a couple years ago, but its seemed to have died down almost to the point of giving up.
it'd be nice if groups like Trolltech or Red-hat could fund these groups, to help one of the more important aspects of the open source desktop that is sublimely promised within the next decade.
"The FCC has said copyright protections are needed to help speed the adoption of digital television."
a more free environment of being able to copy and "mess with" digital broadcasts would allow more consumers to do more with what they have bought.
How would restrictions such as the broadcast flag and this about digital TVs speed up adoption amongst the public? The only way I can see this speeding up adoption is some companies and groups (such as the MPAA) would be more readily accepting of it because their copyrights are more protected, but not to end consumers.
I have run software raid on Linux and FreeBSD just in testing. They seem to work without hiccup and they're stable, although I had no extensive testing.
As far as hardware or software, I'd suggest hardware if you need hot-swappability and speed. It's a waste of money if speed is not an option as software raid is just little less secure; I can only see it losing data in the event of the kernel going wrong in a very unusual way or more likely the kernel crashing in the middle of a write.
Increasing the ram would definetely take a lot of stress off the kernel and increase speed, but then again, I haven't seen many situations where stored files need to be quickly accessed; I can only think of low compressed, hi-quality movies.
As far as swapping drives, if you set up linux properly, the drive will reconstruct correctly (given only 1 dies).
If linux dies and you have to redo the OS, the configuration is stored in each disk (partition more properly) that is in the raid so none is lost except time.
One of the advantages of software raid is its flexibility, it's partition based instead of disk based. It doesnt seem like much of an advantage
(and it isnt). Just make sure you don't make two partitions on the same disk part of the same raid array.
My best piece of advice is: make sure every drive gets its own IDE controller. A drive can slow another one down on standard ATA. Also, a drive going wrong could kill the rest of the drives on its channel.
The dinosaurs seemed to have disappeared about 65 mil ago, no doubt about that. It is believed that an asteroid hit the yucatan (or however you spell it) peninsula about 65 million years ago. They have found several rocks dating back to 65 million years ago using isotope dating in places like florida and others places in the carribean.
It is also believed that the world as we know it goes through a mass extinction every 26 million years on average, and that one has happened since the dinosaurs became extinct. So maybe this crater in antartica is just another one, but not the one for the dinosaurs.
All this information is what i can remember from a book i read a couple months ago, "Hyperspace" by Michio Kaku
Communism didnt work because people are flat out lazy and greedy. Throughout time, the US and other big countries will lead into this socialism/communism and capitalism will gradually play less of a role as things become more and more mechanized, especially farming. People didnt want to grow crops for the common good, but electricity doesnt seem to care.
OSS works because the maker of the software doesnt have to remake it for everyone who wants the software, computers can simply copy it, and not everyone has to contribute; the OSS is meant to be abused by average users with the few who feel they should/want to make something for the common good.
If power becomes less of an issue (fusion power obviously), and the few ppl (scientists, related to the people who make open software) will design something (farming or productive robots) for the average lazy user. Communism required too much from the average user.
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nanotubes which are now used for many industrial developments, have similar shapes as fibers like asbestos, being long and extremely thin.
although similar structures can mean similar results doesnt mean itll always be that way. although this is a bad example, it gets the point across. Sodium, poison the human; Chlorine, poison to the human; NaCl, eccential to the human.
also "being long and extremely thin" is not something a chemist would exactly say is a good reason for similar structure. hell, gasoline or diesel is a carbon chain if i remember correctly, sounds long and thin, not exactly TOO harmful (controversy, but it's no asbestos).
you might think it's a good deed for society, donated quality code to the public, but what would a business care about good deeds. they are doing business, which into itself stifles good competition, creating a better market, which does benefit society.
the only way you can convince him is to state the advatages it gives your company, and not what it gives society.
1. other people can fix your bugs and security holes for you
2. other people can add features for you
3. no need to pay for beta testers
tell him you can still maintain your rights of it in that you still have the final say in what gets merged into the source code, and that code vandalism wont happen (people putting in their own backdoors)(as if anyone can immediately donate code and have it show up).
do tell him that one negative of it is your competitors could also use your code, you wouldnt want to get fired for not telling him that someday.
i find it a shame that these projects, which seem to be the only things that could save us from x11 (along with its 16-bit code), are going downhill from negligence.
its all complicated code that's hard to contribute too, mixed with slow progress that will lose fans. ive been looking at y-windows ever since it appeared on slashdot a couple years ago, but its seemed to have died down almost to the point of giving up.
it'd be nice if groups like Trolltech or Red-hat could fund these groups, to help one of the more important aspects of the open source desktop that is sublimely promised within the next decade.
"The FCC has said copyright protections are needed to help speed the adoption of digital television."
a more free environment of being able to copy and "mess with" digital broadcasts would allow more consumers to do more with what they have bought.
How would restrictions such as the broadcast flag and this about digital TVs speed up adoption amongst the public?
The only way I can see this speeding up adoption is some companies and groups (such as the MPAA) would be more readily accepting of it because their copyrights are more protected, but not to end consumers.
I have run software raid on Linux and FreeBSD just in testing. They seem to work without hiccup and they're stable, although I had no extensive testing. As far as hardware or software, I'd suggest hardware if you need hot-swappability and speed. It's a waste of money if speed is not an option as software raid is just little less secure; I can only see it losing data in the event of the kernel going wrong in a very unusual way or more likely the kernel crashing in the middle of a write. Increasing the ram would definetely take a lot of stress off the kernel and increase speed, but then again, I haven't seen many situations where stored files need to be quickly accessed; I can only think of low compressed, hi-quality movies. As far as swapping drives, if you set up linux properly, the drive will reconstruct correctly (given only 1 dies). If linux dies and you have to redo the OS, the configuration is stored in each disk (partition more properly) that is in the raid so none is lost except time. One of the advantages of software raid is its flexibility, it's partition based instead of disk based. It doesnt seem like much of an advantage (and it isnt). Just make sure you don't make two partitions on the same disk part of the same raid array. My best piece of advice is: make sure every drive gets its own IDE controller. A drive can slow another one down on standard ATA. Also, a drive going wrong could kill the rest of the drives on its channel.
i'd rather be be governed by the first 20 people in the boston phone book than the faculty of harvard.
The dinosaurs seemed to have disappeared about 65 mil ago, no doubt about that. It is believed that an asteroid hit the yucatan (or however you spell it) peninsula about 65 million years ago. They have found several rocks dating back to 65 million years ago using isotope dating in places like florida and others places in the carribean. It is also believed that the world as we know it goes through a mass extinction every 26 million years on average, and that one has happened since the dinosaurs became extinct. So maybe this crater in antartica is just another one, but not the one for the dinosaurs. All this information is what i can remember from a book i read a couple months ago, "Hyperspace" by Michio Kaku
Communism didnt work because people are flat out lazy and greedy. Throughout time, the US and other big countries will lead into this socialism/communism and capitalism will gradually play less of a role as things become more and more mechanized, especially farming. People didnt want to grow crops for the common good, but electricity doesnt seem to care. OSS works because the maker of the software doesnt have to remake it for everyone who wants the software, computers can simply copy it, and not everyone has to contribute; the OSS is meant to be abused by average users with the few who feel they should/want to make something for the common good. If power becomes less of an issue (fusion power obviously), and the few ppl (scientists, related to the people who make open software) will design something (farming or productive robots) for the average lazy user. Communism required too much from the average user.