Bullshit. Once you have physical access to the PC you can compromise it.
True, but if the files you want are on the network server and not the local PC can you still get to them? (Of course if you got physical access to the server then well...)
I've been at a Fortune 500 company for five years, and in that whole time (which has spanned two buildings), the only people with offices were the directors.
Sadly, the directors were the only ones not making the company money because of being able to look at porn all day in their private offices.
The energy efficiency isn't what matters - it is the cost efficiency!
Darpa is more concerned about 24 hours 7 day a week in the air solar powered UAV's with solar panels than home owners. For all they care, those things could cost $10 million a pop as long as they get the job done.
I'm not a horticulturist, but from my understanding plants take CO2 (1 part carbon and 2 parts oxygen) and with the power of the sun break it down into carbon and release the oxygen. Hence plants and animals are carbon based organisms. Mostly because I think animals evolved from similar organisms that ate plants and then each other later down the road.
Mostly the carbon in the plant and animal material that got converted to oil plus energy and when we burn oil it combines with oxygen in the atmosphere producing CO2 and other items depending what we put in the gas.
If we are putting the CO2 back into the earth it might be more logical to just use it when making biodisel farms covering maybe hundreds of square miles and saturate the plants. At least it would keep the cycle going.
However people don't realize but the more dangerous problem would be if we had a super saturated oxygen atmoshere so we have to something with the oxygen. Not that oxygen is flamable, but things would burn easier because of the great amounts of oxygen abouts. (I think early Earth had this problem before animals came along)
But still something needs to be done to reduce co2 in the atmosphere... That are we will have to paint the sahara and gohbi desert with reflective white paint (hey we could do it)
Can't you use StarBand or some other high speed satellite internet provider in China?
Most Satellite's require for internet connections are geo-stationary. Unless some western company has shot up a few in orbit in line of sight of China then it is a moot point. I guess you could use satellite phone but who wants to use dial up?
For the sake of truly free programming, we have to tear down the zealots speaking on our behalf.
Zealotry never hurt a movement.
Take the current US political system for example... Oh wait... Ummm... Let me rephrase that...
Zealotry will control a movement whether you like it or not and in fact control it with an iron fist and beat anyone who opposes them into a bloody pulp and call them a heathen ubeliever who is going to hell for disagreeing and you are going to pass more rules to control any disenting views.
So maybe yes... Zealotry doesn't hurt a movement after all, but it sure sucks to be on the receiving end of it.
A special chip TPM chip will be required, these chips are being put into most new intel motherboards. Question is will these motherboards only be available from Apple or will it be licensed out.
If my Mac Computer dies, what are the chances I could take the chip out and sell it on Ebay?
If God used an mechanism such as Evolution to create divergent species, then God is not necessary. Evolution, as a process, is complete and dynamic enough to create diverent species.
I take the more Buddhist/Simulated Reality approach to god.
God makes more sense if you see it as the computer and reality is the program that it runs on. I don't see god as a programmer nor the program. Think as god as the matter and the motion... Or rather god as the quantum phyiscs.
Hrm... That doesn't make sense, but neither does reality.
Now there are many debates on what that actually means and the mechanisms involved but for most fundamentalists it means that every word in the Bible is there because God wanted it there. Every word is literally the word of God.
Too bad God in his infinite wisdom couldn't have been less vague on the subject matter. At least he got it right with the Quaran... Oh wait...
It's so unfortunate that when you die, you'll never even know how wrong you are, oh you'll probably see that long tunnel of light and all, just like the near death experiences people, as your systems start to shut down then pop... eternal nothingness, scared?
I was hoping he'd get a more Buddhist/Hindo life after death experience... Come back born as a poor minority female who is a single mom.
Darwinian evolution asserts that evolution occurs through the accumulation of minuscule random changes to the genome. If this were the case, there would be so many connecting species that the fossil record would be virtually a continuum.
There is speculation that these random changes are caused by solar or comsic rays that have been known to flip DNA sequences around. (It's why they have Error Correction in computer chips and that you get cancer when standing around radioactive material for too long)
But still there is only a finite amount of these rays coming from the Sun and deep space so only a finite changes can happen to living organisms on Earth (even though that number is astronomical)
Secondly, only the mutations that lead to organisms producing more of itself will tend to continue or at least multiply more than those who die off.
Funny how "wrong" we want science to be when it keeps us from doing what we want (FTL). But how "right" it is when we want to keep others "creationists" [slashdot.org] from doing what they want.
What do you propose that Christians will acheive by proving creationsism is correct? What will change? What will they receive as a benefit. Will our economy improve? Will our computers run faster? Will we live longer, healthier lives? Will world peace happen?
Nope. Nothing will change.
Finding out that FTL information transfer is possible may improve humanity far more than any dogma, ideology, legislation, or politics could ever imagine.
For all that we know it may not be possible, but we thought a lot of things were impossible just a hundred years ago. If we don't try then we might miss out of a great deal of future progress and benefit to mankind.
Unless of course just by proving God exists as a Christian god who made the universe (as oppsed to a Jewish, Islamic, Hindu, or Buddhist god) just makes judgment day happen right there.
Combat is now more action-oriented and feels like the action-packed combat depicted in the Star Wars movies - the new system is about 4 times faster than the current combat interaction. Movement speeds are fast and weapons fire at incredibly high rates of speed. These high rates of speed for movement and combat bring the Star Wars Galaxies combat experience to life and put players in control of every move and swing of a weapon.
I've never played it, but sounds like it is moving towards an FPS rather than Everquest. Only qualm I have is that you can't play a Storm Trooper as a profession.
Either way he will be far better than the pink slip recipients.
I dunno about that... Not being forced to use Groupwise anymore may put you in the "far better off" category.
(Please not in the face! I do tech support for Groupwise!)
But seriously...
What if he fails to resurect Novell, he will be paid either handsomely as a saviour or bid adieu with a seperation package. Either way he will be far better than the pink slip recipients.
I think Scott Adams (Dilbert Author) had pretty good words about layoffs... (I'm paraphrasing this!) 'When they intention to make the company "lean and mean" goes wrong, it makes them "Skinny and Pissed" instead.'
CEO's think layoffs are the best way to save the company because employees are the costliest part of the company, but often those people were actually doing something (most of the time).
Think of the anology of you cutting off your fingers to keep from going hungry.
Sure it works, but over time you start running out of body parts to munch on.
Long term successful companies don't lay off employees, they find more revenue streams along with better business models and expand the business.
If you find yourself having to lay off employees, then you have to actually consider how you reached this point. Did you just hire too many people or are you failing as a company to make money? If you can't answer that question then the company is going into a death spiral and you best start looking for an exist strategy...
As for that, I suggest riding stock options by deceiving shareholders that you are actually making a profit by selling of parts of the company, firing more workers, blaming the previous CEO, suing other companies for IP infringment, and fancy powerpoint presentations.
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Tell me, what version of the bible is the literal and entire truth, and why is it only that version and no others?
Personally, I like the version that was commisioned by a suspected homesexual who wrote about Demonology and attended witch trials.
*coughs*
Yay for Microsoft, yay for IIS, some poor tech gets another Ruined Weekend TM.
Apply patches, apparently he did not.
Bullshit. Once you have physical access to the PC you can compromise it.
True, but if the files you want are on the network server and not the local PC can you still get to them? (Of course if you got physical access to the server then well...)
I've been at a Fortune 500 company for five years, and in that whole time (which has spanned two buildings), the only people with offices were the directors.
Sadly, the directors were the only ones not making the company money because of being able to look at porn all day in their private offices.
The energy efficiency isn't what matters - it is the cost efficiency!
Darpa is more concerned about 24 hours 7 day a week in the air solar powered UAV's with solar panels than home owners. For all they care, those things could cost $10 million a pop as long as they get the job done.
I'm not a horticulturist, but from my understanding plants take CO2 (1 part carbon and 2 parts oxygen) and with the power of the sun break it down into carbon and release the oxygen. Hence plants and animals are carbon based organisms. Mostly because I think animals evolved from similar organisms that ate plants and then each other later down the road.
Mostly the carbon in the plant and animal material that got converted to oil plus energy and when we burn oil it combines with oxygen in the atmosphere producing CO2 and other items depending what we put in the gas.
If we are putting the CO2 back into the earth it might be more logical to just use it when making biodisel farms covering maybe hundreds of square miles and saturate the plants. At least it would keep the cycle going.
However people don't realize but the more dangerous problem would be if we had a super saturated oxygen atmoshere so we have to something with the oxygen. Not that oxygen is flamable, but things would burn easier because of the great amounts of oxygen abouts. (I think early Earth had this problem before animals came along)
But still something needs to be done to reduce co2 in the atmosphere... That are we will have to paint the sahara and gohbi desert with reflective white paint (hey we could do it)
Let me be the first to say...
Repent! The Singularity is upon us!
Or something like that... Truth be told I could do my job from home if the technological infrastructure could support.
Can't you use StarBand or some other high speed satellite internet provider in China?
Most Satellite's require for internet connections are geo-stationary. Unless some western company has shot up a few in orbit in line of sight of China then it is a moot point. I guess you could use satellite phone but who wants to use dial up?
This is how it works, voting!=good decisions.
I would highly agree.
There is a reason that referendums are forbidden in the current German constitution.
For the sake of truly free programming, we have to tear down the zealots speaking on our behalf.
Zealotry never hurt a movement.
Take the current US political system for example... Oh wait... Ummm... Let me rephrase that...
Zealotry will control a movement whether you like it or not and in fact control it with an iron fist and beat anyone who opposes them into a bloody pulp and call them a heathen ubeliever who is going to hell for disagreeing and you are going to pass more rules to control any disenting views.
So maybe yes... Zealotry doesn't hurt a movement after all, but it sure sucks to be on the receiving end of it.
Let me point something out about this post that no one noticed (no I wasn't the one who made the post)
"If they don't want me to install OS X on my x86 Athlon, that's fine. (Emphasis mine)
*coughs*
A special chip TPM chip will be required, these chips are being put into most new intel motherboards. Question is will these motherboards only be available from Apple or will it be licensed out.
If my Mac Computer dies, what are the chances I could take the chip out and sell it on Ebay?
And since our conciousness creates the universe we really only need to believe hard enough.
If the universe experiences Heat Death and there are no more sentient beings left to observe it, does it really exist?
Even if it did, would it really matter?
(Apologies to ever wrote "If a tree falls in the woods and no one is around...")
If God used an mechanism such as Evolution to create divergent species, then God is not necessary. Evolution, as a process, is complete and dynamic enough to create diverent species.
I take the more Buddhist/Simulated Reality approach to god.
God makes more sense if you see it as the computer and reality is the program that it runs on. I don't see god as a programmer nor the program. Think as god as the matter and the motion... Or rather god as the quantum phyiscs.
Hrm... That doesn't make sense, but neither does reality.
Now there are many debates on what that actually means and the mechanisms involved but for most fundamentalists it means that every word in the Bible is there because God wanted it there. Every word is literally the word of God.
Too bad God in his infinite wisdom couldn't have been less vague on the subject matter. At least he got it right with the Quaran... Oh wait...
It's so unfortunate that when you die, you'll never even know how wrong you are, oh you'll probably see that long tunnel of light and all, just like the near death experiences people, as your systems start to shut down then pop... eternal nothingness, scared?
I was hoping he'd get a more Buddhist/Hindo life after death experience... Come back born as a poor minority female who is a single mom.
Darwinian evolution asserts that evolution occurs through the accumulation of minuscule random changes to the genome. If this were the case, there would be so many connecting species that the fossil record would be virtually a continuum.
There is speculation that these random changes are caused by solar or comsic rays that have been known to flip DNA sequences around. (It's why they have Error Correction in computer chips and that you get cancer when standing around radioactive material for too long)
But still there is only a finite amount of these rays coming from the Sun and deep space so only a finite changes can happen to living organisms on Earth (even though that number is astronomical)
Secondly, only the mutations that lead to organisms producing more of itself will tend to continue or at least multiply more than those who die off.
Funny how "wrong" we want science to be when it keeps us from doing what we want (FTL). But how "right" it is when we want to keep others "creationists" [slashdot.org] from doing what they want.
What do you propose that Christians will acheive by proving creationsism is correct? What will change? What will they receive as a benefit. Will our economy improve? Will our computers run faster? Will we live longer, healthier lives? Will world peace happen?
Nope. Nothing will change.
Finding out that FTL information transfer is possible may improve humanity far more than any dogma, ideology, legislation, or politics could ever imagine.
For all that we know it may not be possible, but we thought a lot of things were impossible just a hundred years ago. If we don't try then we might miss out of a great deal of future progress and benefit to mankind.
Unless of course just by proving God exists as a Christian god who made the universe (as oppsed to a Jewish, Islamic, Hindu, or Buddhist god) just makes judgment day happen right there.
If you believe Einstein's Theory of Special Relativity, you just can't exceed that speed.
What if Einstein is wrong? I'm sure he'd agree that we should at least try to prove him wrong than just accepting his word as truth.
"A paper providing details on the chip will run in Nature on Wednesday".
Anyone have a link to this considering that it is Thursday?
Combat is now more action-oriented and feels like the action-packed combat depicted in the Star Wars movies - the new system is about 4 times faster than the current combat interaction. Movement speeds are fast and weapons fire at incredibly high rates of speed. These high rates of speed for movement and combat bring the Star Wars Galaxies combat experience to life and put players in control of every move and swing of a weapon.
I've never played it, but sounds like it is moving towards an FPS rather than Everquest. Only qualm I have is that you can't play a Storm Trooper as a profession.
A company that can't survive shouldn't survive just because it has a certain ideology or supports stuff that does.
I think "shoulnd't" is too harsh of a word. It sounds like you are taking SGI out back to be shot rather than left to die on its own.
"Google caching is morally dubious."
So is speeding and having sex for other reasons than procreation.
But you don't see me complaining...
Either way he will be far better than the pink slip recipients.
I dunno about that... Not being forced to use Groupwise anymore may put you in the "far better off" category.
(Please not in the face! I do tech support for Groupwise!)
But seriously...
What if he fails to resurect Novell, he will be paid either handsomely as a saviour or bid adieu with a seperation package. Either way he will be far better than the pink slip recipients.
I think Scott Adams (Dilbert Author) had pretty good words about layoffs... (I'm paraphrasing this!) 'When they intention to make the company "lean and mean" goes wrong, it makes them "Skinny and Pissed" instead.'
CEO's think layoffs are the best way to save the company because employees are the costliest part of the company, but often those people were actually doing something (most of the time).
Think of the anology of you cutting off your fingers to keep from going hungry.
Sure it works, but over time you start running out of body parts to munch on.
Long term successful companies don't lay off employees, they find more revenue streams along with better business models and expand the business.
If you find yourself having to lay off employees, then you have to actually consider how you reached this point. Did you just hire too many people or are you failing as a company to make money? If you can't answer that question then the company is going into a death spiral and you best start looking for an exist strategy...
As for that, I suggest riding stock options by deceiving shareholders that you are actually making a profit by selling of parts of the company, firing more workers, blaming the previous CEO, suing other companies for IP infringment, and fancy powerpoint presentations.