Silly rabbits, an OS isn't supposed to be better or work faster, it's supposed to sell required graphics card and memory chips for your vendor partners!
After all, if an OS actually improved, people might get some work done instead of waiting for the cool graphics to indicate the OS was still not finished.
And we name our Win boxen silly names too - every Linux or Unix or Windows box in my lab is named after a local animal (Linux or Unix) or local plant (Windows).
It's the same reason that people have nicknames for their campers and their houses... or the CIA is named Foggy Bottom.
Actually, in my city, apartment dwellers are mandated to have charging facilities in their parking lots. It's not up to the owners, the city requires they provide it.
Our electricity grid could easily support a population of people with new cars charging their cars at home, using the time-dependent charging mechanisms that allow the power draw to be at low usage times.
Remember, the largest number of vehicles proposed to be sold in the US over the next 3 years is at best 1 percent of the total number of vehicles that will be sold over those 3 years, and less than 1 percent of the total number of vehicles on the road at the end of 3 years.
Energy storage for in-city commuting is fairly easy, with plug-in chargers given prized spots in garages and free electricity, and in sunnier climes with solar panel addons.
The major impact of energy storage is for those who actually commute more than 20 miles each way, or have multiple trips with no easy recharge.
Paradoxically, the West is an area where that is frequently a problem, even though we have vast quantities of hydropower, wind, and solar easily harnessed to charge the batteries since these can be demand-constrained and even out the power draw.
The ability to convert your MySpace prom page choices into 3D avatars and then go all aggro on other prom attendees, with your choice of pony or unicorn after winning a death match with an opposing couple just makes my Wii2 scream in exultation!
Seriously, never forget that fashion avatar games and music games are big bucks and that the next gen consoles will be bought equally as much by and for girls and women as by boys and men.
Overlooking market segments is why PS3 stumbled so badly, and Nintendo won the console war with the quickly adapting xBox360 in second place.
Those who claim to be perfect but never admit mistakes usually are covering up for massive mistakes.
And the missing million emails we know of are just the observable symptom, as are the transactions in this health data breach.
The old truisms of data security still apply:
1. It's usually insiders that provided or passed on information used to get access.
2. Those who cover up problems only create even larger problems, due to the system of trust.
3. You can stop 99 percent of attacks with reasonable security measures, but a determined attacker willing to use human intelligence methods will almost always get through the other 1 percent - the trick is knowing what measures will dissuade the 99 percent and implement those, and use reporting to discover the other 1 percent instead of measures that will be defeated anyway.
Some of the medical genetics studies I work on have measures for those, and having seen the questions and coded them, I can affirm that they're not quite as reliable as you may think.
Besides, every time I drink more than three cups of coffee, I get this visual hallucination that I'm being asked to work to hard and this auditory hallucination that my boss has an unreasonable deadline...
I just learned that the Comcast HDTV delivery to my home in ultra-wired Fremont is only 1080i, which is barely better than 720p, so if waiting means I can save $500 on the price of a TV set I can't afford, cool.
Besides, all these purchases are for foreign-manufactured HDTV and game consoles to play the content (like Sony), so delay may be a very very good thing.
If you have a "green" HDTV that is plasma and uses more energy than an entire household does in France, than it's not green.
But... if you are replacing existing servers with ones that deliver more CPU per watt and don't spend most of their energy cooling a room that they heat up, that's actual green tech.
Or replacing CRTs with LED screens that have a true sleep option (not just standby).
It depends on usage. Some new fridges are twice as big but use less energy per year than the old fridges that spoil food - those are improvements.
This reads like something written by someone trying to justify even higher pay for CEOs and Execs who are already too highly paid.
Seriously, your risk factor decreases the less pay you give your senior staff and the more employees think they are valued as contributing to the company, instead of wage serfs that work for the Pharoah (oops, CEO).
I've had senior execs ask me to destroy data that shouldn't be destroyed - and I've made sure it got copied. A lawyer would say I stole the data - a smart tech would realize I was trying to keep it safe from management incompetence.
So, if we harnessed all the terrorists and just convinced them that delivering "jerks" to the space elevator would damage it, then they wouldn't destroy it with their explosions, but could propel it?
But... what if they happened to fall off the side during this action or their makeshift ropes broke and killed people?
A space elevator might work fine on the moon, and maybe even on Mars, but I can't think of a safe place to build one on Earth, and that's due to vulnerabilities that someone will want to expose.
Expecting rational behavior from irrational people is the classic definition of insanity.
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The "missing" computers were cannibalized for parts for the other computers.
It's a farce really, considering the Chinese already stole our nuclear secrets from Bush.
Oh, wait, I thought you said Burning Castle.
Never mind.
Say for about 1 million units a year, with continuous production ...
What, you can't get the loan for a fab plant for this non-production memory?
And it will take 4-5 years to build it?
I'm thinking we better make the plant design fusion powered ... cause it's going to be a while, and we might as well be pie in the sky about it.
Silly rabbits, an OS isn't supposed to be better or work faster, it's supposed to sell required graphics card and memory chips for your vendor partners!
After all, if an OS actually improved, people might get some work done instead of waiting for the cool graphics to indicate the OS was still not finished.
(realized that after I posted it, thanks for correcting ... but are any servers named that in Langley? one wonders)
mod this one up!
I remember the first computer I networked I changed so it showed up as H3110 (Hello) ... since they insisted on numbers.
And we name our Win boxen silly names too - every Linux or Unix or Windows box in my lab is named after a local animal (Linux or Unix) or local plant (Windows).
It's the same reason that people have nicknames for their campers and their houses ... or the CIA is named Foggy Bottom.
Actually, in my city, apartment dwellers are mandated to have charging facilities in their parking lots. It's not up to the owners, the city requires they provide it.
Wrong.
Our electricity grid could easily support a population of people with new cars charging their cars at home, using the time-dependent charging mechanisms that allow the power draw to be at low usage times.
Remember, the largest number of vehicles proposed to be sold in the US over the next 3 years is at best 1 percent of the total number of vehicles that will be sold over those 3 years, and less than 1 percent of the total number of vehicles on the road at the end of 3 years.
Not really, depends on use.
Energy storage for in-city commuting is fairly easy, with plug-in chargers given prized spots in garages and free electricity, and in sunnier climes with solar panel addons.
The major impact of energy storage is for those who actually commute more than 20 miles each way, or have multiple trips with no easy recharge.
Paradoxically, the West is an area where that is frequently a problem, even though we have vast quantities of hydropower, wind, and solar easily harnessed to charge the batteries since these can be demand-constrained and even out the power draw.
Everyone knows that only a Fat Mac will do.
RAM - it's not as good as ROM, but it will do in a pinch, and you don't have to flash your EEPROM with purple light to get by ...
I have a Mac SE (dual drive) and Apple II+ sitting in my garage.
I think it's time to celebrate, and turn the Mac SE into a Fishbowl with silver sparkles for the anniversary, and the Apple II+ into the pump cover.
Any idea when I can evolve my music-wielding three-armed googly-eyed overlords into the ultimate galaxy-conquering rock band of the ages?
The ability to convert your MySpace prom page choices into 3D avatars and then go all aggro on other prom attendees, with your choice of pony or unicorn after winning a death match with an opposing couple just makes my Wii2 scream in exultation!
Seriously, never forget that fashion avatar games and music games are big bucks and that the next gen consoles will be bought equally as much by and for girls and women as by boys and men.
Overlooking market segments is why PS3 stumbled so badly, and Nintendo won the console war with the quickly adapting xBox360 in second place.
Those who claim to be perfect but never admit mistakes usually are covering up for massive mistakes.
And the missing million emails we know of are just the observable symptom, as are the transactions in this health data breach.
The old truisms of data security still apply:
1. It's usually insiders that provided or passed on information used to get access.
2. Those who cover up problems only create even larger problems, due to the system of trust.
3. You can stop 99 percent of attacks with reasonable security measures, but a determined attacker willing to use human intelligence methods will almost always get through the other 1 percent - the trick is knowing what measures will dissuade the 99 percent and implement those, and use reporting to discover the other 1 percent instead of measures that will be defeated anyway.
Some of the medical genetics studies I work on have measures for those, and having seen the questions and coded them, I can affirm that they're not quite as reliable as you may think.
Besides, every time I drink more than three cups of coffee, I get this visual hallucination that I'm being asked to work to hard and this auditory hallucination that my boss has an unreasonable deadline ...
And allow us to not be in such an all-fired rush.
I just learned that the Comcast HDTV delivery to my home in ultra-wired Fremont is only 1080i, which is barely better than 720p, so if waiting means I can save $500 on the price of a TV set I can't afford, cool.
Besides, all these purchases are for foreign-manufactured HDTV and game consoles to play the content (like Sony), so delay may be a very very good thing.
I'd rather spend it on a US-made computer anyway.
And neither Red Hat nor Novell have game console divisions, or manage large stock and bond holdings ...
Your point?
There are MySQL courses run by them. Quite a few. Even in Seattle.
oh, I thought it was the black code in the OS they were objecting too ...
If you have a "green" HDTV that is plasma and uses more energy than an entire household does in France, than it's not green.
But ... if you are replacing existing servers with ones that deliver more CPU per watt and don't spend most of their energy cooling a room that they heat up, that's actual green tech.
Or replacing CRTs with LED screens that have a true sleep option (not just standby).
It depends on usage. Some new fridges are twice as big but use less energy per year than the old fridges that spoil food - those are improvements.
But then, we have too many people here in denial.
Also, think about the fact that Vietnam has a lot of people who were educated in France, where Open Source is more common in government.
destroying tax data before 7 years is almost always wrong no matter what the argument is.
This reads like something written by someone trying to justify even higher pay for CEOs and Execs who are already too highly paid.
Seriously, your risk factor decreases the less pay you give your senior staff and the more employees think they are valued as contributing to the company, instead of wage serfs that work for the Pharoah (oops, CEO).
I've had senior execs ask me to destroy data that shouldn't be destroyed - and I've made sure it got copied. A lawyer would say I stole the data - a smart tech would realize I was trying to keep it safe from management incompetence.
So, if we harnessed all the terrorists and just convinced them that delivering "jerks" to the space elevator would damage it, then they wouldn't destroy it with their explosions, but could propel it?
But ... what if they happened to fall off the side during this action or their makeshift ropes broke and killed people?
A space elevator might work fine on the moon, and maybe even on Mars, but I can't think of a safe place to build one on Earth, and that's due to vulnerabilities that someone will want to expose.
Expecting rational behavior from irrational people is the classic definition of insanity.