what do you mean, our 18 year olds in the military stationed in foreign countries can and do get booze, hookers, smokes....You want to quickly get into the most serious aspects of the adult world, by all means enlist, kids.
No confusion will be created for most U.S. high school students, as they are ignorant of both geology and astronomy, unlike their parents, who know that Pluto is Mickey Mouse's dog.
and we're using decimal measure of parts of a mile on our odometers. See, we're decimal.
Sheesh, give some people 0.0000157828283 miles and they'll take a mile.
Of course there are open source projects that have paid tech support available. There are companies that support the major pieces most business/government Linux users use, like Apache, Tomcat, Postgresql, MySQL, OpenOffice. There will be more and more of that available as Linux share increases worldwide, regardless of what the U.S.A. does. The money in software isn't in selling the product, its service and support. if any proprietary product in wide use by business were to go open source tomorrow, but factor the purchase price into support and service, customers would still pay.
I use Citrix at work from Linux ICA client and its fine for the Microsoft Office suite and Outlook. Do you not have enough RAM on your citrix servers or what? I wouldn't run a heavy duty app like AutoCAD or HP's Product Configurator or an Adobe publishing package on Citrix, but for the normal office stuff that 90% of the cube dwellers do it's fine.
You do realize YouTube is going to take a huge chunk of that lovely venture capital cash some suckers, er investors, are pouring into that sinkhole and properly license the stuff for distribution just like MTV or VH1? In other words, YouTube is doing the 1990's dot-com thing in style.
the best x-ray technology can use less than 1% of the energy a traditional medical one does - we're talking levels that are within the variations of the normal background exposure we all get
everyone walks through a scanner just like "totall recall". The airlines aren't going bye bye though, too much need to travel, we've already accepted the occasional loss of a couple planes a year for decades.
actually, as drug mules have found out, balloons or condoms or plastic bags in the digestive tract are very easy to spot with medical scanning equipment. But perhaps a little more effort with surgery disguising the bomb as part of an organ might work, thank goodness terrorists are by and large low tech
you'll be delighted to know your 80386 or later x86 supports packed and unpacked binary coded decimal.
incidently, matrix inversion is a crappy way to solve linear systems, there's much better ways that don't cause tiny approximation errors to magnify many-fold.
you do realize the current x86 chips really aren't much like a traditional x86 inside, they are "emulating" a virtualized x86 running very different machine code than x86 opcodes? We've already gone and past the point of being able to generically build an architecture that can virtualize the normal operations that all microprocessors do
true for alot of hobby machines, but others (I had a couple) were even more robust physically, heavy duty industrial power supplies, cages with a dozen slots, full diagnostics in ROM
personal computing had been going strong since the mid 70's, I don't understand why everyone fusses about the IBM PC. I'd been into the hobby for four years already when that thing came out.
you do if you're switching, you can "strike an arc", which means creating ionized plasma that can carry the arc farther and farther as you move two conductors apart. Big switches have "arc chutes" that carry the arc over seperated plates to try to lengthen and cool the arc at the same time. Sometimes these switches can be defeated by repeatedly making and breaking contact so large amounts of ionized air are around the switch, sometimes then arcs between opposite phases (AC) or poles (DC) can occur.
actually, that's a fallacy that eating fat is fattening. A lazy U.S. person sitting on their keister all day eating too much fat, now that's fattening. Especially combined with too much sugar intake.
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and that nice software turns out to be illegal. Just like the "illegal software" I had to put on my pc so I could play DVD's.
so what, who's going to use decimeters and dekameters and hectameters anyway? no one, that's who.
what do you mean, our 18 year olds in the military stationed in foreign countries can and do get booze, hookers, smokes....You want to quickly get into the most serious aspects of the adult world, by all means enlist, kids.
No confusion will be created for most U.S. high school students, as they are ignorant of both geology and astronomy, unlike their parents, who know that Pluto is Mickey Mouse's dog.
that's nothing, watch a slashdot reader perk up when he hears of an Unprotected Double Penetration
and we're using decimal measure of parts of a mile on our odometers. See, we're decimal. Sheesh, give some people 0.0000157828283 miles and they'll take a mile.
sure, but you have to print it out first
Of course there are open source projects that have paid tech support available. There are companies that support the major pieces most business/government Linux users use, like Apache, Tomcat, Postgresql, MySQL, OpenOffice. There will be more and more of that available as Linux share increases worldwide, regardless of what the U.S.A. does. The money in software isn't in selling the product, its service and support. if any proprietary product in wide use by business were to go open source tomorrow, but factor the purchase price into support and service, customers would still pay.
I use Citrix at work from Linux ICA client and its fine for the Microsoft Office suite and Outlook. Do you not have enough RAM on your citrix servers or what? I wouldn't run a heavy duty app like AutoCAD or HP's Product Configurator or an Adobe publishing package on Citrix, but for the normal office stuff that 90% of the cube dwellers do it's fine.
You do realize YouTube is going to take a huge chunk of that lovely venture capital cash some suckers, er investors, are pouring into that sinkhole and properly license the stuff for distribution just like MTV or VH1? In other words, YouTube is doing the 1990's dot-com thing in style.
the best x-ray technology can use less than 1% of the energy a traditional medical one does - we're talking levels that are within the variations of the normal background exposure we all get
nonsense, the technology exists and hospitals use it every day. Just an engineering effort to make a walk-through one
everyone walks through a scanner just like "totall recall". The airlines aren't going bye bye though, too much need to travel, we've already accepted the occasional loss of a couple planes a year for decades.
actually, as drug mules have found out, balloons or condoms or plastic bags in the digestive tract are very easy to spot with medical scanning equipment. But perhaps a little more effort with surgery disguising the bomb as part of an organ might work, thank goodness terrorists are by and large low tech
you'll be delighted to know your 80386 or later x86 supports packed and unpacked binary coded decimal. incidently, matrix inversion is a crappy way to solve linear systems, there's much better ways that don't cause tiny approximation errors to magnify many-fold.
you do realize the current x86 chips really aren't much like a traditional x86 inside, they are "emulating" a virtualized x86 running very different machine code than x86 opcodes? We've already gone and past the point of being able to generically build an architecture that can virtualize the normal operations that all microprocessors do
true for alot of hobby machines, but others (I had a couple) were even more robust physically, heavy duty industrial power supplies, cages with a dozen slots, full diagnostics in ROM
but poor IBM doesn't get any mail-in-rebate forms
personal computing had been going strong since the mid 70's, I don't understand why everyone fusses about the IBM PC. I'd been into the hobby for four years already when that thing came out.
I've seen a guy like that getting on Air Force One, maybe they better check him out
oh NOW you tell me, after I underflowed and poked my eye out!
if you just typed in Bob Jones you deserve what you get. Learn to refine those search terms and google will do just dandy!
you do if you're switching, you can "strike an arc", which means creating ionized plasma that can carry the arc farther and farther as you move two conductors apart. Big switches have "arc chutes" that carry the arc over seperated plates to try to lengthen and cool the arc at the same time. Sometimes these switches can be defeated by repeatedly making and breaking contact so large amounts of ionized air are around the switch, sometimes then arcs between opposite phases (AC) or poles (DC) can occur.
I'm sure he feels like a Yakov joke, that Windows Vista is running him and Dell. ragged.
actually, that's a fallacy that eating fat is fattening. A lazy U.S. person sitting on their keister all day eating too much fat, now that's fattening. Especially combined with too much sugar intake.