Moon might be conceivable given that the term planet isn't very firmly defined. The moon's poles might be usable for greenhouses.
Other possibilities might be orbital greenhouses around venus, earth or mars. Much further out and the insolation amount is questionable but possible with mirrors to focus more energy. Of course, other than earth orbiting greenhouse, these are even more unlikely than the moon.
It would depend upon how much life as we know its form depends upon the circumstances we have here (gravity, temperature, atmosphere) etc. If our forms are simply efficient and not highly dependant upon planetary conditions, then it become quite likely actually.
There have been several similar adaptations of form to climbing environments from primarily quadriped to a bipedal with the forelimbs becoming more adapted to grasping and less for walking upon (such as squirrels and chipmunks and the primate family). From this point, it's not a big leap to using those same grasping limbs to start manipulating their environment (ala sentience).
Now, if current forms are highly dependant upon environmental conditions OR if it was more of a random chance factor that methods of locomotion occurred as they have here, then the likelihood of humanoid aliens becomes far lower.
Yeah but how productive are they normally? Around here, you need to apply a heavy duty LART to get people producing anything worthwhile on a computer...
One comment, it should be less expensive to go from open to closed as you'll have full access to any file formatting/data structure. Not that this is a huge advantage relative to the overall costs but it certainly makes it easier knowing how the data is stored.
PS: This makes no difference for closed software that uses open data formats.
Informative??
Here's a tip kids, don't mod when you're smoking hash. The things that make you go "wow" then, aren't necessarily informative.
funny parent btw
CAD and other such high end workstation apps are far more likely to already have support or to rapidly include such support. When you're paying thousands and thousands of dollars for your CAD designer, anything that reduces the time that he has to wait on the computer for will be adopted quickly.
Now you've just gone too far!
Duke Nukem Forever = Improbality level of infinity - 1.
Won't be out until we get that shiny new infinite improbability drive next week.
Quite right about it not being viral. Viruses are small, well written pieces of code that do what they're designed to do. Microsoft... well, you get the point.
That is why you don't install applications like that on a terminal server. People that need to use that type of application should be getting a fully functional workstation anyway. Sounds like what you need to do, is complain about/to your dumbass admin who made the mistake of putting those type of apps on a TS.
We're running one here, we didn't need a 100K server to run it well. Just a run of the mill tower server, not even 2K. As far as clients, we turned the existing 95 licenses we had and stacks of 200MHz doorstoppers into decent thin clients. If one of these ancient machines dies, it's 45 minutes of work, period, to get the user back up and running with no loss of data. That includes the time to load up another computer for the spares we keep on hand.
For your typical office worker, not doing CAD or Photoshop etc, you don't need a lot of processing power. We run 40 people on a cheap server and still have plenty of power left over. 10% of CPU being used with only occasional spikes to 40%.
Supporting the end users is incredibly easy now. Remote control their desktop and see exactly what they're doing wrong. Plus, they can't install anything to mess up their systems. AND, if we need to upgrade or add software, it's one install instead of 40 at various workstations in another building.
Mars has probably the best chance of developing a sustainable off Earth colony. The moon, while closer and thus easier to reach, has the problems of no atmosphere, limited water, and limited heavy elements. Mars, while light on atmosphere has the gravity and material to form and keep one.
I think the BOFH had it right... be afraid of anyone that claims 40 years of computer experience. Anyone fancy some tales of the good ole days with punch cards?
As batteries are used, there's a chemical reaction. Right after the reaction there's a higher concentration of the end result of that reaction by the equivalent of the electrode. It takes time in most batteries for that material to disperse allowing more of the desired reactants to mix. Resting batteries is just giving time for the desired chemical to get to the reaction site.
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Moon might be conceivable given that the term planet isn't very firmly defined. The moon's poles might be usable for greenhouses.
Other possibilities might be orbital greenhouses around venus, earth or mars. Much further out and the insolation amount is questionable but possible with mirrors to focus more energy. Of course, other than earth orbiting greenhouse, these are even more unlikely than the moon.
Nope, pretty soon they don't check their email at all and productivity skyrockets!
But around the house it's ok??
Possibly a bonafide nerd but hardly a bonafide actor...
They're obviously spending the time developing the right GUI for it.
It would depend upon how much life as we know its form depends upon the circumstances we have here (gravity, temperature, atmosphere) etc. If our forms are simply efficient and not highly dependant upon planetary conditions, then it become quite likely actually.
There have been several similar adaptations of form to climbing environments from primarily quadriped to a bipedal with the forelimbs becoming more adapted to grasping and less for walking upon (such as squirrels and chipmunks and the primate family). From this point, it's not a big leap to using those same grasping limbs to start manipulating their environment (ala sentience).
Now, if current forms are highly dependant upon environmental conditions OR if it was more of a random chance factor that methods of locomotion occurred as they have here, then the likelihood of humanoid aliens becomes far lower.
Yeah but how productive are they normally? Around here, you need to apply a heavy duty LART to get people producing anything worthwhile on a computer...
One comment, it should be less expensive to go from open to closed as you'll have full access to any file formatting/data structure. Not that this is a huge advantage relative to the overall costs but it certainly makes it easier knowing how the data is stored.
PS: This makes no difference for closed software that uses open data formats.
Would've been funnier to see this moderated redundant.
Informative?? Here's a tip kids, don't mod when you're smoking hash. The things that make you go "wow" then, aren't necessarily informative. funny parent btw
CAD and other such high end workstation apps are far more likely to already have support or to rapidly include such support. When you're paying thousands and thousands of dollars for your CAD designer, anything that reduces the time that he has to wait on the computer for will be adopted quickly.
Pfft. Real geeks use binary straight to the processor. yeah, that's 2 keys but those are all the keys you need.
Now you've just gone too far! Duke Nukem Forever = Improbality level of infinity - 1. Won't be out until we get that shiny new infinite improbability drive next week.
At thin film levels the brittleness is lessened considerably. Think 2 or 3 atom thick film.
You forgot wrapping it around your head if the movie is completely terrible and thus being unable to see it.
Or that your Office suite works on the new hardware/OS after having to upgrade (say after a crash).
Have you not heard the news that Japan at least (that bastion of free market practices/sarcasm) has ruled Intel's practices illegal.
Quite right about it not being viral. Viruses are small, well written pieces of code that do what they're designed to do. Microsoft... well, you get the point.
That is why you don't install applications like that on a terminal server. People that need to use that type of application should be getting a fully functional workstation anyway. Sounds like what you need to do, is complain about/to your dumbass admin who made the mistake of putting those type of apps on a TS.
We're running one here, we didn't need a 100K server to run it well. Just a run of the mill tower server, not even 2K. As far as clients, we turned the existing 95 licenses we had and stacks of 200MHz doorstoppers into decent thin clients. If one of these ancient machines dies, it's 45 minutes of work, period, to get the user back up and running with no loss of data. That includes the time to load up another computer for the spares we keep on hand.
For your typical office worker, not doing CAD or Photoshop etc, you don't need a lot of processing power. We run 40 people on a cheap server and still have plenty of power left over. 10% of CPU being used with only occasional spikes to 40%.
Supporting the end users is incredibly easy now. Remote control their desktop and see exactly what they're doing wrong. Plus, they can't install anything to mess up their systems. AND, if we need to upgrade or add software, it's one install instead of 40 at various workstations in another building.
Mars has probably the best chance of developing a sustainable off Earth colony. The moon, while closer and thus easier to reach, has the problems of no atmosphere, limited water, and limited heavy elements. Mars, while light on atmosphere has the gravity and material to form and keep one.
From my reading of the article, it looks like he meant million in place of thousand. Which would be billions. That or he's thinking tens of thousands.
I think the BOFH had it right... be afraid of anyone that claims 40 years of computer experience. Anyone fancy some tales of the good ole days with punch cards?
Just put a hard copy of it in the casing. Then blame the delivery company if they complain about damage to the source.
As batteries are used, there's a chemical reaction. Right after the reaction there's a higher concentration of the end result of that reaction by the equivalent of the electrode. It takes time in most batteries for that material to disperse allowing more of the desired reactants to mix. Resting batteries is just giving time for the desired chemical to get to the reaction site.