I attended a Caldera OpenLinux (hiss, boo) 2.0 demo years ago. The speaker relayed an anecdote from when he was at a seminar, and some guy in the back pronounced it "jiff" - which the speaker 'corrected' as a hard 'g'. The guy in the back responded "well, I invented the format, and I pronounce it 'jiff'."
I have 1... 2... 3... 8 computers just in the room I'm sitting in. I have three computers in the living room; two are in the kitchen. I use about 4-5 computers daily at work. Soo... shell out at least $50 for a biometric device for each one, rather than remember a password? How would biometrics work for a remote console session, which is an indispensible part of my job?
Biometrics are like the Dvorak keyboard layout - a fantastic idea for a small part of the populace. Unfortunately, unless a computer idea is a great idea for computer professionals, it won't fly.
I don't know if it was environmental lobbyists so much as a fearful public, but the general mood that 'nuclear plants are bad for the environment' definitely has had a negative impact on the environment. I actually studied nuclear fusion in grad school - and left precisely because my own analysis was that it was '30 years away, and always (would) be', and I didn't want to toil my life away pointlessly for 30 years, with the elusive carrot of a commercial fusion plant still on a 30-year-long stick when I retired.
But - one fact I remember learning is that a coal-burning plant releases more radioactivity into the atmosphere than a normally-operating fission plant, because of all the naturally-occurring uranium in coal that's released.
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I attended a Caldera OpenLinux (hiss, boo) 2.0 demo years ago. The speaker relayed an anecdote from when he was at a seminar, and some guy in the back pronounced it "jiff" - which the speaker 'corrected' as a hard 'g'. The guy in the back responded "well, I invented the format, and I pronounce it 'jiff'."
I have 1... 2... 3... 8 computers just in the room I'm sitting in. I have three computers in the living room; two are in the kitchen. I use about 4-5 computers daily at work. Soo... shell out at least $50 for a biometric device for each one, rather than remember a password? How would biometrics work for a remote console session, which is an indispensible part of my job?
Biometrics are like the Dvorak keyboard layout - a fantastic idea for a small part of the populace. Unfortunately, unless a computer idea is a great idea for computer professionals, it won't fly.
Sure the VC uploaded $8.75 million to BitTorrent, but he downloaded $4.25 million at the same time until his U/L ratio hit 150%.
I don't know if it was environmental lobbyists so much as a fearful public, but the general mood that 'nuclear plants are bad for the environment' definitely has had a negative impact on the environment. I actually studied nuclear fusion in grad school - and left precisely because my own analysis was that it was '30 years away, and always (would) be', and I didn't want to toil my life away pointlessly for 30 years, with the elusive carrot of a commercial fusion plant still on a 30-year-long stick when I retired.
But - one fact I remember learning is that a coal-burning plant releases more radioactivity into the atmosphere than a normally-operating fission plant, because of all the naturally-occurring uranium in coal that's released.