Myth has it that in the days of Hollerith cards, a sort routine was important, even critical, to smooth operations.
Dropping a tray of program cards would ruin your month. Sorting them by step# saved your month.
I suspect these routines would be the oldest stuff still running. Most good sort methods were probably worked out pretty quiclly, given the scarce machine resources.
"It's funny that to fix Microsoft Windows, it's faster to just wipe and re-install from scratch rather than try to fix the issue."
Have you read some of the news reports about foreclosed home being stripped of plumbing, wiring, appliances, fixtures, even doors and windows? Some (many?) of these are proving to be cheaper to just rip it down and build new when the market comes back. Maybe even cheaper than waiting for someone to start up a meth lab and blow the whole thing to toothpicks.
It's *usually* faster and easier to rebuild a Windows XP/2K machine than to fix any of so many nasty malware infestations. And '9x/ME machines need to be removed from the 'Net and recycled. Ask Microsoft. BTW, tag that admission *honest*. A rarity for Microsoft, and typical that they would exercise it in an admission of OS security failure.
But that's just the way it is. I started spending my anti-malware research time optimizing data recovery and reinstallation, rather than disinfection. So much more effective to nuke the site from orbit.
They mostly have 10MB interfaces? Then 10mb/s =600mb/m =36000mb/hr =4500MBytes/hr?
=108000MBytes/day?
Ok, this is Ethernet. Derate x.6 for CSMA/CD (I know it's switched. Don't believe you can get 100% utilization on a switched line). And do we get 64.8GBytes/day?
Wow. Let me do this again:
10mb/sec x.0 =6mb/sec =360mb/min =21600mb/hr = 2.16GByte/hr? (Byte = 8 bits?) For those of you scoring at home, this about half the speed of a streaming DDS-3 tape drive, probably LVD, with compression.
Crap, I can't add any more. Maybe if we approach this differently?
250GB/mo = 8.33GB/day. Somwhere I read that a Blu-Ray single-layer disc is 25GB. If we assume that a typical BR movei will take half the disc (not supported by evidence) then we need 12GB to dump a movie. We can dump about 20 movies a month and still have some cap room left to play Halo.
But the math escapes me. If my cable modem is indeed 10MB, now much fracking data can I pump through it 24x7?
I thought this would be easy. Needless to say, I am not a rocket scientist.
Of course, if DOCSIS 2.0 is the system, it's limited to 30MB/s. Go look up the specs yersef. So I can't get more than 30mb no matter, and that's the limit. megaBIT. Math. Crap.
Sheesh. It really is funny in a way. Which reminds me, I wonder if my absent-minded co-admin bothered to lock the door to the server shack last time he was in. Oh damn. Gotta go.
Your analogy is much like property law in Maine. The public is entitled to access to the public parts of beaches - the part between low tide and high tide. And they are entitled to have a right-of-way to get to those beaches without undue burden or unreasonable conditions, like having to walk 3 miles or step only on stones 7 feet apart.
So, in the Wells Beach area, the public tramps down to the beach through properties they couldn't possibly afford, even if the owners were interested in selling.
The owner's complaints? Minimal. Mountains (literally) of trash during the summer months, dumped by the public. People peeing on their lawns, gardens, porch siding rather than walk up to the porta-potties. Let's not consider the behavior of the public on the beach. For many property owners, it's an insult.
I can see Verizon wanting to modify the rules, and make the C-Block into their playground, and I can see the 'public' (really Google looking for a way to preserve their access to income) wanting to keep 'access' to a precious resource. No doubt it will be strewn with trash, from spam and every sort of malware imaginable to MySpace or worse devised just to take advantage of the wireless market. And Google isn't at all altruistic about this.
But those people in Wells Beach who dearly love their oceanfront homes know that the price is putting up with the 'public'. They whine, and go to court or the Town Council from time to time, but in the end they dare not move. It's too beautiful. It's worth it.
Let's hold Verizon to the deal they signed. In the end, I bet they find it's worth it.
Folsom, CA Santa Clara, CA Hudson, MA Rio Rancho, NM Hillsboro, OR Dupont, WA Irvine, CA Fort Collins, CO Raleigh, NC Parsippany, NJ Columbia, SC Austin, TX Riverton, UT Chantilly, VA
AMD uses Fabs in Germany, which is much friendlier to us than China. Ireland ditto, which has at least one Intel fab, and Israel, whose Intel facility you can thank for the Core Duo revolution and the death of NetBurst.
I live in Arizona, and there are plenty of fabs down here, not just Intel. Microchip and Freescale for instance.
And frankly, I prefer Taiwan and Japan as manufacturers to Singapore, Malaysia, or of course China. Inda I consider more neutral but genuinely friendlier than the Chinese.
If we don't move to build some manufacturing in the U.S. for PC components, we need to choose our strategic partners more carefully. Taiwan, South Korea, Japan are better choices than China or most of the of the Pacific Rim.
The article points out something hopeful to me - that DARPA is looking at this and preparing to prove to the military that they are in peril. Not a moment too soon. Consider counterfeit Cisco gear as a warning.
Many (all?) hardware vendors have proprietary designs. Darn. nVidia and ATI/AMD might sport over open source drivers and be happy about it, but Broadcom has a long history of not wanting to open-source their firmware. They consider it a competitive advantage, apparently, and too precious to give away.
I hear Broadcom WiFi hardware is becoming less and less popular these days. A lesson being learned?
Still, if the hardware vendor wants to protect their IP, sometimes this will collide with the desire for OSS drivers. the marketplace may speak. Certainly Dell can excercise some clout and spec OSS-friendly hardware. There should be alternatives.
This has probably been possible since XP SP2, if not shortly thereafter.
And suspect that at some point the 'police' will 'accidentally' or 'inadvertantly' leak this to the outside, and woops, there it is...
The only unanswered questions are:
- Is this 'feature' part of foreign language versions? I expect these governments will be interested in this feature...
- What other government agencies will have access to this tool, and under what circumstances?
Well, we can be pwned with a warrant, want, or secret finding.
Again, as if we didn't know this was possible. So much for secrecy in Windows. Get yer Ubuntu running, gang, and your PGPDisk. I recommend the full disk encryption option as best.
Well, my 7105t runs a few handy applications that I like:
- Google Mobile Maps 2.x,which BTW sucks bigtime. My Location has improved nothing, but I digress.
- MidpSSH, a clever and useful SSH client. I can work with my Fedora box quite nicely, though it does have its drawbacks. Much better than nothing!
- Gmail. Almost as cool as push mail. In fact, I may ditch BlackBerry and use Gmail as a semi-push client. It runs background and pulls mail as it appears.
- Texas Hold'em King II, which isn't oficially on my BlackBerry of course.
Apps do exist, though most are Java apps.
Now, the iPhone will have lotsa apps. How many will be business-centered? A push/pull email client, reasonable mobile mapping app, and VPN, as many point out. The challenge will be for Apple to accomodate the secure corporate server attachment.
Most importantly, however, is making deals with carriers, cause carriers LOVE BlackBerry business. Less churn, less pressure on pricing, and less trouble, since the email servers for a BES subscriber aren't even the carriers!
The iPhone will need to do things either like the BlackBerry (patent smackdown guaranteed) or similar enough to be indistinguishable.
If I'm RIM, all I want to do is deploy a touchscreen model and add features. And be prepared to defend patents.
Oh, and be sure RIM is part of the NYCWiN. Important market, proof of concept, model for other cities, etc.
The FBI wants to be able to use NSA (or other agency, possibly agencies without authority to operate within the USA) data to mine for crimimal activity.
It's laudable to be searching for criminal activity and all, but...
The FBI Should NOT be allowed to use NSA or CIA data without either controls or specific authority.
The NSA primarily operates outside of the USA. It should not be encouraged to collect data that is exclusively US - to - US data.
More ditto the CIA. It should not be operating in the US, with vevy specific exceptions. data they might be collecting should be shared with the FIB within the existing laws and restrictions, which while it will impede some investigations, does protect us from having the CIA used at arms-length to spy on us for another agency.
This is worse than most commentors seem point out, at least to me. Letting the FBI use other agencies' data should be limited to those agencies' permitted uses and sources. If it's foreign data, should the FBI have it? Not sure. The CIA? While the Clinton administration pretty much ended this practice, we shouldn't let this happen without serious consideration and of course approval.
And the likelihood that this could just be an end run around the lack of subpoenas or court orders...
Ditto. I RTFA and then the writeup. The FBI wants to tap the data, or mine it. Filtering would be even worse, but is apprarently not being asked for...
And I'm not sure that they should have a blanket tap, unless they can get a FISA or court warrant.
Can't tell if it's an ST225 or ST250R or ST251 or even an ST 251-1, my favorite of that era.
But it ain't a 506. My old boss had a 506 and an ST312 on his desk. I told him they were collector's items in 1994. Well, anyways.
Remember the old MFM interface was called the '506/412' interface? Remember bad sector maps? Delivering new PCs to customers and running HDTest to see how many sectors went bad during the car trip and the potholes? never carrying a spare drive cause it would either die after a few thousand miles in the trunk, or cause it was frozen during another Maine winter? Remember stiction? The first ATA drives? Fastback Plus? never having the right drive opening panel for the new drive? The great whine of bearings going bad? Starting every day wondering whose drive didn't start, and whacking your machine to kickstart the drive motor cause you were too cheap to replace it?
Ah, those were the days... Now it's just spam and phishing exploits, and trying to keep your Wikipedia page up to date. We got it too easy.
"That's the same false argument that says the world will starve if we can grow biofuels on cropland."
Not a false argument. Already happening. Well, the 'world' won't starve. The poor will suffer more than they would have otherwise, I think. Hard to tell, since the poor always suffer.
The U.S. has the lowest wheat reserves in recent memory, maybe ever. Corn is the newly favored crop, selling for ethanol production. Oil prices don't help food costs, but the shift in crops is having an imapct already.
"Being able to choose an appropriate ratio of fuel:food or fuel:park is a good thing."
Usually, this choice is made with money. The affluent win, the destitute lose. When the third-world develops a bigger appetite and wallet for meat, then corn will be used to raise cattle etc. As it is already. Wanting corn for fuel adds to the pressure. Even rice is becoming a problem, as land is lost to industrialization in Asia and workers leave for the factories.
"It may mean that we have to, as a society, assign a dollar value to park land and consciously give up that much fuel production, but farming provides the same threat and we still have national parks."
Farming in the U.S. has faced loss of area for decades, and is responding with more fertilizers/pesticides, more intense management, and more mechanization. eg More Oil.
When we can make affordable fuel out of trash, garbage, and untreated sewage, then trash, garbage, and untreated sewage will nearly immediately be in short supply. Cost of the raw material will increase, and make the finished product less affordable.
Pretty soon after that, we will cut down perfectly good trees for no other reason than to make liquid fuels. Darn. There goes the forest. And the parks, etc. Not so good.
It's just not that easy. But it's attractive, and will keep us until we can do the electric car thing and do away with liquid fuels altogether.
Interoperating with other clients just leads to other software on your client machines, stuff like OS X, or Linux for instance. Not good for Windows sales. Not to mention that you would have to disclose all the nastiness of the protocols to 'let' them work. Not good.
Not to mention also that you could well be enhancing other server OS makers' market share, say, for instance you were willing to let the Novell Client for Windows actually work properly with your Windows servers. This would just those crazy kids over at Novell to keep at it, improving NetWare and making Windows look less good than it could look.
And interoperating with other servers? Bah! (wiggle your paw here for effect.) Why on earth do you want any other server OS to even *appear* useful? It shouldn't be interoperating with your Windows servers, forsooth! They'll get the idea that other servers are even possible, and customers will start using other servers for special purposes, you know, like print spooling, or simple file sharing, e-mail, web serving, database hosting, even authentication. Why, Windows servers wouldn't even be necessary then...
This was pretty much settled in the 90s. Windows took many opportunities to drive stakes in the hearts of every server OS competitor out there, by breaking their own protocols, not disclosing the accurate APIs of networking with Windows, sometimes even making claims about how some servers 'couldn't' work with Windows.
And you only need to patent the 20% (maybe just 5%) of the core protocols to deny the world any useful interoperability. You know some Windows Server marketing type was lying awake at night knowing how many Server 2000 machines were out there in 'mixed mode', letting all manner of competitors co-exist happily. Arghh!!!
You're not stupid today, just a litle naive. You're not alone, and it doesn't cost too much more to be that way when it comes to servers. I sense you are coming to your senses, a veil is being lifted...:-)
Now I have justification for my long-standing choices:
- Fedora or CentOS on my servers
- Ubuntu or Debian on my token open-source desktop
- Suse when I'm bored with the routine
Feh. Desktop Linux is hard. Even those who seem committed to it have a really hard time.
ps - Dare I slap Hardy on my old Mitac 6120N, ACPI bug and all? It's gotten a little flaky with XP. Maybe time to rick it all... If only it would run my 3CRWE154G72... Naww, that is way too old. Can I get it running with my Zyxel G120? Newer... Ack, I hate this. Desktop Linux is too hard.
And did they fix the ACPI bugs, leaving at least Dell notebook users with without suspend?
Oh, and WiFi support for mainstream cards, without screwing around? No, wait, that's not fair, 'cause the haredware manufacturers are such &$*hats as to want be paid for their SDKs...
And it's ready to do battle with Windows for the hearts and minds of desktop users, just leave the notebooks out of it...
Mine too. I'm too busy to test Heron. Lemme know when they fix these notebook issues, k?
Looks like I gotta change my job site profile. 'CEO' isn't that hard a job to fake, apprently. At least I won't be as easily phished as the current spawn.
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Myth has it that in the days of Hollerith cards, a sort routine was important, even critical, to smooth operations.
Dropping a tray of program cards would ruin your month. Sorting them by step# saved your month.
I suspect these routines would be the oldest stuff still running. Most good sort methods were probably worked out pretty quiclly, given the scarce machine resources.
???
"It's funny that to fix Microsoft Windows, it's faster to just wipe and re-install from scratch rather than try to fix the issue."
Have you read some of the news reports about foreclosed home being stripped of plumbing, wiring, appliances, fixtures, even doors and windows? Some (many?) of these are proving to be cheaper to just rip it down and build new when the market comes back. Maybe even cheaper than waiting for someone to start up a meth lab and blow the whole thing to toothpicks.
It's *usually* faster and easier to rebuild a Windows XP/2K machine than to fix any of so many nasty malware infestations. And '9x/ME machines need to be removed from the 'Net and recycled. Ask Microsoft. BTW, tag that admission *honest*. A rarity for Microsoft, and typical that they would exercise it in an admission of OS security failure.
But that's just the way it is. I started spending my anti-malware research time optimizing data recovery and reinstallation, rather than disinfection. So much more effective to nuke the site from orbit.
I want your cable modem. Give.
What can traverse the iMac/MacBook/iPhone/iPod Touch universe?
music.
e-Mail.
Web.
video.
Games.
Any two of the above would combine to maske a nice product.
Any three of the above make a great market.
Any four make a blockbuster.
Remember when hearing that Microsoft was 'getting into' your business meant certain death, dismemberment, or pain?
Fear Apple.
You heard it elsewhere. It's true.
Coming up next; Google as Evil. Real Soon Now.
Comcast has cable modems, right?
They mostly have 10MB interfaces? Then 10mb/s =600mb/m =36000mb/hr =4500MBytes/hr?
=108000MBytes/day?
Ok, this is Ethernet. Derate x.6 for CSMA/CD (I know it's switched. Don't believe you can get 100% utilization on a switched line). And do we get 64.8GBytes/day?
Wow. Let me do this again:
10mb/sec x.0 =6mb/sec =360mb/min =21600mb/hr = 2.16GByte/hr? (Byte = 8 bits?) For those of you scoring at home, this about half the speed of a streaming DDS-3 tape drive, probably LVD, with compression.
Crap, I can't add any more. Maybe if we approach this differently?
250GB/mo = 8.33GB/day. Somwhere I read that a Blu-Ray single-layer disc is 25GB. If we assume that a typical BR movei will take half the disc (not supported by evidence) then we need 12GB to dump a movie. We can dump about 20 movies a month and still have some cap room left to play Halo.
But the math escapes me. If my cable modem is indeed 10MB, now much fracking data can I pump through it 24x7?
I thought this would be easy. Needless to say, I am not a rocket scientist.
Of course, if DOCSIS 2.0 is the system, it's limited to 30MB/s. Go look up the specs yersef. So I can't get more than 30mb no matter, and that's the limit. megaBIT. Math. Crap.
Move over...
bahahaha... BAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!
*snicker*
Sheesh. It really is funny in a way. Which reminds me, I wonder if my absent-minded co-admin bothered to lock the door to the server shack last time he was in. Oh damn. Gotta go.
Your analogy is much like property law in Maine. The public is entitled to access to the public parts of beaches - the part between low tide and high tide. And they are entitled to have a right-of-way to get to those beaches without undue burden or unreasonable conditions, like having to walk 3 miles or step only on stones 7 feet apart.
So, in the Wells Beach area, the public tramps down to the beach through properties they couldn't possibly afford, even if the owners were interested in selling.
The owner's complaints? Minimal. Mountains (literally) of trash during the summer months, dumped by the public. People peeing on their lawns, gardens, porch siding rather than walk up to the porta-potties. Let's not consider the behavior of the public on the beach. For many property owners, it's an insult.
I can see Verizon wanting to modify the rules, and make the C-Block into their playground, and I can see the 'public' (really Google looking for a way to preserve their access to income) wanting to keep 'access' to a precious resource. No doubt it will be strewn with trash, from spam and every sort of malware imaginable to MySpace or worse devised just to take advantage of the wireless market. And Google isn't at all altruistic about this.
But those people in Wells Beach who dearly love their oceanfront homes know that the price is putting up with the 'public'. They whine, and go to court or the Town Council from time to time, but in the end they dare not move. It's too beautiful. It's worth it.
Let's hold Verizon to the deal they signed. In the end, I bet they find it's worth it.
True. Sticky netting would make a mess of things, just hang some over the streets.
I bet even a few well=placed fans would give some of these little things the willies.
Do you suppose a decent spark-gap transmitter would would fry these little bugs like mosquitos on a bug-zapper?
I can think of a few evil ways to hose up these little nuisances. Many ways to jam their transmissions, being so low-power, and even more to EMP them.
Nothing that wouldn't run for an hour or so on some D-cells, and a few days on an old worn-out car battery.
I, for one, welcome our insectoid-surveillance wannbe overlords. Bring it on, six-legs!
"I'd really like to see intel/amd move operations back to the states just for this reason"
You mean like this or this or their sites in
Folsom, CA
Santa Clara, CA
Hudson, MA
Rio Rancho, NM
Hillsboro, OR
Dupont, WA
Irvine, CA
Fort Collins, CO
Raleigh, NC
Parsippany, NJ
Columbia, SC
Austin, TX
Riverton, UT
Chantilly, VA
AMD uses Fabs in Germany, which is much friendlier to us than China. Ireland ditto, which has at least one Intel fab, and Israel, whose Intel facility you can thank for the Core Duo revolution and the death of NetBurst.
I live in Arizona, and there are plenty of fabs down here, not just Intel. Microchip and Freescale for instance.
And frankly, I prefer Taiwan and Japan as manufacturers to Singapore, Malaysia, or of course China. Inda I consider more neutral but genuinely friendlier than the Chinese.
If we don't move to build some manufacturing in the U.S. for PC components, we need to choose our strategic partners more carefully. Taiwan, South Korea, Japan are better choices than China or most of the of the Pacific Rim.
The article points out something hopeful to me - that DARPA is looking at this and preparing to prove to the military that they are in peril. Not a moment too soon. Consider counterfeit Cisco gear as a warning.
Does it matter? They can close their firmware, and open-source driver development is defeated for that hardware.
Good luck with that.
Many (all?) hardware vendors have proprietary designs. Darn. nVidia and ATI/AMD might sport over open source drivers and be happy about it, but Broadcom has a long history of not wanting to open-source their firmware. They consider it a competitive advantage, apparently, and too precious to give away.
I hear Broadcom WiFi hardware is becoming less and less popular these days. A lesson being learned?
Still, if the hardware vendor wants to protect their IP, sometimes this will collide with the desire for OSS drivers. the marketplace may speak. Certainly Dell can excercise some clout and spec OSS-friendly hardware. There should be alternatives.
Yeah, we'll see.
This has probably been possible since XP SP2, if not shortly thereafter.
And suspect that at some point the 'police' will 'accidentally' or 'inadvertantly' leak this to the outside, and woops, there it is...
The only unanswered questions are:
- Is this 'feature' part of foreign language versions? I expect these governments will be interested in this feature...
- What other government agencies will have access to this tool, and under what circumstances?
Well, we can be pwned with a warrant, want, or secret finding.
Again, as if we didn't know this was possible. So much for secrecy in Windows. Get yer Ubuntu running, gang, and your PGPDisk. I recommend the full disk encryption option as best.
Well, my 7105t runs a few handy applications that I like:
- Google Mobile Maps 2.x,which BTW sucks bigtime. My Location has improved nothing, but I digress.
- MidpSSH, a clever and useful SSH client. I can work with my Fedora box quite nicely, though it does have its drawbacks. Much better than nothing!
- Gmail. Almost as cool as push mail. In fact, I may ditch BlackBerry and use Gmail as a semi-push client. It runs background and pulls mail as it appears.
- Texas Hold'em King II, which isn't oficially on my BlackBerry of course.
Apps do exist, though most are Java apps.
Now, the iPhone will have lotsa apps. How many will be business-centered? A push/pull email client, reasonable mobile mapping app, and VPN, as many point out. The challenge will be for Apple to accomodate the secure corporate server attachment.
Most importantly, however, is making deals with carriers, cause carriers LOVE BlackBerry business. Less churn, less pressure on pricing, and less trouble, since the email servers for a BES subscriber aren't even the carriers!
The iPhone will need to do things either like the BlackBerry (patent smackdown guaranteed) or similar enough to be indistinguishable.
If I'm RIM, all I want to do is deploy a touchscreen model and add features. And be prepared to defend patents.
Oh, and be sure RIM is part of the NYCWiN. Important market, proof of concept, model for other cities, etc.
The FBI wants to be able to use NSA (or other agency, possibly agencies without authority to operate within the USA) data to mine for crimimal activity.
It's laudable to be searching for criminal activity and all, but...
The FBI Should NOT be allowed to use NSA or CIA data without either controls or specific authority.
The NSA primarily operates outside of the USA. It should not be encouraged to collect data that is exclusively US - to - US data.
More ditto the CIA. It should not be operating in the US, with vevy specific exceptions. data they might be collecting should be shared with the FIB within the existing laws and restrictions, which while it will impede some investigations, does protect us from having the CIA used at arms-length to spy on us for another agency.
This is worse than most commentors seem point out, at least to me. Letting the FBI use other agencies' data should be limited to those agencies' permitted uses and sources. If it's foreign data, should the FBI have it? Not sure. The CIA? While the Clinton administration pretty much ended this practice, we shouldn't let this happen without serious consideration and of course approval.
And the likelihood that this could just be an end run around the lack of subpoenas or court orders...
Ditto. I RTFA and then the writeup. The FBI wants to tap the data, or mine it. Filtering would be even worse, but is apprarently not being asked for...
And I'm not sure that they should have a blanket tap, unless they can get a FISA or court warrant.
Hopefully. not. ever.
Can't tell if it's an ST225 or ST250R or ST251 or even an ST 251-1, my favorite of that era.
But it ain't a 506. My old boss had a 506 and an ST312 on his desk. I told him they were collector's items in 1994. Well, anyways.
Remember the old MFM interface was called the '506/412' interface? Remember bad sector maps? Delivering new PCs to customers and running HDTest to see how many sectors went bad during the car trip and the potholes? never carrying a spare drive cause it would either die after a few thousand miles in the trunk, or cause it was frozen during another Maine winter? Remember stiction? The first ATA drives? Fastback Plus? never having the right drive opening panel for the new drive? The great whine of bearings going bad? Starting every day wondering whose drive didn't start, and whacking your machine to kickstart the drive motor cause you were too cheap to replace it?
Ah, those were the days... Now it's just spam and phishing exploits, and trying to keep your Wikipedia page up to date. We got it too easy.
"That's the same false argument that says the world will starve if we can grow biofuels on cropland."
Not a false argument. Already happening. Well, the 'world' won't starve. The poor will suffer more than they would have otherwise, I think. Hard to tell, since the poor always suffer.
The U.S. has the lowest wheat reserves in recent memory, maybe ever. Corn is the newly favored crop, selling for ethanol production. Oil prices don't help food costs, but the shift in crops is having an imapct already.
"Being able to choose an appropriate ratio of fuel:food or fuel:park is a good thing."
Usually, this choice is made with money. The affluent win, the destitute lose. When the third-world develops a bigger appetite and wallet for meat, then corn will be used to raise cattle etc. As it is already. Wanting corn for fuel adds to the pressure. Even rice is becoming a problem, as land is lost to industrialization in Asia and workers leave for the factories.
"It may mean that we have to, as a society, assign a dollar value to park land and consciously give up that much fuel production, but farming provides the same threat and we still have national parks."
Farming in the U.S. has faced loss of area for decades, and is responding with more fertilizers/pesticides, more intense management, and more mechanization. eg More Oil.
When we can make affordable fuel out of trash, garbage, and untreated sewage, then trash, garbage, and untreated sewage will nearly immediately be in short supply. Cost of the raw material will increase, and make the finished product less affordable.
Pretty soon after that, we will cut down perfectly good trees for no other reason than to make liquid fuels. Darn. There goes the forest. And the parks, etc. Not so good.
It's just not that easy. But it's attractive, and will keep us until we can do the electric car thing and do away with liquid fuels altogether.
Maybe.
You don't have to expand this to an imaginary overarching denial of our rights - that may happen despite this particular issue.
Expanding the argument to absurdity doesn't always work. Stick to the facts, they are bad enough.
sheesh. Get a grip. And get the pr0n off your servers, just in case.
Now, why would you want to do THAT?
:-)
Interoperating with other clients just leads to other software on your client machines, stuff like OS X, or Linux for instance. Not good for Windows sales. Not to mention that you would have to disclose all the nastiness of the protocols to 'let' them work. Not good.
Not to mention also that you could well be enhancing other server OS makers' market share, say, for instance you were willing to let the Novell Client for Windows actually work properly with your Windows servers. This would just those crazy kids over at Novell to keep at it, improving NetWare and making Windows look less good than it could look.
And interoperating with other servers? Bah! (wiggle your paw here for effect.) Why on earth do you want any other server OS to even *appear* useful? It shouldn't be interoperating with your Windows servers, forsooth! They'll get the idea that other servers are even possible, and customers will start using other servers for special purposes, you know, like print spooling, or simple file sharing, e-mail, web serving, database hosting, even authentication. Why, Windows servers wouldn't even be necessary then...
This was pretty much settled in the 90s. Windows took many opportunities to drive stakes in the hearts of every server OS competitor out there, by breaking their own protocols, not disclosing the accurate APIs of networking with Windows, sometimes even making claims about how some servers 'couldn't' work with Windows.
And you only need to patent the 20% (maybe just 5%) of the core protocols to deny the world any useful interoperability. You know some Windows Server marketing type was lying awake at night knowing how many Server 2000 machines were out there in 'mixed mode', letting all manner of competitors co-exist happily. Arghh!!!
You're not stupid today, just a litle naive. You're not alone, and it doesn't cost too much more to be that way when it comes to servers. I sense you are coming to your senses, a veil is being lifted...
Now I have justification for my long-standing choices:
- Fedora or CentOS on my servers
- Ubuntu or Debian on my token open-source desktop
- Suse when I'm bored with the routine
Feh. Desktop Linux is hard. Even those who seem committed to it have a really hard time.
ps - Dare I slap Hardy on my old Mitac 6120N, ACPI bug and all? It's gotten a little flaky with XP. Maybe time to rick it all... If only it would run my 3CRWE154G72... Naww, that is way too old. Can I get it running with my Zyxel G120? Newer... Ack, I hate this. Desktop Linux is too hard.
Actually I can use The GIMP to resize, though... if the aspect ratio isn't the same, you have to crop...
And The GIMP might run UNDER Windows. So it can be done. Just not in one stroke.
And did they fix the ACPI bugs, leaving at least Dell notebook users with without suspend?
Oh, and WiFi support for mainstream cards, without screwing around? No, wait, that's not fair, 'cause the haredware manufacturers are such &$*hats as to want be paid for their SDKs...
And it's ready to do battle with Windows for the hearts and minds of desktop users, just leave the notebooks out of it...
Mine too. I'm too busy to test Heron. Lemme know when they fix these notebook issues, k?
I'm not that dumb. sheesh.
Looks like I gotta change my job site profile. 'CEO' isn't that hard a job to fake, apprently. At least I won't be as easily phished as the current spawn.