You forget that the majority of present day space vehicles are in fact built by private sector companies: Boeing, Lockheed-Martin, Arianne, Energia and so on. NASA doesn't have factories.
Disaster pundits switch their stories very easily. I am old enough to remember when everybody railed about global cooling (about 30 years ago). I guess it will make a comeback in another 30.
Repent! The Lord will smote all the unjust! The end of the world is nigh! Repent!
Irrefutable evidence of the Great Flood! Noah's Ark found! Noah's Ark!
The next ice age is coming! We are going to get glaciers over Europe, Asia and North America!
Global warming! The glaciers are melting! New Orleans is flooding!
Earth quakes! Tsunamis! We need deep ocean sensors to predict tsunamis!
Oil production has peaked! We gas prices are going through the roof! Plant corn for ethanol production now!
Ethanol production is raising food prices! People are starving! We are not producing enough food!
I actually read his article. Quite entertaining and it agrees 100% with my own weird thinking. At the end he implies that he is 82 years old!
Geez, I wish I can be that bright and sprightly one day when I get to be 72, nevermind 82.
I can't help but wonder whether these super machines are ever actually used to capacity. Since they are housed at universities I suspect that some professor runs two or three stupid little mental exercises on it and then it just sits there, glomps electricity and gathers dust.
Hmm, nope. Linux is only a tiny little part of a typical system. The largest part by far is GCC, which is arguably the most complex software project in the world. Therefore names like GNU/VxWorks, GNU/BSD and GNU/Linux are good names and give credit where it is due.
Ferinstance:
TITLE II--ENHANCED SURVEILLANCE PROCEDURES
Sec. 201. Authority to intercept wire, oral, and electronic communications relating to terrorism.
Sec. 202. Authority to intercept wire, oral, and electronic communications relating to computer fraud and abuse offenses.
Sec. 203. Authority to share criminal investigative information.
Sec. 204. Clarification of intelligence exceptions from limitations on interception and disclosure of wire, oral, and electronic communications.
Yada, yada...
Your government passed that act and it partially suspends your constitution - get used to it - it probably won't be lifted anytime soon.
I think that the Patriot Act is still in effect. This means that the USA is still operating under a limited State of Emergency. The situation is not 'normal' at all.
When confronted with a dilemma and you have a hard time to avoid both horns, go for the third option: You can toss sand in the bull's eyes.
Announce a server consolidation plan. Go virtual in a big way. Install VMware on Linux. Convert all your existing hardware servers into VMware virtual machines. Buy MS Server 2003, install some useless thing that management really wants on it and keep the important stuff on the LAMP machines. Just making MS 2003 virtual improves the management thereof enormously, since it becomes super easy to backup and restore and if you need more, just copy the image.
Which god indeed. The Judao-Christian god had huge hang-ups about how his people should not revere other gods - which really means that god admits that there were other gods (and if we assume that gods are immortal, then there still are other gods).
In gods we trust...
"My girlfriend pointed out that we've been analyzing for hydrogen based signals, because it's the easiest to produce, and we've found nothing." I think he is an alien and we just found him.
The other day someone asked for the original Visio drawing I used in a presentation - so I commented that I never had it, I did a screen capture and edited the drawing with The Gimp using PuTTY to a Linux box in the lab...
So stop moaning and install Mandriva. Mandriva has been around much longer than Ubuntu and is very slick. Or if you are a true masochist and want to moan even more, install Slackware. Slackware has been around forever and is still just as clunky as in the beginning. My point being that there is a Linux system for all levels of incompetence...
Hmm, you are just complaining out of habit I think. It is easy to screw things up if you try...
Documents look different if you use different fonts. If you install either the MS true type fonts, or the Redhat freedom fonts, then the formatting issues go away. Excel macros can be a problem for some people, in which case Gnumeric is a better option. These points are well known to anybody who cares.
Not quite true - every individual who switches to Windows, reduces the support costs in that organization a little bit. This is a benefit even if the licensing costs are still the same.
Actually a metal vote token is not a bad idea, since to tally the vote, all you need to do is weigh the box, but I guess that is way too simple and will never fly, since how the hell is one then going to game the system?
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You forget that the majority of present day space vehicles are in fact built by private sector companies: Boeing, Lockheed-Martin, Arianne, Energia and so on. NASA doesn't have factories.
Disaster pundits switch their stories very easily. I am old enough to remember when everybody railed about global cooling (about 30 years ago). I guess it will make a comeback in another 30.
Repent! The Lord will smote all the unjust! The end of the world is nigh! Repent!
Irrefutable evidence of the Great Flood! Noah's Ark found! Noah's Ark!
The next ice age is coming! We are going to get glaciers over Europe, Asia and North America!
Global warming! The glaciers are melting! New Orleans is flooding!
Earth quakes! Tsunamis! We need deep ocean sensors to predict tsunamis!
Oil production has peaked! We gas prices are going through the roof! Plant corn for ethanol production now!
Ethanol production is raising food prices! People are starving! We are not producing enough food!
Uhmm, sorry, could not resist it...
I actually read his article. Quite entertaining and it agrees 100% with my own weird thinking. At the end he implies that he is 82 years old! Geez, I wish I can be that bright and sprightly one day when I get to be 72, nevermind 82.
I think their counting frame has a cracked bead...
I can't help but wonder whether these super machines are ever actually used to capacity. Since they are housed at universities I suspect that some professor runs two or three stupid little mental exercises on it and then it just sits there, glomps electricity and gathers dust.
Is it really extortion when the extorter pays off the extortee?
Hmm, nope. Linux is only a tiny little part of a typical system. The largest part by far is GCC, which is arguably the most complex software project in the world. Therefore names like GNU/VxWorks, GNU/BSD and GNU/Linux are good names and give credit where it is due.
"were there any human few billion years ago?"
No, and now you know why not - the bacteria killed them...
Ferinstance: TITLE II--ENHANCED SURVEILLANCE PROCEDURES Sec. 201. Authority to intercept wire, oral, and electronic communications relating to terrorism. Sec. 202. Authority to intercept wire, oral, and electronic communications relating to computer fraud and abuse offenses. Sec. 203. Authority to share criminal investigative information. Sec. 204. Clarification of intelligence exceptions from limitations on interception and disclosure of wire, oral, and electronic communications. Yada, yada... Your government passed that act and it partially suspends your constitution - get used to it - it probably won't be lifted anytime soon.
I think that the Patriot Act is still in effect. This means that the USA is still operating under a limited State of Emergency. The situation is not 'normal' at all.
Automatic welding goggles would be a good shield.
Yup, it seems that both Lenovo and Dell saw the light. People are buying laptops and are tired of dealing with crappy software all the time.
once we have extracted all the heat!
When confronted with a dilemma and you have a hard time to avoid both horns, go for the third option: You can toss sand in the bull's eyes. Announce a server consolidation plan. Go virtual in a big way. Install VMware on Linux. Convert all your existing hardware servers into VMware virtual machines. Buy MS Server 2003, install some useless thing that management really wants on it and keep the important stuff on the LAMP machines. Just making MS 2003 virtual improves the management thereof enormously, since it becomes super easy to backup and restore and if you need more, just copy the image.
Which god indeed. The Judao-Christian god had huge hang-ups about how his people should not revere other gods - which really means that god admits that there were other gods (and if we assume that gods are immortal, then there still are other gods). In gods we trust...
"My girlfriend pointed out that we've been analyzing for hydrogen based signals, because it's the easiest to produce, and we've found nothing."
I think he is an alien and we just found him.
One down, many to go!
The other day someone asked for the original Visio drawing I used in a presentation - so I commented that I never had it, I did a screen capture and edited the drawing with The Gimp using PuTTY to a Linux box in the lab...
In my experience, Evolution works better with Exchange, than Outlook works with Exchange.
So stop moaning and install Mandriva. Mandriva has been around much longer than Ubuntu and is very slick. Or if you are a true masochist and want to moan even more, install Slackware. Slackware has been around forever and is still just as clunky as in the beginning. My point being that there is a Linux system for all levels of incompetence...
Firefox runs Exchange webmail pretty good too.
Sigh - Install the Redhat freedom fonts, or the MS true type fonts. Obvious, isn't it?
Hmm, you are just complaining out of habit I think. It is easy to screw things up if you try...
Documents look different if you use different fonts. If you install either the MS true type fonts, or the Redhat freedom fonts, then the formatting issues go away. Excel macros can be a problem for some people, in which case Gnumeric is a better option. These points are well known to anybody who cares.
Not quite true - every individual who switches to Windows, reduces the support costs in that organization a little bit. This is a benefit even if the licensing costs are still the same.
Worse - almost any Point of Sale system can be configured to tally votes. Gawd knows why they all go and design special hardware.
Actually a metal vote token is not a bad idea, since to tally the vote, all you need to do is weigh the box, but I guess that is way too simple and will never fly, since how the hell is one then going to game the system?