A Library of Congress is generally believed to be 10 terabytes of printed ASCII text. However, I don't think anybody ever wrote anything on that ice sheet. A better comparison may be how many slurpees can be made from it.
So considering that it may be 20m thick and 20 sq km in size, while a slurpee is 500ml, then that would be about 80 million slurpees. Not even enough for everyone in North America...
Yah know, those cave men must have lit huge bon-fires to warm their caves and bring on the end of the last ice age 10,000 years ago... Maybe they all had Hummers...
There are many places Linux write stuff outside the home directory. However, the government mainly uses Windows, which is even worse, since it uses a swap file. Whole disk encryption on Windows has been used for many years in the military industry.
Hmm, your first problem will be finding a sufficient air supply to ram between Earth and Mars. That forward scoop may have to be a whole helluvalot bigger...:)
Maybe you have set your sights wrong. Go and hang out on the other side of town - the blue-collar side. You'll pretty quick find a nice, honest, hard working girl that will admire you, she won't have a friggen clue what you are talking about, but she'll listen kindly and if you treat her nice, she'll make a good and devoted wife, that will be very happy for having married up. Believe me, the last thing you want is an intellectual, rich-daddy, whining, miss-world, cugal, girlfriend - so go and look for the opposite...:)
Actually not that either. Jet lag is mainly due to loss of water. When flying, drink all non-alcoholic beverages available to you and you won't have jet lag. Even on el'cheapo flights, you should be able to get enough to drink to prevent it. Just my tuppence worth of experience in the air.
Algae, like any other bio-mass, is mostly water. I expect that drying the algae would be a huge problem. You can't feed soggy green slime directly into a power station - not if you want to keep the fire burning anyway...
Slackware, Redhat and Caldera. Hmm, I tend to find that people that are most impressed with Ubuntu, are those that haven't tried Mandriva. I have to agree though, that compared to Slackware or Redhat, Ubuntu is simply awsome.
I generally install whatever version happens to work properly on a given piece of old hardware - sometimes it is Ubuntu, sometimes Mandriva, sometimes Fedora. The better you know Linux, the more you realize that the distributions are all pertty much identical, except for the shiny stuff on top, but their hardware support may be slightly out of synch, so with a particular obstreperous piece of hardware, sometimes one works, sometimes another.
Hmm, you don't hear much about dependency hell anymore either, since we have had urpmi, yum and apt-get for many years.
I honestly don't think Linux will get onto many desktops in North America in this century, unless governments everywhere start to adopt it, as is happening in the rest of the world. However, that has nothing to do with ease of use - I have given a Linux PC to a blond masseuse and she is happy with it. The only downside is that she doesn't call me to fix her PC anymore...
How the hell does anyone compress a movie down to 10MB? A free trailer can be 10MB and downloading a free trailer isn't piracy, it is advertisement. Stupid idiots.
Hmm, I have seen numerous accidents happen in front of me (icy roads where I live). The weird thing is that even on an icy road, the cars somehow come to a dead stop almost instantaneously. I think that what happens is that the vehicles slew, causing the tires to follow a much longer path than the centre of gravity. The result is that anyone following, has severe difficulty stopping in time in a straight line and the only option for a following car, is to swerve off the road and aim for something soft - a dog, a baby carriage, a little old lady...
Why so negative? I have been using Linux almost exclusively since 1998. At the time, it was barely usable - just an experiment really. Nowadays, it can do everything I want. I only switch to Windows to check out the latest virus and bug fixes so I can maintain my client's computers.
I explain to clients that I don't use Windows, since nobody pays me to fix my computer all the time... One or two of them then asked for a Linux demo and were blown away that there is nothing to it - a total non-issue - it looks the same, it works the same. However, few consider switching, since to them, the risk of change in their business is simply not worth it.
The only way to get Linux into a business is gradually - one server or desktop at a time. Stress the advantage of diversity - only some machines will fail at the same time. A worm disaster will not bring the whole business to a halt again, only some part of it.
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A Library of Congress is generally believed to be 10 terabytes of printed ASCII text. However, I don't think anybody ever wrote anything on that ice sheet. A better comparison may be how many slurpees can be made from it. So considering that it may be 20m thick and 20 sq km in size, while a slurpee is 500ml, then that would be about 80 million slurpees. Not even enough for everyone in North America...
I guess the tax value of an ice shelf would be about 4 baby seal pelts.
Yah know, those cave men must have lit huge bon-fires to warm their caves and bring on the end of the last ice age 10,000 years ago... Maybe they all had Hummers...
I don't have a problem with global warming. The earth has been warming up for the last 10,000 years. Good thing too, else we would not have been here.
Sad, few people will understand what you said, but I agree.
Watch it brother - don't piss off Gaia - she is much older and stronger than you...
This anti-capitalist effort to destroy the flu vaccine industry must be stopped!
Huh? Any 3 button mouse with scroll wheel and whatever, works on Apple. Just buy a $10 mouse and plug it in.
I guess he finally realized how the capitalist system works.
Ads? What ads?
No ads to see here, please move along...
There are many places Linux write stuff outside the home directory. However, the government mainly uses Windows, which is even worse, since it uses a swap file. Whole disk encryption on Windows has been used for many years in the military industry.
Even the RIAA have seeded P2P networks with bogus files, so this can easily happen.
Hmm, your first problem will be finding a sufficient air supply to ram between Earth and Mars. That forward scoop may have to be a whole helluvalot bigger... :)
Hmm well, 150 years ago, the Hudson Bay Company owned most of North America and the East African Trade Company owned millions of people...
I tend to think that however bad, the situation today is a whole lot better.
Maybe you have set your sights wrong. Go and hang out on the other side of town - the blue-collar side. You'll pretty quick find a nice, honest, hard working girl that will admire you, she won't have a friggen clue what you are talking about, but she'll listen kindly and if you treat her nice, she'll make a good and devoted wife, that will be very happy for having married up. Believe me, the last thing you want is an intellectual, rich-daddy, whining, miss-world, cugal, girlfriend - so go and look for the opposite... :)
Actually not that either. Jet lag is mainly due to loss of water. When flying, drink all non-alcoholic beverages available to you and you won't have jet lag. Even on el'cheapo flights, you should be able to get enough to drink to prevent it. Just my tuppence worth of experience in the air.
Algae, like any other bio-mass, is mostly water. I expect that drying the algae would be a huge problem. You can't feed soggy green slime directly into a power station - not if you want to keep the fire burning anyway...
Slackware, Redhat and Caldera. Hmm, I tend to find that people that are most impressed with Ubuntu, are those that haven't tried Mandriva. I have to agree though, that compared to Slackware or Redhat, Ubuntu is simply awsome.
I generally install whatever version happens to work properly on a given piece of old hardware - sometimes it is Ubuntu, sometimes Mandriva, sometimes Fedora. The better you know Linux, the more you realize that the distributions are all pertty much identical, except for the shiny stuff on top, but their hardware support may be slightly out of synch, so with a particular obstreperous piece of hardware, sometimes one works, sometimes another.
Hmm, you don't hear much about dependency hell anymore either, since we have had urpmi, yum and apt-get for many years.
I honestly don't think Linux will get onto many desktops in North America in this century, unless governments everywhere start to adopt it, as is happening in the rest of the world. However, that has nothing to do with ease of use - I have given a Linux PC to a blond masseuse and she is happy with it. The only downside is that she doesn't call me to fix her PC anymore...
Yup, Windows is designed to avoid Karpal Tunnel Syndrome law-suits.
I tell that to beggars too (sorry, door to door canvassers) - it is so nice to watch the befuddled look on their faces.
To the street bible bashers, I wish my 'sincere condolences' - after all, their god died - must have been terrible shock...
How the hell does anyone compress a movie down to 10MB? A free trailer can be 10MB and downloading a free trailer isn't piracy, it is advertisement. Stupid idiots.
Of course, a funeral procession is very calm and orderly.
Hmm, I have seen numerous accidents happen in front of me (icy roads where I live). The weird thing is that even on an icy road, the cars somehow come to a dead stop almost instantaneously. I think that what happens is that the vehicles slew, causing the tires to follow a much longer path than the centre of gravity. The result is that anyone following, has severe difficulty stopping in time in a straight line and the only option for a following car, is to swerve off the road and aim for something soft - a dog, a baby carriage, a little old lady...
Why so negative? I have been using Linux almost exclusively since 1998. At the time, it was barely usable - just an experiment really. Nowadays, it can do everything I want. I only switch to Windows to check out the latest virus and bug fixes so I can maintain my client's computers. I explain to clients that I don't use Windows, since nobody pays me to fix my computer all the time... One or two of them then asked for a Linux demo and were blown away that there is nothing to it - a total non-issue - it looks the same, it works the same. However, few consider switching, since to them, the risk of change in their business is simply not worth it. The only way to get Linux into a business is gradually - one server or desktop at a time. Stress the advantage of diversity - only some machines will fail at the same time. A worm disaster will not bring the whole business to a halt again, only some part of it.