NX just absolutely rocks! I have all my developers (usually no more than 6 at a time) using Gnome desktops over a WAN link with no appreciable impact on bandwidth. We use the "adsl" setting and it's like running X on the local LAN. The responsiveness and image quality are superb. Apart from some Windows to NX clipboard issues, I have few complaints. I'm using the freeNX server with the free windows clients from nomachine.
Cliff Burton was nowhere near alive when they recorded...And Justice For All, which I consider to be their best album. It was the peak before Black sent them diving off a cliff.
I read the title, and for a very brief moment thought I was going to see someone take a Mossberg pump shotgun to a MacBook Air. That would have been sweet!
But how much choice do consumers really have? Most can only chose from one or two providers. Hard to punish them in the marketplace with those realities.
Your Messiah will do none of what you claim. In fact, nobody really knows WHAT he will do. Other than offer vague "Change" and "Hope".
Please tell me how he is going to achieve this.
Look, corn isn't the most efficient method of producing ethanol by a long shot. But that it takes more energy to produce simply isn't true.
This used to be true when talking about old inefficient ethanol plants. Today's corn ethanol production sees a net gain in energy. It's roughly a 1:1.3 ratio of BTUs in to BTUs out. These are well substantiated and accepted numbers. That paper put out by Berkley that everyone uses to spout that old myth wasn't accurate. It made a lot of assumptions to the low end of crop production, and efficiency, but high assumptions for fossil fuel based fertilizers and diesel farm equipment. It was set up to make corn ethanol look worse than it was, and quickly moved towards an anti agribusiness bias.
I realize that 1:1.3 is barely more, but consider that the goal isn't so much to remove our dependence on fossil fuels, but foreign oil. Natual gas and coal are what fire the distilleries, not oil. So essentially, when using corn based ethanol, we are using coal, natual gas, and a little solar energy to fuel our vehicles. I'm OK with that for now. We have a lot of it. Eventually, other better crops will supplement and perhaps replace corn. The distilleries don't really have to do a lot of retrofitting and changing to take new sources of carbohydrate.
You can make the same argument that it's almost 100% a disease contracted by behavior. If people would stop doing the things that the contract AIDS from, it would go away, right?
If you're running the mail servers for a business, how prudent is it to run a spam filter in the first place? While using something that relies on checking the content of the mail may be useful in getting rid of the most egregious spam, you don't want to block all items identified as spam. You can't run the risk of blocking your customers.
Most start out thinking this way. Then they get so burried in spam that they start to think much differently. It CAN be done properly with minimal collateral dammage. A good way to do it is to always send a rejection back to the sender with a reason why. In the event that a real user is rejected, at least they know and can try again via another account, fax, or phone.
Come on, it's one thing to admire it, but it's not like there's been much new happening in the Irix world for a while. I really admire Tru64, but I'm not about to call it my "favorite OS".
I recently picked up 4 new flourescent bulbs at Walmart that didn't look like coils. They were actually close to the shape of a normal incandescent bulb. I placed the in a bathroom that had 4 lights above a mirror (you've probably seen that kind of setup a thousand times), so naturally you don't need the kind of light you get from 4 100 watt bulbs. I'm surprised at the quality of light that I'm getting, and they don't look funny either. (they're fully exposed bulbs). They even had the "tulip" shaped bulbs that you might put in a ceiling fixture. I may replace my bulbs in my ceiling fans with them.
There are already bots playing against unsuspecting people at the online casinos. I'm not sure how much AI is involved, but apparently they play better than most humans.
From the article: Cleversafe is significant because it is an open-source project -- that is, the technology will be freely licensed, enabling others to adopt the design to build commercial products.
This could be a very important OSS tool.
The bands who have concerns about their art being sold as a complete work have fans that go buy the CD anyway. If it's really a good album band (not just a one hit wonder) I want the physical media in hand, full quality and with all the artwork.
I have to assume that power consumption is going to go up to power this thing. If I was turning off my PC to save power, I don't think I'd want this thing.
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he didn't say China was part of the 'Axis of Evil'
NX just absolutely rocks! I have all my developers (usually no more than 6 at a time) using Gnome desktops over a WAN link with no appreciable impact on bandwidth. We use the "adsl" setting and it's like running X on the local LAN. The responsiveness and image quality are superb. Apart from some Windows to NX clipboard issues, I have few complaints. I'm using the freeNX server with the free windows clients from nomachine.
Just make up a bunch of BS about SOX and SAS-70 compliance. Tell them your hands are tied from government regulations. It works every time!
Cliff Burton was nowhere near alive when they recorded ...And Justice For All, which I consider to be their best album. It was the peak before Black sent them diving off a cliff.
I read the title, and for a very brief moment thought I was going to see someone take a Mossberg pump shotgun to a MacBook Air. That would have been sweet!
But how much choice do consumers really have? Most can only chose from one or two providers. Hard to punish them in the marketplace with those realities.
Your Messiah will do none of what you claim. In fact, nobody really knows WHAT he will do. Other than offer vague "Change" and "Hope".
Please tell me how he is going to achieve this.
I agree. Almost every GNU tool is superior to the tools they ship.
I highly doubt that the crew members responsible for controlling the shuttle were plastered. If they were, then that's a problem.
As for the rest of them, so what? Given NASA's history, I'd need to get a little drunk to get the nerve to board the shuttle.
Look, corn isn't the most efficient method of producing ethanol by a long shot. But that it takes more energy to produce simply isn't true.
This used to be true when talking about old inefficient ethanol plants. Today's corn ethanol production sees a net gain in energy. It's roughly a 1:1.3 ratio of BTUs in to BTUs out. These are well substantiated and accepted numbers. That paper put out by Berkley that everyone uses to spout that old myth wasn't accurate. It made a lot of assumptions to the low end of crop production, and efficiency, but high assumptions for fossil fuel based fertilizers and diesel farm equipment. It was set up to make corn ethanol look worse than it was, and quickly moved towards an anti agribusiness bias.
I realize that 1:1.3 is barely more, but consider that the goal isn't so much to remove our dependence on fossil fuels, but foreign oil. Natual gas and coal are what fire the distilleries, not oil. So essentially, when using corn based ethanol, we are using coal, natual gas, and a little solar energy to fuel our vehicles. I'm OK with that for now. We have a lot of it. Eventually, other better crops will supplement and perhaps replace corn. The distilleries don't really have to do a lot of retrofitting and changing to take new sources of carbohydrate.
Come on. VMware has come a LONG way. If they are not using at least VMware ESX 3, then this is not a valid test.
It's more like, "those who's next door neighbor and closest ally is China don't get invaded".
You can make the same argument that it's almost 100% a disease contracted by behavior. If people would stop doing the things that the contract AIDS from, it would go away, right?
If you're running the mail servers for a business, how prudent is it to run a spam filter in the first place? While using something that relies on checking the content of the mail may be useful in getting rid of the most egregious spam, you don't want to block all items identified as spam. You can't run the risk of blocking your customers. Most start out thinking this way. Then they get so burried in spam that they start to think much differently. It CAN be done properly with minimal collateral dammage. A good way to do it is to always send a rejection back to the sender with a reason why. In the event that a real user is rejected, at least they know and can try again via another account, fax, or phone.
Come on, it's one thing to admire it, but it's not like there's been much new happening in the Irix world for a while. I really admire Tru64, but I'm not about to call it my "favorite OS".
This launch seems to be in line with AOL's 'tearing down the wall around the garden' strategy
Sounds more like their "copy a business model in desperation and be second rate" strategy.
I recently picked up 4 new flourescent bulbs at Walmart that didn't look like coils. They were actually close to the shape of a normal incandescent bulb. I placed the in a bathroom that had 4 lights above a mirror (you've probably seen that kind of setup a thousand times), so naturally you don't need the kind of light you get from 4 100 watt bulbs. I'm surprised at the quality of light that I'm getting, and they don't look funny either. (they're fully exposed bulbs). They even had the "tulip" shaped bulbs that you might put in a ceiling fixture. I may replace my bulbs in my ceiling fans with them.
There's no ethical issues with raising an animal for food with me. Keep your ethics to yourself, and I'll take the steak that once had legs.
Really? This is such a non-issue.
There are already bots playing against unsuspecting people at the online casinos. I'm not sure how much AI is involved, but apparently they play better than most humans.
Do we get to blame this on Bush too?
From the article: Cleversafe is significant because it is an open-source project -- that is, the technology will be freely licensed, enabling others to adopt the design to build commercial products. This could be a very important OSS tool.
The bands who have concerns about their art being sold as a complete work have fans that go buy the CD anyway. If it's really a good album band (not just a one hit wonder) I want the physical media in hand, full quality and with all the artwork.
...That's a space station.
I have to assume that power consumption is going to go up to power this thing. If I was turning off my PC to save power, I don't think I'd want this thing.