I'm not sure of the actually numbers, but according to the BBC News (above):
[Britain] may have to learn the lesson of Sweden, a country which voted to phase out its own nuclear industry 25 years ago but, hit by the lack of a cost-effective alternative, is now Europe's third largest consumer of nuclear-generated energy. and
Nuclear electricity has been reported to be cheaper than gas as long as oil is more expensive than $28 a barrel. It's currently above the $50 mark.
But will starving people plant the seeds and wait, or eat the seeds right off? If they wait, they might starve in the meantime, and if the eat them immediately they will starve eventually.
A really simple solution to most virus problems is a good firewall. This project seems to be not much more than a glorified firewall with heuristics.
A firewall won't protect you much from the initial infection, but it will stop you from spreading the malware or becoming a spam-bot. A smart firewall could also accurately warn the user of suspicious activity, as evil connections are a much more reliable symptom to check than signatures.
Nuclear power is statistically safer than conventional. I guarantee there were more accidents last year per kilowatt for conventional power than nuclear. (Airplanes are also statistically safer than cars.) The big problem is that terrorists have successfully terrorized people on the subjects.
Chernobyl was using a design US engineers had rejected as unsafe, and the Three Mile Island disaster wasn't. It was a successful test of nuclear safety measures.
As for nuclear waste, why not recycle it? R-r-recycle it! *gasp* But that produces weapons-grade material! Right, so put it in a missile! The best defense is a good offense (think Reagen's Cold-War successes). And then there is hardly anything left over! (And is nuclear waste worse than huge strip mines?)
The only real obstacle to nuclear power is public terror.
I'd have to disagree. GMail is by far the best client, IMHO. It has very advanced AJAX, context-sensitive ads, good mouseover stuff, keyboard shortcuts, excellent mail and chat log search, conversation sorting (were it kinda cascades the original message and replies back and forth like playing cards, which you can click to expand), and all kinds of handy stuff.
It has 0 image ads, and it has a tiny RSS bar at the top, which often has slashdot stuff. It also has the GTalk thing in a sidebar if you want it, and you can "pop-out" chats, drafts (which are autosaved every few seconds) and almost anything else.
It just works marvelously, and is very simply and clean looking, compared to Yahoo! Mail.
I'm still a bit skeptical:
For starters, the OS shouldn't let you delete files that are critical to the OS itself. I believe most OSes have that functionality built in -- or should. But a student dumping his music would be doing it from his WinXP PC, which couldn't care less about another OS's files on a stick.
And I imagine that the IT department could have some kind of centralized file server that syncronizes their server with the student's stick whenever it's plugged in. That is a good idea, especially for updates and such, but it is useless if the computer can't boot.
That would be an utter disaster. A kid loses his stick; now what? Before, he just asked the IT dept for a server backup of his docs. And in the meantime, he can't do ANYTHING.
Some kid deletes everything so it can carry a movie or a ton of songs; "Professor! This computer's broken! It won't start!"
The guy did something wrong, and deserves to be punished, but how in his wildest imagination can Gorbachev think Gates needs to be involved? When somebody steals something you don't call the item manufacturer.
1. Does it have a good plan and some goals 2. Is it something someone needs? (Edison and the electric voting machine...) 3. Can it be to kept current and out of obsoletion with reasonable effort?
Take any statistics an entity comes up with to help itself with a grain of salt, and then ask for the raw data and methods, so that you can reproduce the results. If they can't give you the data for privacy reasons, at least look at the samples and methods.
Basically, don't trust in-house statistics, unless you can reproduce the results yourself.
As of yet, I have not had anyone I didn't know before say "yes". If they say no, I then ask if they know what Firefox is. I get a lot more positive results on this one.
I guess I am one of the extreme cultural minorities, because: 1. I use Linux 2. I use Firefox 3. I program 4. I love classical music, and hate it when people blather about junk bands.
One programmer is better than two for the same reason that one woman in the kitchen is better than 2. You have to get on a pretty large scale before you need multiple cooks/programmers.
Software programming in general is hard for 2 reasons: 1. Computers aren't built for interfacing with humans, thus UI us terribly time-consuming. 2. The environments people like to drop an app into can be so bizarre, that rock-solid stability is very difficult to achieve.
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I'm not sure of the actually numbers, but according to the BBC News (above): [Britain] may have to learn the lesson of Sweden, a country which voted to phase out its own nuclear industry 25 years ago but, hit by the lack of a cost-effective alternative, is now Europe's third largest consumer of nuclear-generated energy. and Nuclear electricity has been reported to be cheaper than gas as long as oil is more expensive than $28 a barrel. It's currently above the $50 mark.
But will starving people plant the seeds and wait, or eat the seeds right off? If they wait, they might starve in the meantime, and if the eat them immediately they will starve eventually.
A really simple solution to most virus problems is a good firewall. This project seems to be not much more than a glorified firewall with heuristics.
A firewall won't protect you much from the initial infection, but it will stop you from spreading the malware or becoming a spam-bot. A smart firewall could also accurately warn the user of suspicious activity, as evil connections are a much more reliable symptom to check than signatures.
You could switch the the simple HTML mode (option at page bottom). But then you lose most of the handy doodads.
Nuclear power is statistically safer than conventional. I guarantee there were more accidents last year per kilowatt for conventional power than nuclear. (Airplanes are also statistically safer than cars.) The big problem is that terrorists have successfully terrorized people on the subjects.
Chernobyl was using a design US engineers had rejected as unsafe, and the Three Mile Island disaster wasn't. It was a successful test of nuclear safety measures.
As for nuclear waste, why not recycle it? R-r-recycle it! *gasp* But that produces weapons-grade material! Right, so put it in a missile! The best defense is a good offense (think Reagen's Cold-War successes). And then there is hardly anything left over! (And is nuclear waste worse than huge strip mines?)
The only real obstacle to nuclear power is public terror.
I'd have to disagree. GMail is by far the best client, IMHO. It has very advanced AJAX, context-sensitive ads, good mouseover stuff, keyboard shortcuts, excellent mail and chat log search, conversation sorting (were it kinda cascades the original message and replies back and forth like playing cards, which you can click to expand), and all kinds of handy stuff.
It has 0 image ads, and it has a tiny RSS bar at the top, which often has slashdot stuff. It also has the GTalk thing in a sidebar if you want it, and you can "pop-out" chats, drafts (which are autosaved every few seconds) and almost anything else.
It just works marvelously, and is very simply and clean looking, compared to Yahoo! Mail.
http://blogs.zdnet.com/images/SysCallIIS.jpg 1. These are old
2. They have nothing to do with Linux vs Windows; they are Apache vs IIS
3. They are unlabeled, so they are only good for showing the difference between C (Apache) and C++ (IIS)
So this tells you that Apache is simpler than IIS, and C is simpler than C++.
Patentless is the best part. Now, capitalism will lower the price and make it more affordable to those who need it.
That would be an utter disaster. A kid loses his stick; now what? Before, he just asked the IT dept for a server backup of his docs. And in the meantime, he can't do ANYTHING.
Some kid deletes everything so it can carry a movie or a ton of songs; "Professor! This computer's broken! It won't start!"
Fine, shoot yourself in the foot. (I bet it's because of an under-the-table deal...)
No way! Never! It isn't possible! (probably cause I don't have a DS!)
So sorry - I messed up. (See post below you.)
Please ignore my parent! (I wish I could remove the ability to submit without previewing...)
The guy did something wrong, and deserves to be punished, but how in his wildest imagination can Gorbachev think Gates needs to be involved? When somebody steals something you don't call the item manufacturer.
I'm tired of saying this:
1. Vista has "premium" content and DRM
or
2. Vista has no "premium" content or DRM
There was no choice here. The studios and copyright/patent holders would not permit high-def without oppressive DRM. Still, it's sad that MS caved in.
1. Does it have a good plan and some goals
2. Is it something someone needs? (Edison and the electric voting machine...)
3. Can it be to kept current and out of obsoletion with reasonable effort?
Other than that, only time will tell.
Wow, a somewhat happy ending to a big lawsuit...too bad this doesn't happen more often.
Take any statistics an entity comes up with to help itself with a grain of salt, and then ask for the raw data and methods, so that you can reproduce the results. If they can't give you the data for privacy reasons, at least look at the samples and methods.
Basically, don't trust in-house statistics, unless you can reproduce the results yourself.
As of yet, I have not had anyone I didn't know before say "yes". If they say no, I then ask if they know what Firefox is. I get a lot more positive results on this one.
I guess I am one of the extreme cultural minorities, because:
1. I use Linux
2. I use Firefox
3. I program
4. I love classical music, and hate it when people blather about junk bands.
So I usually try to avoid the music topic.
My first question is "Do you know what Linux is?". I find that is infinitely more helpful than asking what music somebody likes.
Don't bother trying to read the article, it's slashdotted.
(yeah, stay away so I can read it...)
One programmer is better than two for the same reason that one woman in the kitchen is better than 2. You have to get on a pretty large scale before you need multiple cooks/programmers.
Software programming in general is hard for 2 reasons:
1. Computers aren't built for interfacing with humans, thus UI us terribly time-consuming.
2. The environments people like to drop an app into can be so bizarre, that rock-solid stability is very difficult to achieve.
I suspect a court wouldn't find most such licenses binding.
Linspire? It's great, but NOT free.