Re : point
Should have been "Global warming isn't driven DIRECTLY by man-made energy generation." Of course any generation that involves carbon dioxide production may well drive global warming
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Why is more generation bad ?
Global warming isn't driven by man-made energy generation. All the man-made generation is SWAMPED by solar radiation - it's about 70000 times the electricity generation on the planet. Total solar radiation striking the earth is about 5E24J /year which dwarfs man-made generation. The total output of the sun is 10 orders of magnitude greater than the radiation arriving on earth and that's a little star in a quiet backwater. So I don't think humans are contributing to the eventual heat death of the universe in a meaningful way.
Indeed one proton with an energy of 7TeV would not move much
362 MJ is the BEAM energy ( according to CERN) at 7TeV which fits with the energy of the ship
But the beam has 2088 bunches of protons, each bunch consisting of 1.15E11 protons - each PROTON has 7TeV
So ?
For the vast majority the slightly-reduced functionality will be more than offset by the zero cost. Given that OpenOffice will read more formats than Office, write PDFs it suits many people who don't need to be forced to use Office by corporate dictat.
I've built a fileserver for (much) less than the cost of Office.
If you want to use it then pay up just don't ruin it for others who can try OpenOffice without laying out any cash and may never need to.
I speak as someone who used Excel every day for years in a corporate scientific environment, often dealing with data set sizes that Excel couldn't handle.
Care to explain ?
Do you have access to the one machine on my network that runs the program?
Do you know the name of the program or which user is allowed to run it ?
Do you know the password to allow the program to run?
Do you know the passphrases and what purpose they are intended for ?
Do you know the algorithm ?
Do you know ANYTHING?
Companies like Novatech sell a large range of PCs without any OS. Putting a modern Linux distribution on is easy. The cheaper ATOM based ones are ~£170+VAT without a monitor. Of course you need to factor in the cost of a CD or DVD to write the Linux download onto !
http://www.novatech.co.uk
I'm not by any stretch any kind of expert about this and I guess you should do some research but for what it's worth ..
Most Unix-like OS now use a randomly-generated 'salt' string (each time password is created/changed ) and use it as part of the hashing function, storing the salt, along with the hash as the users 'credentials'. This essentially forces the cracker to generate another rainbow table set for every permutation generated by the salt - so for a 256-bit salt - that means 2^256 rainbow tables of 80GB or whatever need to be pre-computed OR a specific table needs to be generated for every individual password
Not sure about Windows - I don't have anything to do with it anymore. But I don't think salting was used pre-Vista
Hope this helps
Oddly enough I have read the article and the related links and Leo is correct. This is about a Windows trojan variant - nothing to do with Mac OSX or Linux or Unix or BSDs. Nothing to do with pirating anything other than the (protected) trojan.
Leo did say "(maybe not for ever, but for now)"
Can you justify this statement ?
Just because something resembles another & performs similar functions isn't grounds for patents. ( At least not in sensible parts of the world). Indeed many complaints about OpenOffice is that it doesn't behave/look exactly like Office.
I and every other pharma. chemist have patented drugs that treat diseases in EXACTLY the same way as other companies compounds - perfectly legit. The market decides which to use depending on other factors such as efficacy, price, dose, side-effects etc.
Have you compared the source-codes ? -thought not
Lots of complaints about spam killing e-mail in the comments above. I think it depends on your ISP (Plusnet in our case ) These days our ISP's system does a great job removing essentially all spam.
For the record we've used Thunderbird for years + web-based access when traveling - and yes we've had our own domain name for years.
Must be a VERY limited experience.
I've used SuSE & OpenSUSE for ~10 years without any problem with the (usually KDE) desktop.
Does everything I want either better than Windows, as well as Windows or at least adequately.
That would include :-
File& print serving to Windows & Linux boxes
Firefox
Google Earth
Web-page generation
C & C++ compiling + almost any programming language you could require.
OpenOffice
Video editing
RAW digital photo processing
Panoramic photo processing
TV viewing /recording
SSH access to home server
Remote access to my wife's school
Microcontroller programming (PIC) via WINE
If you need games or really feel that you must have Windows fair enough. But the ignorant or malicious comments of others that Linux NEEDS a CLI for installation or routine use or even that you NEED to compile programs to use it needs refuting at every opportunity.
Just get a LiveCD and try it !
Some might be impressed by your stupid ( and offensive ) reasons but they seem unlikely to have affected the choice of GNU/Linux for the bulk of supercomputer systems, the bulk of internet servers, all those the embedded systems and the more intelligent desktop user.
I'm just a little puzzled that you seem so threatened by an OS that you both despise and yet clearly don't understand.
Stick with Windows - you clearly deserve it
It does explain in the linked article that 11000 are added, 5500 removed and 2200 altered and that core kernel code is only ~5%. Most of the new code is for drivers/processors.
It goes quite a long way to explain how each new release works on more and more hardware to the point where installing a modern distribution is now trivial on desktops, at least
I may be paranoid but I don't run FF or other browsers on my own account - the slight inconvenience of using a password to start the browser is more than compensated by the security of running in an empty account.
Assuming I ran the browser on my own account ) the daily backup of the home directories would provide a safety net.
Sorry to be a killjoy but he's a physicist by training and has worked on gravitational wave detection.
He's not a medic at all but if you want a Trekkie-like reference he developed the "Spin Warp" imaging method for MRI scanning
He's visiting professor of Radiology presumably with an emphasis on MRI scanning
"Even though there is a point at which acceleration causes the human body to cease working, that point occurs when you are travelling a lot faster than 20 mph."
This so much fun but what has speed/velocity to do with acceleration. ?
Acceleration between 0 and 5 mph would kill you if it were sufficiently rapid. Don't take my word for it just drop a fine wine glass onto concrete from ~20 cm
Bol??cks !
I've used huge, complex Excel spreadsheets in a scientific environment - many so large, that Excel couldn't cope and I had to shift to JMP. Of course OO isn't as fast or quite as capable BUT for most users it's good enough given that it's FREE and runs on Linux as well. If you really need it ( or think you do) spend the money - but don't patronize - OO will run really complex sheets within its limits which are considerable. You will not build a cogent argument by exaggerating !
I think you'll find all over the planet desktop Linux is being used for real work and has been for quite a while - certainly I was using a dual Xeon workstation running RH Linux for protein modeling, visualization and dynamics as well as data processing years ago along with many other scientist, engineers and academics. The many computational chemists in the organization I worked for only used Windows for the corporate stuff.
It would be interesting to know, Although installation of a modern Linux distribution is easy on most desktops it can be somewhat more difficult on laptops unless a little research is done first - esp. choosing laptops with wireless chipsets that work "out of the box".
Or is it that the developers are constrained by corporate Office/Exchange etc. ?