I hate having to jump through hoops to install debian on dell hardware.

Theoretical, for a single piece of HW Solaris 10 on a Sun Sparc Enterprise T5440, 4 Processors 512GB Ram 256 LDOM's per server 8191 Zones per LDOM 1048448 Total machines in a 4RU enclosure the machines would be severely IO and disk space bound (Only 4x300GB disks in the box), but it could be done Anyone know the theoretical numbers for Linux on Z or a fully configured vmware cluster?

is Adobe continuing their trend of writing awful, inconsistent, ugly, usually-slow UIs?

This came up a while ago, on John Nack (PS product manager)'s blog. Basically they think their custom UI stuff for CS is the beez knees, and you unlucky shmoes who "have to use" CS will be getting MORE not less of their crap in future (including CS5) versions.

Ships within 30-days.

Live-a-lie Timmy !

Although I always pictured kdawson more as J-J-Jimmy B-b-be-errrrr-balmer. He does seem to stutter his stories over multiple days.

Are you sure about this? Would the 'something for nothing' issue outweigh the benefits of having better educated kids in the first place? Does the extra-mercenary nature you're assuming even show up? Does it last?

All sorts of questions. Like I pointed out earlier, this may be a beneficial aid to motivate kids before they've developed good long term goal systems.

I know as a kid I put a severe discount on future rewards as 'close' as the end of the semester - my parents offered to pay me for good grades, I determined that the work now wasn't worth the reward later. If it'd been broken up a bit more, would it have worked better? Probably.

OS X was new, not too long ago, too. Good thing for you that people didn't have the same attitude there. (It's funny how Apple fans love to say how they're being different, but look down upon anything that's different to them - just look at the vile that gets spouted every once in a blue moon there's an Amiga story.)

If the worst happens, they could just stick the BeOS name on a new OS, which is what happened to Mac, anyway.

In which case, I hope all the Wikipedia-haters here will also be criticising this new site, for lacking citations, and containing stuff that they think isn't important enough.

(I love how Wikipedia draws criticism from complete opposite directions - "I added something without a reference and it got deleted, boo hoo!" / "Wikipedia doesn't have references"; or "Wikipedia has too much information about something I don't care about" / "I made an article about my pet hampster and it got deleted, boo hoo!". Which is it? Everyone can't be pleased.

We haven't put it to the test in the last 100 years or so, because we learned the lesson the first time. The industrial revolution in Britain and the United States was a free-market wet-dream. No minimum wage, no worker safety, no anti-competitive status, and no child labor laws.

What happened was that industry found the sweet spot where they were just a hair better than staying on the farm (which also had none of those restrictions) so that they could run their machinery with a constant stream of new-arrivals. The result was sweat shops, child labor, company towns, tenements, slums, the reduction of the middle class (skilled workers), and massive environmental damage - all for the benefit for a few ultra-wealthy "captains of industry" like Rockefeller, Carnagie, Morgan, and Vanderbilt.

Ironically, communist China is in the process of repeating our free-market mistake.

This seems oddly familiar to Batman: Dark Knight. Using cell phones to collect data points throughout a city to find the culprit (the Joker / toxic chemicals). Ultimately, in the movie, there were great concerns about privacy and use of the technology. The safety net here "Cell-All will operate only on an opt-in basis and will transmit data anonymously" seems nice on paper, but I'm sure those in a position to use it will feel the pressure to exploit the technology for more.

From the summary:

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