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Re:Why would there be failures?
#4. Stupid admin problem. Yeah, like there's anything Canonical or Dell can do to prevent that.
That seems to be what the GP is talking about in terms of support. On the desktop you'll get questions like "I bought this computer with this newfangled leenooks thingy, how do I play my card game?"
On the server, you get questions that have nothing at all to do with the stupidity of the admin. Like "When the database has written 1 GB of data to the drive, the system stops responding and has to be powercycled causing a lot of data corruption, what's going on?" (true story, the answer is "plug in a PS/2 mouse") Multiply that by however many Dell sells, and the grandparent has a point: can they handle it? -
Re:Don't assume they'll be just be used for good
You can go even further... the easy availability of food causes rapid growth of the population, and then the food supply is overtaxed and lots of people starve. It's best to make food hard to get... fewer people starve and the entire planet fares better.
see: http://64.233.169.104/search?q=cache:kBxlpeFsObYJ:media.anthropik.com/pdf/hopfenberg2001.pdf+foodpop&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us
http://potluck.com/2001/01/the-unsustainability-and-origins-of-socioeconomic-increase/ -
Yeah
Too bad it can't translate the article fast enough.
Google cache: http://64.233.169.104/search?q=cache:iMyv1y2mOAkJ:www.digitalworldtokyo.com/index.php/digital_tokyo/articles/photocopier_translates_japanese_to_english_at_touch_of_button+http://www.digitalworldtokyo.com/index.php/digital_tokyo/articles/photocopier_translates_japanese_to_english_at_touch_of_button/&hl=en&client=firefox-a&gl=us&strip=1 -
Tether Enabled SSTO
HASTOL stands for Hypersonic Airplane Space Tether Orbital Launch. This was studied by NASA. We currently have a hard time with a winged craft that can make it to orbit. Space elevators also require "Unobtanium" with unattainably high tensile strengths. But if we combine the two, we get something which is both technically feasible and capable of dirt-cheap earth to orbit. Basically, have an aircraft capable of very high altitude, and about half orbital velocity rendevous with a rotating tether (Rotovator) that can take a cargo the rest of the way to orbit.
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Who cares
Really who cares. Americans have been too busy watching America's Next Top SomethingOrOther to give a rats ass about their civil liberties. Started off small and now its escalating. While I doubt the FBI is using this for the nightmare scenarios depicted by those who can't see a need for it (not I said CAN'T see a need for it) I dislike the thought, but I do see where there would be a need for it. The potential for abuse from a system like this is what's scary to me, not the fact that its in use. So while everyone cries foul AFTER the fact, remember there have been many rambling on about this for years. I did it in 2000 when Carnivore was released, I rambled on about CIPAV and always take the time to support the efforts of groups like EFF and EPIC. One person like a little privacy maniac some would say. For me means little, I'm aware of what can be done to my privacy, but I'm also aware of how to truly retain a portion of my privacy. Its when this becomes outlawed as it has been done in Germany will I truly get fed up and move out the US. While the rest of normal America focuses on the important things in life like Bratney Spears, Americas Next Stupid Reality Show, Whats Oprah Doing Now crap.
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Re:Confusing phrasing
If you liked that headline, you should check out this link (Google cache because I think the original site now requires registration).
Two of my favorites:
"Day gives daughters 1st-hand job experience"
"Shooting spree spreads Christmas bliss"
But the headlines are only part of the hilarity. Some of the stories posted on that page are an absolute riot. -
Re:North Pole?
Its seems that a directional magnetic field may be immaterial
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Re:This is against Geneva or Hague convention
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Re:Say what now?
Per your request:
"Al Qaeda in Iraq"
source:
http://www.michaelyon-online.com/wp/bless-the-beas ts-and-children.htm
google cache of same:
http://64.233.169.104/search?q=cache:IogAn4ppk18J: michaelyon-online.com/wp/bless-the-beasts-and-chil dren.htm+Bless+the+Beasts+and+Children+yon&hl=en&c t=clnk&cd=7&gl=us
Those beasts and children are all dead. By the hand of "Al Qaeda in Iraq". -
Re:Doctors generally won't like thisFirst, the vast majority of doctors do not possess programming skills to create the database/program for computerized prescriptions My complaint was NOT that "every doctor has not written a database program to replace prescriptions"; it was that that doctors resist such a change to one. I have not met a doctor who thinks he is completely infallible- although some have a "God complex" I haven't seen an unsecure operating system -- although I have seen Windows. Second - doctors do rely on their "expertise," which does not mean ignoring "empirically validated methodologies" - do you think there is a conspiracy to actively participate in bad medicine when there is typically no benefit to it. I think that doctors do resist transparency in their occupation for fear of bringing failures to light and having to conform to methodologies that imply the irrelevance of (a large part) of their "expertise", absolutely. This is a human failing, in which doctors are far from alone -- but it is a failing. If you want an example, there's a case where following a rote algorithm in checking for a heart attack was right 98 percent of the time, while a doctor's expertise yielded 75-89% accuracy, yet was resisted. It was detailed in a Malcom Gladwell's Blink. (Google cache of summary) , I don't think doctors are interested in competing against more physicians for the same job; who wants their job taken by someone for less? And who does? But I haven't seen computer programmers set up limits on how many people can become one each year on the (flimsy, self-serving) grounds that it's necessary to keep quality up. Fourth, if you want us to watch commercials to find out the latest meds you will be disappointed No, I want you find out about new medicines through the proper channels. But any time you change your recommendation because the *patient* initiated a talk about the new drug, you are admitting failure to keep your knowledge current. And pharmas basically rely on that happening -- successfully. Think about it.
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E3 Moving
For some reason I couldn't access the GameSpot blog. In any case, Google Cache has it, and it's one of those blogs linking to another source.
In any case, the original source was this MCV article. The GameSpot article basically confirms the story but points out that it isn't a done deal yet - they're just considering new locations.
They seem to be suggesting that E3 will be moving to Las Vegas, although it's not final yet. (The article also seems to suggest that New York was suggested and then decided against, which makes sense, since the Big Three game companies in the US (Nintendo, Microsoft, and Sory) are all on the west coast.)