But then again, very few plumbers have to deal with users who consistently download BonziBuddy, blindly click on suspicious email attachments and use their cd trays as cupholders.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure plumbers are happy because they are dealing with other peoples shit and not with bonzibuddy problems. That really must be the reason.
Or maybe because they actually DO something obviously useful, with concrete and reasonable requirements, within a sane timeframe, charging their customers a somehow widely accepted rate, and their customers don't complain afterwards that the floo that has just been installed does not change color, talk in 20 different languages and makes their excrements softer.
How should insanity (in terms of 'not sane' or 'not sound') make you happy unless you are insane or you are being compensated with really good money?
Oh, if you are 'really happy' with you IT job, think about which of the two applies to you...
The above calculations are another obvious example on why the imperial system so totally sucks.
Sorry, I know this is way offtopic, but every now and then it really strikes me. recently I had to do calculations in inches and feet and tried hard not to defunc my keyboard with vomit.
C'mon! You signed and agreed to use SI in the mid seventies. Start using it!
Scuse me, but that card alone was worth something at the time the machine was brought. Namely roundabout 800 Bucks. Buying top notch hardware today which you are not going to use today but five years later can only be called a waste of money. Care if I gave you my bank account number to waste some money on? I swear I will buy some hardware and put it in the basement! *SCNR*
Hmm, I vaguely remember ideling around for a couple of days with a bunch of other expensive developers because Sun Gold(!) support was not able to quickly fix a hardware failure.
And worse, it turned out that the failure was due to a combination of a hardware raid controller and a mainboard that was known to fail under circumstances and was forbidden for (from|to) sale by a Sun directive and no one knew why the f*ck they had sold us this combo.
And this fine machine came with a big bucks (tm) 3d OpenGL accelerator card and a 21" Monitor to sit in the server cabinet and watch the console on. Stupid. But then again this might have been the mistake of our materials buying department.
how comes, that I don't not want to tell the same party that I ask what I am looking for on the web, who I am, what my interrests are and who my friends are...?
Smells like gates of hell to me. Not signing up for Orcus unless there is another decent search engine on the horizon...
I have been looking for this one and could not find a place to buy it below something about 430eur.
I really think this is odd, the Euro is at 1.30 Dollars and still all the products cost a lot more Euros than Dollars. Something in the world trade system is seriously broken.
And then hope that the nuclear waste dump rocket does not crash in OUR hood when it crashes.
But wait, so far only two Space Shuttles have crashed,-- that sounds reasonably safe.
And cheap too. 20 tons of cargo only cost gazillions of credits.
By the way, while you fire the stupid waste of a monopolizing energy form into our precious sun, could you take my dirty underwear too? I'd really like to have hotpants.
that I was somehow annoyed that they declared the old version (1.3.2 or something?) as deprecated long time before releasing 2.0. And the website has been unmaintained for quite a long period of those three years. Actually I turned off my little community-radio-streaming-project just because ogg support was flaky and administration and monitoring was difficult.
But hey, it is always easy to bitch and not to help hands on.
even if it's the woman in wal-mart going "oh, Java? I think I remember that from that email forward from my grandson? that's the thing that makes animations that blink a lot, isn't it?"
For a lot of people Java is that Stuff you should turn off in your browser because it is unsecure. Geee, even my programming co-worker says that she "...programmed this in Java.", when she actually means JavaScript.
All the others think that the name of the OS they are running is Winword. Sorry, no joke. I am teaching stuff to end users and ever so often I see that anything that looks or works different than the explorer, Winword or MSIE is considererd broken.
a) As far as I recall it there were also technical problems with the loading/unloading mechanism. But I might be wrong.
b) Plutonium is not only radiactive (Alpha rediation by the way which can be shelded by a piece of paper), but it is among the most toxic elements we know. Smallest amounts will cause lung cancer if inhaled. Combine with d) for a risk estimation. And please again compare this risk with the alternatives (like more energy efficiency, solar, water, geothermal, biogas etc.)
c) Repeat: focussing on nuclear energy will cause a centralization process, which I consider negative. Napster was shut down with that pattern and Microsofts business behaviour is another argument against.
d) 'Bounce off the dome'? As I said to the other comment: I wish I had your faith.
a) AFAIK the concept of a pebble bed reactor where the nuclear material is embedded in graphite balls is nowhere near 'new'. The Thorium High Themerature Reactor (THTR) in Hamm-Uentrop/Germany has been running a while and I think the technology has been abandoned (word?) for several reasons.
b) No matter how fresh and clean clean the running reactor might ever be, it still leaves behind radiactive waste which will glow (be dangerous) for several thousands of years. The end deposit problem for radioactive waste has not been solved within the last fourty years of experience and research.
c) Apart from security, safety and environmental reasons nuclear energy has more drawbacks. It results in a vast concentration of power(!) in terms of electricity and in terms of political/social power. Money gets concentrated to big energy companies and we, the people (sheep) have to buy.
d) Please go ahead and try terrorizing a mayor city by hijacking a plane and crashing it into a windmill. Good luck. With nuclear plants on the other hand....
Well well, maybe our best human is still competing with the best computer, but in general I think if we held a gigantic chess match of all humans playing agains all computers we would clearly lose.
Now that we know that this war is lost, why don't we stop playing chess at all and start focussing on,... ehhh lets say... WALKING.
Ha ha! You stupid machines! At the soles of my feet. Eat my dust as you see my speed off to the horizon...!
Dyson said a single solar cell will cost about 25 cents. The cells are situated about a square foot apart and will have a "way more than 50 percent" energy-conversion rate, she added.
Ultimately, Dyson is confident her team's solar cells can reach nearly 100 percent efficiency -- compared with typical solar panels' conversion rate of less than 20 percent.
I also recently started researching this photo solar stuff and I am pretty damn sure that my cells will have 110% efficency. And they will do the dishes too.
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But then again, very few plumbers have to deal with users who consistently download BonziBuddy, blindly click on suspicious email attachments and use their cd trays as cupholders.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure plumbers are happy because they are dealing with other peoples shit and not with bonzibuddy problems. That really must be the reason.
Or maybe because they actually DO something obviously useful, with concrete and reasonable requirements, within a sane timeframe, charging their customers a somehow widely accepted rate, and their customers don't complain afterwards that the floo that has just been installed does not change color, talk in 20 different languages and makes their excrements softer.
How should insanity (in terms of 'not sane' or 'not sound') make you happy unless you are insane or you are being compensated with really good money?
Oh, if you are 'really happy' with you IT job, think about which of the two applies to you...
-silence
"640Gb software is all the memory anybody would ever need on a computer." -Gill Bates on small memory
No matter how your interpretation of 'well off' is, you are definately not well off with 16kEur/Yr in Germany.
*/me thinks****
Damn! And you have all the sun and the coastlines and stuff as well! Do you have a job to offer?
But then again you language is all greek to me. *sigh*
nevermind,
-silence
From what I've read so far I guess it is a lot less than producing the same product with LCD, Plasma or cathode ray technology.
-silence
The above calculations are another obvious example on why the imperial system so totally sucks.
Sorry, I know this is way offtopic, but every now and then it really strikes me.
recently I had to do calculations in inches and feet and tried hard not to defunc my keyboard with vomit.
C'mon! You signed and agreed to use SI in the mid seventies. Start using it!
-silence
I second that.
-s
I for one welcome our new Wireless USB overlords.
Scuse me, but that card alone was worth something at the time the machine was brought. Namely roundabout 800 Bucks.
Buying top notch hardware today which you are not going to use today but five years later can only be called a waste of money.
Care if I gave you my bank account number to waste some money on? I swear I will buy some hardware and put it in the basement!
*SCNR*
-silence
one word: support.
Hmm, I vaguely remember ideling around for a couple of days with a bunch of other expensive developers because Sun Gold(!) support was not able to quickly fix a hardware failure.
And worse, it turned out that the failure was due to a combination of a hardware raid controller and a mainboard that was known to fail under circumstances and was forbidden for (from|to) sale by a Sun directive and no one knew why the f*ck they had sold us this combo.
And this fine machine came with a big bucks (tm) 3d OpenGL accelerator card and a 21" Monitor to sit in the server cabinet and watch the console on. Stupid. But then again this might have been the mistake of our materials buying department.
-silence
Damn, I even forgot the www, which was invented at the CERN in switzerland.
-sl
The US did also NOT invent
the laser
mp3
television
the steam engine
a lot of other useful stuff
Einstein and Oppenheimer were no Americans, Mme Curie was french, adidas, Mercedes and BMW are also not american corporations.
and YES, a lot of the ROW* citizen are annoyed by American Cultural Ignorance (tm)
Apologies for maybe overreacting a little, but Coke, burger and fries are not the universial food source. Get off your high horse.
-silence
*ROW = Rest Of World
Want to stop international terrorism?
Why not remove the cause and not the symptoms?
-jsl
how comes, that I don't not want to tell the same party that I ask what I am looking for on the web, who I am, what my interrests are and who my friends are ...?
Smells like gates of hell to me.
Not signing up for Orcus unless there is another decent search engine on the horizon...
-silence
Would you tell me where you purchased it?
I have been looking for this one and could not find a place to buy it below something about 430eur.
I really think this is odd, the Euro is at 1.30 Dollars and still all the products cost a lot more Euros than Dollars. Something in the world trade system is seriously broken.
TIA,
-silence
Yeah sure.
And then hope that the nuclear waste dump rocket does not crash in OUR hood when it crashes.
But wait, so far only two Space Shuttles have crashed,-- that sounds reasonably safe.
And cheap too. 20 tons of cargo only cost gazillions of credits.
By the way, while you fire the stupid waste of a monopolizing energy form into our precious sun, could you take my dirty underwear too? I'd really like to have hotpants.
Ahhhhrgh!
-silence
PS: The Tick: "Gravity,-- is a harsh mistress!"
Oh my god, don't you all get it?
It's a dupe from last summer!
Like X-Mas was a dupe too, from last winter...!?
I thought it was +1 funny.
that I was somehow annoyed that they declared the old version (1.3.2 or something?) as deprecated long time before releasing 2.0. And the website has been unmaintained for quite a long period of those three years.
Actually I turned off my little community-radio-streaming-project just because ogg support was flaky and administration and monitoring was difficult.
But hey, it is always easy to bitch and not to help hands on.
Maybe now Iwill pick up this thing again..
-silence
even if it's the woman in wal-mart going "oh, Java? I think I remember that from that email forward from my grandson? that's the thing that makes animations that blink a lot, isn't it?"
For a lot of people Java is that Stuff you should turn off in your browser because it is unsecure.
Geee, even my programming co-worker says that she "...programmed this in Java.", when she actually means JavaScript.
All the others think that the name of the OS they are running is Winword. Sorry, no joke. I am teaching stuff to end users and ever so often I see that anything that looks or works different than the explorer, Winword or MSIE is considererd broken.
-silence
a) As far as I recall it there were also technical problems with the loading/unloading mechanism. But I might be wrong.
b) Plutonium is not only radiactive (Alpha rediation by the way which can be shelded by a piece of paper), but it is among the most toxic elements we know. Smallest amounts will cause lung cancer if inhaled. Combine with d) for a risk estimation. And please again compare this risk with the alternatives (like more energy efficiency, solar, water, geothermal, biogas etc.)
c) Repeat: focussing on nuclear energy will cause a centralization process, which I consider negative. Napster was shut down with that pattern and Microsofts business behaviour is another argument against.
d) 'Bounce off the dome'? As I said to the other comment: I wish I had your faith.
-silence
a) AFAIK the concept of a pebble bed reactor where the nuclear material is embedded in graphite balls is nowhere near 'new'. The Thorium High Themerature Reactor (THTR) in Hamm-Uentrop/Germany has been running a while and I think the technology has been abandoned (word?) for several reasons.
b) No matter how fresh and clean clean the running reactor might ever be, it still leaves behind radiactive waste which will glow (be dangerous) for several thousands of years. The end deposit problem for radioactive waste has not been solved within the last fourty years of experience and research.
c) Apart from security, safety and environmental reasons nuclear energy has more drawbacks. It results in a vast concentration of power(!) in terms of electricity and in terms of political/social power. Money gets concentrated to big energy companies and we, the people (sheep) have to buy.
d) Please go ahead and try terrorizing a mayor city by hijacking a plane and crashing it into a windmill. Good luck. With nuclear plants on the other hand....
e) I wish I had your faith.
-silence
Booted Knoppix and used partimage to make a bzip2 image of my NTFS Win2k installation.
And yes, the restore worked fine. What good would a backup be, if you never knew whether a restore would actually work?
-j
What? We can have our own drivers! With blackjack and hookers!
-r
You foargot to read my .sig
Well well, maybe our best human is still competing with the best computer, but in general I think if we held a gigantic chess match of all humans playing agains all computers we would clearly lose.
... ehhh lets say ... WALKING.
Now that we know that this war is lost, why don't we stop playing chess at all and start focussing on,
Ha ha! You stupid machines! At the soles of my feet. Eat my dust as you see my speed off to the horizon...!
-jsilence
Dyson said a single solar cell will cost about 25 cents. The cells are situated about a square foot apart and will have a "way more than 50 percent" energy-conversion rate, she added.
Ultimately, Dyson is confident her team's solar cells can reach nearly 100 percent efficiency -- compared with typical solar panels' conversion rate of less than 20 percent.
I also recently started researching this photo solar stuff and I am pretty damn sure that my cells will have 110% efficency. And they will do the dishes too.
bla bla, bla bla
-r