For me, at least, this is what renewables should be about: finding a local source of economical renewable energy, and applying the appropriate technology to make it useful. The key thing, though, is that the methods change depending on what's availible locally.
Correlation may not be the same as causation, but where there is causation there is also correlation. A strong correlation such as this warrents futher research to determine if there is actually a causal relationship. The fact that the WHO, among others, is urging just this is enough for me to conclude there is a possibility of a causal relationship between AM towers and certain types of cancer.
I managed to install it and get it working, but the install is a little wierd: everything - libraries, executables, etc - is installed in the application's folder (i.e./Applications/OpenOffice/). Which is OK, but it kinda sucks in that none of the applications are (easilly) accessible from the command line. Also, when I started it from within gnome, it complained that Could not get value of CFPref AppleLanguages! Please reset your locale in the International control panel..
Does anyone here know if there are other relases that work on OSX (perhaps a *BSD/PPC release?).
This is a little OT, but does anyone here know of BSD cons in the New England / Atlantic Canada area? I'm about to become a OpenBSD user and would really love the chance to hobnob with some gurus.
Before I begin, I am genuinly suprised you didn't come to the same conclusion yourself. The man's own testimony is devoid of empathy, and his actions speak for themselves. Nonetheless, here's a rundown of why the person in question is a sadist.
A sadist is generally someone who derives pleasure by causing suffering to others. The person in question causes suffering to others by forcing them to [i] go hungry, [ii] live in 100F+ heat, [iii] humiliating them, [iv] depriving them of entertainment. Keep in mind, these are just the things he admits to in an interview.
In the interview snippit provided, he finds the suffering amusing (his crack about 2 meals a day being a 'brunch'), and is incapable of understanding why others object to him literally treating dogs better than people.
These methods, irregardless of the morals, have done nothing to decrease the crime rate in his jurisdiction.
We are left with someone who finds the suffering he causes to a great number of people under his control amusing; suffering that he causes for no reason other than his own, internal, motivations. He is a sadist.
If you still don't understand, please describe what you consider to be sadism.
It's very good to see this branch of space technology getting funding. I'd rather travel in a starship with warp drive, but until then we need some feasable way to get to other stars. There's no reason, in my mind, why we shouldn't send a few of these off to nearby stars with the sole purpose of taking some close-in measurements and somehow getting the data back here (getting the data back would probably be harder than getting the spacecraft there in the first place). The very fact that it would take hundreds or thousands of years for them to get there is the best reason to start sending them now.
Let's all raise a glass of Sake to the engineers behind this project!
Here's a preemptive posting of the press release in case they're slashdotted...
Hello Potential AlphaGrip Customer,
After over seven years of research and development, we have one of the world's largest keyboard companies, Sejin, ready to begin manufacturing our fifth generation AlphaGrip, the AG-5. Our final hurdle to launching our first product is to give Sejin a minimum order for 5,000 units. Sejin has built us great looking prototypes and we are confidant they will produce high quality AlphaGrips. The keys have a nice feel and work well. It took me about a month to reach an average typing speed of 50 wpm. Our ultimate goal is to enable AlphaGrip users to type as fast as they can think, from any location, in any position.
In order to get our first product out the door for under $100, we kept the bells and whistles down to a minimum, though we did include an expansion slot to make it relatively easy and inexpensive to add functionality in the future -- we plan to develop adapters that will plug into this expansion slot for a handheld computer, smart phone, TV remote control, or for wireless connectivity.
But, today we are bootstrapping to get a basic AlphaGrip to market. So, our first product is "simply" a handheld keyboard and mouse that looks like a sleek, futuristic game controller. When you connect the AG-5 to a PC running Windows, it automatically recognizes the AG-5 as a standard USB keyboard and mouse. The AG-5 comes with a detachable USB cable and a desk stand. It's great for typing while leaning away from your desk or when typing on a computer located somewhere other than an office (next to your TV or at the foot of your bed, for example). It's also ideal for typing on a laptop or notebook computer in any location and it's well-suited for video gaming.
I truly enjoy working on the computer while leaning back in my chair with the AG-5 in my lap. I also prefer to use the AlphaGrip on my laptop. The "mouse" is a mini-joystick that is not as fast or as sensitive as a traditional mouse, but it is still very functional and more comfortable to use.
We are not asking you to pay anything up front. We just need you to go to our electronic store and authorize us to send you an AG-5 and charge your credit card for $99 when we ship. You will not be charged anything until an AG-5 is on its way to you. Please consider buying a few as presents - you can be sure your friends and relatives won't already have one. And, if you know anyone who might be interested in purchasing an AG-5, please send them our way. The sooner we can give our manufacturer the minimum order, the sooner we can get you an AG-5.
AlphaGrip has the potential to become the dominant input technology for desk-free computing. It represents a 300-500% increase in text-entry speed relative to a pen stylus with handwriting recognition or a thumb keyboard, and it's much more comfortable than balancing a keyboard on your lap. With an AlphaGrip "anywhere computing" is a reality, not just a slogan. As an original AlphaGripper, you may very well be making history.
The "I'm feeling lucky" feature freaked me out the other day. I'd typed a search string into the address bar, expecting to be taken to a google search results page, but was instead broguht to (what seemed to be) a random webpage. I couldn't find any mention of address bar search functions in the prefs, so I explored some more... and when, after typing "web search" into the bar and being brought to a spyware site, I thought my copy of firefox had been infected somehow. Futher tests revealed the truth, but for a short while I thought the gecko safe-harbour had been invaded.
Once, hastily leaving lunch to get back to work, I put a bottle of coke in the same backpack that I carried my laptop in. Unfortunatly, I didn't completely close the bottle, and unbeknownst to me it leaked onto my computer (which was in sleep mode) during my long walk back to work. The machine still worked, but the screen cut out at times and it died some months after.
"Ruining people's lives"? Some ways to measure this are:
Number of people whose employment was terminated
Number of people for whom their mortgage was foreclosed
Number of people for whom a member of their family contracted a severe illess
"Ruining the environment"? There are countless ways, but some include:
Number of, and suface area / volume of, places rendered inhabitable by some or all of the species that lived there
Number of species rendered extinct
Number of species, in a restricted area, whose young develop genetic mutations as a direct result of human-introduced substances.
There are many, many more such examples, because each person, and area of nature as well, is unique . The ways of destroying or severely damaging said areas of nature and people are unique as well.
On your last point, which seems to disregard subjective, emotional and supersititous arguments, I ask you: post here on slashdot a reason why any person should continue living, without relying on subjective, emotional or superstitous arguments.
Federal elections, state elections, municipal elections, school board elections, PTA meetings, private meetings with teachers, volunteer work.
Competition between municipatities to attract new-family residents. Existing choice to send child to one school over another (depends on local law/regulations... see municipal / school board elections).
I was in Nicaragua recently (2001-2002) for 5 months. As long as you stayed outside the capital, Managua, it was quite safe. Some cities more used to western tourists had higher rates of mugging (Esteli especially), but most cities were very safe. Most cities have few westerners that visit, and people are much more likely to want to practice their english with you than rob you. The main thing is to keep your head and not do stupid things, like walk around the slums at night with gold chains, for example. The capital, though, was nuts - 'good' and 'bad' parts of town were usually no more than 2-3 blocks apart, the murder rate really high (sorry, no stats), and there were dozens of gangs. Whenever I travelled in Managua, I both made sure I knew the path to where I was going, and travelled in a group if possible.
But, like I say, that was the only place in the country I felt unsafe.
So, none of the foreigners in your office are learning English? Fewer of the foreigners in your office are learning English? Or do they speak English with an accent that annoys you?
My experience, in Canada, has been that immigrants learn the language of the country they move to, and their children invariably become fluent in the language of the country the move to. Always keep in mind that any new immigrant uprooted their life, left the country, language, culture, environment - in short, everything - they were accustomed to, in order to make a better life. They have proven themselves willing and able to adapt and change. It behooves those already living in the US, or Canada, to accept the cosmetic changes they bring to our society.
As a footnote, you might find learning a few words of another language quite interesting, more than offsetting any malaise you feel about your situation.
At least, not in the place I work. The problem is lack of training, but the people I work with have a full knowledge of all materials in which they were trained. Admittidly, the level of training is subpar; but the workers are only expected - and allowed - to perform a limited number of fixes. Lack of knowledge about bits vs. bytes is embarassing, but knowledge of the 8:1 ratio is not required for the work that is performed.
At issue is the level of training provided.
All this is not to say that don't find the horror stories, from a tech's and customer's point of view, funny. Speaking for myself, half the people I speak to assume I can see their monitor and the other half think you can't open Outlook Express without connecting to the internet, despite the big 'work offline' button in front of them...
The meat of the article is just the observation that the numbers Google puts out (for # of servers, # of hits, etc) are inconsistant. The only conclusion it comes to is that google has more 'horsepower' than it's letting on.
Slashdot Mirror
The fact that the original slashdot story linked to a newscientist.com article should have been a tip-off...
well done
Is Competetive Gaming ready for America?
PS - Down with Bush!
PPS - 10,000,000!
For me, at least, this is what renewables should be about: finding a local source of economical renewable energy, and applying the appropriate technology to make it useful. The key thing, though, is that the methods change depending on what's availible locally.
Correlation may not be the same as causation, but where there is causation there is also correlation. A strong correlation such as this warrents futher research to determine if there is actually a causal relationship. The fact that the WHO, among others, is urging just this is enough for me to conclude there is a possibility of a causal relationship between AM towers and certain types of cancer.
Could not get value of CFPref AppleLanguages! Please reset your locale in the International control panel..
Does anyone here know if there are other relases that work on OSX (perhaps a *BSD/PPC release?).
Damn, I'm impressed. That was a fine troll. It just goes to show you; that extra bit of effort is what seperates the lamers from the leet.
This is a little OT, but does anyone here know of BSD cons in the New England / Atlantic Canada area? I'm about to become a OpenBSD user and would really love the chance to hobnob with some gurus.
A sadist is generally someone who derives pleasure by causing suffering to others. The person in question causes suffering to others by forcing them to [i] go hungry, [ii] live in 100F+ heat, [iii] humiliating them, [iv] depriving them of entertainment. Keep in mind, these are just the things he admits to in an interview.
In the interview snippit provided, he finds the suffering amusing (his crack about 2 meals a day being a 'brunch'), and is incapable of understanding why others object to him literally treating dogs better than people.
These methods, irregardless of the morals, have done nothing to decrease the crime rate in his jurisdiction.
We are left with someone who finds the suffering he causes to a great number of people under his control amusing; suffering that he causes for no reason other than his own, internal, motivations. He is a sadist.
If you still don't understand, please describe what you consider to be sadism.
Let's all raise a glass of Sake to the engineers behind this project!
Here's a preemptive posting of the press release in case they're slashdotted...
Hello Potential AlphaGrip Customer,
After over seven years of research and development, we have one of the world's largest keyboard companies, Sejin, ready to begin manufacturing our fifth generation AlphaGrip, the AG-5. Our final hurdle to launching our first product is to give Sejin a minimum order for 5,000 units. Sejin has built us great looking prototypes and we are confidant they will produce high quality AlphaGrips. The keys have a nice feel and work well. It took me about a month to reach an average typing speed of 50 wpm. Our ultimate goal is to enable AlphaGrip users to type as fast as they can think, from any location, in any position.
In order to get our first product out the door for under $100, we kept the bells and whistles down to a minimum, though we did include an expansion slot to make it relatively easy and inexpensive to add functionality in the future -- we plan to develop adapters that will plug into this expansion slot for a handheld computer, smart phone, TV remote control, or for wireless connectivity.
But, today we are bootstrapping to get a basic AlphaGrip to market. So, our first product is "simply" a handheld keyboard and mouse that looks like a sleek, futuristic game controller. When you connect the AG-5 to a PC running Windows, it automatically recognizes the AG-5 as a standard USB keyboard and mouse. The AG-5 comes with a detachable USB cable and a desk stand. It's great for typing while leaning away from your desk or when typing on a computer located somewhere other than an office (next to your TV or at the foot of your bed, for example). It's also ideal for typing on a laptop or notebook computer in any location and it's well-suited for video gaming.
I truly enjoy working on the computer while leaning back in my chair with the AG-5 in my lap. I also prefer to use the AlphaGrip on my laptop. The "mouse" is a mini-joystick that is not as fast or as sensitive as a traditional mouse, but it is still very functional and more comfortable to use.
We are not asking you to pay anything up front. We just need you to go to our electronic store and authorize us to send you an AG-5 and charge your credit card for $99 when we ship. You will not be charged anything until an AG-5 is on its way to you. Please consider buying a few as presents - you can be sure your friends and relatives won't already have one. And, if you know anyone who might be interested in purchasing an AG-5, please send them our way. The sooner we can give our manufacturer the minimum order, the sooner we can get you an AG-5.
AlphaGrip has the potential to become the dominant input technology for desk-free computing. It represents a 300-500% increase in text-entry speed relative to a pen stylus with handwriting recognition or a thumb keyboard, and it's much more comfortable than balancing a keyboard on your lap. With an AlphaGrip "anywhere computing" is a reality, not just a slogan. As an original AlphaGripper, you may very well be making history.
Thanks in advance for your support.
Michael Willner, President
AlphaGrip, Inc.
The "I'm feeling lucky" feature freaked me out the other day. I'd typed a search string into the address bar, expecting to be taken to a google search results page, but was instead broguht to (what seemed to be) a random webpage. I couldn't find any mention of address bar search functions in the prefs, so I explored some more... and when, after typing "web search" into the bar and being brought to a spyware site, I thought my copy of firefox had been infected somehow. Futher tests revealed the truth, but for a short while I thought the gecko safe-harbour had been invaded.
Once, hastily leaving lunch to get back to work, I put a bottle of coke in the same backpack that I carried my laptop in. Unfortunatly, I didn't completely close the bottle, and unbeknownst to me it leaked onto my computer (which was in sleep mode) during my long walk back to work. The machine still worked, but the screen cut out at times and it died some months after.
- Number of people whose employment was terminated
- Number of people for whom their mortgage was foreclosed
- Number of people for whom a member of their family contracted a severe illess
"Ruining the environment"? There are countless ways, but some include:- Number of, and suface area / volume of, places rendered inhabitable by some or all of the species that lived there
- Number of species rendered extinct
- Number of species, in a restricted area, whose young develop genetic mutations as a direct result of human-introduced substances.
There are many, many more such examples, because each person, and area of nature as well, is unique . The ways of destroying or severely damaging said areas of nature and people are unique as well.On your last point, which seems to disregard subjective, emotional and supersititous arguments, I ask you: post here on slashdot a reason why any person should continue living, without relying on subjective, emotional or superstitous arguments.
best line - 'They're everywhere'
Competition between municipatities to attract new-family residents. Existing choice to send child to one school over another (depends on local law/regulations... see municipal / school board elections).
Babies, bathwater.
But, like I say, that was the only place in the country I felt unsafe.
My experience, in Canada, has been that immigrants learn the language of the country they move to, and their children invariably become fluent in the language of the country the move to. Always keep in mind that any new immigrant uprooted their life, left the country, language, culture, environment - in short, everything - they were accustomed to, in order to make a better life. They have proven themselves willing and able to adapt and change. It behooves those already living in the US, or Canada, to accept the cosmetic changes they bring to our society.
As a footnote, you might find learning a few words of another language quite interesting, more than offsetting any malaise you feel about your situation.
Can you provide a source or reference? It's news to me that a human foetus has gills, fins and wings at any stage of development.
In what way is his record of illicit drug possession colour in any way what he has to say about the recording industry?
...it could be their admin system hadn't yet updated your e-status, and the isp tsr said what he knew...
At issue is the level of training provided.
All this is not to say that don't find the horror stories, from a tech's and customer's point of view, funny. Speaking for myself, half the people I speak to assume I can see their monitor and the other half think you can't open Outlook Express without connecting to the internet, despite the big 'work offline' button in front of them...
comes moronic results. look at the first page for their phone word now... here
Google cache of McAfee's page on the worm
One of symantec's pages
The meat of the article is just the observation that the numbers Google puts out (for # of servers, # of hits, etc) are inconsistant. The only conclusion it comes to is that google has more 'horsepower' than it's letting on.