You have the freedom of speech. However there are often consequences for your speech. Sometimes it is better for your image if you keep your mouth shut. Open Source often caries a political clout that for the most part you want to be considered apolitical. If you are a popular figure political statements often make it seem your movement has a larger hidden agenda.
Hans is a bad example because he wasn't much of a key figure. Just a vocal supporter and his actions were not tied to his work.
TI 99/4a Basic, MS DOS, Then I started my Linux kick. Slackware on floppies, Red Hat, Then I went to Solaris (Yea it doesn't count, but I wanted to be a real Unix snob for a while), I almost got Gentoo compiled on my Ultra Sparc, Poked around Free and OpenBSD (Still on my Unix kick) then Ubuntu then Debian. I had an OS X kick for a while, Tried a Little Plan 9 VMS was spread around there somehow too. Right now I am actually kinda liking living in a Windows World. Who knows what next year brings me.
Over the years I have lost my passion towards my primary computers OS.
I found that Linux is really good for a server (Diebien, Slackware, Red Hat), and Workstation (Red Hat, Ubuntu). For Home Desktop use. OS X and Windows does the job, but for home desktop I just need a good browser so any OS will tend to work.
I am not sure why you worring about the order saying One distribution is superior then the other. You pop un Ubuntu, they are using Linux, They may or may not like other Distributions better. Thats ok, it isn't that big of a deal.
It is a quesiton often askes to guatar players, what is the worlds hardest cord.
However Mozilla, has a tendancy of loosing focus. Ok we come out with a good design, then over time things get added and then you get a bigger and bigger pile. Becuase they don't know when to stop.
A lot of the design seems to be taked from Windows 8 land. And the real devil is beyond screen shots when things are running in real time. Fat fingers will just mean something is too small. Or the particular effect just cannot be optimes to run smothly enough.
Yes proper diet and exercise is the only real cure. However the problem is quite more complex than that.
Stress in peoples lives (People in poverty are in more stress) where they don't feel they have control in their lives. Causes us to take pleasure in the few areas we do have control in, what we can eat. Unfortunately the extra weight causes us to gain more weight and adds more stress, when we try to diet we are giving up our only emotional uplift, which makes dieting harder.
Culture, there are a lot of Fat people out there who goes, I want to join a Gym, however I need to lose 50 lbs first so I don't feel that out of place. Because you go to a gym to help loose weight, however you are in a place with fit people and you feel out of place, and if the people are openly critical to you, it makes it harder. Lets laugh at the Fat guy on the treadmill, that will help him come to the gym more often to get better.
Helicopter parents. Your kids need to be watched all the time, they can't go outside and play, without the parents (who sometimes need to do something else). because of fear of kids being mean to each other or the 1 and 100000 chance that a molester will be there to take the kid away.
Leather as a material is actually very interesting.
Light, Flexible, Sturdy, Tough, and a great insulator.
Still there isn't a replacement for it in a lot of protective gear. Such as Motorcycle jackets, they are not to make you look bad-ass but if you fall off your bike as an armor so you don't scrape yourself all up. Metal and Plastic is too ridgid, or too flimsy. Leather has the perfect use.
However I don't see much of a market for artificial leather, only because we are still eating cows. Most farms don't produce leather only cattle, but beef cattle what use the hides for leather.
Now if this technology makes affordable meat like it thinks it could, then perhaps artifical leather can come in.
Dead? It never really existed. Cost+ is your limit. If the market rate is below your Cost+ then you are going to need to change your business.
If they sold under the well below market price, there will be a run to buy them. Then once there is a shortage people will then sell them at the market rate. If they sold them well above market price, less people will buy them, and the stores will be overstocked. Causing them to sell at a discount (close to the market rate) to get them off their shelves. So they can put items that move faster there.
Why do Gold and Gems have been historically so valuable. If they were cost+ they would be fairly cheap to buy, but because there is smaller supply of them they are more valuable.
How horrible that someone sells a product that cost more than the sum of their part!
We shouldn't have to pay for those millions in R&D and those failed designed they were working on. We shouldn't have to pay for the salary of the employees at apple. Heck those guys at Foxconn get next to nothing anyways... Why not go to the next logical step and have them work for free.
Unfortunately running a business you find that things are more expensive than the normal consumer realizes.
You miss the point. There is a good portion of those 47% who had paid their dues, or deserve it. However there is a percentage who doesn't. The stereotypical I am gonna have more babies so my welfare check is bigger. But we don't have real numbers.
Are the "Bad People" 50% of that 47% where it shows that welfare system isn't working, but giving incentives to be less productive member of society. Or is it less than 1% showing that welfare is a safety net to help get people out of the absolute bottom, and the current increase is due to other factors causing productive people to be poorer.
We need to measure this, and get details. Because right now we are making assumptions on a summary. Not really looking at what is going on.
If you had any brains, They are not against energy efficiency, but the idea of government telling you what you should buy.
You shouldn't be drinking, or eating bacon, but should we have prohibition again and ban on Bacon. Just because it isn't optimal for health. We as people need to be able to make choices. Not feel the government will tell us which way to go.
Oh NO! The government is trying to figure out the numbers in demographics, so it can help form policy.
We really need more data.
For example, are a particular groups of people located in a particular area where they can be better served with State or City services, vs the large overhead of a Feds. Or perhaps this group is distributed uniformly across the country and needs Federal Mandate to serve them.
What part of that 48 percent that doesn't pay taxes are actually low life free loaders, and what percentage are people really trying to make a difference in the world.
Do we even bother measuring if a polity that is in place is working or not? Do we bother setting a metric of saying a policy is considered a success if it reaches this goal vs not.
There is a difference in engineering for a device that moves a few miles per hour, and only travels for hours a day, and is always nearby a charging station, and weight about a hundred lbs.
Vs.
A device that moves 80 miles per hour, travels up to 10 hours a day, will not be near a charging station and weighs a ton.
If the algorithm is slow, it doesn't really help prevent it from being cracked. Because the hacker can just put more computing power into it. Then you also mean the person who is trying to protect the data now has to get a faster computer to keep the load and the application running at the right speed... Thus giving an extra cost to the protectee however the hardware speed increase will negate the disadvantage to the hacker. It is just a losing proposal for the system owner.
However if the algorithm is fast that means we can increase the performance on the box, and give more resources to extra security measures. Such as adding a salt (and Pepper) to the Data to be hashed, Putting in a system that puts a system idle sleep if the value is incorrect...
It means more time doing actual science and less time waiting and looking at the boring stuff. Ok we did all the test we could on this rock. Ok lets find a different type of rock. Ok Lets do paper rock scissors on who gets to do analysis on the data and who will sit in front of the screen while the rover is moving to find a new type of rock.
Even with the speed of light broken, the Galaxy is still very very very big.
100,000 Light years Diameter. From my understanding the Theoretical model says we can probably go 10x the speed of light. Meaning that it will still take 10,000 years at 10x speed of light. Heck if you use the Speed of Plot that Star Trek and other Sci-Fi uses, it still takes about 100 years just to cross the galaxy.
Just to give you an idea of size. Star Trek Seems Warp drive seems to have an average of 1000x the speed of light. that means it will take 36 hours to get from Earth to Alpha Proxima.
But if it takes longer then 15 minutes to charge, People will not want electric cars that stop at a charging station anyways.
The electric car idea is getting better, and it is close, however it still isn't ready for mass productions, The car companies should research it more, until they can come with a good model that won't suck, vs. trying to push one out now to make the Greenies happy, but everyone else will have a sour taste in their mouth on electric cars and delay the process an other generation.
The Electric Car for American Consumers needs to do the following.
Range: 400-500 miles per charge. 10 hours of highway driving. Charge Rate: From 0 to 100% charge needs to be less then 15 minutes. Any longer people will feel it will take too long to charge. Size: Fit 4 comfortably, enough trunk space for 4 suit cases, and and 2 large bags. Cruising Speed: It should be able to go up to 80mph. Decent acceleration.
Right now the all electric cars are too small, and too expensive. And are only good for Home to Office driving. Which is actually good for most cases, however if you are going to need to buy two cars one for office and an other for that other 20% of the time. You are spending double.
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Except for the impression that we are a bunch of geeks who's honest opinions will often insult people and general asocial.
You have the freedom of speech. However there are often consequences for your speech.
Sometimes it is better for your image if you keep your mouth shut. Open Source often caries a political clout that for the most part you want to be considered apolitical. If you are a popular figure political statements often make it seem your movement has a larger hidden agenda.
Hans is a bad example because he wasn't much of a key figure. Just a vocal supporter and his actions were not tied to his work.
Man, what a bad day for me to have my Gray Shirt and Gray tie, and black(dark gray) Pants shoes, and sockes.
The trick was to down load the following groups.
Core, Networking.
Install those 2 groups from floppy.
Then run Slackware and use networking to dial in and then download the Games
Then the rest.
While they are downling and installing. You play lastroids.
TI 99/4a Basic,
MS DOS,
Then I started my Linux kick.
Slackware on floppies,
Red Hat,
Then I went to Solaris (Yea it doesn't count, but I wanted to be a real Unix snob for a while),
I almost got Gentoo compiled on my Ultra Sparc,
Poked around Free and OpenBSD (Still on my Unix kick)
then Ubuntu
then Debian.
I had an OS X kick for a while,
Tried a Little Plan 9
VMS was spread around there somehow too.
Right now I am actually kinda liking living in a Windows World.
Who knows what next year brings me.
Over the years I have lost my passion towards my primary computers OS.
I found that Linux is really good for a server (Diebien, Slackware, Red Hat), and Workstation (Red Hat, Ubuntu).
For Home Desktop use. OS X and Windows does the job, but for home desktop I just need a good browser so any OS will tend to work.
I am not sure why you worring about the order saying One distribution is superior then the other. You pop un Ubuntu, they are using Linux, They may or may not like other Distributions better. Thats ok, it isn't that big of a deal.
It is a quesiton often askes to guatar players, what is the worlds hardest cord.
The biggest issue with self driving cars is the same issue why people don't like flying, or Cloud Based solutions.
They are taking something and putting their trust to someone or something else.
The only comfort is numbers saying if it is indeed safer or not.
However Mozilla, has a tendancy of loosing focus. Ok we come out with a good design, then over time things get added and then you get a bigger and bigger pile. Becuase they don't know when to stop.
A lot of the design seems to be taked from Windows 8 land. And the real devil is beyond screen shots when things are running in real time. Fat fingers will just mean something is too small. Or the particular effect just cannot be optimes to run smothly enough.
Yes proper diet and exercise is the only real cure. However the problem is quite more complex than that.
Stress in peoples lives (People in poverty are in more stress) where they don't feel they have control in their lives. Causes us to take pleasure in the few areas we do have control in, what we can eat. Unfortunately the extra weight causes us to gain more weight and adds more stress, when we try to diet we are giving up our only emotional uplift, which makes dieting harder.
Culture, there are a lot of Fat people out there who goes, I want to join a Gym, however I need to lose 50 lbs first so I don't feel that out of place. Because you go to a gym to help loose weight, however you are in a place with fit people and you feel out of place, and if the people are openly critical to you, it makes it harder. Lets laugh at the Fat guy on the treadmill, that will help him come to the gym more often to get better.
Helicopter parents. Your kids need to be watched all the time, they can't go outside and play, without the parents (who sometimes need to do something else). because of fear of kids being mean to each other or the 1 and 100000 chance that a molester will be there to take the kid away.
All in all, is anyone in IT really making a difference?
Bill gates is. But it is after he left Microsoft.
Superglue in the USB Ports?
It seems to me, that that the vandals, were probably just using Boot and Nuke as a quick and easy way to clear out a drive, to an unrecoverable state.
Just in case you somehow don't know every Acronym on the planet.
It must be one of those days I was thinking National Republican Congress.
Leather as a material is actually very interesting.
Light, Flexible, Sturdy, Tough, and a great insulator.
Still there isn't a replacement for it in a lot of protective gear. Such as Motorcycle jackets, they are not to make you look bad-ass but if you fall off your bike as an armor so you don't scrape yourself all up. Metal and Plastic is too ridgid, or too flimsy. Leather has the perfect use.
However I don't see much of a market for artificial leather, only because we are still eating cows. Most farms don't produce leather only cattle, but beef cattle what use the hides for leather.
Now if this technology makes affordable meat like it thinks it could, then perhaps artifical leather can come in.
Dead? It never really existed. Cost+ is your limit. If the market rate is below your Cost+ then you are going to need to change your business.
If they sold under the well below market price, there will be a run to buy them. Then once there is a shortage people will then sell them at the market rate.
If they sold them well above market price, less people will buy them, and the stores will be overstocked. Causing them to sell at a discount (close to the market rate) to get them off their shelves. So they can put items that move faster there.
Why do Gold and Gems have been historically so valuable. If they were cost+ they would be fairly cheap to buy, but because there is smaller supply of them they are more valuable.
How horrible that someone sells a product that cost more than the sum of their part!
We shouldn't have to pay for those millions in R&D and those failed designed they were working on.
We shouldn't have to pay for the salary of the employees at apple.
Heck those guys at Foxconn get next to nothing anyways... Why not go to the next logical step and have them work for free.
Unfortunately running a business you find that things are more expensive than the normal consumer realizes.
http://science.slashdot.org/story/12/09/17/2229257/warp-drive-might-be-less-impossible-than-previously-thought
Then RTFA at
http://news.discovery.com/space/warp-drive-possible-nasa-tests-100yss-120917.html
It is only less than a week old.
You miss the point. There is a good portion of those 47% who had paid their dues, or deserve it. However there is a percentage who doesn't. The stereotypical I am gonna have more babies so my welfare check is bigger. But we don't have real numbers.
Are the "Bad People" 50% of that 47% where it shows that welfare system isn't working, but giving incentives to be less productive member of society. Or is it less than 1% showing that welfare is a safety net to help get people out of the absolute bottom, and the current increase is due to other factors causing productive people to be poorer.
We need to measure this, and get details. Because right now we are making assumptions on a summary. Not really looking at what is going on.
If you had any brains, They are not against energy efficiency, but the idea of government telling you what you should buy.
You shouldn't be drinking, or eating bacon, but should we have prohibition again and ban on Bacon. Just because it isn't optimal for health. We as people need to be able to make choices. Not feel the government will tell us which way to go.
Oh NO! The government is trying to figure out the numbers in demographics, so it can help form policy.
We really need more data.
For example, are a particular groups of people located in a particular area where they can be better served with State or City services, vs the large overhead of a Feds. Or perhaps this group is distributed uniformly across the country and needs Federal Mandate to serve them.
What part of that 48 percent that doesn't pay taxes are actually low life free loaders, and what percentage are people really trying to make a difference in the world.
Do we even bother measuring if a polity that is in place is working or not? Do we bother setting a metric of saying a policy is considered a success if it reaches this goal vs not.
Oh can it.
There is a difference in engineering for a device that moves a few miles per hour, and only travels for hours a day, and is always nearby a charging station, and weight about a hundred lbs.
Vs.
A device that moves 80 miles per hour, travels up to 10 hours a day, will not be near a charging station and weighs a ton.
I think Steven Hawkings will disagree.
If the algorithm is slow, it doesn't really help prevent it from being cracked. Because the hacker can just put more computing power into it.
Then you also mean the person who is trying to protect the data now has to get a faster computer to keep the load and the application running at the right speed... Thus giving an extra cost to the protectee however the hardware speed increase will negate the disadvantage to the hacker. It is just a losing proposal for the system owner.
However if the algorithm is fast that means we can increase the performance on the box, and give more resources to extra security measures. Such as adding a salt (and Pepper) to the Data to be hashed, Putting in a system that puts a system idle sleep if the value is incorrect...
1x 2x 100x slower isn't a big deal. Big O is.
It means more time doing actual science and less time waiting and looking at the boring stuff. Ok we did all the test we could on this rock. Ok lets find a different type of rock. Ok Lets do paper rock scissors on who gets to do analysis on the data and who will sit in front of the screen while the rover is moving to find a new type of rock.
Even with the speed of light broken, the Galaxy is still very very very big.
100,000 Light years Diameter. From my understanding the Theoretical model says we can probably go 10x the speed of light. Meaning that it will still take 10,000 years at 10x speed of light. Heck if you use the Speed of Plot that Star Trek and other Sci-Fi uses, it still takes about 100 years just to cross the galaxy.
Just to give you an idea of size. Star Trek Seems Warp drive seems to have an average of 1000x the speed of light. that means it will take 36 hours to get from Earth to Alpha Proxima.
That is still about 545 Are we there yets.
But if it takes longer then 15 minutes to charge, People will not want electric cars that stop at a charging station anyways.
The electric car idea is getting better, and it is close, however it still isn't ready for mass productions, The car companies should research it more, until they can come with a good model that won't suck, vs. trying to push one out now to make the Greenies happy, but everyone else will have a sour taste in their mouth on electric cars and delay the process an other generation.
The Electric Car for American Consumers needs to do the following.
Range: 400-500 miles per charge. 10 hours of highway driving.
Charge Rate: From 0 to 100% charge needs to be less then 15 minutes. Any longer people will feel it will take too long to charge.
Size: Fit 4 comfortably, enough trunk space for 4 suit cases, and and 2 large bags.
Cruising Speed: It should be able to go up to 80mph.
Decent acceleration.
Right now the all electric cars are too small, and too expensive. And are only good for Home to Office driving. Which is actually good for most cases, however if you are going to need to buy two cars one for office and an other for that other 20% of the time. You are spending double.