As another poster pointed out, there is no discourse. Scientists present evidence and the religious say you have to have faith in what the bible teaches.
The day you can present evidence that proves the earth is only 5,000 years old - and I mean real evidence and not scripture - is the day that you might start getting taken seriously.
But you can't.
You only offer the explanation that "God" made everything look like it's really old but it's really just a ruse and it's too complex for man to understand.
Even discussing things like "Intelligent Design" with you people is a waste of time and it gives you credibility you don't deserve and shouldn't even have. You talk Jesus coloring book science. Not real science.
This whole topic pisses me off. The non-science idiots who try to pervert science with their armchair observations polluted with religion are ruining this country.
We need science policy based on fact - not fantasy. This creationist crap is what leads to bad policies for the country as a whole too and impacts global warming and energy policy just as much as science funding.
And yep, I know that the threat profile has changed, but come on. Why leave the system open to any other systems behind whatever other hardware firewall there is - if there is - services running or no?
Also, boss seems to be a total idiot if he thinks salaried people are just going to sit around and take it when told they are to work additional hours with no real incentive. He also apparently doesn't think much of you and your coworkers to float this balloon and see if you bite. He wants something for nothing. Some may need the job bad enough to allow him to corner them that way, but this has nowhere to go but an unhappy ending if it actually gets implemented.
The best people will find other jobs which will select for the worst people staying behind to work.
A company that isn't profitable but expects workers to put in that many extra hours better be prepared to incentivize it somehow - stock options, profit sharing guarantees, or even stakes in the company.
Even if they say they can't, they really can. The owners are in a tough spot and if it is really true that they need that kind of work output to even survive, aside from the obvious CYA and start circulating your resume and gearing up for another job just in case, the owners have to realize that they don't get something for nothing.
I've been in a similar situation and when the owners of the company I was working at decided to get "creative" in how they (mis)managed the company, those who could leave did and they were left with the workers who had pretty rough skills, work ethics, and abilities. Basically the company committed suicide. You can't change working conditions to really stress the employees without giving them some good reason to do it. Again, with no incentives, the good workers will leave and the company will be left in even worse shape and more work for anyone left behind.
Basically, your boss's reaction to you telling him he needs to make it worth everyone's while will tell you all you need to know about finding another job.
Dude, while I have no special information, that is most likely just a compromised box and the files were ultimately sent elsewhere.
There might be information about the next link in the chain or there might not. If it was real espionage, I doubt there will be traces and there will be a number of intermediaries.
Um, you do know about KDE, Gnome, and other desktops that make it where users don't need to open terminal windows, right?
I think most Linux users see desktops very similar (though IMO better) to Windows. They open programs the same way, look at directories the same way, etc.
And in both Windows and Linux, you can grab a terminal window and go all command line if you want to.
My thought exactly. Why do they assume that "More girls might get the impression that computer science is only advanced application use, which might turn them off to computer science" and not make the same assumption about boys?
If I only would have known that a career in woodworking was not properly represented by that slab-sided tool box tray or bird house that I made in shop, how my life could have been different...
Actually you are wrong. Even though there may be an atom or molecule or few floating around in some chamber, a photon doesn't have to hit it. As far as the photon is concerned, if it doesn't hit anything, it was a perfect vacuum.
And it really isn't even news. The fact that isotope ratios vary (and thus average atomic weight/mass) depending on the source/location is fundamental to things like carbon dating.
Atomic weights based on accepted isotope distributions have always been somewhat approximate. That accepted weights would be revised should have been expected.
It will be important to have businesses install charging stations so local power generated during the day can be used to charge the vehicles while the power is available. Solar panels won't help the situation much if people only plug in at night.
Also look for home generators to start getting more popular. In Europe, a lot of homes have them and they aren't for emergency backup. They use the waste heat for heating homes and water and the electricity to power the home. By using more of the available energy, efficiency goes way up.
I think there will have to be something done about local generation, though. Otherwise you are looking at stringing new power lines everywhere (good luck in the neighborhoods with power below ground), upgrading transformers, and even upgrading the electrical service in a lot of older homes.
You can't go by what things are breakered at - that's the maximum the circuits can safely draw. The circuits aren't meant to draw more than 1/2 to 2/3 of that value. Speculation, but I doubt that the electrical service in a neighborhood is designed anywhere close to having all the loads draw their breakered values.
It doesn't surprise me at all that electric companies oversubscribe their service and count on individual homes pulling relatively low loads. It makes sense - that is what causes brownouts and the need for electric companies to drop neighborhoods out so they can keep from overstressing transmission lines and such. If electric companies didn't oversubscribe their service there would not be brownouts.
It's high load in the residential areas that will make it important for people to supplement the grid with local power generation with things like solar panels. The problem there is that the electric vehicles will generally be somewhere else during the day. The efficiency isn't completely lost, though, and solar panels in a neighborhood are generally much closer to the local industrial loads than the power plants.
But this is going to be the kicker to help get people to put up panels. It will be distributed power generation and will help the grid deal with the much higher loads that electric vehicles will impose.
Looks like if this might be along the lines of what you are interested in, the "SmartNav" is what they have tailored to assisting people with disabilities. (http://www.naturalpoint.com/smartnav/)
I don't know if they still promote it for handicapped people, but they did at one time.
It's an infrared head tracker that a lot of people use for flying and driving games. I'm sure other things as well.
They used to have a whole section of their website devoted to handicapped applications.
From their website:
"Eye Control Technologies, Inc. (dba NaturalPoint) was founded in 1997 to develop computer control devices for people with disabilities. Founders Jim Richardson and Birch Zimmer were initially inspired to develop affordable motion tracking technology after Jim’s cousin was completely paralyzed in an accident and could communicate only by moving his eyes."
"During the last several years, engineering breakthroughs have made it possible to introduce ordinary users to the same revolutionary technology that enables people with disabilities to communicate and effectively use their computers. Capitalizing on these breakthroughs, company leaders decided to launch the NaturalPoint SmartNav in order to provide the general public with an affordable alternative to the traditional mouse."
And the sad thing is that while this country drowns in debt, taxes are at their lowest in decades. Somehow the right has convinced everyone that low taxes are actually high and need to be cut even more - in an era of multi-million dollar salaries for execs. Sure can't burden those poor folk with any taxes. How could they afford that next Gulfstream jet or vacation home?
But will the working class get a break? Nope. As the Fed cuts various programs, states will be forced to raise taxes and guess who will pay them.
I doubt advertisers will want to just pony up blindly for the ads and cross their fingers that people are actually seeing them. They will probably want statistics - including knowing what you are reading so they can better target their advertising dollars.
And sure, they will remove any identifying information - like IP address, serial number of the device, or even the registered name of the device owner from those records. There is no chance they would want that information to be able to target you directly or sell that information to someone else.
Sure, B&N and Amazon already know what you buy and read but the recent attempt by North Carolina to get information on what NC residents bought at Amazon instead of only the dollar figure shows that people's reading history can have organizations try to get at it.
I think advertisers would just sell it instead of defending their "customers" right to privacy.
Although I am not a lawyer, I would bet that the answer would ride on any copyright agreements between the US and the UK and have nothing to do with Australia. However, if you were to download it in a country that had agreements with Australia it would then be yours to bring into the US but not distribute (again, depending on the copyright terms and any agreeements between the US and UK.
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As another poster pointed out, there is no discourse. Scientists present evidence and the religious say you have to have faith in what the bible teaches.
The day you can present evidence that proves the earth is only 5,000 years old - and I mean real evidence and not scripture - is the day that you might start getting taken seriously.
But you can't.
You only offer the explanation that "God" made everything look like it's really old but it's really just a ruse and it's too complex for man to understand.
Even discussing things like "Intelligent Design" with you people is a waste of time and it gives you credibility you don't deserve and shouldn't even have. You talk Jesus coloring book science. Not real science.
This whole topic pisses me off. The non-science idiots who try to pervert science with their armchair observations polluted with religion are ruining this country.
We need science policy based on fact - not fantasy. This creationist crap is what leads to bad policies for the country as a whole too and impacts global warming and energy policy just as much as science funding.
Keep the nut jobs out of science.
By default instead of leaving it set OFF.
And yep, I know that the threat profile has changed, but come on. Why leave the system open to any other systems behind whatever other hardware firewall there is - if there is - services running or no?
Also, boss seems to be a total idiot if he thinks salaried people are just going to sit around and take it when told they are to work additional hours with no real incentive. He also apparently doesn't think much of you and your coworkers to float this balloon and see if you bite. He wants something for nothing. Some may need the job bad enough to allow him to corner them that way, but this has nowhere to go but an unhappy ending if it actually gets implemented.
The best people will find other jobs which will select for the worst people staying behind to work.
A company that isn't profitable but expects workers to put in that many extra hours better be prepared to incentivize it somehow - stock options, profit sharing guarantees, or even stakes in the company.
Even if they say they can't, they really can. The owners are in a tough spot and if it is really true that they need that kind of work output to even survive, aside from the obvious CYA and start circulating your resume and gearing up for another job just in case, the owners have to realize that they don't get something for nothing.
I've been in a similar situation and when the owners of the company I was working at decided to get "creative" in how they (mis)managed the company, those who could leave did and they were left with the workers who had pretty rough skills, work ethics, and abilities. Basically the company committed suicide. You can't change working conditions to really stress the employees without giving them some good reason to do it. Again, with no incentives, the good workers will leave and the company will be left in even worse shape and more work for anyone left behind.
Basically, your boss's reaction to you telling him he needs to make it worth everyone's while will tell you all you need to know about finding another job.
Dude, while I have no special information, that is most likely just a compromised box and the files were ultimately sent elsewhere.
There might be information about the next link in the chain or there might not. If it was real espionage, I doubt there will be traces and there will be a number of intermediaries.
Um, you do know about KDE, Gnome, and other desktops that make it where users don't need to open terminal windows, right?
I think most Linux users see desktops very similar (though IMO better) to Windows. They open programs the same way, look at directories the same way, etc.
And in both Windows and Linux, you can grab a terminal window and go all command line if you want to.
Dang - didn't see this one. You get the credit, sir! Mine was almost a carbon copy but you get the gold and I get the silver...
I wouldn't give a nickel for these lousy puns.
The Onion will be more accurate and at least funny...
And no we didn't.
My thought exactly. Why do they assume that "More girls might get the impression that computer science is only advanced application use, which might turn them off to computer science" and not make the same assumption about boys?
If I only would have known that a career in woodworking was not properly represented by that slab-sided tool box tray or bird house that I made in shop, how my life could have been different...
Actually you are wrong. Even though there may be an atom or molecule or few floating around in some chamber, a photon doesn't have to hit it. As far as the photon is concerned, if it doesn't hit anything, it was a perfect vacuum.
And it really isn't even news. The fact that isotope ratios vary (and thus average atomic weight/mass) depending on the source/location is fundamental to things like carbon dating.
Atomic weights based on accepted isotope distributions have always been somewhat approximate. That accepted weights would be revised should have been expected.
Good point about the 25% more. You are correct and I misstated.
They don't work. Yours is yet another story where some friend of a friend did something and wow - it ran all by itself without any energy input.
There is no such thing as "free energy". You need to explain why the laws of thermodynamics should all be violated. Let us know when you can do that.
It will be important to have businesses install charging stations so local power generated during the day can be used to charge the vehicles while the power is available. Solar panels won't help the situation much if people only plug in at night.
Also look for home generators to start getting more popular. In Europe, a lot of homes have them and they aren't for emergency backup. They use the waste heat for heating homes and water and the electricity to power the home. By using more of the available energy, efficiency goes way up.
I think there will have to be something done about local generation, though. Otherwise you are looking at stringing new power lines everywhere (good luck in the neighborhoods with power below ground), upgrading transformers, and even upgrading the electrical service in a lot of older homes.
You can't go by what things are breakered at - that's the maximum the circuits can safely draw. The circuits aren't meant to draw more than 1/2 to 2/3 of that value. Speculation, but I doubt that the electrical service in a neighborhood is designed anywhere close to having all the loads draw their breakered values.
It doesn't surprise me at all that electric companies oversubscribe their service and count on individual homes pulling relatively low loads. It makes sense - that is what causes brownouts and the need for electric companies to drop neighborhoods out so they can keep from overstressing transmission lines and such. If electric companies didn't oversubscribe their service there would not be brownouts.
It's high load in the residential areas that will make it important for people to supplement the grid with local power generation with things like solar panels. The problem there is that the electric vehicles will generally be somewhere else during the day. The efficiency isn't completely lost, though, and solar panels in a neighborhood are generally much closer to the local industrial loads than the power plants.
But this is going to be the kicker to help get people to put up panels. It will be distributed power generation and will help the grid deal with the much higher loads that electric vehicles will impose.
Maybe Cwix meant "their related" as in the possessive? Their relatives...
All versions of Windows should be recalled... ;-)
Looks like if this might be along the lines of what you are interested in, the "SmartNav" is what they have tailored to assisting people with disabilities. (http://www.naturalpoint.com/smartnav/)
I don't know if they still promote it for handicapped people, but they did at one time.
It's an infrared head tracker that a lot of people use for flying and driving games. I'm sure other things as well.
They used to have a whole section of their website devoted to handicapped applications.
From their website:
"Eye Control Technologies, Inc. (dba NaturalPoint) was founded in 1997 to develop computer control devices for people with disabilities. Founders Jim Richardson and Birch Zimmer were initially inspired to develop affordable motion tracking technology after Jim’s cousin was completely paralyzed in an accident and could communicate only by moving his eyes."
"During the last several years, engineering breakthroughs have made it possible to introduce ordinary users to the same revolutionary technology that enables people with disabilities to communicate and effectively use their computers. Capitalizing on these breakthroughs, company leaders decided to launch the NaturalPoint SmartNav in order to provide the general public with an affordable alternative to the traditional mouse."
And the sad thing is that while this country drowns in debt, taxes are at their lowest in decades. Somehow the right has convinced everyone that low taxes are actually high and need to be cut even more - in an era of multi-million dollar salaries for execs. Sure can't burden those poor folk with any taxes. How could they afford that next Gulfstream jet or vacation home?
But will the working class get a break? Nope. As the Fed cuts various programs, states will be forced to raise taxes and guess who will pay them.
Dude, doesn't your data center server have at least 256 Ethernet ports on it?
;-)
Any server worth its salt has them built in on the motherboard! All 256 of them...
I doubt advertisers will want to just pony up blindly for the ads and cross their fingers that people are actually seeing them. They will probably want statistics - including knowing what you are reading so they can better target their advertising dollars.
And sure, they will remove any identifying information - like IP address, serial number of the device, or even the registered name of the device owner from those records. There is no chance they would want that information to be able to target you directly or sell that information to someone else.
Sure, B&N and Amazon already know what you buy and read but the recent attempt by North Carolina to get information on what NC residents bought at Amazon instead of only the dollar figure shows that people's reading history can have organizations try to get at it.
I think advertisers would just sell it instead of defending their "customers" right to privacy.
Although I am not a lawyer, I would bet that the answer would ride on any copyright agreements between the US and the UK and have nothing to do with Australia. However, if you were to download it in a country that had agreements with Australia it would then be yours to bring into the US but not distribute (again, depending on the copyright terms and any agreeements between the US and UK.