I hate to admit it, but it looks like this is one dirty idea. They plan to use fision products as propellent! That is nasty, much worse than NERVA, even Orion. If they manage this it might be to dirty to use in the air.
I liked the idea of Orion. I'd assumed it would be used far enough away from Earth that the radioactivity wouldn't have much effect.
Hell, you might even get as far away as Nevada where hundreds of above ground tests were made. Total effect = 0. Geography is large, Kenedy was stupid, Las Vegas is the perfect launch site.
I do know a little about these lawsuits. Most of us have read about these bizare suits where billion dollar judgements is awarded in cash to the lawyers and discount coupons to the "class". A relative of mine has told me a little more, because he IS one of these evil beasts.
He joined the great wave of tobaco litigation just in time to loose some time and money representing blackjack dealers in Las Vegas. This is one of the more subtle second hand suits that argue that the victims (all heavy smokers and drinkers!) had to inhale second hand smoke for a living. The more muddled the better. He has put up thousands of dollars flying out to Las Vegas, and hundreds of hours. The biggest lesson I learned is this: The law encourages people to waste as much time and energy as possible because damages are larger that way, and so are the fees awarded.
The case that turned his career was his own son's personal injury suit. His son crippled himself binge drinking and driving every other night the summer before he was to go to College. The driver was killed and another boy seriously injured when they ran their stupid urban vehicle into a utility pole (how's that for a nice safe car?). Because the insurance company fought payments of any kind and refused to settle, my step brother became independently wealthy. Bingo! just like that. Since then, he's been willing to hazzard these kinds of cases.
The true insanity began with suits against the city, the utility company and others only remotly involved. The tobaco case came once his reputation was really soiled. I'm waiting for the city to charge him and the other parents with child neglect.
All of this is perfectly legal, but utterly wasteful and immoral. The problem is not the lawyers, however, it's the law! People will do what they can.
Where did these things come from? For the modern lawsuit and limitless punative damages, you can thank Ralph Nader. You can then thank Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton and the Trail Lawyers Association for making these suits bigger than life and expanding the concepts into the isms.
No, not us! It's imposible right? It's easier to see the mote in someone else's eye than the beam in your own, right?
Bill Gates just gave a billion or so bucks to the NAACP, right? Such an organization is built on the assumption that special barriers exist. Bill must have thought these barriers exist elsewhere, Texaco, Shoney's, older low tech places. Surely Bill could have fixed the problems in his own company without their help.
Wrong! Most of these suits are just so much judicial extortion.
I've heard that x86 floating point math is sloppy at best, but does it make a real difference? Can a PPC compete despite the clock speed advantage of the x86s? Some real world examples would be nice, thanks.
Essentially it says that any school or library which receives federal funds to build its network must install censorware.
The real problem is that so many institutions are dependent on the Federal government for funding. This is because the Federal government takes so much out of the economy that there is little left for private or state ventures. If this were not so, the local school or the local library could simply ignore this advice. As it is, Federal spending makes up more than 25% of the GDP, and it's imposible to ignore.
Your grandchild might ask you what state and local governments are for, and what power they really have. Then you might try asking yourself how and when all public instutions became defacto Federal institutions.
Two voices pushed this, big government and big business. On the left was NPR, the voice of Big Brother and a favorite of Democrats. Must broadcast Federal news everywhere! Must! On the right are the thugs from the RIAA. The compromise seems to have been to alow each of these groups to continue in their little nitch.
Huh! To add insult to injury, here in Baton Rouge, NPR claimed to be the "local voice" durring their last fund drive. They blathered on about the evils of conglomeration and promoted themselves as something local, "the people's radio", and different. Yeah right. An hour or two of local programing a week from the nations largest radio broadcast group and an arm of the federal government, does not fool me. It's sickening to learn they were busy squashing those real local voices at the same time they claimed to represent them. Why does this remind me of a recent Slashdot article about Fandom?
Yes, comercial radio sucks but Big Brother's voice is not the only solution. Shame on them.
I don't think that's wholly correct. For one, law offices tend to be very conservative (pardon the pun) about what they install and use. Most of them are based on DOS or Windows and aren't interested in switching for the sake of running Linux.
The original poster was dead on. Corel should have shifted their base to their turf.
My sister works for a prominent firm in Chicago, and she is very annoyed with MS junk. Not being stupid, she gets rather upset when "tech support" asks her to reboot her computer again. She's lost enough work and enough time to try just about anything else. Talking paperclips, flashing banners and all that game junk was not what she wants from a computer. All she wants is a word processor, mail, and some elementery browsing for research.
Moreover, she was very warm to the whole linux thing. Lawyers demand transparency, so both the Free and Open Software models made great sense to her. It was easy for her to see that a software profesional without source was crippled, and then understood why tech support seemed so poor.
Had Correl droped stable systems on desks around her, she would have demanded one in short order.
It is part of my unique user interface and cost me all sorts of time, trouble, blood, sweat, tears, and lost lives to bring it to you. You may use it if you buy my new ASCII based interface. By pressing this button, you tell my interface to be happy. If you use it in your interface for the same purpose, I'll sue you! I swear I will.
As for ringing phones, that WAS annoying! It wasn't too bad, though, because we
also had a "mini room" (actually two spare offices) across the hall.
Too bad you could not put ALL the phones in there. Any ring is anoying. When will people stop using those stupid things except for emergencies? I hate it when people reach out and grab my attention like that. Even the awful Outlook, which interupts my typing, is better than the dying bird sound the phone makes.
From the article: "I mean, everything in Unix is ultimately based on command line interactions. You can try to overcome that, but it's very hard.
Unix's whole philosophy on how to do internal management and how to manage timing is based on that set of assumptions,so you have to fight it at a thousand levels."
He might as well have bitched over the binary nature of computers. Like so:
I mean, everything in computers is ultimately based on binary interactions. You can try to
overcome that, but it's very hard. The whole philosophy on how to do internal management and how to manage timing is based on that set of assumptions, so you have to fight it at a thousand levels.
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I hate to admit it, but it looks like this is one dirty idea. They plan to use fision products as propellent! That is nasty, much worse than NERVA, even Orion. If they manage this it might be to dirty to use in the air.
We will meet again where there is no darkness.
not all of us like to read Michael.
Hell, you might even get as far away as Nevada where hundreds of above ground tests were made. Total effect = 0. Geography is large, Kenedy was stupid, Las Vegas is the perfect launch site.
There are some people who like suffocation, just ask the former lead singer of INXS.
Make more megawatts!
Want to give money to someone? Give money to them! Look them up and send them what you will.
Great goal, go visit nowhere! Try visiting places where people intersect instead.
I do know a little about these lawsuits. Most of us have read about these bizare suits where billion dollar judgements is awarded in cash to the lawyers and discount coupons to the "class". A relative of mine has told me a little more, because he IS one of these evil beasts.
He joined the great wave of tobaco litigation just in time to loose some time and money representing blackjack dealers in Las Vegas. This is one of the more subtle second hand suits that argue that the victims (all heavy smokers and drinkers!) had to inhale second hand smoke for a living. The more muddled the better. He has put up thousands of dollars flying out to Las Vegas, and hundreds of hours. The biggest lesson I learned is this: The law encourages people to waste as much time and energy as possible because damages are larger that way, and so are the fees awarded.
The case that turned his career was his own son's personal injury suit. His son crippled himself binge drinking and driving every other night the summer before he was to go to College. The driver was killed and another boy seriously injured when they ran their stupid urban vehicle into a utility pole (how's that for a nice safe car?). Because the insurance company fought payments of any kind and refused to settle, my step brother became independently wealthy. Bingo! just like that. Since then, he's been willing to hazzard these kinds of cases.
The true insanity began with suits against the city, the utility company and others only remotly involved. The tobaco case came once his reputation was really soiled. I'm waiting for the city to charge him and the other parents with child neglect.
All of this is perfectly legal, but utterly wasteful and immoral. The problem is not the lawyers, however, it's the law! People will do what they can.
Where did these things come from? For the modern lawsuit and limitless punative damages, you can thank Ralph Nader. You can then thank Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton and the Trail Lawyers Association for making these suits bigger than life and expanding the concepts into the isms.
Bill Gates just gave a billion or so bucks to the NAACP, right? Such an organization is built on the assumption that special barriers exist. Bill must have thought these barriers exist elsewhere, Texaco, Shoney's, older low tech places. Surely Bill could have fixed the problems in his own company without their help.
Wrong! Most of these suits are just so much judicial extortion.
Suck it up Bill!
That's what they will get, after the lawyers take their fair share.
I've heard that x86 floating point math is sloppy at best, but does it make a real difference? Can a PPC compete despite the clock speed advantage of the x86s? Some real world examples would be nice, thanks.
I recomend burbon, early morning, and no seat belt. Try not to hurt anyone nice when you die, looser.
this is good stuff. Will someone please mod this up?
Choice never really hurts.
Saying two things at the same time and beliving them both is Doublethink. It requires no balls.
...and I agree. Federal power is too great because they control too much money.
The real problem is that so many institutions are dependent on the Federal government for funding. This is because the Federal government takes so much out of the economy that there is little left for private or state ventures. If this were not so, the local school or the local library could simply ignore this advice. As it is, Federal spending makes up more than 25% of the GDP, and it's imposible to ignore.
Your grandchild might ask you what state and local governments are for, and what power they really have. Then you might try asking yourself how and when all public instutions became defacto Federal institutions.
Two voices pushed this, big government and big business. On the left was NPR, the voice of Big Brother and a favorite of Democrats. Must broadcast Federal news everywhere! Must! On the right are the thugs from the RIAA. The compromise seems to have been to alow each of these groups to continue in their little nitch.
Yes, comercial radio sucks but Big Brother's voice is not the only solution. Shame on them.
The original poster was dead on. Corel should have shifted their base to their turf.
My sister works for a prominent firm in Chicago, and she is very annoyed with MS junk. Not being stupid, she gets rather upset when "tech support" asks her to reboot her computer again. She's lost enough work and enough time to try just about anything else. Talking paperclips, flashing banners and all that game junk was not what she wants from a computer. All she wants is a word processor, mail, and some elementery browsing for research.
Moreover, she was very warm to the whole linux thing. Lawyers demand transparency, so both the Free and Open Software models made great sense to her. It was easy for her to see that a software profesional without source was crippled, and then understood why tech support seemed so poor.
Had Correl droped stable systems on desks around her, she would have demanded one in short order.
"I meant to do that" - Pee Wee
8===D
It is part of my unique user interface and cost me all sorts of time, trouble, blood, sweat, tears, and lost lives to bring it to you. You may use it if you buy my new ASCII based interface. By pressing this button, you tell my interface to be happy. If you use it in your interface for the same purpose, I'll sue you! I swear I will.
Too bad you could not put ALL the phones in there. Any ring is anoying. When will people stop using those stupid things except for emergencies? I hate it when people reach out and grab my attention like that. Even the awful Outlook, which interupts my typing, is better than the dying bird sound the phone makes.
He might as well have bitched over the binary nature of computers. Like so:
I mean, everything in computers is ultimately based on binary interactions. You can try to overcome that, but it's very hard. The whole philosophy on how to do internal management and how to manage timing is based on that set of assumptions, so you have to fight it at a thousand levels.