I don't know anyone who codes COBOL, I don't know anyone who knows anyone who codes COBOL. Same for NASCAR, but I know they are out there. I think a long time ago, some Oracle Apps were written in COBOL.
My points were that if Apple is really more secure than Vista, Apple would welcome a thorough investigation of its OS. In that regard, MS is more proactive. Personally, I find both OS's acceptable regarding security.
I do think that a lot of people are turned off by the size of MS more than the quality of its products. A lot of people want something different to express themselves. Even when Apple truly sucked (and it did), a fair number of people stuck with them presumably to distance themselves from the giant and evil MS.
This must be bitter sweet for Steve B., since Apple likes to tout that it's software is more secure than Vista. I wonder if Walt Mossberg is taking note of this.
I think Steve J.'s brand of evil is about the same as MS's, but because they are perceived as underdogs, people don't care as much.
I don't think you have to keep the O2 to run a fuel cell; won't it run off the O2 in the air? I suspect that the O2 would be tanked and sold to hospitals and industrial uses. Also, it might be more cost effective to pipe/truck the H2 to the city to operate a fuel cell there, thereby reducing the electrical loss from long distance transmission and step-up / step-down transformers. Indeed, it might be best to convert all solar power to H2 and truck it to the city vs. building expensive transmission lines and pipelines.
The Space Shuttle is a complete failure on almost every level, especially safety. It has killed 14 people, much more than Apollo. On top of that, it is much more expensive ($500MM per launch) than other means of launching humans into LEO. The constant safety failures of the system have caused NASA to delay other important programs and focus the energy of smart people away from science. The private sector has the capability of launching material into orbit at a lower cost, and the Russians can launch humans into orbit at a lower cost. Therefore, the Shuttle can't be grounded soon enough.
Even if it were $150, it would be cheaper, because:
1. It appears to be more environmentally friendly (although that is what we thought about corn ethanol), and
2. It reduces dependence on oil from our enemies.
Those externalities support the concept of some type of subsidy for an oil alternative, and if this is the most economic, then subsidies should be shifted away from things like corn.
My only point is that a press release is not the same thing as alternative fuel in the economy. For all the hype about bio, solar, and wind, they make up a pittance of the energy consumed in the USA, and they probably always will.
I'm sure they thought of it, but I am not at all sure they are reporting it. Start-ups often put the best face on the benefits of their products.
They could be reporting costs before certain fixed costs or they could be reporting a target cost they hope to achieve after further R&D and investment.
Qin Shi Huang was the first emperor of China and his best scientists tried to develop the singularity of eternal life. To that end, he poisoned himself by ingesting mercury.
Humans can make small machines, but that completely ignores the fact that we have very limited knowledge about the workings of our cells and we really don't even know what sentient life is.
In the grand scheme of things, we are only a few steps down the road from Qin Shi Huang. Every generation talks up unlimited life spans, and it is always BS.
In other words, be prepared to die like everyone else.
child porn is a very infrequent crime, so $1bln seems like a very large sum to fight it relative to the number of its victims
Just like the RICO act was used to prosecute pro-life protesters and the Patriot Act has primarily resulted in arrests unrelated to terrorism, this funding will be used to dig up any manner of crime, not just child porn.
The real title of this bill should be "$1bln to scour the internet for whatever we want and prosecute whatever turns up." Whenever the government says its "for the children," beware.
I do find that IE8 is more compatible with Flash, but still, you'd think Adobe would make an effort to fit in better with one of the top browsers. Even if it is MS's fault for making a weird browser, you've got to work with what's available.
Foxit is a great reader, much better than Adobe in every way. I use the Adobe creator, but I might drop it for some of the alternatives.
I appreciate your advice, but I think/. is more oriented to complaining than solving.
IMO, Adobe is actively against MS. Acrobat is still not fully Vista compatible. Flash crashes my IE7 daily, and there are no x64 plans that I know of (they made a vague announcement a long time ago).
Silverlight works just fine on my web site and doesn't crash anything. MS is pushing a lot of content providers to try Silverlight, so the install base should go up this summer.
MS lost its edge in the OS war through complacency and slow roll-out performance. I see Adobe doing the same with Flash.
You did not answer to the fact that in any given area during an average year, there can be several days without substantial wind or direct sunlight. What then? As the percent dependence on wind and solar increases, the required storage to guarantee uninterrupted power increases logarithmically. That is why wind and solar cannot practically become more than marginal providers of electricity.
Furthermore, you confuse geothermal energy generation with ground pre-heat and pre-cool systems based on water loops that go down about 100 feet. The former can generate electricity, the latter can only reduce reliance on other sources of energy. There are only a few places on earth where it is at all practical to tap into geothermal energy for generating steam. Out here in Colorado, you'd have to drill down for miles.
Regarding you collectivist instincts, I applaud you for speaking clearly to your beliefs. Most leftists disguise their agenda (Democrats and many Republicans too). You, at least are honest.
Each year, there are several days in a row by without wind and sun. People want electricity 24/7 regarless of wind and sun. Your stoarge schemes, which are highly expensive can't cope with a week of cloud cover. Even an hour without power is a disaster for many people. That is why reliable sources of power must always be available and wind / solar can only offset their generation.
Geothermal only works in certain parts of the world, like Iceland.
If you want to live on $10K per year, go right ahead. That final comment just proves that you are an extreme collectivist whose real goal is to degrade the standard of living I quite enjoy.
So, it's OK for Iran to pursue nuclear power (and possibly a bomb or two). Why, then, are most of the left against nuclear power for the USA, which hasn't used a nuclear bomb in 60 years?
Assuming population growth in this country does not stop, and assuming the USA can't get electricity from non-carbon sources, we will have to revert to a pre-industrial society to achieve Obama's carbon plan.
There is no technology in existance that can provide all of the USA's electricity without carbon, except for nuclear. Things like wind and solar can only provide about 10-15% of the USA's current demand because they only work when the sun shines and the wind blows.
Anyway, 80% emission reductions by 2050 would require that the USA give up a bunch of things, like cars, air conditioning, TV, hair dryers, air planes, buses, and computers. That is because the presidential candidate likes to toss out pleasant figures like 80 by 50 without consideration of reality.
Population growth makes 80 by 50 impossible without a transforming technology like a nuclear powered economy with hydrogen transportation and storage of energy. It's not impossible to achieve, but politicians only like to talk about happy, fuzzy goals absent concrete plans to achieve them or admiting that they are extremely expensive.
The fact that importing foreign sugar or ethanol is more or less practically prohibited proves to me that this whole ethanol craze is really just a way to buy farm state votes for Senators. Case in point is the long line of Eastern politicians who were against ethanol until they ran for national office.
Practical cellulose ethanol is on the doorstep of commercial viability, and it does not need subsidies for Kansas and Nebraska. What will the Senate say about ethanol subsidies when the dominant producers don't have any political clout? I suspect they will find a way to prevent the subsidies from moving out of the farm belt.
Can someone link to the/. thread where everyone evicerated Al Gore for his Buddist Temple fundraiser? As I recall, he claimed that the key emails from the time of that crime were lost too.
Or does the Clinton administration get more of a benefit of the doubt?
What makes GITS my favorite anime is the extremely well crafted plot with a lot of analysis for today's reality.
I don't want a bigger budget for smoother animation because that ususally leads to suits cutting up the message and focus groups dumbing down the plot.
There is nothing good that can come from Hollywood taking over this classic.
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I don't know anyone who codes COBOL, I don't know anyone who knows anyone who codes COBOL. Same for NASCAR, but I know they are out there.
I think a long time ago, some Oracle Apps were written in COBOL.
IIRC, Apple builds its hardware using contract manufacturers in China and other countries outside the US.
/. loves and admires, how can Dell be wrong for following their lead?
Since Apple is pure, clean, and everything
Fair enough. Marketing is society's solution for what to do with psychopaths and morons.
That being said, I suspect Steve J. made this decision.
My points were that if Apple is really more secure than Vista, Apple would welcome a thorough investigation of its OS. In that regard, MS is more proactive. Personally, I find both OS's acceptable regarding security.
I do think that a lot of people are turned off by the size of MS more than the quality of its products. A lot of people want something different to express themselves. Even when Apple truly sucked (and it did), a fair number of people stuck with them presumably to distance themselves from the giant and evil MS.
This must be bitter sweet for Steve B., since Apple likes to tout that it's software is more secure than Vista. I wonder if Walt Mossberg is taking note of this.
I think Steve J.'s brand of evil is about the same as MS's, but because they are perceived as underdogs, people don't care as much.
I don't think you have to keep the O2 to run a fuel cell; won't it run off the O2 in the air? I suspect that the O2 would be tanked and sold to hospitals and industrial uses. Also, it might be more cost effective to pipe/truck the H2 to the city to operate a fuel cell there, thereby reducing the electrical loss from long distance transmission and step-up / step-down transformers.
Indeed, it might be best to convert all solar power to H2 and truck it to the city vs. building expensive transmission lines and pipelines.
The Space Shuttle is a complete failure on almost every level, especially safety.
It has killed 14 people, much more than Apollo.
On top of that, it is much more expensive ($500MM per launch) than other means of launching humans into LEO.
The constant safety failures of the system have caused NASA to delay other important programs and focus the energy of smart people away from science.
The private sector has the capability of launching material into orbit at a lower cost, and the Russians can launch humans into orbit at a lower cost. Therefore, the Shuttle can't be grounded soon enough.
1. It appears to be more environmentally friendly (although that is what we thought about corn ethanol), and
2. It reduces dependence on oil from our enemies.
Those externalities support the concept of some type of subsidy for an oil alternative, and if this is the most economic, then subsidies should be shifted away from things like corn.
My only point is that a press release is not the same thing as alternative fuel in the economy. For all the hype about bio, solar, and wind, they make up a pittance of the energy consumed in the USA, and they probably always will.
They could be reporting costs before certain fixed costs or they could be reporting a target cost they hope to achieve after further R&D and investment.
Does the $50 include the land and equipment to build a commercial facility?
Does the $50 include the amortization of the start-up costs in developing an industrial scale process?
Does the $50 include the cost of gathering and delivering huge quantities of raw materials?
Does the $50 include the cost of environmentally safe disposal of waste materials?
The price of crude oil includes all of these costs.
Q: For whom are you voting?
A: The irish guy.
Nobody gets it.
1. Obama himself
2. Joe Biden
Humans can make small machines, but that completely ignores the fact that we have very limited knowledge about the workings of our cells and we really don't even know what sentient life is.
In the grand scheme of things, we are only a few steps down the road from Qin Shi Huang. Every generation talks up unlimited life spans, and it is always BS.
In other words, be prepared to die like everyone else.
A camera in every seat back is another example of the government's efforts to identify and then marginalize nose pickers.
Just like the RICO act was used to prosecute pro-life protesters and the Patriot Act has primarily resulted in arrests unrelated to terrorism, this funding will be used to dig up any manner of crime, not just child porn.
The real title of this bill should be "$1bln to scour the internet for whatever we want and prosecute whatever turns up." Whenever the government says its "for the children," beware.
Foxit is a great reader, much better than Adobe in every way. I use the Adobe creator, but I might drop it for some of the alternatives.
I appreciate your advice, but I think /. is more oriented to complaining than solving.
Silverlight works just fine on my web site and doesn't crash anything. MS is pushing a lot of content providers to try Silverlight, so the install base should go up this summer.
MS lost its edge in the OS war through complacency and slow roll-out performance. I see Adobe doing the same with Flash.
Furthermore, you confuse geothermal energy generation with ground pre-heat and pre-cool systems based on water loops that go down about 100 feet. The former can generate electricity, the latter can only reduce reliance on other sources of energy. There are only a few places on earth where it is at all practical to tap into geothermal energy for generating steam. Out here in Colorado, you'd have to drill down for miles.
Regarding you collectivist instincts, I applaud you for speaking clearly to your beliefs. Most leftists disguise their agenda (Democrats and many Republicans too). You, at least are honest.
Geothermal only works in certain parts of the world, like Iceland.
If you want to live on $10K per year, go right ahead. That final comment just proves that you are an extreme collectivist whose real goal is to degrade the standard of living I quite enjoy.
So, it's OK for Iran to pursue nuclear power (and possibly a bomb or two). Why, then, are most of the left against nuclear power for the USA, which hasn't used a nuclear bomb in 60 years?
There is no technology in existance that can provide all of the USA's electricity without carbon, except for nuclear. Things like wind and solar can only provide about 10-15% of the USA's current demand because they only work when the sun shines and the wind blows.
Anyway, 80% emission reductions by 2050 would require that the USA give up a bunch of things, like cars, air conditioning, TV, hair dryers, air planes, buses, and computers. That is because the presidential candidate likes to toss out pleasant figures like 80 by 50 without consideration of reality.
Population growth makes 80 by 50 impossible without a transforming technology like a nuclear powered economy with hydrogen transportation and storage of energy. It's not impossible to achieve, but politicians only like to talk about happy, fuzzy goals absent concrete plans to achieve them or admiting that they are extremely expensive.
1. Nerdy content that average people can't fathom
2. Anti MS
3. Anti Bush
Practical cellulose ethanol is on the doorstep of commercial viability, and it does not need subsidies for Kansas and Nebraska. What will the Senate say about ethanol subsidies when the dominant producers don't have any political clout? I suspect they will find a way to prevent the subsidies from moving out of the farm belt.
Or does the Clinton administration get more of a benefit of the doubt?
I don't want a bigger budget for smoother animation because that ususally leads to suits cutting up the message and focus groups dumbing down the plot.
There is nothing good that can come from Hollywood taking over this classic.