Freight was moved to highways because roads are heavily subsidized (fuel tax doesn't cover it by a long stretch), rail has to be built and maintained by the railways. Cheap is king.
It's not a problem with freedom, but one of etiquette or education. Here in Canada, taking photographs of some children in a park and posting them on-line will likely get a knock on the door by some men in blue, but people generally think it's fine to take photographs of friend's or family's children and post them on-line without permission of the parent.
It's a matter of educating people that posting photo's to facebook, even with privacy settings turned on, is *publishing* them for the world to see.
Water and electricity have monthly connection fees that are fixed in most places. Usage is tacked on top of that. If you use zero electricity or water for a given month, you will still get a (smaller) bill covering the infrastructure.
This is the only solution that will work, in my mind. How much do you suppose it would cost to ship a parcel if a single postal company owned the roads? would second-tier postal carriers like UPS have to lay down their own roads? or bend over and pay the monopolies whatever they want to "rent" time on the existing roads? Government owned infrastructure like roads, AND CABLE, leads to more competition, a free-er market, more innovation, jobs and better service for customers.
It shows how well software patents work for Microsoft.
Big boys can pay $300 million, and go on to sue someone else -the games continue. If you can't poney up that kind of cash, software development is a risky business.
Thanks for that. I'll be sure to consider it based on your obvious expertise in this area. Slashdot *is* the place to find world class experts in any field, right?? That's why Linus is on here discussing every post about the Linux kernel, right? I mean, some guy-on-the-Internet just has to be representative of the best known information in a given field, right? Ohh, I see, +5 informative! That's much better than a peer review other experts with decades of experience studying the topic.
No good for games, but MS Money can live in a dedicated, protected XP virtual machine indefinitely. The database is safer that way anyways -less chance of malware based data theft and easy to back up the whole system.
My wife built one of these "smartboard" like projects with a wii remote and a single infrared LED as per here. Not exactly multitouch, but it works pretty well; calibrates quickly and you can write on a projected image anywhere. It uses the IR camera over bluetooth on the wii remote to track the LED "pen", and emulates a mouse for windows XP.
I'll be watching for a Linux version of the software. It would be pretty sweet to run presentations off my Linux netbook and be able to draw on a regular projected screen.
CNN.com's Latest news: * Italy earthquake toll hits 207
Government press release * F-16s chase stolen plane to Missouri
Police press release * Missing girl found dead in submerged luggage
Police press release * Suspected shooter's letter: 'Have a nice day'
Police press release * Commentary: What Turkey can do for the U.S.
Commentary * CNNMoney: Recovery hopes begin to blossom
Interview with banker * Honors student leaves work, disappears
Police press release * FBI suspects truckers in serial killings Video
FBI press release * Time: Why are army recruiters dying?
Okay, published article but by Time Magazine * Commentary: How to make your poor life richer
Commentary * iReport.com: Rabbit rescued from floodwaters
Fluff
There's nothing here that the blogger "echo chamber" couldn't pick up on, certainly nothing that fundamentally needs leg-work. The Time magazine piece is worthwhile, so maybe subscribe to Time, but not CNN as a daily source of news.
A million bloggers don't make up for one real investigative reporter who has the time to do the legwork because they're paid to do it.
How many of those are there in the "real news?" Virtually everything is commercial or government "press releases" and "fluff news." The only leg work I see (as an outsider) are embedded reporters in various wars -which, for all their impartiality, are probably just as easily paid by the military.
I would pay for a news source that was just "investigative journalism," but why would I pay for 99.9% press releases and some "commentary" thrown in?
But *MY* robot's 95% confidence interval is probably more accurate because it uses a better randomization algorithm! Yours is primitive and simple in comparison!
You can receive faxes with a modem in a computer. I wouldn't know how to do it now, but I had a Windows 95 computer configured to receive faxes a while back, and it had all the standard features.
You know you are replying to a comment with the bloody doi link right? You don't even have to read the paper, it's in the abstract.
Abstract
Potential contributions of environmental chemicals and conditions to the etiology of Autism Spectrum Disorders are the subject of considerable current research and speculation. The present paper describes the results of a study undertaken as part of a larger project devoted to the connection between properties of the indoor environment and asthma and allergy in young Swedish children. The larger project, The Dampness in Buildings and Health (DBH) Study, began in the year 2000 with a questionnaire distributed to parents of all children 1â"6 years of age in one Swedish county (DBH-I). A second, follow-up questionnaire (DBH-III) was distributed in 2005. The original survey collected information about the child, the family situation, practices such as smoking, allergic symptoms, type of residence, moisture-related problems, and type of flooring material, which included polyvinyl chloride (PVC). The 2005 survey, based on the same children, now 6â"8 years of age, also asked if, during the intervening period, the child had been diagnosed with Autism, Asperger's syndrome, or Tourette's syndrome. From a total of 4779 eligible children, 72 (60 boys, 12 girls) were identified with parentally reported autism spectrum disorder. A random sample of 10 such families confirmed that the diagnoses had been made by medical professionals, in accordance with the Swedish system for monitoring children's health. An analysis of the associations between indoor environmental variables in 2000 as well as other background factors and the ASD diagnosis indicated five statistically significant variables: (1) maternal smoking; (2) male sex; (3) economic problems in the family; (4) condensation on windows, a proxy for low ventilation rate in the home; (5) PVC flooring, especially in the parentsâ(TM) bedroom. In addition, airway symptoms of wheezing and physician-diagnosed asthma in the baseline investigation (2000) were associated with ASD 5 years later. Results from the second phase of the DBH-study (DBH-II) indicate PVC flooring to be one important source of airborne phthalates indoors, and that asthma and allergy prevalence are associated with phthalate concentrations in settled dust in the children's bedroom. Because these associations are among the few linking ASD with environmental variables, they warrant further and more extensive exploration.
The 3 and 4 hours quoted are most defiantly idle or "light use" times, not playing video. The difference in playback is likely either video drivers on Linux, or flash not taking advantage of video acceleration on Linux.
The funny thing is that I've had the Guardian on my RSS feed for a while, mainly because their RSS feed contains the whole article, so I don't even need to click the link unless I want to see pictures.
My feed reader might be "stealing" from them, but they seem to be encouraging it.
Joe and Jane Average's feelings about computers and the internet are defined largely by a combination of their experiences with computers at home and at work, and stories in the media about computers. If their experience is one of unrelenting danger, constant infection, and identity theft and whatnot, they'll be much more supportive of draconian policy decisions.
It also doesn't help that all the mainstream media coverage of this has called it a "computer worm/virus" (no mention of the target software), and the people they interview are more interested in fear mongering than giving any security advice at all.
True experiments have been done plenty of times with fast reproducing organisms (often bacteria and drosophila). There is yet to be any data out of thousands of these true experiments that disprove Evolution generally, or that better support any other theory of creation.
Of course, the modern theory of Evolution is somewhat different than Darwin's theory, and that is in light of those experiments (quasi or true).
Actually. The intelligent response to either your mechanic or surgery analogy is not simply to ignore them because they sound "fishy," but to seek a second opinion from another expert. When you start find that surgeon after surgeon is saying you need the surgery, you might actually need the surgery.
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Freight was moved to highways because roads are heavily subsidized (fuel tax doesn't cover it by a long stretch), rail has to be built and maintained by the railways. Cheap is king.
It's not a problem with freedom, but one of etiquette or education. Here in Canada, taking photographs of some children in a park and posting them on-line will likely get a knock on the door by some men in blue, but people generally think it's fine to take photographs of friend's or family's children and post them on-line without permission of the parent.
It's a matter of educating people that posting photo's to facebook, even with privacy settings turned on, is *publishing* them for the world to see.
Water and electricity have monthly connection fees that are fixed in most places. Usage is tacked on top of that. If you use zero electricity or water for a given month, you will still get a (smaller) bill covering the infrastructure.
This is the only solution that will work, in my mind. How much do you suppose it would cost to ship a parcel if a single postal company owned the roads? would second-tier postal carriers like UPS have to lay down their own roads? or bend over and pay the monopolies whatever they want to "rent" time on the existing roads? Government owned infrastructure like roads, AND CABLE, leads to more competition, a free-er market, more innovation, jobs and better service for customers.
It shows how well software patents work for Microsoft.
Big boys can pay $300 million, and go on to sue someone else -the games continue. If you can't poney up that kind of cash, software development is a risky business.
Thanks for that. I'll be sure to consider it based on your obvious expertise in this area. Slashdot *is* the place to find world class experts in any field, right?? That's why Linus is on here discussing every post about the Linux kernel, right? I mean, some guy-on-the-Internet just has to be representative of the best known information in a given field, right? Ohh, I see, +5 informative! That's much better than a peer review other experts with decades of experience studying the topic.
Ok, I'm done.
Virtualize maa-aan (In my best hippie voice).
No good for games, but MS Money can live in a dedicated, protected XP virtual machine indefinitely. The database is safer that way anyways -less chance of malware based data theft and easy to back up the whole system.
My wife built one of these "smartboard" like projects with a wii remote and a single infrared LED as per here. Not exactly multitouch, but it works pretty well; calibrates quickly and you can write on a projected image anywhere. It uses the IR camera over bluetooth on the wii remote to track the LED "pen", and emulates a mouse for windows XP.
I'll be watching for a Linux version of the software. It would be pretty sweet to run presentations off my Linux netbook and be able to draw on a regular projected screen.
CNN.com's Latest news:
* Italy earthquake toll hits 207
Government press release
* F-16s chase stolen plane to Missouri
Police press release
* Missing girl found dead in submerged luggage
Police press release
* Suspected shooter's letter: 'Have a nice day'
Police press release
* Commentary: What Turkey can do for the U.S.
Commentary
* CNNMoney: Recovery hopes begin to blossom
Interview with banker
* Honors student leaves work, disappears
Police press release
* FBI suspects truckers in serial killings Video
FBI press release
* Time: Why are army recruiters dying?
Okay, published article but by Time Magazine
* Commentary: How to make your poor life richer
Commentary
* iReport.com: Rabbit rescued from floodwaters
Fluff
There's nothing here that the blogger "echo chamber" couldn't pick up on, certainly nothing that fundamentally needs leg-work. The Time magazine piece is worthwhile, so maybe subscribe to Time, but not CNN as a daily source of news.
Except it's not 1000 phones, it's 100,000,000 phones, 10 or so with information about a serious terrorist plot, and 10,000 false positives.
A million bloggers don't make up for one real investigative reporter who has the time to do the legwork because they're paid to do it.
How many of those are there in the "real news?" Virtually everything is commercial or government "press releases" and "fluff news." The only leg work I see (as an outsider) are embedded reporters in various wars -which, for all their impartiality, are probably just as easily paid by the military.
I would pay for a news source that was just "investigative journalism," but why would I pay for 99.9% press releases and some "commentary" thrown in?
Kinda hard to connect to wireless access points with just Firefox eh?
But *MY* robot's 95% confidence interval is probably more accurate because it uses a better randomization algorithm! Yours is primitive and simple in comparison!
Nope. Same old hack.
You can receive faxes with a modem in a computer. I wouldn't know how to do it now, but I had a Windows 95 computer configured to receive faxes a while back, and it had all the standard features.
You know you are replying to a comment with the bloody doi link right? You don't even have to read the paper, it's in the abstract.
Abstract
Potential contributions of environmental chemicals and conditions to the etiology of Autism Spectrum Disorders are the subject of considerable current research and speculation. The present paper describes the results of a study undertaken as part of a larger project devoted to the connection between properties of the indoor environment and asthma and allergy in young Swedish children. The larger project, The Dampness in Buildings and Health (DBH) Study, began in the year 2000 with a questionnaire distributed to parents of all children 1â"6 years of age in one Swedish county (DBH-I). A second, follow-up questionnaire (DBH-III) was distributed in 2005. The original survey collected information about the child, the family situation, practices such as smoking, allergic symptoms, type of residence, moisture-related problems, and type of flooring material, which included polyvinyl chloride (PVC). The 2005 survey, based on the same children, now 6â"8 years of age, also asked if, during the intervening period, the child had been diagnosed with Autism, Asperger's syndrome, or Tourette's syndrome. From a total of 4779 eligible children, 72 (60 boys, 12 girls) were identified with parentally reported autism spectrum disorder. A random sample of 10 such families confirmed that the diagnoses had been made by medical professionals, in accordance with the Swedish system for monitoring children's health. An analysis of the associations between indoor environmental variables in 2000 as well as other background factors and the ASD diagnosis indicated five statistically significant variables: (1) maternal smoking; (2) male sex; (3) economic problems in the family; (4) condensation on windows, a proxy for low ventilation rate in the home; (5) PVC flooring, especially in the parentsâ(TM) bedroom. In addition, airway symptoms of wheezing and physician-diagnosed asthma in the baseline investigation (2000) were associated with ASD 5 years later. Results from the second phase of the DBH-study (DBH-II) indicate PVC flooring to be one important source of airborne phthalates indoors, and that asthma and allergy prevalence are associated with phthalate concentrations in settled dust in the children's bedroom. Because these associations are among the few linking ASD with environmental variables, they warrant further and more extensive exploration.
The 3 and 4 hours quoted are most defiantly idle or "light use" times, not playing video. The difference in playback is likely either video drivers on Linux, or flash not taking advantage of video acceleration on Linux.
The funny thing is that I've had the Guardian on my RSS feed for a while, mainly because their RSS feed contains the whole article, so I don't even need to click the link unless I want to see pictures.
My feed reader might be "stealing" from them, but they seem to be encouraging it.
So, in this case: UK is the country, Britain is the rock, and these English are wankers. j/k
It's probably a manpower issue. There are plenty of people who speak, for instance Japanese and English, but much fewer who speak German and Japanese.
A quick Google search says that English is the most common second language in the world. I don't know if that's true, but it's probably close.
Joe and Jane Average's feelings about computers and the internet are defined largely by a combination of their experiences with computers at home and at work, and stories in the media about computers. If their experience is one of unrelenting danger, constant infection, and identity theft and whatnot, they'll be much more supportive of draconian policy decisions.
It also doesn't help that all the mainstream media coverage of this has called it a "computer worm/virus" (no mention of the target software), and the people they interview are more interested in fear mongering than giving any security advice at all.
Somehow I think that command would selectively work on the uninfected machines, and fail on the infected ones.
I prefer open sores.
True experiments have been done plenty of times with fast reproducing organisms (often bacteria and drosophila). There is yet to be any data out of thousands of these true experiments that disprove Evolution generally, or that better support any other theory of creation.
Of course, the modern theory of Evolution is somewhat different than Darwin's theory, and that is in light of those experiments (quasi or true).
Actually. The intelligent response to either your mechanic or surgery analogy is not simply to ignore them because they sound "fishy," but to seek a second opinion from another expert. When you start find that surgeon after surgeon is saying you need the surgery, you might actually need the surgery.
1: DRM has nothing to do with Rights. It can enforce restrictions that are, or are not covered by copyright equally well.
2: The software is being used(run) by customers, not publishers. Therefore, the software is restricting it's user.