Not even trying to be funny but honestly, in no other country than USA would this be among the first things people think.
That's because we have the highest number of lawyers per capita of any country in the world. They have to earn a living somehow which is most unfortunate for us non-lawyers.
Why would you need a programmer to change people's pay in the system?
Oh, wait; you don't. This is just more politics...
Excellent point! Unfortunately, it is one that will be lost on most Slashdot readers because it is more l33t to think that California puts through 200,000 code changes a year just to give everyone their annual increase.
There really isn't any such thing as seeing over traffic anyway. You can only see as far as the SUV in front of you. You know, the one that's just as tall as yours and with dark tinted windows?
So Microsoft has to keep XP going to slow the adoption of Linux?... I wonder how long XP can stay afloat with malware on one side and Linux on the other? Or how long can Vista stay afloat with UMPCs on one side and Linux on the other? The hot new hardware won't run Vista and UMPC vendors are choosing Linux over the almost dead XP. The best thing Microsoft can do to speed the adoption of Linux is to kill XP and not have an OS offering on UMPCs. And extending XP Home is of little use to corporate sys admins.
Didn't Balmer recently say that Microsoft would consider extinding the life of XP if the market demanded it? Well it seems as if the market is screaming for XP but Microsoft can't hear because they have their collective heads up their asses.
I agree, except for the part about the iSeries being expensive. That used to be true but not so much anymore. The Power processors used in the iSeries, like most other processors, have driven the cost of computing so low, and made lower end iSeries so powerful, that the less expensive models are very cost competitive when comparing like work loads.
My company is going through a major round of server upgrades, both iSeries and Windows, and by the time I provision an Intel box with Windows Server, SQL Server, backup agents for Windows and SQL Server, anti-virus, and CALs (and whatever else I'm forgetting), the cost difference is negligible.
For those not familiar with the iSeries, DB2 and backup tools comes with the base OS, and there has never been an iSeries virus. I would also add that the iSeries seems to be engineered to be stable while Wintel boxes are engineered to reboot quickly, and relative to the iSeries, reboot often.
In my area a C average is required to participate in most school sponsored extracurricular activities such as sports, band, etc. I don't see why there shouldn't be a similar requirement to participate in this program. And given that the whole program is designed to advance the students academics, a low bar makes more sense than a high one.
Anybody who speaks against the constitution, and votes as such, should be found guilty of treason.
Acutally, as a U.S. citizen you are expected to speak and vote, either for or against, the constitution. The end result is called a Constitutional Amendment.
I think this will also increase the likelihood of these kids becoming very fat adults.
Not to worry. I'm sure they will ban the cafeteria and eating next. A quick search of the CDC's web site reveals this gem about children dying from choking. Since I couldn't find any references to children dying from tag, I have to assume eating is more dangerous than tag and, therefore, is in imminent danger of being banned as well.
Ethanol, or any biofuel, will be hard pressed to replace oil.
Here is an excellent analysis by Car & Driver. I don't know if there numbers support your numbers but the analysis arrives at pretty much the same conclusion.
when a group of incredibly smart people like Tim Berners-Lee, Vint Cerf, Gigi Sohn, Larry Lessig, Danny Wietzner, Susan Crawford, and others all agree...
AND they are joined by groups as diverse as Consumers Union, Gun Owners of America, Feminist Majority Foundation, the Christian Coalition, and MoveOn.org...
Not to mention that they speak of their own volition while Scott Cleland is getting paid for espousing his (the telcos?) so-called opinion.
The superheated water and H2 come from the magnesium metal reacting with water.
Unfortunately magnesium doesn't normally react with water. Magnesium does react with steam however but the article fails to mention what energy source is used to boil the water.
such sites can provide an inexhaustible supply of sodium from salt-water, and a "free" source of energy from the sun to power the extraction
I'm afraid you are confusing sodium=salt=sodium chloride=NaCl with sodium the element=Na. NaCl is fairly benign and tastes good on french fries. Na is highly volatile and not something you want to mess with. To get from NaCl to Na requires costly refining.
Time Warner will own Bill Gates just like they did Ted Turner and Steve Case. Check the old headlines. Ted Turner "thought" he was buying Time Warner. AOL "thought" they were buying Time Warner. Now look who's in control.
They obsess over uptime and reliability way more than Windows or even Unix geeks
That's because they have to. An old mainframer friend once cost a bank $3,000,000 in one night because the data line to the Federal Reserve was down at the time the bank should have been transferring funds. In some industries downtime can be very, very expensive.
Relaxation space?!?!?. The last time I flew we were "discouraged" from forming a line for the bathroom for "security" reasons. So why am supposed to believe I will be allowed to form a line at the bar?
Why do we put so much faith in climate models that predict catastrophic climate changes xx years from now when we don't have a climate model that can accurately predict the weather 3 days from now?
From the link: There are five voting systems used in Florida's 67 counties: punch cards (24 counties), optical scan central tabulation (16 counties), optical scan precinct tabulation (25 counties), paper ballot (one county), and machine lever (one county)
Since none of the voting systems add up to 31 I'll venture a guess that you really meant 41 and consider optical scan an electronic voting method. Of course optical scan is where you color in a bubble next to a candidate's name. Unfortunately optical scan has all the same problems as punch cards but instead of hanging and dimpled chads you end up with bubbles incompletely filled (undervote), and more than one filled (overvote).
I don't think running a paper ballot through an optical reader is what most people think of as electronic voting. By that measure I was taking tests electronically in high school back in the 70's.
Obviously our opinions differ as to what constiutes an electronic voting system. But since optical scan has all of the same problems as punch cards I don't consider it modern or electronic.
According to the US Commission on Civil Rights' http://www.usccr.gov/pubs/vote2000/report/ch8.htm investigation of voting irregularities in Florida in the 2000 election, electronic voting machines were not in use. There are other sources as well if you search for them. I stand by my reasoning.
Red Flag number 1: Florida didn't use electronic voting in 2000; it used the infamous punch cards complete with dimpled and hanging chads. This being the case, I don't see how this program would have been of any use at the time. It is amazing how soon we forget.
I'm sure there are other red flags in the affidavit but I'm so convinced it is bogus I'm not going to bother researching it further.
this strikes me as a pretty unfair subsidy of the technologically savvy at the expense of the less technologically competent.
You don't have to be technologically savy to use VOIP. I have Vonage and the installation, if you can call it that, was a no-brainer. Truly plug-and-play. I don't see this as unfair at all.
VOIP requires that you have a high speed line - either DSL or cable - an expense that many people can't afford.
Do the math. VOIP is sooo cheap compared to standard phone service it pays for your broadband. I went from a $100/mo phone bill to a $25/mo VOIP bill. I'm laughing all the way to the bank.
Additionally, many people live in locations that do not have access to high speed internet.
I don't see why I should subsidize service for these people. If you live in a remote location you should be prepared to pay the price. Ever seen the cost of living indexes for Alaska and Hawaii?
While the damage caused by a nuclear catastrophy is much larger than that of a coal or oil burning plant, isn't the day-to-day pollution from a nuclear plant going to be far less than that of other non-renewable energy sources?
You are absolutely right. Unfortunately big disasters scare us much more than small, steady losses of life. That is why people are much more afraid to fly while being totally cool with driving a car, which of course kills many more people than plane crashes.
The war is most definitely NOT about oil. The US, or any UN member nation for that matter, hasn't received any significant amount of Iraqi oil since the economic embargo imposed in 1990 (http://www.un.org/News/ossg/iraq.htm.
Most of Iraq's infrastructure was destroyed during the war and they have yet to pump any meaningful amount of oil. Maybe Haliburton is siphoning off some of the supply to fuel the war effort but it certainly isn't making it back to the US and I'm not sure how they would profit from such an action.
And yes, fuel prices are significantly higher in Europe but that is from taxes not a supply issue. The Europeans are in the same boat as we are when it comes to oil. They are also dependent on foreign sources, middle eastern sources especially. And if the war were truly about oil I'm sure more European countries would be supporting our effort.
Mercedes actually introduced brake-by-wire in their SL series starting in 2003. IIRC it has been discontinued already because, well, it sucked. A google search on "mercedes brake by wire" will provide you with all the info.
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Not even trying to be funny but honestly, in no other country than USA would this be among the first things people think.
That's because we have the highest number of lawyers per capita of any country in the world. They have to earn a living somehow which is most unfortunate for us non-lawyers.
Why would you need a programmer to change people's pay in the system? Oh, wait; you don't. This is just more politics...
Excellent point! Unfortunately, it is one that will be lost on most Slashdot readers because it is more l33t to think that California puts through 200,000 code changes a year just to give everyone their annual increase.
There really isn't any such thing as seeing over traffic anyway. You can only see as far as the SUV in front of you. You know, the one that's just as tall as yours and with dark tinted windows?
Didn't Balmer recently say that Microsoft would consider extinding the life of XP if the market demanded it? Well it seems as if the market is screaming for XP but Microsoft can't hear because they have their collective heads up their asses.
I agree, except for the part about the iSeries being expensive. That used to be true but not so much anymore. The Power processors used in the iSeries, like most other processors, have driven the cost of computing so low, and made lower end iSeries so powerful, that the less expensive models are very cost competitive when comparing like work loads.
My company is going through a major round of server upgrades, both iSeries and Windows, and by the time I provision an Intel box with Windows Server, SQL Server, backup agents for Windows and SQL Server, anti-virus, and CALs (and whatever else I'm forgetting), the cost difference is negligible.
For those not familiar with the iSeries, DB2 and backup tools comes with the base OS, and there has never been an iSeries virus. I would also add that the iSeries seems to be engineered to be stable while Wintel boxes are engineered to reboot quickly, and relative to the iSeries, reboot often.
In my area a C average is required to participate in most school sponsored extracurricular activities such as sports, band, etc. I don't see why there shouldn't be a similar requirement to participate in this program. And given that the whole program is designed to advance the students academics, a low bar makes more sense than a high one.
Anybody who speaks against the constitution, and votes as such, should be found guilty of treason.
Acutally, as a U.S. citizen you are expected to speak and vote, either for or against, the constitution. The end result is called a Constitutional Amendment.
I think this will also increase the likelihood of these kids becoming very fat adults.
Not to worry. I'm sure they will ban the cafeteria and eating next. A quick search of the CDC's web site reveals this gem about children dying from choking. Since I couldn't find any references to children dying from tag, I have to assume eating is more dangerous than tag and, therefore, is in imminent danger of being banned as well.
Ethanol, or any biofuel, will be hard pressed to replace oil.
Here is an excellent analysis by Car & Driver. I don't know if there numbers support your numbers but the analysis arrives at pretty much the same conclusion.
when a group of incredibly smart people like Tim Berners-Lee, Vint Cerf, Gigi Sohn, Larry Lessig, Danny Wietzner, Susan Crawford, and others all agree...
AND they are joined by groups as diverse as Consumers Union, Gun Owners of America, Feminist Majority Foundation, the Christian Coalition, and MoveOn.org...
Not to mention that they speak of their own volition while Scott Cleland is getting paid for espousing his (the telcos?) so-called opinion.
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The superheated water and H2 come from the magnesium metal reacting with water.
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Unfortunately magnesium doesn't normally react with water. Magnesium does react with steam however but the article fails to mention what energy source is used to boil the water.
All about magnesium:
http://www.webelements.com/webelements/elements/t
such sites can provide an inexhaustible supply of sodium from salt-water, and a "free" source of energy from the sun to power the extraction
I'm afraid you are confusing sodium=salt=sodium chloride=NaCl with sodium the element=Na. NaCl is fairly benign and tastes good on french fries. Na is highly volatile and not something you want to mess with. To get from NaCl to Na requires costly refining.
Time Warner will own Bill Gates just like they did Ted Turner and Steve Case. Check the old headlines. Ted Turner "thought" he was buying Time Warner. AOL "thought" they were buying Time Warner. Now look who's in control.
All I can say is watch your back Gates.
They obsess over uptime and reliability way more than Windows or even Unix geeks
That's because they have to. An old mainframer friend once cost a bank $3,000,000 in one night because the data line to the Federal Reserve was down at the time the bank should have been transferring funds. In some industries downtime can be very, very expensive.
It scales to mainframe class performance, runs AIX and/or Linux in a partition, and can host and manage Windows servers all in one box. Truly amazing.
Relaxation space?!?!?. The last time I flew we were "discouraged" from forming a line for the bathroom for "security" reasons. So why am supposed to believe I will be allowed to form a line at the bar?
Oh yeah, cash bar = Profits!
Why do we put so much faith in climate models that predict catastrophic climate changes xx years from now when we don't have a climate model that can accurately predict the weather 3 days from now?
Just curious.
From the link: There are five voting systems used in Florida's 67 counties: punch cards (24 counties), optical scan central tabulation (16 counties), optical scan precinct tabulation (25 counties), paper ballot (one county), and machine lever (one county)
Since none of the voting systems add up to 31 I'll venture a guess that you really meant 41 and consider optical scan an electronic voting method. Of course optical scan is where you color in a bubble next to a candidate's name. Unfortunately optical scan has all the same problems as punch cards but instead of hanging and dimpled chads you end up with bubbles incompletely filled (undervote), and more than one filled (overvote).
I don't think running a paper ballot through an optical reader is what most people think of as electronic voting. By that measure I was taking tests electronically in high school back in the 70's.
Obviously our opinions differ as to what constiutes an electronic voting system. But since optical scan has all of the same problems as punch cards I don't consider it modern or electronic.
According to the US Commission on Civil Rights' http://www.usccr.gov/pubs/vote2000/report/ch8.htm investigation of voting irregularities in Florida in the 2000 election, electronic voting machines were not in use. There are other sources as well if you search for them. I stand by my reasoning.
This affidavit/story is BS.
Red Flag number 1: Florida didn't use electronic voting in 2000; it used the infamous punch cards complete with dimpled and hanging chads. This being the case, I don't see how this program would have been of any use at the time. It is amazing how soon we forget.
I'm sure there are other red flags in the affidavit but I'm so convinced it is bogus I'm not going to bother researching it further.
this strikes me as a pretty unfair subsidy of the technologically savvy at the expense of the less technologically competent.
You don't have to be technologically savy to use VOIP. I have Vonage and the installation, if you can call it that, was a no-brainer. Truly plug-and-play. I don't see this as unfair at all.
VOIP requires that you have a high speed line - either DSL or cable - an expense that many people can't afford.
Do the math. VOIP is sooo cheap compared to standard phone service it pays for your broadband. I went from a $100/mo phone bill to a $25/mo VOIP bill. I'm laughing all the way to the bank.
Additionally, many people live in locations that do not have access to high speed internet.
I don't see why I should subsidize service for these people. If you live in a remote location you should be prepared to pay the price. Ever seen the cost of living indexes for Alaska and Hawaii?
While the damage caused by a nuclear catastrophy is much larger than that of a coal or oil burning plant, isn't the day-to-day pollution from a nuclear plant going to be far less than that of other non-renewable energy sources?
You are absolutely right. Unfortunately big disasters scare us much more than small, steady losses of life. That is why people are much more afraid to fly while being totally cool with driving a car, which of course kills many more people than plane crashes.
The war is most definitely NOT about oil. The US, or any UN member nation for that matter, hasn't received any significant amount of Iraqi oil since the economic embargo imposed in 1990 (http://www.un.org/News/ossg/iraq.htm.
Most of Iraq's infrastructure was destroyed during the war and they have yet to pump any meaningful amount of oil. Maybe Haliburton is siphoning off some of the supply to fuel the war effort but it certainly isn't making it back to the US and I'm not sure how they would profit from such an action.
And yes, fuel prices are significantly higher in Europe but that is from taxes not a supply issue. The Europeans are in the same boat as we are when it comes to oil. They are also dependent on foreign sources, middle eastern sources especially. And if the war were truly about oil I'm sure more European countries would be supporting our effort.
My $.02.
Mercedes actually introduced brake-by-wire in their SL series starting in 2003. IIRC it has been discontinued already because, well, it sucked. A google search on "mercedes brake by wire" will provide you with all the info.