I wish I could give you chapter and verse on what he's done off the top of my head, but I can say this: you're dead wrong about it not being environmentally responsible. He's received awards for the way he did it. There's not much in the way of batteries, and wind power and innovative design/insulation form a big part of it. If you're really interested, I can find out the details and pass them along. If you're just trying to wind me up and score points, I'd rather not bother.
...this might be the first international standard based on stolen, bootlegged or otherwise-ripped-off software. I can see it now: a program that looks identical to Office, right down to the bugs and annoying menu habits, but is called something like, BetterOffice. It would be a program that actively undermines copy protection on whatever machine it encounters. Sort of like an anti-matter version of DRM, enforced by an anti-matter RIAA (the Asian Anti-Innovation Regiment?).
But, of course, only relatives of the Chinese politburo would be permitted to benefit, and Open Source would be illegal.
...you're his dad. The time you spend with him will be one of the highlights of his life, and will determine how he, in turn, raises his kids. Whether you suck as a teacher or not isn't even on the scale. Try to learn. Do the best you can and encourage him to let his interests take him to other sources. ALWAYS answer his questions.
Sorry for the polemic, but believe me, your son will stretch himself to understand you far more than he will even for the most gifted teacher. What I owe to my parents can never be repaid, and there isn't a day goes by that I don't miss them.
By using a variety of readily-available tech, my former boss has taken his house completely off the grid. And that's in southern Ontario, which isn't exactly Mecca for the solar industry.
He's been up and running for a couple of years now, and everything's going well. I'll agree with a previous comment about whether such an approach is "ready for prime time". The guy owned both a farm and a construction company, so he knows what he's doing in the real world. Somebody like me, whose mechanical skills end with minor auto repairs and such, probably shouldn't try it.
...that careless use of an unprotected Mandriva USB key will soon lead to the first-ever case of a new and virulent computer virus known as "GAIDS": GDium Acquired, Idiot-Delivered Sickness.
Sigh. If only they'd taken proper care of their BitDefender or Clam, everything would have been OK.
I wonder how many people have stopped to think through the implications of this charge. If it's proven to be true, it could very well mean Diebold's CEO is guilty of treason. In a time of war (which President Bush has repeatedly said is the case), that's a death penalty offense. While I don't favour the death penalty, I think you have to take a very serious look at it for somebody who hasn't just killed people, but who has attempted to kill democracy in an entire nation. This particular incident may have been restricted to one state, but Diebold has been very active in attempting to get its machines and methods protected from legal supervision at the federal level.
By the way, what's their new name? I keep forgetting.
Um...not quite. I see where you're going, and it doesn't work. If you just use basic dollars, or even dollars corrected for inflation, the really big cuts to NASA came under Nixon and Ford.
But it isn't that simple. You have to look at the cost and complexity of the projects being undertaken, and whether most of the activity was build/launch or planning.
For raw financial data, refer to the Office of Management and Budget (http://www.spacebusiness.com/businesscenter/Library/AboutSpace/GovtBudgets.htm) and the Office of the NASA CFO (http://ifmp.nasa.gov/codeb/budget2001/HTML/fy01_myb.htm). "Real Dollars" calculations are based on the "Gross Domestic Product DeflatorInflation Calculator" at http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/bu2/inflateGDP.html.
Individual project prep/launch info is available at Wikipedia. Check out the history and you'll see what I mean about Reagan.
They'll have minimal impact on the perverts, but no doubt they'll get a chance to tighten the screws on the rest of us. Which is, of course, what it's all about.
And I certainly wouldn't be comfortable with anything the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children has its fingerprints on. It's been caught phonying up statistics and acting in a manner that could best be described as "self-serving" on more than one occasion.
It would be nice to have a well-publicized, up-to-date list of those affiliated third-party sites, so buyers could ensure that they shop elsewhere.
As for Facebook's lies...I wonder if their dishonesty amounts to fraud? I bet the right judge would allow substantial penalties for that kind of deception. It tends to make the sheep restless while they wait for their shearing.
NASA has been on a long, uninterrupted downward slide ever since Reagan, when it became more heavily politicized. They somehow managed to get people to the moon in 1969 with a basic, brute-force, heavy-lift vehicle and almost enough computing power to run a pocket calculator. Since then, the manned program hasn't made it much past Low Earth Orbit.
If the current crop of idiots can't get their act together, why not blow the dust off those old Saturn V plans, save some weight by substituting new materials where it would work, and get freakin' going? Longer stays could be accommodated be using the Mars Express approach of sending automated supply missions on ahead.
I don't know if it's time to fire everybody in upper management and start fresh, but it's getting really tempting. And let's try to remember that space exploration is dangerous work. Test pilots die. Astronauts die. That doesn't mean you shut down and abandon your whole program for years on end whenever something goes wrong. They tried it with the Space Shuttle, and all that down time didn't ultimately make things a lot safer.
I don't like cheerleaders, even when a lot of what they say is right. In this case, the guy advocates a "home user license" that would cost a small amount and allow the buyer to install Windows 7 on up to five computers in his own home. He also sees little wrong with the damned warnings Vista keeps pushing under your nose, though he thinks that it should be limited to one warning, and the warning should supply an explanation.
Wrong!
When you've bought the operating system, there should be no limit on the number of installations, as long as it's in your own home for your own private use. And setting up security should be a one-time job, until changed circumstances (maybe an added user) cause you to change it. My firewall asks what it should do when a new program seeks internet access. I tell it, and it doesn't bother me again about that program. Otherwise, it keeps its damned mouth shut.
There's more, but his bottom line is the same: Vista's OK/Good. Windows 7 will be better.
I'll believe that when I see it. Meanwhile, I'll continue to believe the underlying problems that led to Vista will continue to fester, and erupt again in a Win7 design.
A lot of the comments here resemble the same kind of skeptical remarks that were made when the first automobiles came out. They were outrageously expensive. They got flat tires constantly. You almost needed to keep a team of horses on retainer to drag the thing home after one of the innumerable breakdowns. Et cetera. Et cetera.
No new technology leaps full-blown into existence without glitches, screw-ups and mistakes (yes, I know about the 100-year-old electrics, but a lot has changed). They're part of the territory, especially where a complete changeover in something as basic as personal transportation is concerned. What's needed is the vision and will to change, and the guts to persevere through inevitable problems to something that works. That's what seems to be missing these days.
I wonder what the smog situation would look like in a city where most two-car families included an electric for local jaunts and basic running around, and a regular car for longer trips? I recall seeing many parking lots with electrical outlets available at each space for block heaters, back when cold weather presented a starting problem for regular cars. Perhaps they might appear again to serve next-generation electrics. I have no idea what shape the actual solutions will take, but I'm quite confident that solutions would be found, once a decision is made to move away from gasoline-powered vehicles.
I'm certain of one thing: as long as those with a vested interest in the status quo are allowed to present every mistake as a disaster, every bump in the road as an insurmountable mountain, nothing will be accomplished.
Nicely said. And don't overlook that classic example of what happens when you mix Third World mentality with up-to-date technology. We call them IED's.
Thanks be to Almighty God! Yet another, um, person, who refuses to draw a distinction between, "I can get away with it", and "It's ethically insupportable."
I hope your daughter fucks off with a 300-pound, 40-year-old biker on her 18th birthday. Hey, it's legal, right?
I understand that "virgin" is now defined in Louisiana as "A twelve year old girl who can outrun her brothers.
If you're determined to elect mouth-breathing half-wits, you just have to live with the results. To those Louisiana-ites smart enough to know better, my apologies. And my heart-felt advice that you should move out of the state, or at least home-school your children.
It's like somebody lent the guy one of those self help books, but the title is, "How To Be A Dick", and he's turning it into his own personal Bible. Doesn't Obama understand that he gets a huge amount of his support from people who just didn't give a crap about politics before, and who will vanish like smoke if he turns into the same old thing with a pretty face painted on it?
Nobody's mentioned Cordwainer Smith yet. Norstrilia or one of his short story collections. Brilliant, unconventional, totally accessible to a young reader.
I read Norstrilia when I was 10 or 11, and loved it.
Two of Frank Herbert's less-known works, "Whipping Star" and "The Dosadai Experiment" are pretty good. So is "Lord of Light" by Roger Zelazny. A few more: "Space Skimmer" by David Gerrold. "Cities In Flight" by James Blish. "Davy" by Edgar Pangborn if you don't mind a little minor sexuality. Anything by Larry Niven. "Ensign Flandry" by Poul Anderson. The "Flinx" and "Icerigger" books by Alan Dean Foster.
I'm sure I'm forgetting a ton more than I mentioned, but those are pretty good, older, adventure-style SF stories young readers would probably like.
Guess you missed all the demographic surveys offering fairly detailed profiles of people who lent significant swing support to the would-be goose-steppers. You were probably too busy trying to write ill-conceived rhetorical questions to do any research before you shot off your mouth.
"Anonymous Coward"...good description, though I lean more toward "F*ckin' moron".
If people don't start swamping their representatives with letters, calls and e-mails telling them to strangle this evil piece of legislation in its cradle, a lot of the things that make the United States a place worth living in will start sliding away.
Bin Laden must be laughing himself sick. One terrorist act that kills fewer people than died every single day during WWII, and the US starts throwing the rights and freedoms its heroes bled and died for down the nearest toilet...with enthusiastic applause from hysterical soccer moms and authority-worshiping lackwits.
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I wish I could give you chapter and verse on what he's done off the top of my head, but I can say this: you're dead wrong about it not being environmentally responsible. He's received awards for the way he did it. There's not much in the way of batteries, and wind power and innovative design/insulation form a big part of it. If you're really interested, I can find out the details and pass them along. If you're just trying to wind me up and score points, I'd rather not bother.
But, of course, only relatives of the Chinese politburo would be permitted to benefit, and Open Source would be illegal.
Actually, I thought about it, and concluded the writer was almost certainly male. Would you like to place a friendly wager on his gender?
Sorry for the polemic, but believe me, your son will stretch himself to understand you far more than he will even for the most gifted teacher. What I owe to my parents can never be repaid, and there isn't a day goes by that I don't miss them.
By using a variety of readily-available tech, my former boss has taken his house completely off the grid. And that's in southern Ontario, which isn't exactly Mecca for the solar industry.
He's been up and running for a couple of years now, and everything's going well. I'll agree with a previous comment about whether such an approach is "ready for prime time". The guy owned both a farm and a construction company, so he knows what he's doing in the real world. Somebody like me, whose mechanical skills end with minor auto repairs and such, probably shouldn't try it.
LMFAO.
Sigh. If only they'd taken proper care of their BitDefender or Clam, everything would have been OK.
I wonder how many people have stopped to think through the implications of this charge. If it's proven to be true, it could very well mean Diebold's CEO is guilty of treason. In a time of war (which President Bush has repeatedly said is the case), that's a death penalty offense. While I don't favour the death penalty, I think you have to take a very serious look at it for somebody who hasn't just killed people, but who has attempted to kill democracy in an entire nation. This particular incident may have been restricted to one state, but Diebold has been very active in attempting to get its machines and methods protected from legal supervision at the federal level.
By the way, what's their new name? I keep forgetting.
Um...not quite. I see where you're going, and it doesn't work. If you just use basic dollars, or even dollars corrected for inflation, the really big cuts to NASA came under Nixon and Ford.
But it isn't that simple. You have to look at the cost and complexity of the projects being undertaken, and whether most of the activity was build/launch or planning.
For raw financial data, refer to the Office of Management and Budget (http://www.spacebusiness.com/businesscenter/Library/AboutSpace/GovtBudgets.htm) and the Office of the NASA CFO (http://ifmp.nasa.gov/codeb/budget2001/HTML/fy01_myb.htm). "Real Dollars" calculations are based on the "Gross Domestic Product DeflatorInflation Calculator" at http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/bu2/inflateGDP.html.
Individual project prep/launch info is available at Wikipedia. Check out the history and you'll see what I mean about Reagan.
They'll have minimal impact on the perverts, but no doubt they'll get a chance to tighten the screws on the rest of us. Which is, of course, what it's all about.
And I certainly wouldn't be comfortable with anything the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children has its fingerprints on. It's been caught phonying up statistics and acting in a manner that could best be described as "self-serving" on more than one occasion.
It would be nice to have a well-publicized, up-to-date list of those affiliated third-party sites, so buyers could ensure that they shop elsewhere.
As for Facebook's lies...I wonder if their dishonesty amounts to fraud? I bet the right judge would allow substantial penalties for that kind of deception. It tends to make the sheep restless while they wait for their shearing.
NASA has been on a long, uninterrupted downward slide ever since Reagan, when it became more heavily politicized. They somehow managed to get people to the moon in 1969 with a basic, brute-force, heavy-lift vehicle and almost enough computing power to run a pocket calculator. Since then, the manned program hasn't made it much past Low Earth Orbit.
If the current crop of idiots can't get their act together, why not blow the dust off those old Saturn V plans, save some weight by substituting new materials where it would work, and get freakin' going? Longer stays could be accommodated be using the Mars Express approach of sending automated supply missions on ahead.
I don't know if it's time to fire everybody in upper management and start fresh, but it's getting really tempting. And let's try to remember that space exploration is dangerous work. Test pilots die. Astronauts die. That doesn't mean you shut down and abandon your whole program for years on end whenever something goes wrong. They tried it with the Space Shuttle, and all that down time didn't ultimately make things a lot safer.
I don't like cheerleaders, even when a lot of what they say is right. In this case, the guy advocates a "home user license" that would cost a small amount and allow the buyer to install Windows 7 on up to five computers in his own home. He also sees little wrong with the damned warnings Vista keeps pushing under your nose, though he thinks that it should be limited to one warning, and the warning should supply an explanation.
Wrong!
When you've bought the operating system, there should be no limit on the number of installations, as long as it's in your own home for your own private use. And setting up security should be a one-time job, until changed circumstances (maybe an added user) cause you to change it. My firewall asks what it should do when a new program seeks internet access. I tell it, and it doesn't bother me again about that program. Otherwise, it keeps its damned mouth shut.
There's more, but his bottom line is the same: Vista's OK/Good. Windows 7 will be better.
I'll believe that when I see it. Meanwhile, I'll continue to believe the underlying problems that led to Vista will continue to fester, and erupt again in a Win7 design.
A lot of the comments here resemble the same kind of skeptical remarks that were made when the first automobiles came out. They were outrageously expensive. They got flat tires constantly. You almost needed to keep a team of horses on retainer to drag the thing home after one of the innumerable breakdowns. Et cetera. Et cetera.
No new technology leaps full-blown into existence without glitches, screw-ups and mistakes (yes, I know about the 100-year-old electrics, but a lot has changed). They're part of the territory, especially where a complete changeover in something as basic as personal transportation is concerned. What's needed is the vision and will to change, and the guts to persevere through inevitable problems to something that works. That's what seems to be missing these days.
I wonder what the smog situation would look like in a city where most two-car families included an electric for local jaunts and basic running around, and a regular car for longer trips? I recall seeing many parking lots with electrical outlets available at each space for block heaters, back when cold weather presented a starting problem for regular cars. Perhaps they might appear again to serve next-generation electrics. I have no idea what shape the actual solutions will take, but I'm quite confident that solutions would be found, once a decision is made to move away from gasoline-powered vehicles.
I'm certain of one thing: as long as those with a vested interest in the status quo are allowed to present every mistake as a disaster, every bump in the road as an insurmountable mountain, nothing will be accomplished.
Nicely said. And don't overlook that classic example of what happens when you mix Third World mentality with up-to-date technology. We call them IED's.
Thanks be to Almighty God! Yet another, um, person, who refuses to draw a distinction between, "I can get away with it", and "It's ethically insupportable."
I hope your daughter fucks off with a 300-pound, 40-year-old biker on her 18th birthday. Hey, it's legal, right?
I understand that "virgin" is now defined in Louisiana as "A twelve year old girl who can outrun her brothers.
If you're determined to elect mouth-breathing half-wits, you just have to live with the results. To those Louisiana-ites smart enough to know better, my apologies. And my heart-felt advice that you should move out of the state, or at least home-school your children.
It's like somebody lent the guy one of those self help books, but the title is, "How To Be A Dick", and he's turning it into his own personal Bible. Doesn't Obama understand that he gets a huge amount of his support from people who just didn't give a crap about politics before, and who will vanish like smoke if he turns into the same old thing with a pretty face painted on it?
Nobody's mentioned Cordwainer Smith yet. Norstrilia or one of his short story collections. Brilliant, unconventional, totally accessible to a young reader.
I read Norstrilia when I was 10 or 11, and loved it.
Two of Frank Herbert's less-known works, "Whipping Star" and "The Dosadai Experiment" are pretty good. So is "Lord of Light" by Roger Zelazny. A few more: "Space Skimmer" by David Gerrold. "Cities In Flight" by James Blish. "Davy" by Edgar Pangborn if you don't mind a little minor sexuality. Anything by Larry Niven. "Ensign Flandry" by Poul Anderson. The "Flinx" and "Icerigger" books by Alan Dean Foster.
I'm sure I'm forgetting a ton more than I mentioned, but those are pretty good, older, adventure-style SF stories young readers would probably like.
Guess you missed all the demographic surveys offering fairly detailed profiles of people who lent significant swing support to the would-be goose-steppers. You were probably too busy trying to write ill-conceived rhetorical questions to do any research before you shot off your mouth.
"Anonymous Coward"...good description, though I lean more toward "F*ckin' moron".
If people don't start swamping their representatives with letters, calls and e-mails telling them to strangle this evil piece of legislation in its cradle, a lot of the things that make the United States a place worth living in will start sliding away.
Bin Laden must be laughing himself sick. One terrorist act that kills fewer people than died every single day during WWII, and the US starts throwing the rights and freedoms its heroes bled and died for down the nearest toilet...with enthusiastic applause from hysterical soccer moms and authority-worshiping lackwits.
Let me guess, it's going to be used to ship the next version of Duke Nukem.