Schools should just pull internet access. Yes, I know, it's a useful tool for all of us. But it provides no real help in school. You're supposed to be learning what's in the book, not what slash dots opinion on the subject is. Yes, have computers in the school for word processing, programming, art, etc... But they do not need internet access. In fact, if I were in charge of building a modern school I'd make sure the entire school were a Faraday cage so cellphones would be dead inside it as well.
It doesn't matter how much it costs to make. All that matters is what I'm willing to pay. For a device that's inferior to real books for reading, and completely incapable of real computing, I'd be willing to pay about $25, and that's only if I had full control over the device and could put any document I want on it. For a device that's tethered to Amazon and has DRM up to wazoo... they couldn't give the thing to me.
I know someone that works for a company that sends these letters. She's a moron. In fact, everyone that "researches" these cases at that company is a moron (at least all the ones I've met) They get a trademark, in this case "The other white meat" as a case file. It comes with the trademark itself, some pictures of how its used on cans and what-not and other basic info. Then they put the terms into a scripting program they have... which is basically just a web crawler. The crawler finds sites that use the terms and other sites that link to them. They then build a case file based on this info that is punched into a form letter and sent off to be signed. Here's the kicker: The more "offenses" they find, the more they get paid. It's like commission. They can make stupid amounts of money doing nothing at all for the whole day. It's so profitable they actually hire teams of people to print out their "Case files" (screenshots of websites) in full color, binder them and ship them to various places. I know another person that works in the "Binder department." The person I know working the case files makes in excess of $50k a year, the binder person about $25k, but of course they don't have the skills needed to work a search engine I guess.
They are... when they buy a new house. The problem is far more people buy 20+ year old houses than build new ones. Re-insulating an older house is prohibitively expensive.
It's no more annoying than sporting events are in general. It makes as much sense to blow one of these things as it does to kick a ball back and forth down a field.
If that's really what he posted, that's hilarious. Also, I think the FBIs system is about to get overwhelmed as every teenager on earth copy's it to their own facebook page.
The internet/facebook are a public commons. Just like the street in front of the school. If a police officer was parked in his car outside of a school and a kid came walking down the middle of the street screaming "I'm going to kill every mother fucker in that school" I don't think we would question the police officers judgment if he stop the kid questioned him. We don't know what the arrest was for, nor do we know what the laws in that particular area are. The police may have gone to question him and found his room full of pipe bombs and sawed off shotguns... or it may just be illegal in that area to threaten to massacre a school. Remember, this kid publicly posted his name, his school, and his intent to harm those in the school. It's not like the government went out of their way to decipher the boys identity. Now if the kid sent an email to his friend and the FBI intercepted the email via packet sniffing and what-not, maybe I'd have a problem with it.
Have been in the situation of having no idea what I was doing and writing business critical code, I'd like to explain how this happens. My boss comes to my team and yells "DO MORE WITH LESS!!!" They decide my department is now in charge of things some other department used to do but they fired them all. When we can't keep up, management comes to us and declares that we obviously must be surfing SlashDot all day instead of working and institutes a metrics system. It's supposed to track every piece of work we do, assign how long it "Should" take to complete (a totally invented number) and then track it. At the end of the day we get a stat that says we were "70% productive" because we completed 70% of what they thought we should. What the system really does is make it take twice as long to do all that work that we now had too much of to do anyway. We start working through our breaks and lunches trying to make our numbers. Finally one day I realize the similarity between many of our tasks. I realize a lot of tasks could be made easier if there was a web-page that collected a lot of the info together, and then maybe some scripting that added things to some different databases. I have limited skills coding so I go out and find example code, manipulate that code until it "sort of" works for what I need. Finally I can make my stats. After a few weeks my manager comes to me "It's impossible for you to meet these stats how are you doing it!" I explain what I have written and I suggest that we have our code department write something similar that actually follows standards and what-not. But no, they apparently are not taking on any new projects at this time because they are busy writing a database for tracking their projects (Totally serious, that's really why they denied our request) My boss decides that what I've written is too important for them not to use. I explain MANY TIMES that I am not a programmer, have no schooling, I just found bits of code on the net, modified it extensively, and not only that what I've written goes down in flames on a REGULAR basis. We're talking database corruption, Crashing the entire workstation etc... They understand that but are going ahead with it. They say they will get a spare programmer to help me work the bugs out when ones available. It's now 3 years ago, my code has grown into a monstrosity beyond imagination. It controls much of everything we do, but every few hours I'm called to fix it. One of the databases corrupts so often that I have it back itself up every 15 minutes but we still constantly lose data. Meanwhile my boss has had me add feature after feature and completely eliminated any time I had been given to maintain the code, making things more complex and dooming the entire system to an even earlier death. When they finally got a coder to look at it was such a mess at that point that they quoted them a total rewrite and a price tag that was 4x my annual salary. The fact that the entire thing hasn't collapsed in on itself is a shocking to me, meanwhile my department is now so dependent on the mess that when it collapses I don't think we could continue to function at all.
Well, they aren't really anti-nuclear... or even environmentalists. Their real goal is to get the entire country to stop driving cars and have us all live like subsistence farmers and growing organic food.
I can count the number of non-scientists excited about those projects on 1 hand. Does that count? If NASA continues only to accept projects that do not interest the general public they are going to completely lose funding within a few decades.
Has Sony forgotten that stereoscopic glasses dim the image by 50%, cut the frame rate in half, and give most users a massive headache? Then there's the point that anyone without glasses can't look anywhere in the direction of the TV without getting vertigo. This has fail written all over it.
Obviously I'd leave the engineering up to the engineers but imo the reliefe well wouldn't be completely finished. Just have it 99% done and cap it. If the main well blowsout then you have a days worth of drilling instead of 3 months.
That people throw out a perfectly good car that gets 25mpg for a new car that gets 30mpg and think they're saving the environment. They never consider the amount of fossil fuels that went into mining the materials for their new car, what went into building it, testing it, and then likely shipping it across the ocean. Buy a good car, learn how to use a wrench and keep it running and well tuned for 30 years and you'll be doing the environment more of a favor than buying a prius. Although, you wont have your "Im green" badge to drive around.
Simple, I want Obama to push for a law that would require all offshore wells to have relief wells drilled PRIOR to striking oil. If there's a blowout, the solution is already in place.
A 250GB cap that will NEVER EVER get raised. It seems like a lot now but I can still remember buying a 90 MEGA byte hard drive for hundreds of dollars and being astonished by it's size. I copied ever disc I owned to it and declared I'd never need another drive.
Comcasts limit is there for one very nasty reason. Soon we will stream HD strait to your home. This is a cap that will prevent you from watching that stream. That's why its there. To prevent you from having choice. They want to retain their monopoly.
The movie cost $15 million to make, they made $40 million in the theater. e-gads you're right! Without the government stepping in to protect them they'd only make 266% profit!!! How on earth will they ever be able to make another movie?!?!
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Schools should just pull internet access. Yes, I know, it's a useful tool for all of us. But it provides no real help in school. You're supposed to be learning what's in the book, not what slash dots opinion on the subject is. Yes, have computers in the school for word processing, programming, art, etc... But they do not need internet access. In fact, if I were in charge of building a modern school I'd make sure the entire school were a Faraday cage so cellphones would be dead inside it as well.
It doesn't matter how much it costs to make. All that matters is what I'm willing to pay. For a device that's inferior to real books for reading, and completely incapable of real computing, I'd be willing to pay about $25, and that's only if I had full control over the device and could put any document I want on it. For a device that's tethered to Amazon and has DRM up to wazoo... they couldn't give the thing to me.
I know someone that works for a company that sends these letters. She's a moron. In fact, everyone that "researches" these cases at that company is a moron (at least all the ones I've met) They get a trademark, in this case "The other white meat" as a case file. It comes with the trademark itself, some pictures of how its used on cans and what-not and other basic info. Then they put the terms into a scripting program they have... which is basically just a web crawler. The crawler finds sites that use the terms and other sites that link to them. They then build a case file based on this info that is punched into a form letter and sent off to be signed. Here's the kicker: The more "offenses" they find, the more they get paid. It's like commission. They can make stupid amounts of money doing nothing at all for the whole day. It's so profitable they actually hire teams of people to print out their "Case files" (screenshots of websites) in full color, binder them and ship them to various places. I know another person that works in the "Binder department." The person I know working the case files makes in excess of $50k a year, the binder person about $25k, but of course they don't have the skills needed to work a search engine I guess.
pretty sure people are red meat.
They are... when they buy a new house. The problem is far more people buy 20+ year old houses than build new ones. Re-insulating an older house is prohibitively expensive.
How long is it going to take before they stop allowing software and business practice patents? This is just getting silly.
It's no more annoying than sporting events are in general. It makes as much sense to blow one of these things as it does to kick a ball back and forth down a field.
If that's really what he posted, that's hilarious. Also, I think the FBIs system is about to get overwhelmed as every teenager on earth copy's it to their own facebook page.
The internet/facebook are a public commons. Just like the street in front of the school. If a police officer was parked in his car outside of a school and a kid came walking down the middle of the street screaming "I'm going to kill every mother fucker in that school" I don't think we would question the police officers judgment if he stop the kid questioned him. We don't know what the arrest was for, nor do we know what the laws in that particular area are. The police may have gone to question him and found his room full of pipe bombs and sawed off shotguns... or it may just be illegal in that area to threaten to massacre a school. Remember, this kid publicly posted his name, his school, and his intent to harm those in the school. It's not like the government went out of their way to decipher the boys identity. Now if the kid sent an email to his friend and the FBI intercepted the email via packet sniffing and what-not, maybe I'd have a problem with it.
Affecting the local climate is one thing, affecting it globally is entirely different.
Have been in the situation of having no idea what I was doing and writing business critical code, I'd like to explain how this happens. My boss comes to my team and yells "DO MORE WITH LESS!!!" They decide my department is now in charge of things some other department used to do but they fired them all. When we can't keep up, management comes to us and declares that we obviously must be surfing SlashDot all day instead of working and institutes a metrics system. It's supposed to track every piece of work we do, assign how long it "Should" take to complete (a totally invented number) and then track it. At the end of the day we get a stat that says we were "70% productive" because we completed 70% of what they thought we should. What the system really does is make it take twice as long to do all that work that we now had too much of to do anyway. We start working through our breaks and lunches trying to make our numbers. Finally one day I realize the similarity between many of our tasks. I realize a lot of tasks could be made easier if there was a web-page that collected a lot of the info together, and then maybe some scripting that added things to some different databases. I have limited skills coding so I go out and find example code, manipulate that code until it "sort of" works for what I need. Finally I can make my stats. After a few weeks my manager comes to me "It's impossible for you to meet these stats how are you doing it!" I explain what I have written and I suggest that we have our code department write something similar that actually follows standards and what-not. But no, they apparently are not taking on any new projects at this time because they are busy writing a database for tracking their projects (Totally serious, that's really why they denied our request) My boss decides that what I've written is too important for them not to use. I explain MANY TIMES that I am not a programmer, have no schooling, I just found bits of code on the net, modified it extensively, and not only that what I've written goes down in flames on a REGULAR basis. We're talking database corruption, Crashing the entire workstation etc... They understand that but are going ahead with it. They say they will get a spare programmer to help me work the bugs out when ones available. It's now 3 years ago, my code has grown into a monstrosity beyond imagination. It controls much of everything we do, but every few hours I'm called to fix it. One of the databases corrupts so often that I have it back itself up every 15 minutes but we still constantly lose data. Meanwhile my boss has had me add feature after feature and completely eliminated any time I had been given to maintain the code, making things more complex and dooming the entire system to an even earlier death. When they finally got a coder to look at it was such a mess at that point that they quoted them a total rewrite and a price tag that was 4x my annual salary. The fact that the entire thing hasn't collapsed in on itself is a shocking to me, meanwhile my department is now so dependent on the mess that when it collapses I don't think we could continue to function at all.
Well, they aren't really anti-nuclear... or even environmentalists. Their real goal is to get the entire country to stop driving cars and have us all live like subsistence farmers and growing organic food.
I can count the number of non-scientists excited about those projects on 1 hand. Does that count? If NASA continues only to accept projects that do not interest the general public they are going to completely lose funding within a few decades.
Has Sony forgotten that stereoscopic glasses dim the image by 50%, cut the frame rate in half, and give most users a massive headache? Then there's the point that anyone without glasses can't look anywhere in the direction of the TV without getting vertigo. This has fail written all over it.
Obviously I'd leave the engineering up to the engineers but imo the reliefe well wouldn't be completely finished. Just have it 99% done and cap it. If the main well blowsout then you have a days worth of drilling instead of 3 months.
That people throw out a perfectly good car that gets 25mpg for a new car that gets 30mpg and think they're saving the environment. They never consider the amount of fossil fuels that went into mining the materials for their new car, what went into building it, testing it, and then likely shipping it across the ocean. Buy a good car, learn how to use a wrench and keep it running and well tuned for 30 years and you'll be doing the environment more of a favor than buying a prius. Although, you wont have your "Im green" badge to drive around.
Simple, I want Obama to push for a law that would require all offshore wells to have relief wells drilled PRIOR to striking oil. If there's a blowout, the solution is already in place.
With this technology there will be no chance for Rowdy Roddy Piper to uncover the alien conspiracy!
I certainly hope it works so every other mother I meet can stop telling me her child's autistic.
The tesla roadster, when actually tested by someone other than tesla, only had a range of less than 60 miles.
A 250GB cap that will NEVER EVER get raised. It seems like a lot now but I can still remember buying a 90 MEGA byte hard drive for hundreds of dollars and being astonished by it's size. I copied ever disc I owned to it and declared I'd never need another drive. Comcasts limit is there for one very nasty reason. Soon we will stream HD strait to your home. This is a cap that will prevent you from watching that stream. That's why its there. To prevent you from having choice. They want to retain their monopoly.
For the love of god someone give these people a pencil and a scanner.
The movie cost $15 million to make, they made $40 million in the theater. e-gads you're right! Without the government stepping in to protect them they'd only make 266% profit!!! How on earth will they ever be able to make another movie?!?!
If you could copyright game play, I'd imagine the guys that wrote Wolfenstien3d would have more money than God right now.
People still read magazines? The "future" of magazines?