If only we weren't so scared of other humans having the same capabilities we already do. If we were able to put more research into the damned things without being so paranoid about proliferation, and without kneejerk reactions like this making it bloody hard to get funding for such research, we'd be grinning.
Ahh yes, and a few seconds with google yielded the DOE's working with.
it really saddens me to see people who are normally quite objective and rational suddenly lose all sense of perspective the instant it hits a specific hot button topic that they've somehow emotionally attached to.
Switching away from carbon emitting power sources is essential, but that doesn't mean put all your eggs in one basket and watch the overspecialization screw us all once theres some significant shift in our environment. For all we know, the damage done thus far might result in an end environment where certain of these technologies are no longer usable or require revamping as well.
Seriously. Open minds, check your data, cite your sources. Emotion has no place in trying to ensure the survival of a species.
Right, which is research and will give them the data to know if its viable or not.
Do you honestly believe that once we have one option we should stop researching alternatives? and do not forget that the coal fired power plants are still running right now, is it not a good idea to try to get them as clean as possible until we're self sufficient otherwise?
What's with the tunnel vision here, this amount of money is a small amount for us to be able to know more than we do. You complain about how carbon sequestration is unproven, and then complain when they try to research it?
Seriously, back off from the emotion and get some objectivity.
Did you read the article in the story you mentioned?
it cost 90 MILLION DOLLARS to make a town of 1300 a net producer through wind power.
Does that not make the 126.6 million put into carbon sequestration seem like a drop in the bucket? especially since that town is not the only place working with wind power?
Perspective is necessary before we all make knee jerk reactions.
I dunno, i've known some people in my day who would be exactly those they would be trying to catch, and they were very learned. This concept that criminals are all stupid and ignorant is rather stupid and ignorant. All it takes is one such person per circle of criminal friends to ensure they're all aware.
Of course, it probably stems from the fact that the average criminal who gets caught and makes the news is usually stupid, ignorant, or both.
You are exactly correct about the deterrent factor of CCTV systems. There are plenty of school boards around where I live who have put up empty CCTV casings (without even having a camera inside) and vandalism was reduced dramatically.
What confuses me most about this article is that they published this kind of data at all. By advising the populace that the police can't use camera data most of the time will reduce the hell out of that deterrent effect.
I still would prefer a society that doesn't require such methods. Whether you're from a benevolent bent or an evil-empire bent publicizing this story makes no sense whatsoever.
...but if there's a supreme being out there somewhere, I'll agree to start praying to it or sacrificing cans of tuna on its altar or whatever the hell it wants I am already aware of such an entity, in its opinion.
Too bad it just sits there purring for the most part and is fuzzy, and not so big on the implementation side.
Using a ruler is definitely not the same as zebra striping as you're either blocking or at least distorting the data you are not interested below the ruler. This gives a much sharper demarcation of where the useful information is. Zebra striping still has the data there, in a legible and distracting, albeit annotated, form.
well, it does indirectly but not as blatantly as the article would have one believe. Don't forget that if the API's were properly designed to begin with, it would have been impossible to give invalid parameters to the function or allow the use memory that has been released.
I have no idea what hes on about with the hard-pathed file references.
The problem is so many corporate coders back in the day (and still) would use whatever shortcuts they could within the api including "undocumented features" like the former two issues. If Microsoft were to fix these issues without compatibility for these "features", it would break tons of legacy applications. Therefore, ongoing developing must include these already-incorrectly-designed portions of the API as well as whatever they really want to be working on.
Just because a company does something poorly to begin with and people adapted to it, doesnt mean the company isnt to blame for the issues.
Course that doesnt make this article NOT a flaming pile of rhetoric, it just makes it slightly less than complete and utter bullshit.
Personally, I say thats been the case since this one took an ice pick to the skull but still had the gusto to say not to kill his assailant as the fellow must have had a story to tell.
One good book? Personally I would consider enders game to be one of Cards WORST efforts. Not terrible , but not his best.
The sequels and the parallel to the original story is where the real character development and writing style is found. Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, and Children of the Mind are MUCH more thought provoking and easier to identify with. The characters become much more real, and less OMG DBZ SUPERSAIJANTIME-esk.
His parallel with Enders Shadow, Shadow of the Hegemon, and Shadow Puppets focused on Bean is also excellent, taking on the more tactical and geopolitical bent rather than the constant moral conflicts (although they're in there, just not as pronounced).
And not only that, but if you can keep the mental images of golden plates and seer stones out of your head, the Alvin Maker series and the Homecoming saga offer excellent reading as well. A bit of a glimpse into the mormon perspective of things in extremely unique settings.
Now if you have read all of these and still believe what you believe, then i guess thats a matter of personal opinion (or perhaps you're a sci-fi author and he is competition =). If not, read a bit more before talking shit about an author.
Although, the aesthetics of the mini can't be denied odd, i would have said that aesthetics is the one area where you will always have someone denying its value.
I do not understand how anyone can read these details and not see exactly what you're seeing.
To expand on one of the why's for those that may question this, Corporations will have a department or at least a set of dedicated employees who do nothing but verify and respond to contested copyrights that they own. Individuals or small businesses may not be able to afford the manpower needed to manage such overhead. This means that corporations can keep a tight leash on their IP, while making use of material where the creator is identified as "not likely to keep up". Effectively, this increases the base "cost" of maintaining a stable of copyrights so that the riffraff will be right out (5mil$ at the door please).
This is but one of the things such legislation is likely to be used for, and i'm sure others out there can point out more.
I can't think of a single course i took where the vetted textbook isn't available for student-use photocopies in the library. I would have LOVED something like this to be able to have all the hardcopy data and simply photocopy the problem sets (and possibly the corresponding back of the book).
Is this something thats specific only outside the US? Do american universities not do this as well?
And dont give me the "but it's never in long enough" cop-out if they do =). You can photocopy a whole semesters worth of problems the first time you get it and it wont amount to much.
The point of poor punnery is more to cause excruciating pain in the pun-ee rather than have others consider the pun-er funny.
These are the lines to break out at 6:30am on a bad day when your co-workers haven't finished their first coffee. The sudden pause in their trains of thought with the impending groan that follows is where the humour truly lies.
Of course, the only defense is to be a soldier in uniform as I'm pretty sure such tactics are against the Geneva convention.
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If only we weren't so scared of other humans having the same capabilities we already do. If we were able to put more research into the damned things without being so paranoid about proliferation, and without kneejerk reactions like this making it bloody hard to get funding for such research, we'd be grinning.
without the angry-with-willful-ignorance screw-up
Ahh yes, and a few seconds with google yielded the DOE's working with.
it really saddens me to see people who are normally quite objective and rational suddenly lose all sense of perspective the instant it hits a specific hot button topic that they've somehow emotionally attached to.
Switching away from carbon emitting power sources is essential, but that doesn't mean put all your eggs in one basket and watch the overspecialization screw us all once theres some significant shift in our environment. For all we know, the damage done thus far might result in an end environment where certain of these technologies are no longer usable or require revamping as well.
Seriously. Open minds, check your data, cite your sources. Emotion has no place in trying to ensure the survival of a species.
Right, which is research and will give them the data to know if its viable or not.
Do you honestly believe that once we have one option we should stop researching alternatives? and do not forget that the coal fired power plants are still running right now, is it not a good idea to try to get them as clean as possible until we're self sufficient otherwise?
What's with the tunnel vision here, this amount of money is a small amount for us to be able to know more than we do. You complain about how carbon sequestration is unproven, and then complain when they try to research it?
Seriously, back off from the emotion and get some objectivity.
Did you read the article in the story you mentioned?
it cost 90 MILLION DOLLARS to make a town of 1300 a net producer through wind power.
Does that not make the 126.6 million put into carbon sequestration seem like a drop in the bucket? especially since that town is not the only place working with wind power?
Perspective is necessary before we all make knee jerk reactions.
I dunno, i've known some people in my day who would be exactly those they would be trying to catch, and they were very learned. This concept that criminals are all stupid and ignorant is rather stupid and ignorant. All it takes is one such person per circle of criminal friends to ensure they're all aware.
Of course, it probably stems from the fact that the average criminal who gets caught and makes the news is usually stupid, ignorant, or both.
You are exactly correct about the deterrent factor of CCTV systems. There are plenty of school boards around where I live who have put up empty CCTV casings (without even having a camera inside) and vandalism was reduced dramatically.
What confuses me most about this article is that they published this kind of data at all. By advising the populace that the police can't use camera data most of the time will reduce the hell out of that deterrent effect.
I still would prefer a society that doesn't require such methods. Whether you're from a benevolent bent or an evil-empire bent publicizing this story makes no sense whatsoever.
Swatting and Scampering may ensue.
Although, if lucky you may glimpse a four leafed clover at your feet.
Get off our lawns.
...but if there's a supreme being out there somewhere, I'll agree to start praying to it or sacrificing cans of tuna on its altar or whatever the hell it wants I am already aware of such an entity, in its opinion.Too bad it just sits there purring for the most part and is fuzzy, and not so big on the implementation side.
Just a tiny nit-pick.
Using a ruler is definitely not the same as zebra striping as you're either blocking or at least distorting the data you are not interested below the ruler. This gives a much sharper demarcation of where the useful information is. Zebra striping still has the data there, in a legible and distracting, albeit annotated, form.
well, it does indirectly but not as blatantly as the article would have one believe. Don't forget that if the API's were properly designed to begin with, it would have been impossible to give invalid parameters to the function or allow the use memory that has been released.
I have no idea what hes on about with the hard-pathed file references.
The problem is so many corporate coders back in the day (and still) would use whatever shortcuts they could within the api including "undocumented features" like the former two issues. If Microsoft were to fix these issues without compatibility for these "features", it would break tons of legacy applications. Therefore, ongoing developing must include these already-incorrectly-designed portions of the API as well as whatever they really want to be working on.
Just because a company does something poorly to begin with and people adapted to it, doesnt mean the company isnt to blame for the issues.
Course that doesnt make this article NOT a flaming pile of rhetoric, it just makes it slightly less than complete and utter bullshit.
Personally, I say thats been the case since this one took an ice pick to the skull but still had the gusto to say not to kill his assailant as the fellow must have had a story to tell.
One good book? Personally I would consider enders game to be one of Cards WORST efforts. Not terrible , but not his best.
The sequels and the parallel to the original story is where the real character development and writing style is found. Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, and Children of the Mind are MUCH more thought provoking and easier to identify with. The characters become much more real, and less OMG DBZ SUPERSAIJANTIME-esk.
His parallel with Enders Shadow, Shadow of the Hegemon, and Shadow Puppets focused on Bean is also excellent, taking on the more tactical and geopolitical bent rather than the constant moral conflicts (although they're in there, just not as pronounced).
And not only that, but if you can keep the mental images of golden plates and seer stones out of your head, the Alvin Maker series and the Homecoming saga offer excellent reading as well. A bit of a glimpse into the mormon perspective of things in extremely unique settings.
Now if you have read all of these and still believe what you believe, then i guess thats a matter of personal opinion (or perhaps you're a sci-fi author and he is competition =). If not, read a bit more before talking shit about an author.
* Neptune Definitely neither of them, they're still too busy bitching over who had the best god of the sea implementation.
Yes.
Religion.
Ok, to put the past two comments into perspective...
Given the above data, one can be nearly immune to the impact of Governmentium and Capitalium so long as they were coated in Beryllium?
Hmmmmm.....to test the hypothesis or not.
Alcohol. Barry White. Intercourse.
Trust me, its great for the rest of us.
While you're at it, watch Barton Fink.
I do not understand how anyone can read these details and not see exactly what you're seeing.
To expand on one of the why's for those that may question this, Corporations will have a department or at least a set of dedicated employees who do nothing but verify and respond to contested copyrights that they own. Individuals or small businesses may not be able to afford the manpower needed to manage such overhead. This means that corporations can keep a tight leash on their IP, while making use of material where the creator is identified as "not likely to keep up". Effectively, this increases the base "cost" of maintaining a stable of copyrights so that the riffraff will be right out (5mil$ at the door please).
This is but one of the things such legislation is likely to be used for, and i'm sure others out there can point out more.
I can't think of a single course i took where the vetted textbook isn't available for student-use photocopies in the library. I would have LOVED something like this to be able to have all the hardcopy data and simply photocopy the problem sets (and possibly the corresponding back of the book).
Is this something thats specific only outside the US? Do american universities not do this as well?
And dont give me the "but it's never in long enough" cop-out if they do =). You can photocopy a whole semesters worth of problems the first time you get it and it wont amount to much.
And for the next experiment....Love Potion #9.
For sale now on pay per view and direct to home dvd.
Ah yes, the critical point at which the material is considered both a liquid and a gas...
Horrible how that can remain close to on topic heh.
Two Words.
Battle Room
No reason it has to just be a wacko educational theory run amok.
The point of poor punnery is more to cause excruciating pain in the pun-ee rather than have others consider the pun-er funny.
These are the lines to break out at 6:30am on a bad day when your co-workers haven't finished their first coffee. The sudden pause in their trains of thought with the impending groan that follows is where the humour truly lies.
Of course, the only defense is to be a soldier in uniform as I'm pretty sure such tactics are against the Geneva convention.