Thanks, I didn't know that. BTW, if you get to Cambridge University, the library has (on display) a draft copy of 'Principia Mathematica' with written annotations by Isaac Newton. Much more recent, but still worthy of a geek pilgrimage. (A copy of a manuscript of "Winnie the Pooh" is in the same room).
1) Treat your customers, partners, and employees fairly. 2) Empower your employees to deal with problems when they arise and make things right 3) Obey laws (for instance don't cook the books, backdate stock options, spy on employees and the press). 4) Have contact information for problem resolution on your web site. 5) Admit problems when they occur, publicly state what you're going to do to fix them, never cover things up.
I've got some "Dragon-Repellent Spray" I'd like to sell you. It's pretty expensive. We can't be certain that dragons exist. But if they do, the consequences would be disastrous. Better to spend a lot of money now, than take that sort of risk. Think of the children!
OK, how 'bout the effect of CO2 on the atmosphere is not linear, it's logarithmic. Adding more CO2 beyond a certain point doesn't have that great an effect on temperature. Changes in solar output does. I don't buy it either.
BTW, when did genuine skepticism turn into trolling?? I wasn't expecting some kind of eco-inquisition.
Sony needs to stop allowing their movie / music division to dictate to their consumer electronics division. They added UMD movies to the PSP that nobody wants. They added Blu-Ray to PS/3 and slipped their schedule out a year and added hundreds of dollars to the consoles cost. They keep putting all sorts of unwanted DRM into everything. Sell it off and get back to making well-designed consumer electronics.
With college tuition costs going through the stratosphere, this is a really great use of public education money. I'm so glad that once again our public officials are looking out for the interests of their constituents.
Korea and Austria are considering human rights for robots and apes respectively. Isn't it ironic that this would mean that non-humans in these countries would be treated better than women are treated in many places in the world. Strikes me as terribly misplaced priorities.
> Firefly could not have been done at any earlier time as a series, > the special effects cost would have been too high.
JMS's "Babylon 5" was the first TV show to make extensive use of low-cost CGI using the Amiga and New-Tek's Video Toaster. It did for TV Sci-Fi, what Lucas did for movies. The B5 pilot was done in 1993.
I too saw Star Wars when it was originally released back in the '70's. I was amazed!! Ended up seeing it multiple times. At the time - no one had ever seen anything like it. And that's the problem with Star Wars; the plot is cheesy. Dialog? Character development? It all comes back to special effects.
Serenity has fairly standard (for today) effects. But Joss Whedon is an extraordinary writer. The story, the plot, the dialog will hold up over time. Star Wars will always be about special effects - and is already starting to look dated.
> So I say lets open a big bottle of it in his office while he's there. > When (if?) he wakes up, let's ask him again if he thinks CO2 is a pollutant...
Then you can submerge him in water, and ask if that's a pollutant.
> I have the power to regulate my own Internet gambling, so why should the State regulate it for me?
Great, set up an unregulated for-profit casino in your house. Call your local police station, ask to speak to the head of the vice squad and tell 'em "Neener neener neener". Be sure and write and let me know how it all works out.
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved for the States respectively, or to the people.
In the United States, gambling is regulated by the states. Some states (Nevada) have gambling everywhere. Some states have it at select locations. Some states prohibit it. Allowing Internet gambling essentially puts a casino in every household and overrides the ability of states to regulate gambling. Within the US, foreign treaties do not take precedence over the Constitution.
I don't think so. In secondary school there's (ideally) a lot of interaction. Students may have questions, or need additional explanations or examples of presented material. This approach supplemented with a good teacher to answer questions and provide supplemental material would really be the best of both worlds for secondary education.
I don't understand why they are not trying to market this for the educational market in developed countries. At $200 it would make sense for mass distribution to secondary school students in developed countries. With an office suite (OpenOffice) and a browser, it would fit most of the needs of secondary school students. Add an IDE (Eclipse) and it could be used in introductory programming classes. Instead of a computer lab, students could bring it to class, for note-taking, or to read documents or view presentations. And students could take the units home to do homework.
It would also help the effort to distribute machines to poor countries by increasing production volumes (and lowering costs), as well as resulting in more software being available for the laptops. So, I'm puzzled why they're not looking at this market.
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Thanks, I didn't know that. BTW, if you get to Cambridge University, the library has (on display) a draft copy of 'Principia Mathematica' with written annotations by Isaac Newton. Much more recent, but still worthy of a geek pilgrimage. (A copy of a manuscript of "Winnie the Pooh" is in the same room).
The Magna Carta and Rosetta Stone are in London. In the British Library and British Museum respectively. Where is (a copy of) the Codex Hammurabi?
Bird flu, global warming, gray goo, super-volcano explosions, and collisions with near-earth asteroids will have killed everyone by then. :-)
1) Treat your customers, partners, and employees fairly.
2) Empower your employees to deal with problems when they arise and make things right
3) Obey laws (for instance don't cook the books, backdate stock options, spy on employees and the press).
4) Have contact information for problem resolution on your web site.
5) Admit problems when they occur, publicly state what you're going to do to fix them, never cover things up.
> if you disagree with this policy ... You don't have to buy either of these formats
Works for me.
You're neglecting the effect of the Sulfuric Acid Cloud Layer on Venus. Also Mercury does not have any atmosphere. So, it's not a valid comparison.
I've got some "Dragon-Repellent Spray" I'd like to sell you. It's pretty expensive. We can't be certain that dragons exist. But if they do, the consequences would be disastrous. Better to spend a lot of money now, than take that sort of risk. Think of the children!
OK, how 'bout the effect of CO2 on the atmosphere is not linear, it's logarithmic. Adding more CO2 beyond a certain point doesn't have that great an effect on temperature. Changes in solar output does. I don't buy it either.
BTW, when did genuine skepticism turn into trolling?? I wasn't expecting some kind of eco-inquisition.
Sony needs to stop allowing their movie / music division to dictate to their consumer electronics division. They added UMD movies to the PSP that nobody wants. They added Blu-Ray to PS/3 and slipped their schedule out a year and added hundreds of dollars to the consoles cost. They keep putting all sorts of unwanted DRM into everything. Sell it off and get back to making well-designed consumer electronics.
With college tuition costs going through the stratosphere, this is a really great use of public education money. I'm so glad that once again our public officials are looking out for the interests of their constituents.
And don't forget the requisite interface to SkyNet.
Korea and Austria are considering human rights for robots and apes respectively. Isn't it ironic that this would mean that non-humans in these countries would be treated better than women are treated in many places in the world. Strikes me as terribly misplaced priorities.
> In other words, stuff from Bell Labs.
And the Laser, C++ (originally "C with Classes"), and the Windowing UI (BLIT).
> Firefly could not have been done at any earlier time as a series,
> the special effects cost would have been too high.
JMS's "Babylon 5" was the first TV show to make extensive use of low-cost CGI using the Amiga and New-Tek's Video Toaster. It did for TV Sci-Fi, what Lucas did for movies. The B5 pilot was done in 1993.
My list would include:
1) Personal Computer
2) Word Processing
3) Ethernet LAN
4) Mouse
5) Graphical User Interface
6) Laser Printer
In other words, products from Xerox PARC.
I too saw Star Wars when it was originally released back in the '70's. I was amazed!! Ended up seeing it multiple times. At the time - no one had ever seen anything like it. And that's the problem with Star Wars; the plot is cheesy. Dialog? Character development? It all comes back to special effects.
Serenity has fairly standard (for today) effects. But Joss Whedon is an extraordinary writer. The story, the plot, the dialog will hold up over time. Star Wars will always be about special effects - and is already starting to look dated.
> So I say lets open a big bottle of it in his office while he's there.
> When (if?) he wakes up, let's ask him again if he thinks CO2 is a pollutant...
Then you can submerge him in water, and ask if that's a pollutant.
> I have the power to regulate my own Internet gambling, so why should the State regulate it for me?
Great, set up an unregulated for-profit casino in your house. Call your local police station, ask to speak to the head of the vice squad and tell 'em "Neener neener neener". Be sure and write and let me know how it all works out.
Sounds like a request from Scott
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved for the States respectively, or to the people.
In the United States, gambling is regulated by the states. Some states (Nevada) have gambling everywhere. Some states have it at select locations. Some states prohibit it. Allowing Internet gambling essentially puts a casino in every household and overrides the ability of states to regulate gambling. Within the US, foreign treaties do not take precedence over the Constitution.
What do you mean 40 or 50 is elderly?! ... excuse me ... HEY GET OFF MY LAWN!! Dang kids, now where'd I put that rocket launcher.
I don't think so. In secondary school there's (ideally) a lot of interaction. Students may have questions, or need additional explanations or examples of presented material. This approach supplemented with a good teacher to answer questions and provide supplemental material would really be the best of both worlds for secondary education.
> My copy of Eclipse is currently running at 267MB. The install directory is over 1 GB
OK, good point. Bluebird IDE and AbiWord (Word Processing) - OR - add a CF or SD slot to the laptop.
I don't understand why they are not trying to market this for the educational market in developed countries. At $200 it would make sense for mass distribution to secondary school students in developed countries. With an office suite (OpenOffice) and a browser, it would fit most of the needs of secondary school students. Add an IDE (Eclipse) and it could be used in introductory programming classes. Instead of a computer lab, students could bring it to class, for note-taking, or to read documents or view presentations. And students could take the units home to do homework.
It would also help the effort to distribute machines to poor countries by increasing production volumes (and lowering costs), as well as resulting in more software being available for the laptops. So, I'm puzzled why they're not looking at this market.
I've got you now!