All of these people sign on for a year, and although some of them are extending their stays, I don't think many of them are planning to permanently put roots down in India.
This is just a working holiday, the modern equivalent of backpacking and English teaching your way through Asia...
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Since the VCR is on the way out, the next logical product to be squashed by evolution is the DVD Player...which is what the author was rhetorically asking about.
I bought this, and it was one of the most dissapointing purchases of my life. The graphics and sounds were horrible and nowhere near that of the original Intellivision, and only a few of the 25 games on it were actually playable.
I work in Japan, so when this patch comes out it will be Saturday. As it's a critical patch, we will most likely be asked to roll it out on the weekend.
As an "exempt" employee I am not eligible for overtime, or even comp time for late nights worked Monday thru Friday. But for weekend maintenance, I'll be able to do the patching at a decent time and get to sleep at a decent hour, and get an extra three day weekend this summer!
Feel free to keep the weekend patches coming guys...
What about the good old Commodore 64? Maybe you could have a problem if they could write a program to overwrite your GEOS boot disk, but that disk is usually write protected, and the C-64 always boots from a unchanging ROM chip at startup.
Therefore, any company that's truly concerned about security should put all of it's most important applications on a C-64 cluster.
The gaming industry has been in a "crisis of innovation" since the early 90's, when just about everything "new" became fighting simulations. Improved technology has led to the making of games that are more realistic and less imaginative...the end result being games that are much less fun overall for the general populous. That's why the Retro Series for Game Boy Advance is selling so well in Japan. I'd still rather play Super Mario Brothers than most of the spectacular looking crap that's released today.
Wasn't this concept already shown in a Dilbert animation a few years back, where he tried to launch an advertisement into space and ended up knocking all of the world's sattelites out of alignment and sending Earth back to the dark ages?
I never carry anything but quarters. This was a bit troubling when I paid the deposit on my house, but it's a small price to pay for keeping the prying eyes of The Man out of my financial transactions.
2^31 bits would only be 2^28 bytes (since a byte is 2^3 bits), which would end up being a file a little over 500MB. If you convinced people that they were actually downloading a new Paris Hilton movie, they might be convinced to stick around long enough for that...
Why should going to the moon cost so much money? They've still got the blueprints for the Apollo, right? Building one of those should only cost a few billion dollars...
That may the case, but my main point that this proposal is for some people's personal agenda and not some altruistic idea to benefit mankind still stands.
Exploring space does more than just provide direct benefits now. It provides a purpose and a goal for mankind. It provides limitless benefits for our future.
If there are "limitless benefits", why have we not been to the moon, or even thought of going to the moon, in 30 years?
So many social programs fail. Look at the legacy of Kennedy. Failed program after failed program. Welfare became a crutch to generation after generation. We spend money trying to repair humanity, when government does not, and never will have, the ability to do so. Is this where you would send the money?
We've already succeeded in sending tens of men to the moon. We have not succeeded in stemming the tide of poverty, oppression, and overall misery throughout the world. So which is the more challenging and honorable goal for mankind? Should we give up on the goals of Kennedy just because we've failed in the past?
Social programs fail because they are difficult to accomplish! Does that mean we should give up on the challenge? To me, that's just proof that we need to continue to work on them, no matter how many years it takes to accomplish.
How would you spend these "trillions"? How can we change dictatorships and Islamic states that enslave their citizens because of evil or religious beliefs?! How do we feed countries that over and over again cause their own starvation through horrible governments and dictatorships!
I don't have the answer. But your suggestion is to give up searching for the answer and shoot rockets into space instead. How exactly does that help anything? Does the knowledge that "mankind has a goal" provide comfort to starving children in Africa? (or Atlanta, or any region near your home if that helps drive home the point)
Would you make the same mistakes we have made over and over and over again?
No. I would like our governments to make new mistakes, until someday we find a path that succeeds.
I BELIEVE that NASA can benefit all of mankind. Now the question to you is, how would YOU use this money to benefit mankind?
I don't have that answer. All I have is the belief that it is irresponsible to shoot rockets all over space and profess that to be for the good of mankind when there are so many more pressing needs that we don't have a plan of action for yet, yet alone a solution in the works.
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You can probably find thousands of used laptops that people would be willing to sell for under $100. Just collect those, install Linux, and presto!
All of these people sign on for a year, and although some of them are extending their stays, I don't think many of them are planning to permanently put roots down in India.
This is just a working holiday, the modern equivalent of backpacking and English teaching your way through Asia...
Since the VCR is on the way out, the next logical product to be squashed by evolution is the DVD Player...which is what the author was rhetorically asking about.
Since you live in Japan, you know that Nov. 3rd is a holiday, right? So you can just sit home all day and watch things unfold on CNNj like me!
I was hoping for a tie...then this pattern theory could really be put to the test...
What you could do with a _Beowulf Cluster_ of smooth moons!!!
Another blissfully ignorant day using OS/2 Warp!
In the form of Noise Pollution. Ever been close to a big windmill? Those suckers are loud!
At least a nuclear plant only makes its presence known to the locals when something goes wrong...
Are you saying that you never need to patch Linux?
I bought this, and it was one of the most dissapointing purchases of my life. The graphics and sounds were horrible and nowhere near that of the original Intellivision, and only a few of the 25 games on it were actually playable.
Since when did Slashdot become aintitcoolnews2.com?
I was hoping these would fool enough people, so that I could have shorted the bejeezus out of GOOG at $150/share.
Even $80 is way overpriced, but not so much so that I'd risk a short there.
As an "exempt" employee I am not eligible for overtime, or even comp time for late nights worked Monday thru Friday. But for weekend maintenance, I'll be able to do the patching at a decent time and get to sleep at a decent hour, and get an extra three day weekend this summer!
Feel free to keep the weekend patches coming guys...
What about the good old Commodore 64? Maybe you could have a problem if they could write a program to overwrite your GEOS boot disk, but that disk is usually write protected, and the C-64 always boots from a unchanging ROM chip at startup.
Therefore, any company that's truly concerned about security should put all of it's most important applications on a C-64 cluster.
The gaming industry has been in a "crisis of innovation" since the early 90's, when just about everything "new" became fighting simulations. Improved technology has led to the making of games that are more realistic and less imaginative...the end result being games that are much less fun overall for the general populous. That's why the Retro Series for Game Boy Advance is selling so well in Japan. I'd still rather play Super Mario Brothers than most of the spectacular looking crap that's released today.
Your company sounds like Nirvana to me. Wanna trade?
Wasn't this concept already shown in a Dilbert animation a few years back, where he tried to launch an advertisement into space and ended up knocking all of the world's sattelites out of alignment and sending Earth back to the dark ages?
Note that this probably wouldn't have been possible, or at least as easily obtained, without the six-figure salary you had before...
I never carry anything but quarters. This was a bit troubling when I paid the deposit on my house, but it's a small price to pay for keeping the prying eyes of The Man out of my financial transactions.
2^31 bits would only be 2^28 bytes (since a byte is 2^3 bits), which would end up being a file a little over 500MB. If you convinced people that they were actually downloading a new Paris Hilton movie, they might be convinced to stick around long enough for that...
Won't we all burn in the sun eventually?
64K of RAM...
For extra credit, where did the "VIC" and the "20" in "VIC-20" come from?
Why should going to the moon cost so much money? They've still got the blueprints for the Apollo, right? Building one of those should only cost a few billion dollars...
That may the case, but my main point that this proposal is for some people's personal agenda and not some altruistic idea to benefit mankind still stands.
If there are "limitless benefits", why have we not been to the moon, or even thought of going to the moon, in 30 years?
So many social programs fail. Look at the legacy of Kennedy. Failed program after failed program. Welfare became a crutch to generation after generation. We spend money trying to repair humanity, when government does not, and never will have, the ability to do so. Is this where you would send the money?
We've already succeeded in sending tens of men to the moon. We have not succeeded in stemming the tide of poverty, oppression, and overall misery throughout the world. So which is the more challenging and honorable goal for mankind? Should we give up on the goals of Kennedy just because we've failed in the past?
Social programs fail because they are difficult to accomplish! Does that mean we should give up on the challenge? To me, that's just proof that we need to continue to work on them, no matter how many years it takes to accomplish.
How would you spend these "trillions"? How can we change dictatorships and Islamic states that enslave their citizens because of evil or religious beliefs?! How do we feed countries that over and over again cause their own starvation through horrible governments and dictatorships!
I don't have the answer. But your suggestion is to give up searching for the answer and shoot rockets into space instead. How exactly does that help anything? Does the knowledge that "mankind has a goal" provide comfort to starving children in Africa? (or Atlanta, or any region near your home if that helps drive home the point)
Would you make the same mistakes we have made over and over and over again?
No. I would like our governments to make new mistakes, until someday we find a path that succeeds.
I BELIEVE that NASA can benefit all of mankind. Now the question to you is, how would YOU use this money to benefit mankind?
I don't have that answer. All I have is the belief that it is irresponsible to shoot rockets all over space and profess that to be for the good of mankind when there are so many more pressing needs that we don't have a plan of action for yet, yet alone a solution in the works.