Huh? What are you talking about? Where the hell else are you supposed to meet people if not in a bar? Would you prefer me to meet some losery loner on an online dating site or something?
Meetup.com, for one. There are other activity groups as well. (Most aren't free, but Meetup is). Then there are social scenes around hiking, skating, cycling, even rowing.
Thing is, even if you participate in a group centered near the South Bay, a disproportionate number of the women are from SF. And, of course, the groups centered in or nearer the City have more women.
These two sentences don't mesh in the way I think you meant them to. The new technologies may allow companies to bring the OPERATIONS back home, but not the JOBS. If anything, they will allow many manufacturing operations still in the U.S. to cut even more jobs (though not send them overseas).
True. It isn't going to do much to bring back jobs for assembly line workers. However, we have also been losing the jobs related to establishing and optimizing manufacturing processes. We've been losing the ecosystem of vendors and part suppliers and their associated jobs. It has become more difficult to justify doing higher level work here that is closely tied directly or indirectly to manufacturing over there. Even if we can't bring the factory floor jobs back home, it would help to at least stop the bleeding before we become a nation that no longer knows how to build anything of value.
It's that easy. Why do people keep making prescriptions that would affect absolutely everyone, just because they personally don't like something?
If you want a small phone, buy one, period.
Anything else is just saying that your taste and your desires are more important than anybody else's. That's just not true and sure sign of pure arrogance.
Have you tried to buy a small phone? There's not much to work with. Small smart phones don't exist at all (an iPhone is *not* small). Clamshell Android phones appeared briefly and then disappeared. If you want a small dumb phone you will find than even those are bigger than they used to be.
I bought my last dumb phone in large part because the previous phone was too big to comfortably pocket while driving. The last straw was when I left my phone in my car when I left to catch a plane. This would not happen if I didn't feel compelled to remove my phone when I sat down to drive.
Now I have a smart phone and it's even bigger than my old old dumb phone. I leave it out all the time. I am amazed I haven't lost it yet. If I take another lengthy trip, I'm going to have to eBay me a small dumb phone. Walking around third world countries with this expensive monstrosity in my pocket is *not* going to work!
I think people reading too much into the description of the effort as "trolling".
Trolling on Usenet and sites like Slashdot is about provoking people who are otherwise engaged in reasoned, rational, discussions into flaming.
The Al Qaeda elements are presumably using weakly supported but not obviously wrong statements written to appeal to the emotions of would-be recruits and convince them that the irrational is reasonable. In other words, these elements are themselves trolling.
The counter would be to either reveal the trolls as nut jobs or provoke them to revealing that themselves. Posting fictitious but not obviously wrong arguments yourself is probably not the way to go about this.
If gasoline powered vehicles become cost prohibitive to operate and electric vehicles are still expensive, total sales may drop as people are economically forced out the market. "Plugin" vehicles (which include plug-in hybrids) could still be 50% of the (smaller) market.
"Second, an oil price shock would have to drive gasoline prices to $8 or $10 a gallon"
Are these guys kidding? If the global economy wasn't in such a precarious state, gas would be over $5/gallon *now*! In 2032, $10/gallon gas will be a fond memory.
Never mind the parts that the author did not feel were important enough to mention: 1) the lasers 2) The power source for the lasers
Last I checked, standard corrective lenses didn't have anything batteries, electronics, or even the raw materials to make power sources or electronics.
They are just regular sharks. Well, apart from the friggin lasers on top of their heads!
Back in the early days, hackers were young hobbyists.
Yes, and many people still use this definition (although there is no requirement to be young)
But it doesn't really matter in this case. The "solution" should work for both cases. Whether the young male is into hacking banks or printer drivers, they are probably going to do less of it if they get a girlfriend or any other major non-technical distraction. People who explore technical fields deeply tend to be less productive after they get a life.
The thing about having one's hands in cuffs is that it is pretty difficult to unlock the handcuffs even you if had and could reach the key. Presumably, the first result is wide spread key availability is that your pockets are searched at the time the cuffs go on.
For the laser cut keys to really work, you need an accomplice and to be essentially unguarded.
If autonomous driving means access to a special lane that moves faster during commute time then the rich will gladly pay up. Hybrids are expensive too and a lot of people bought them so they could drive solo in the carpool lane.
During heavy commute times, speed limits are largely irrelevant.
I do not find many people that disagree with the idea of patents: Namely, that you publish how something works, and then for a limited period of time, you are allowed exclusive rights to sell that something. Then everyone is allowed to do it. When the patent system was first invented (pre-industrial era), new inventions came out every few years. The steam engine, which became the locomotive, which became the combustion engine, which became the car, etc. Technological progress from decade to decade wasn't that fast. Ford created the assembly line, and 14 years later, it was still a novel concept. Today, much of the equipment and processes we had a decade ago isn't worth much more than scrap. 10 years is a very long time. But patents still have the same timeframe; 7 to 14 years. 14 years ago, broadband internet was a luxury item only the rich and a few people lucky enough to be in the right neighborhoods could get... Today, it's just assumed you'll have access to it, and at a reasonable price.
The patent system needs to take into account the industry in which the patent's primary use is: Metallurgy, for example... not exactly a fast-moving industry. Software design... very fast moving industry. It's stupid that the time limits are the same for a new computer algorithm, or a new metal deposition technique.
I like this idea but let's generalize it a bit. Instead of trying to categorize by industry, a submitted patent must give an estimate of how time was spent to develop the technology and how much time would be needed to produce a product based on this technology. Patent duration would be some arbitrary but predefined multiple of this. Let's say "4". So patent_duration= (tech development time + product development time) * 4;
A cost estimate should also given and all of this information should be publicly visible in the patent itself.
Now, of course, people will try to game the system and say it takes 10 years a billion dollars. The catch is that if a competitor can document that they independently developed and productised the technology in greatly less time without massively increased budget, the whole patent gets thrown out. The safe plan is to be conservative with your estimates at the expense of duration.
This allows patents on time and capital intensive areas to remain long while Internet software patents practically disappear.
1) In the short term it limits supply, causing prices and profits to rise. 2) In the medium term, it gives the Chinese the means to flood the market, driving out new competitors and restoring their near monopoly.
Don't think for a moment that technology given to the Third World will only be used to clean the air. It will be used to make factories more efficient and will then be packaged up and sold back to the West, undercutting the people who developed it.
RIM was in the same place two years ago, with a nasty software stack and no ecosystem. They responded by buying QNX. Even with the latest delays they are still going to from purchase to market faster than Apple did with OS X. Same fundamental problem, same solution, dramatically different outcomes.
OSX might have saved Apple from extinction, but it wasn't enough to make them thrive. The Ipod did that.
Qnx might save some residue of RIM but if they want to thrive again, they will need a fresh beachhead in a new market.
If Larry can't speak, it's not big deal to send in Sergey or Eric Schmidt. That's an advantage to rule by triumvirate. No single leader is indispensable. That is in sharp contrast to Apple where Steve Jobs was believed to be the on true voice and visionary of the company.
Well, politicians are just elected people of the population. Garbage in, garbage out.
Not really. 57% of senators and 38% of Representatives hold degrees in law.. Understanding the law is their area of specialization. The population? Not so much. Further, the people chose each particular politician because they think that he/she would be better at the job than the other guy.
No matter you choose to organize the name space, it won't actually be organized that way unless you enforce the rules. If that means that it costs $1000 to register a new name then so be it. This isn't something that should happen very often. Domain registration should be done with care and thought not processed in bulk.
If they contribute back to the main trunk, then I think all is well.
The double edged sword of the BSD License. I'm sure they will probably contribute back but unlike the GPL there is nothing legally to compel them to.
How does the GPL legally force people to contribute to the trunk? The source must be released, sure. But that doesn't mean you need to create patches, integrate, or even communicate in any way with the developers working on the trunk.
Small, low power ones. Supermicro makes an Atom mini-itx board but that is about it. There are many e350 boards which are cheaper and have some advantages over an Atom system but not one of them will operate headless until or unless the OS is running.
I think the fundamental issue you'll run into, when trying to apply the ethical standard you describe, is determining what a "fair" market price is for someone's labor.
I don't think you'll find a single, undeniably superior way of reckoning what it should be.
I accept your challenge. Determining fair market price when all buyers and sellers have information on all current transactions is undeniable more accurate and predictable than determining fair market price when the price of all transactions is a carefully guarded secret.
If you don't think you can remember a password, you may write it down. If it is going to be written down, then it is pretty easy to select a strong password. Of course, this isn't helpful if someone else gets access to the post-it note. But end to end security wasn't the subject of the survey, was it?
So the options are: (a) break the train --- but this is bad, because you're suddenly going to have to alert everybody from the break downstream that they're suddenly going to have to drive on manual, without much warning, or (b) maintain the train, but with a foreign car in the middle.
In either case, the cars in the train should identify the vehicle and notify the authorities. It would also help to update the traffic law to make it only legal to join a road train from the back with an approved autonomous tracking system. Anything else results in an expensive fine and a moving violation on the driver's record.
Tell me then, where can I freely, and relatively easily find food products that do not contain genetically UNmodified corn or soy?
Nice double negative. Are you really seeking assurance that all of your food's ingredients are genetically modified?
Now, if you are looking for food that is not genetically modified that's pretty easy. The "Organic" label implies non-GMO, with the caveat that cross-pollination from GMO fields is still possible. Most soy milk is organic. Corn products are not organic by default but organic corn products are widely available.
Your point about roundup resistant plants is interesting but I think you are going about it the wrong way. If the chemicals that are applied to crops are the problem, we should be labeling the chemicals, not a general technique that can facilitate their use.
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Huh? What are you talking about? Where the hell else are you supposed to meet people if not in a bar? Would you prefer me to meet some losery loner on an online dating site or something?
Meetup.com, for one. There are other activity groups as well. (Most aren't free, but Meetup is). Then there are social scenes around hiking, skating, cycling, even rowing.
Thing is, even if you participate in a group centered near the South Bay, a disproportionate number of the women are from SF. And, of course, the groups centered in or nearer the City have more women.
These two sentences don't mesh in the way I think you meant them to. The new technologies may allow companies to bring the OPERATIONS back home, but not the JOBS. If anything, they will allow many manufacturing operations still in the U.S. to cut even more jobs (though not send them overseas).
True. It isn't going to do much to bring back jobs for assembly line workers. However, we have also been losing the jobs related to establishing and optimizing manufacturing processes. We've been losing the ecosystem of vendors and part suppliers and their associated jobs. It has become more difficult to justify doing higher level work here that is closely tied directly or indirectly to manufacturing over there. Even if we can't bring the factory floor jobs back home, it would help to at least stop the bleeding before we become a nation that no longer knows how to build anything of value.
It's that easy. Why do people keep making prescriptions that would affect absolutely everyone, just because they personally don't like something?
If you want a small phone, buy one, period.
Anything else is just saying that your taste and your desires are more important than anybody else's. That's just not true and sure sign of pure arrogance.
Have you tried to buy a small phone? There's not much to work with. Small smart phones don't exist at all (an iPhone is *not* small). Clamshell Android phones appeared briefly and then disappeared. If you want a small dumb phone you will find than even those are bigger than they used to be.
I bought my last dumb phone in large part because the previous phone was too big to comfortably pocket while driving. The last straw was when I left my phone in my car when I left to catch a plane. This would not happen if I didn't feel compelled to remove my phone when I sat down to drive.
Now I have a smart phone and it's even bigger than my old old dumb phone. I leave it out all the time. I am amazed I haven't lost it yet. If I take another lengthy trip, I'm going to have to eBay me a small dumb phone. Walking around third world countries with this expensive monstrosity in my pocket is *not* going to work!
I think people reading too much into the description of the effort as "trolling".
Trolling on Usenet and sites like Slashdot is about provoking people who are otherwise engaged in reasoned, rational, discussions into flaming.
The Al Qaeda elements are presumably using weakly supported but not obviously wrong statements written to appeal to the emotions of would-be recruits and convince them that the irrational is reasonable. In other words, these elements are themselves trolling.
The counter would be to either reveal the trolls as nut jobs or provoke them to revealing that themselves. Posting fictitious but not obviously wrong arguments yourself is probably not the way to go about this.
If gasoline powered vehicles become cost prohibitive to operate and electric vehicles are still expensive, total sales may drop as people are economically forced out the market. "Plugin" vehicles (which include plug-in hybrids) could still be 50% of the (smaller) market.
"Second, an oil price shock would have to drive gasoline prices to $8 or $10 a gallon"
Are these guys kidding? If the global economy wasn't in such a precarious state, gas would be over $5/gallon *now*! In 2032, $10/gallon gas will be a fond memory.
Never mind the parts that the author did not feel were important enough to mention:
1) the lasers
2) The power source for the lasers
Last I checked, standard corrective lenses didn't have anything batteries, electronics, or even the raw materials to make power sources or electronics.
They are just regular sharks. Well, apart from the friggin lasers on top of their heads!
Back in the early days, hackers were young hobbyists.
Yes, and many people still use this definition (although there is no requirement to be young)
But it doesn't really matter in this case. The "solution" should work for both cases. Whether the young male is into hacking banks or printer drivers, they are probably going to do less of it if they get a girlfriend or any other major non-technical distraction. People who explore technical fields deeply tend to be less productive after they get a life.
The thing about having one's hands in cuffs is that it is pretty difficult to unlock the handcuffs even you if had and could reach the key. Presumably, the first result is wide spread key availability is that your pockets are searched at the time the cuffs go on.
For the laser cut keys to really work, you need an accomplice and to be essentially unguarded.
If autonomous driving means access to a special lane that moves faster during commute time then the rich will gladly pay up. Hybrids are expensive too and a lot of people bought them so they could drive solo in the carpool lane.
During heavy commute times, speed limits are largely irrelevant.
I do not find many people that disagree with the idea of patents: Namely, that you publish how something works, and then for a limited period of time, you are allowed exclusive rights to sell that something. Then everyone is allowed to do it. When the patent system was first invented (pre-industrial era), new inventions came out every few years. The steam engine, which became the locomotive, which became the combustion engine, which became the car, etc. Technological progress from decade to decade wasn't that fast. Ford created the assembly line, and 14 years later, it was still a novel concept. Today, much of the equipment and processes we had a decade ago isn't worth much more than scrap. 10 years is a very long time. But patents still have the same timeframe; 7 to 14 years. 14 years ago, broadband internet was a luxury item only the rich and a few people lucky enough to be in the right neighborhoods could get... Today, it's just assumed you'll have access to it, and at a reasonable price.
The patent system needs to take into account the industry in which the patent's primary use is: Metallurgy, for example... not exactly a fast-moving industry. Software design... very fast moving industry. It's stupid that the time limits are the same for a new computer algorithm, or a new metal deposition technique.
I like this idea but let's generalize it a bit. Instead of trying to categorize by industry, a submitted patent must give an estimate of how time was spent to develop the technology and how much time would be needed to produce a product based on this technology. Patent duration would be some arbitrary but predefined multiple of this. Let's say "4". So patent_duration= (tech development time + product development time) * 4;
A cost estimate should also given and all of this information should be publicly visible in the patent itself.
Now, of course, people will try to game the system and say it takes 10 years a billion dollars. The catch is that if a competitor can document that they independently developed and productised the technology in greatly less time without massively increased budget, the whole patent gets thrown out. The safe plan is to be conservative with your estimates at the expense of duration.
This allows patents on time and capital intensive areas to remain long while Internet software patents practically disappear.
Which often aren't tight at all. All it means that you know many of the same people. It doesn't mean you are close to any of them.
The "non-triangular" connections may actually be more important since they represent interest in the specific individual.
I would be curious about non-reciprocal links, if the social network supports the concept.
Stockpiling does two things:
1) In the short term it limits supply, causing prices and profits to rise.
2) In the medium term, it gives the Chinese the means to flood the market, driving out new competitors and restoring their near monopoly.
Rinse, lather, repeat
If are going to have "What do you want?", you also need "Who are you", and "Why are you here?"
Don't think for a moment that technology given to the Third World will only be used to clean the air. It will be used to make factories more efficient and will then be packaged up and sold back to the West, undercutting the people who developed it.
RIM was in the same place two years ago, with a nasty software stack and no ecosystem. They responded by buying QNX. Even with the latest delays they are still going to from purchase to market faster than Apple did with OS X. Same fundamental problem, same solution, dramatically different outcomes.
OSX might have saved Apple from extinction, but it wasn't enough to make them thrive. The Ipod did that.
Qnx might save some residue of RIM but if they want to thrive again, they will need a fresh beachhead in a new market.
If Larry can't speak, it's not big deal to send in Sergey or Eric Schmidt. That's an advantage to rule by triumvirate. No single leader is indispensable. That is in sharp contrast to Apple where Steve Jobs was believed to be the on true voice and visionary of the company.
Well, politicians are just elected people of the population. Garbage in, garbage out.
Not really. 57% of senators and 38% of Representatives hold degrees in law.. Understanding the law is their area of specialization. The population? Not so much. Further, the people chose each particular politician because they think that he/she would be better at the job than the other guy.
No matter you choose to organize the name space, it won't actually be organized that way unless you enforce the rules. If that means that it costs $1000 to register a new name then so be it. This isn't something that should happen very often. Domain registration should be done with care and thought not processed in bulk.
If they contribute back to the main trunk, then I think all is well.
The double edged sword of the BSD License. I'm sure they will probably contribute back but unlike the GPL there is nothing legally to compel them to.
How does the GPL legally force people to contribute to the trunk? The source must be released, sure. But that doesn't mean you need to create patches, integrate, or even communicate in any way with the developers working on the trunk.
This fork appears to be open source anyway.
What servers do you use now without IPMI?
Small, low power ones. Supermicro makes an Atom mini-itx board but that is about it. There are many e350 boards which are cheaper and have some advantages over an Atom system but not one of them will operate headless until or unless the OS is running.
I think the fundamental issue you'll run into, when trying to apply the ethical standard you describe, is determining what a "fair" market price is for someone's labor.
I don't think you'll find a single, undeniably superior way of reckoning what it should be.
I accept your challenge. Determining fair market price when all buyers and sellers have information on all current transactions is undeniable more accurate and predictable than determining fair market price when the price of all transactions is a carefully guarded secret.
If you don't think you can remember a password, you may write it down. If it is going to be written down, then it is pretty easy to select a strong password.
Of course, this isn't helpful if someone else gets access to the post-it note. But end to end security wasn't the subject of the survey, was it?
So the options are: (a) break the train --- but this is bad, because you're suddenly going to have to alert everybody from the break downstream that they're suddenly going to have to drive on manual, without much warning, or (b) maintain the train, but with a foreign car in the middle.
In either case, the cars in the train should identify the vehicle and notify the authorities. It would also help to update the traffic law to make it only legal to join a road train from the back with an approved autonomous tracking system. Anything else results in an expensive fine and a moving violation on the driver's record.
Reel geeks grill with the sun.
But they wouldn't use this pre-made contraption: http://rizinsurvivalproducts.com/the-solar-barbecue-bs140/
A reel geek would build his/her own, probably fixing the flaws in commercially available products.
Tell me then, where can I freely, and relatively easily find food products that do not contain genetically UNmodified corn or soy?
Nice double negative. Are you really seeking assurance that all of your food's ingredients are genetically modified?
Now, if you are looking for food that is not genetically modified that's pretty easy. The "Organic" label implies non-GMO, with the caveat that cross-pollination from GMO fields is still possible. Most soy milk is organic. Corn products are not organic by default but organic corn products are widely available.
Your point about roundup resistant plants is interesting but I think you are going about it the wrong way. If the chemicals that are applied to crops are the problem, we should be labeling the chemicals, not a general technique that can facilitate their use.