The police ought to follow the law. Period. They should not be exempted from any law, unless there is a compelling argument that exempting them from the law is in the public interest. And if that is the case, then the law ought to be amended. There should not be a double-standard.
From the article: "I think what they're worrying about is what if it's 2 o'clock in the morning, you're headed to a call but it's not an emergency call," Cpl. Bristo said. "If I roll right through that light, I might save myself a minute or two. With some calls, that minute or two can make a lot of difference."
By "logic", one usually means just that. That "logic" can also mean "a family of mathematical formalisms for describing systems involving truth-values or at least stuff that has some resemblance to truth-values" does not mean that quantum logic should be your first guess when you hear the word logic. Just as modulo-7 arithmetic should not be your first guess whenever you see a plus-sign.
Inertia is a fashion garment worn by ladies in the 1920s, but mostly forgotten today. Originally, it was spelled inner-tiara, but with time the word contracted into its present form: inertia. It originated in Paris, as every fashion-garment from the 1920s did. Physicists are still stumbling with how to explain fashion garments. Using the standard model, this task has proved extremely difficult. Most physicists agree that in order to explain fashion garments fully, a new theory is needed. Often this theory is called GUT, for Grand Unified Theory ("grand" means great, and "unified" because all the fashion houses need to work together). One candidate for GUT is string theory. It is popular because it's able to explain string bikinis, something most physicists enjoy studying. However, string theory is unable to explain bulkier garments, such as down jackets, or even a wide skirt.
It was earlier assumed that fashion trends would spread with the speed of light. Today, it seems clear that economics is usually the limiting factor. Mostly it's the delays involved in international money-transactions that limits the spread of new fashion garments. So it seems the speed of light has already stopped being a barrier.
Exactly what is so wrong about upgrading to Vista?
Because I'm the one they phone when it all goes wrong.
Just stop doing stuff for free, and soon you will find that your friends and relatives stop expecting free favours from you. I'm not saying you should start being rude when being asked for help, but if anyone asks you to invest more than 2 minutes of your time in fixing their computer, simply tell them that you have no time; that fixing computers is your job, not your hobby; and that there are companies who do it cheaper than what you would have charged them. People will understand that in exactly the same way that you understand that your stock-broker friend is not going to do your finances for free, or private security guard friend is not going to guard your property for free, or plumber friend is not going to remove your flushed diapers for free, or doctor friend is not going to fix your rash for free, or taxi-driver friend is not going to drive you to the airport for free, or...
And what's with your beef. You've made a huge number of assumptions because I suggest that the target audience for mp3 players have other priorities than practicality. It's you that has assumed value jugements - and yes, my Mercedes was purchased with my heart, not my head.
Ok, maybe I made the wrong value judgements about you. But it's still you who are trying to impose your choice of operating system on your friends. And who are deriding your friends for their choice in cell phones and mp3-players. So it's not just me who is value-judgemental here...
I'm in a desparate battle to stop them all upgrading to Vista 'because it's new
Why? Why do you bother? Exactly what is so wrong about upgrading to Vista? Sure, presently it's a waste of money, but is it your money they spend?
It all really dates back to the playground and a 'my mp3 player has more storage than your mp3 player' attitude. That's what the purchasing public wants.
And exactly why is that wrong? If mp3-players and cell-phones are cheap enough for your mates to not really worry about what features they really need, or which models give the best bang for the buck, but can simply buy whatever they want, does that make it evil to do just that?
Exactly why do you feel that it is somehow your duty to tell other people how to spend their money? Even if they asked for your advice, that doesn't mean that they have to follow it.
By the way, do you take the same 'superiority' attitude with cars? If your mate buys a hot new sports car, are you going to argue with him that because of speed limits, traffic, and/or road quality, he will never be able to use its full potential, or that more horsepower does not equal better car? Are you going to ridicule him because he wanted a bad-ass car instead of a practical small japanese car that gives more bang for the buck? It's not like your mate wouldn't already know this. If he cared about it, he would buy a budget car, a budget cell-phone, and a budget mp3-player. The fact that he doesn't tells you that he has other priorities than you.
Okay, I'll admit that there's a few MP3s that have different ID3 tags but the actual audio is the same.
It's more then a few. Most people use the default settings in their audio ripper/compression program, and it's all from the same CD. Even more people never uses an audio ripper and/or compressor, and simply downloads the file from the Internet. Not that many people bother to change ID3-tags either, but every single person that do, leads to a different file.
And if they don't want it that bad, they aren't going to bother with some specialized P2P program that only has 1 advantage: It can tell some files are alike.
My impression is that people are going out of their way to find specialized P2P programs that offer any advantage. And that very many people are willing to spend $100 in work-time finding a CD worth $10 for "free". The market has spoken, people are not acting the way you want them to.
If I ever get employed in such a place they WILL fire me in under a week.
I will NEVER, EVER document what I did to a computer in any way more extended than "I had to buy this part. Here is a receipt for accounting and warranty." I will always keep each and every computer running and tweaked Just Right though.
Ok, so you will probably do a better job in a private company were IT is vital to operations. No big deal. Different people do different jobs.
And what is that if not a school dictator?
The school principal. Same thing, different name. Just like company CEO. Or military general. Or whatever...
As for filtering... anyone with half a brain can type "SSL tunnel" or something in google.
And exactly how would you come up with those search-words? And how would being able to search google help you with actually filtering stuff? Come on, if the school IT-staff consists of one guy with minimal training (who spends half his time teaching), managing hordes of old unreliable hardware donated by companies not needing it anymore, then any task will quickly take 25% of the IT-staffs time. Besides, he already had a firewall, and had myspace blocked. He was trying to find a way to block whatever ways the students used to circumvent that. I doubt searching google for "SSL tunnel" would help much with that.
Even more likely would be that they used a combustion engine. Most traditional helicopters and hoovercrafts, as well as almost any other kind of flying device, or in fact almost any kind of device capable of moving itself uses them. Electric motors are for prototypes and fixed devices.
Yeah, that makes perfect sense. Also, remember to limit the complexity of what you are explaining so that it fits into the rules for powerpoint presentations. Don't ever dare to do a presentation on anything that requires an education beyond kindergarten. It just doesn't fit the 3 bullets style...
That assumes that the net worth of any homeless person i 0. Which is incorrect. A homeless person typically owns the clothes he uses, his wallet, with money he got from some form of legal or illegal work (i.e. begging or stealing). And a number of other items, such as a sleeping bag, etc. While most of those items would have zero monetary value to you, doesn't mean that their monetary value is actually zero.
What if evolution were the big lie? What will we think in 100 years? Will we laugh at evolution like we laugh at Phrenology or Lobotomy? [snip] Most if not all ancient legends and myths have been shown to be totally untrue. But, so have theories and teachings that had the backing of the scientific community of the time. So let us not think that just because evolution has the approval of the scientific community now that it always will or that it is infallible.
That we will laugh of evolution in the future is highly unlikely. Just because some scientific theories have turned out to be wrong in the past (e.g. geocentrism, the luminiferous aether, static earth (no plate tektonics), Lamarckism), doesn't mean that it is equally likely that any scientific theory turns out to be utterly wrong.
The theories that have been shown to be wrong, have often had serious problems associated with them, even before a better theory out-competed their brainshare. Typically they would either not make much sense (the theory could be made to predict the outcome of experiments, but no mechanism suggested itself for why it was that way), or didn't fit reality (the theory made sense, but couldn't predict the outcome of experiments).
Darwinian evolution makes sense. In fact, it makes so much sense, that many scientists considers it a tautology. In other words, it's self-evident to the same degree as the logical expression "A or not A, is true". It also fits experimental data. And we have observed it happening in both nature and in genetic laboratories. Not only has it been observed, it's probably observed new cases daily. We can discuss and discover new mechanisms for transfer of genetic material, discover refinements to the theory, such as inter-species transfer of genes through viruses and bacteria, and so on, but Darwinian evolution remains. Just like things didn't stop falling down even though Einstein refined Newtons theory of gravity, Darwinian evolution won't cease to exist even if scientists discover other mechanisms of evolution.
Or will we finally get past the genesis creation account and look at it as some silly old superstition?
Most intelligent and educated people have looked at it as some silly old superstition since the renaissance. That's when science was "invented" as a discipline.
I will point out that Hitler was a perfect example. Normal, everyday people went right along with his plans. Why? Because nobody stopped to think. They all fell for The Big Lie.
This is incorrect. There are many factors involved in Hitlers success, and the most important is not that people "accepted" him. Hitler was a very good motivator and speaker. He had a propaganda ministerium that was even better. This made him able to say one thing to the people, and do something else (i.i. he could say "we take care of disabled people in special camps" which really mean "we systematically kill non-aryan people, homosexuals, and disabled people in special camps"). He used childhood indoctrination, i.e. Hitler-Jugend, so that kids would accept him blindly. And he used plain old coercion ("if you do not accept these new policies, we will break into your house at night and arrest you and your family"). Also, he had been able to stay in power for a long time, which gave him the opportunity to concentrate more political power for himself.
Many people who believe in creation do so because it's what they were raised to believe and haven't thought about it. Lots of people who believe evolution do because their high school science teacher told them it is correct, or because they are afraid of public ridicule.
There are a lot of blind followers in both camps. The question is: Are you one of them?
If you believe in something because you haven't given it much though, doesn't mean that you are a blind follower. A blind follower is someone who has made a choice to believ
Which brings us to the temporary staffing firms. I predict that within a decade (or two), half of Europe will be employed by them. Meaning that
everyone is replaceable, both as employees, and as temporary staff
everyone will be paid the same low salary
you will only be paid if a customer wants you at a given time, no more Mon-Fri 0800-1600, and only part-time, unless you are available 24/7, and every weekend
worker rights (e.g. safety rules) are ignored as customer and staffing firm argue who should pay for it, and then the temporary assignment is over
And my point, was that *I* don't care about what the public thinks of AMD. *I* am not AMD. Whether AMD lies about their products or not is completely irrelevant to whether geeks should start rallying support for AMD. Unless the same geeks are paid for it by AMD, I see absolutely no reason for it.
and there may be a market for the vehicles if they work even half as well as he touts.
You mean, if it's able to fly... halfway?
Moller isn't a crackpot. He's a fraud. How he manages to milk investors for money to his 30 years in the works and billions burnt and all he has to show for it so far is an aborted tethered hoover demonstration is beyond me.
If Moller had started with something that flies, and gradually improved it with safety features and VTOL, he might have had a flying car decades ago. As it is now, there is no other way of viewing him, then as a complete fraud. Not only is he failing, and has been failing for the last 30 years. He is still taking investor money, and even continues to sell his "flying car" to customers.
Paravirtualization also requires a free software OS kernel
Uhm, why?
Paravirtualization presents a simplified architecture to the guest operating system. This requires that its kernel be modified to run on the simplified architecture. This is not possible in proprietary software distributed under licenses similar to that of Microsoft Windows OS.
I believe Microsoft does have one or two engineers who would be competent enough to do the job, if they were asked to do it, don't you?
It's not like the virtualization program reads the license to the source code, or anything.
No, but a judge does. And who outside Microsoft has the Windows source code anyway?
Why would a judge be needed for Microsoft to modify their own operating system for paravirtualization?
As I said, you are confusing the issues. Just because you can't run windows through paravirtualization, doesn't mean that it isn't possible. What is needed is either access to source code (and legal rights to modify it), or a cooperative vendor. In particular, free software, is certainly not needed, nor open source. A cooperative vendor, and/or source released under an NDA is perfectly acceptable.
Why would I even care? Lying to the public is a boring job. That's why advertisement agencies are paid to do it. And I couldn't care less who sells the most processors. It's not like I'm wasting my time trying to convince people to buy the same brand of glue/pants/screwdriver/frying pan as me either.
but if I had to choose between 256 MB of dual ported RAM and 1 GB of single ported, I'd pick the dual ported RAM every time. [snip] In fact, if most users knew how much memory they actually used, we wouldn't be having this discussion. Instead, users would demand faster memory, rather than more of it.
Uhm, have you ever looked at actual memory usage yourself? The only thing I find is inadequate on my computer is the amount of RAM, and I have 2GB of it. The rest is near 3 years old, and still covers my needs perfectly. Then again, if you are a gamer only, faster memory might make sense.
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From the article: "I think what they're worrying about is what if it's 2 o'clock in the morning, you're headed to a call but it's not an emergency call," Cpl. Bristo said. "If I roll right through that light, I might save myself a minute or two. With some calls, that minute or two can make a lot of difference."
I believe that just about sums it up.
Good luck in that. I try to have less loftier goals, such as saving humanity from war or famine, or something like that.
By "logic", one usually means just that. That "logic" can also mean "a family of mathematical formalisms for describing systems involving truth-values or at least stuff that has some resemblance to truth-values" does not mean that quantum logic should be your first guess when you hear the word logic. Just as modulo-7 arithmetic should not be your first guess whenever you see a plus-sign.
Inertia is a fashion garment worn by ladies in the 1920s, but mostly forgotten today. Originally, it was spelled inner-tiara, but with time the word contracted into its present form: inertia. It originated in Paris, as every fashion-garment from the 1920s did. Physicists are still stumbling with how to explain fashion garments. Using the standard model, this task has proved extremely difficult. Most physicists agree that in order to explain fashion garments fully, a new theory is needed. Often this theory is called GUT, for Grand Unified Theory ("grand" means great, and "unified" because all the fashion houses need to work together). One candidate for GUT is string theory. It is popular because it's able to explain string bikinis, something most physicists enjoy studying. However, string theory is unable to explain bulkier garments, such as down jackets, or even a wide skirt.
It was earlier assumed that fashion trends would spread with the speed of light. Today, it seems clear that economics is usually the limiting factor. Mostly it's the delays involved in international money-transactions that limits the spread of new fashion garments. So it seems the speed of light has already stopped being a barrier.
Fixed.
Just stop doing stuff for free, and soon you will find that your friends and relatives stop expecting free favours from you. I'm not saying you should start being rude when being asked for help, but if anyone asks you to invest more than 2 minutes of your time in fixing their computer, simply tell them that you have no time; that fixing computers is your job, not your hobby; and that there are companies who do it cheaper than what you would have charged them. People will understand that in exactly the same way that you understand that your stock-broker friend is not going to do your finances for free, or private security guard friend is not going to guard your property for free, or plumber friend is not going to remove your flushed diapers for free, or doctor friend is not going to fix your rash for free, or taxi-driver friend is not going to drive you to the airport for free, or...
Ok, maybe I made the wrong value judgements about you. But it's still you who are trying to impose your choice of operating system on your friends. And who are deriding your friends for their choice in cell phones and mp3-players. So it's not just me who is value-judgemental here...
Why? Why do you bother? Exactly what is so wrong about upgrading to Vista? Sure, presently it's a waste of money, but is it your money they spend?
And exactly why is that wrong? If mp3-players and cell-phones are cheap enough for your mates to not really worry about what features they really need, or which models give the best bang for the buck, but can simply buy whatever they want, does that make it evil to do just that?
Exactly why do you feel that it is somehow your duty to tell other people how to spend their money? Even if they asked for your advice, that doesn't mean that they have to follow it.
By the way, do you take the same 'superiority' attitude with cars? If your mate buys a hot new sports car, are you going to argue with him that because of speed limits, traffic, and/or road quality, he will never be able to use its full potential, or that more horsepower does not equal better car? Are you going to ridicule him because he wanted a bad-ass car instead of a practical small japanese car that gives more bang for the buck? It's not like your mate wouldn't already know this. If he cared about it, he would buy a budget car, a budget cell-phone, and a budget mp3-player. The fact that he doesn't tells you that he has other priorities than you.
It's more then a few. Most people use the default settings in their audio ripper/compression program, and it's all from the same CD. Even more people never uses an audio ripper and/or compressor, and simply downloads the file from the Internet. Not that many people bother to change ID3-tags either, but every single person that do, leads to a different file.
My impression is that people are going out of their way to find specialized P2P programs that offer any advantage. And that very many people are willing to spend $100 in work-time finding a CD worth $10 for "free". The market has spoken, people are not acting the way you want them to.
Ok, so you will probably do a better job in a private company were IT is vital to operations. No big deal. Different people do different jobs.
The school principal. Same thing, different name. Just like company CEO. Or military general. Or whatever...
And exactly how would you come up with those search-words? And how would being able to search google help you with actually filtering stuff? Come on, if the school IT-staff consists of one guy with minimal training (who spends half his time teaching), managing hordes of old unreliable hardware donated by companies not needing it anymore, then any task will quickly take 25% of the IT-staffs time. Besides, he already had a firewall, and had myspace blocked. He was trying to find a way to block whatever ways the students used to circumvent that. I doubt searching google for "SSL tunnel" would help much with that.
Even more likely would be that they used a combustion engine. Most traditional helicopters and hoovercrafts, as well as almost any other kind of flying device, or in fact almost any kind of device capable of moving itself uses them. Electric motors are for prototypes and fixed devices.
Yeah, that makes perfect sense. Also, remember to limit the complexity of what you are explaining so that it fits into the rules for powerpoint presentations. Don't ever dare to do a presentation on anything that requires an education beyond kindergarten. It just doesn't fit the 3 bullets style...
That assumes that the net worth of any homeless person i 0. Which is incorrect. A homeless person typically owns the clothes he uses, his wallet, with money he got from some form of legal or illegal work (i.e. begging or stealing). And a number of other items, such as a sleeping bag, etc. While most of those items would have zero monetary value to you, doesn't mean that their monetary value is actually zero.
That we will laugh of evolution in the future is highly unlikely. Just because some scientific theories have turned out to be wrong in the past (e.g. geocentrism, the luminiferous aether, static earth (no plate tektonics), Lamarckism), doesn't mean that it is equally likely that any scientific theory turns out to be utterly wrong. The theories that have been shown to be wrong, have often had serious problems associated with them, even before a better theory out-competed their brainshare. Typically they would either not make much sense (the theory could be made to predict the outcome of experiments, but no mechanism suggested itself for why it was that way), or didn't fit reality (the theory made sense, but couldn't predict the outcome of experiments).
Darwinian evolution makes sense. In fact, it makes so much sense, that many scientists considers it a tautology. In other words, it's self-evident to the same degree as the logical expression "A or not A, is true". It also fits experimental data. And we have observed it happening in both nature and in genetic laboratories. Not only has it been observed, it's probably observed new cases daily. We can discuss and discover new mechanisms for transfer of genetic material, discover refinements to the theory, such as inter-species transfer of genes through viruses and bacteria, and so on, but Darwinian evolution remains. Just like things didn't stop falling down even though Einstein refined Newtons theory of gravity, Darwinian evolution won't cease to exist even if scientists discover other mechanisms of evolution.
Most intelligent and educated people have looked at it as some silly old superstition since the renaissance. That's when science was "invented" as a discipline.
This is incorrect. There are many factors involved in Hitlers success, and the most important is not that people "accepted" him. Hitler was a very good motivator and speaker. He had a propaganda ministerium that was even better. This made him able to say one thing to the people, and do something else (i.i. he could say "we take care of disabled people in special camps" which really mean "we systematically kill non-aryan people, homosexuals, and disabled people in special camps"). He used childhood indoctrination, i.e. Hitler-Jugend, so that kids would accept him blindly. And he used plain old coercion ("if you do not accept these new policies, we will break into your house at night and arrest you and your family"). Also, he had been able to stay in power for a long time, which gave him the opportunity to concentrate more political power for himself.
If you believe in something because you haven't given it much though, doesn't mean that you are a blind follower. A blind follower is someone who has made a choice to believ
There is no need for a general computer in a car. A car needs to be able to transport you from A to B. Computers are not necessary for that.
If Bill Gates would say the same, it would make him correct.
I can't understand why Apple haven't hired him yet. I mean, does there exist anyone that can beat his predictions, except perhaps Nostradamus?
Had the major companies listened to everything Dvorak says, they would have been rich by now!
And my point, was that *I* don't care about what the public thinks of AMD. *I* am not AMD. Whether AMD lies about their products or not is completely irrelevant to whether geeks should start rallying support for AMD. Unless the same geeks are paid for it by AMD, I see absolutely no reason for it.
Don't worry. When kerosene costs 100x what it does today, they can probably afford to pay their pilots properly.
You mean, if it's able to fly... halfway?
Moller isn't a crackpot. He's a fraud. How he manages to milk investors for money to his 30 years in the works and billions burnt and all he has to show for it so far is an aborted tethered hoover demonstration is beyond me.
If Moller had started with something that flies, and gradually improved it with safety features and VTOL, he might have had a flying car decades ago. As it is now, there is no other way of viewing him, then as a complete fraud. Not only is he failing, and has been failing for the last 30 years. He is still taking investor money, and even continues to sell his "flying car" to customers.
On a scale from 1 to 10?
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I believe Microsoft does have one or two engineers who would be competent enough to do the job, if they were asked to do it, don't you?
Why would a judge be needed for Microsoft to modify their own operating system for paravirtualization?
As I said, you are confusing the issues. Just because you can't run windows through paravirtualization, doesn't mean that it isn't possible. What is needed is either access to source code (and legal rights to modify it), or a cooperative vendor. In particular, free software, is certainly not needed, nor open source. A cooperative vendor, and/or source released under an NDA is perfectly acceptable.
Why would I even care? Lying to the public is a boring job. That's why advertisement agencies are paid to do it. And I couldn't care less who sells the most processors. It's not like I'm wasting my time trying to convince people to buy the same brand of glue/pants/screwdriver/frying pan as me either.
Uhm, have you ever looked at actual memory usage yourself? The only thing I find is inadequate on my computer is the amount of RAM, and I have 2GB of it. The rest is near 3 years old, and still covers my needs perfectly. Then again, if you are a gamer only, faster memory might make sense.
Uhm, why? It's not like the virtualization program reads the license to the source code, or anything. I think you are confusing the issues here.
Yes, that would be a good idea
Yes, at least as soon as possible.