I think a realistic portrayal should include an occasional collision ("note how our driver is relatively unhurt, versus the critically injured passengers in the competition's car!").
I think this is the most awesome car advertising / FOX Reality Show idea ever!
"Hello, and welcome back to 'Crash Survivor'! Each week we put real people in real cars to complete in head-on collision safety testing. Tonight, in honor of the Big 3 bailout, the CEO of GM and the CEO of Chrystler will ram each other at 50mph - that's a combined speed of 100 miles per hour!
Sounds like you want the functionality exposed as a service so you can have the option of using a user interface other than the default Web User Interface.
Ubiquity provides a way to invoke web services without opening a new tab or window, and to manipulate and insert the results.
So you're saying supporting both OOXML and ODF is "good" for Mass. IT in the same way supporting both English and Metric units was "good" for the Mars Climate Orbiter.
Because the lawyers and the Express product lead were trying to cover their asses once they realized they:
1) Forgot to disable extensions in the code. Probably because they used the same code for VS Express and VS Pro. They probably thought, "we'll cover it in the EULA."
2) Forgot to modify the EULA to forbid VS Pro users from creating VS Express extensions.
The only reason not to get a warrant from FISA is because there was no Probable Cause basis for the search, FISA would therefore not have granted a warrant, and the search was unreasonable and hence un-Constitutional. Also, applying for a warrant from FISA would leave a record on the number of wiretaps being done, even if it was only reported to the Congressional oversight committee. This way, they can operate with as little oversight as possible. Hoover would be proud.
Which is great. I wish we could have it in IL, but Verizon/Comcast just bought a law making municipal owned networks illegal as they would be "unfair government competion with private industry"
The usual argument against "Google office" is data privacy.
But remember Google search appliance? It lets you index all your corporate data without sharing any of it with the world. I could see Google offering "Google Office appliance" for corporate envrionments. Office, search, data mining, backup, versioning all in one box, expandable with cheap disks as you build your own "mini google data center" which makes it easy for you to categorize and index all the information in your company.
Privacy conerns are addressed by being seperate from Google on the WEB
and data format lock-in concerns are addressed by using Open Document Format.
Actually, it is the rise of industrialization and the expansion of childhood that drives teens crazy. 13 - 16 year olds used to be valuable farm workers or craft apprentices, learning skills and doing work that was valued by society. Now they are largely un-employable. While trying to leave childhood behind, teens find they have no meaningful work and thus no value to adults other than as consumers.
Why don't sell the naming rights to tropical storms? They already sold the some monkey to goldenpalace.com - why not a hurricane? Just imagine the possibilities:
You don't want that. MS can afford to buy a lot more names:
"We're reporting live from Podunk, Texas, where fifty people were killed by Open Source Software".
I read someplace that a poor village set up a generator underneath the merry go round in the playground. This was used to supplement the meager supply they had. So the kids were encouraged to visit the playground on the way to and from school.
SiC-based electronics and sensors can operate in hostile environments (600 C = 1112 F GLOWING RED HOT!) where conventional silicon-based electronics (limited to 350 C) cannot function. Silicon carbide's ability to function in high temperature, high power, and high radiation conditions will enable large performance enhancments to a wide variety of systems and applications.
It goes on to show examples of enhancements like lightweight sensors that could operate inside a jet engine or rad-hard electronics for the same weight and specs as Si.
Hardware for MS Windows 'just works' because there is a Windows compatibilty test lab that hardware manufacturers use to prove that their binary drivers are compatible with Windows. If they don't pass the tests, they don't get to use the Windows logo.
It is up to the hardware vendors to make sure their drivers are compatible with the linux kernel. If the vendors don't see a market need for Linux drivers, they wont spend the time & money to create them. Without drivers, the market stays small.
The easiest way for vendors to get and maintain Linux drivers is to release the specs or source code to the kernel developers and let them maintain it! But vendors are nervous about competitors learning secrets from the driver code about the internals of the hardware, so often they dont.
Project Utopia is really an umbrella project of a bunch of smaller
open-source projects. Included are the
2.6 Linux kernel,
udev, HAL, and other policy
pieces like
gnome-volume-manager.
From the end-user perspective, the idea here is plug-and-play in the non-techinical sense. When you plug in a piece of hardware, it should Just Work.
Actually, if you can input signals to the brain, you should be able to have a computer send signals to your muscles to excercise for you.
We can do this now with external stimulators, the problem is that most people don't have the self discipline to endure the discomfort and aches of strenuous excercise.
However, If you could 'disconnect' the feedback from your aching muscles while still monitoring them to prevent real damage, then everbody could have the body of an athelete, no matter what their tolerance or resolve.
How about Loser pays winners legal bills up to the amount of his own legal bills? So small parties only risk having to pay what they paid their own attorney, which if they are on contingency could be small. I guess they would also have to pay some amount for costs of filing.
In Gravity Rules: The Nature and Meaning of Planethood
planetary scientist S. Alan Stern argues that since we distinguish planets from stars (enough mass to get majority of energy from sustained fusion), we should also use mass to distinguish planets from non-planets: enough mass to pull body into spherical shape.
One can calculate the minimum size body that will become rounded by its own gravity starting from very basic principles of physics. Doing so, you find the boundary is a diameter of a few hundred kilometers.
Tired of renting transponder time, but don't think you can afford your own satellite? Well now you can! Come on down to Crazy Sams used satellites. We get the latest models of used satellites, re-fuel em, boost'em back to stable orbit and sell them to you at 1/10th of their original cost.
Got an old satellite you're ready to replace with a newer model? Dont throw it away! Trade it in at Crazy Sam's! We pay cash for pink slips. Why pay somebody to de-orbit it safely, when we pay you!
As I recall, Congress decided to reward USPTO examiners (and their managers) by the number of applications they process. In theory, the examiners are required to reject bogus patents, but actually they just notify the patent attorney what needs to be changed to make the claim passable.
Perhaps the standards should be changed so the USPTO and the examiners are judged by the ratio of patents granted to patents later overturned.
Or maybe the USPTO could be required to pay a portion of the expenses incurred to successfully challenge a bogus patent.
This would close the feedback loop and provide a means to balance the desire to protect IP with the need to prevent patent abuse.
I see this as a crucial part of a "Switcher" CD that lets home users convert from Windows to Linux in small steps:
Boot from CD to try it out.
Convert to dual boot. There would be a utility to re-partition, install and configure for dual-boot. Let the user keep it dual-boot while they find substitutes for any Windows-only programs that Wine can't handle.
Convert to Linux only
You could give these out like AOL disks and slowly convert the installed base. There could be a utility to detect existing win32 programs and check their status in the Wine application list.
This would be the logical extension to Bruce Perens' UserLinux idea.
I think biblical-creationism should be taught in school, but not in science class. It should be taught in literature class. Then teachers and students could discuss it, analyze it and dissect if for flaws like any other work of fiction.
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I think a realistic portrayal should include an occasional collision ("note how our driver is relatively unhurt, versus the critically injured passengers in the competition's car!").
I think this is the most awesome car advertising / FOX Reality Show idea ever!
"Hello, and welcome back to 'Crash Survivor'! Each week we put real people in real cars to complete in head-on collision safety testing. Tonight, in honor of the Big 3 bailout, the CEO of GM and the CEO of Chrystler will ram each other at 50mph - that's a combined speed of 100 miles per hour!
Sounds like you want the functionality exposed as a service so you can have the option of using a user interface other than the default Web User Interface. Ubiquity provides a way to invoke web services without opening a new tab or window, and to manipulate and insert the results.
It probably wouldn't hold up in court, but it might be fun to check the flow from your neighborhood ...
So you're saying supporting both OOXML and ODF is "good" for Mass. IT in the same way supporting both English and Metric units was "good" for the Mars Climate Orbiter.
Because the lawyers and the Express product lead were trying to cover their asses once they realized they:
1) Forgot to disable extensions in the code. Probably because they used the same code for VS Express and VS Pro. They probably thought, "we'll cover it in the EULA."
2) Forgot to modify the EULA to forbid VS Pro users from creating VS Express extensions.
... And change Captain Splendid to Captain Obvious :-)
Which is great. I wish we could have it in IL, but Verizon/Comcast just bought a law making municipal owned networks illegal as they would be "unfair government competion with private industry"
Privacy conerns are addressed by being seperate from Google on the WEB
and data format lock-in concerns are addressed by using Open Document Format.
Having children pulls you into the future, ready or not.
Actually, it is the rise of industrialization and the expansion of childhood that drives teens crazy. 13 - 16 year olds used to be valuable farm workers or craft apprentices, learning skills and doing work that was valued by society. Now they are largely un-employable. While trying to leave childhood behind, teens find they have no meaningful work and thus no value to adults other than as consumers.
You don't want that. MS can afford to buy a lot more names:
"We're reporting live from Podunk, Texas, where fifty people were killed by Open Source Software".
"Thousands left homeless by The GPL"
I read someplace that a poor village set up a generator underneath the merry go round in the playground. This was used to supplement the meager supply they had. So the kids were encouraged to visit the playground on the way to and from school.
Google to the rescue
First hit: Silicon Carbide High Temperature Integrated Electronics and Sensors
It goes on to show examples of enhancements like lightweight sensors that could operate inside a jet engine or rad-hard electronics for the same weight and specs as Si.
It is up to the hardware vendors to make sure their drivers are compatible with the linux kernel. If the vendors don't see a market need for Linux drivers, they wont spend the time & money to create them. Without drivers, the market stays small.
The easiest way for vendors to get and maintain Linux drivers is to release the specs or source code to the kernel developers and let them maintain it! But vendors are nervous about competitors learning secrets from the driver code about the internals of the hardware, so often they dont.
The rest of the problem is handled by Project Utopia
Actually, if you can input signals to the brain, you should be able to have a computer send signals to your muscles to excercise for you.
We can do this now with external stimulators, the problem is that most people don't have the self discipline to endure the discomfort and aches of strenuous excercise.
However, If you could 'disconnect' the feedback from your aching muscles while still monitoring them to prevent real damage, then everbody could have the body of an athelete, no matter what their tolerance or resolve.
How about Loser pays winners legal bills up to the amount of his own legal bills? So small parties only risk having to pay what they paid their own attorney, which if they are on contingency could be small. I guess they would also have to pay some amount for costs of filing.
Got an old satellite you're ready to replace with a newer model? Dont throw it away! Trade it in at Crazy Sam's! We pay cash for pink slips. Why pay somebody to de-orbit it safely, when we pay you!
Perhaps the standards should be changed so the USPTO and the examiners are judged by the ratio of patents granted to patents later overturned. Or maybe the USPTO could be required to pay a portion of the expenses incurred to successfully challenge a bogus patent.
This would close the feedback loop and provide a means to balance the desire to protect IP with the need to prevent patent abuse.
- Boot from CD to try it out.
- Convert to dual boot. There would be a utility to re-partition, install and configure for dual-boot. Let the user keep it dual-boot while they find substitutes for any Windows-only programs that Wine can't handle.
- Convert to Linux only
You could give these out like AOL disks and slowly convert the installed base. There could be a utility to detect existing win32 programs and check their status in the Wine application list.This would be the logical extension to Bruce Perens' UserLinux idea.
Was that the Connection Machine Facility at NRL, under Dr. Hank Dardy?
I was sysadmin there 90-94.
Devin
I think biblical-creationism should be taught in school, but not in science class. It should be taught in literature class. Then teachers and students could discuss it, analyze it and dissect if for flaws like any other work of fiction.
Tagging pedophilles should make it a lot easier for the neighborhood vigalantes to track them down. Just go wardriving with a scanner and a gun.
Genesis 7:11 - And on the 17th day of the second month of the 300th year of Noah's life, the rains began to fall.
It's cool to have your birthday mentioned in the bible, you know, like that other guy.