Fark wrote the headline in a more humorous fashion, "Iran threatens to sink own navy if its demands aren't met".
Someone else pointed out that the biggest competitor to solar is Coal - the magic point where solar is cheaper than coal is around $1 per watt - keep in mind that the US of fuckin' A is the "Saudi Arabia of Coal". Yep, that would really drive up global oil prices, but the US has been a net exporter of oil now for about 6-8 months, yes, net-exporter of oil, and we have enough coal reserves to power our country for the next 300 years. Until you can power cars and farm equipment with solar, I don't think the price of oil (mainly transportation & chemical mfg) is going to effect solar tremendously. Gold star for keeping up on world news though.
The invisible hand of the free market has a second name, it's W-I-N-D P-O-W-E-R
Wind turbines are mechanical, sturdy looking, and people can easily grasp how they function. Solar, on the other hand is some sort of expensive, brittle black crystal stuff and - DON'T TOUCH IT YOU'LL BREAK IT - sort of fragile looking. And you want to put them outside in the weather with hail and stuff? Are you crazy? How does it work? You set it out in the sun and magical eco-elves fart out power or something.
People like to invest in things that don't seem completely like magic and are primarily featured in hippie movies about solar powered car races (I love you solar powered car racers, but you kind of make the whole industry look goofy). Wind turbines are a lot easier to sell to investors.
After 4 days with ICS on my Nexus S, I am seriously considering downgrading. The only end-user changes are almost completely cosmetic, and app/widget support for ICS is poor at best for many things I use on a daily basis.
I'm less interested in remembering a password than I am using the same one for each site. It's been proven that it's far easier to hack a database than it is to crack a password. The less connection there is between my password on cnn.com (that I never use) and my bank password (that I use weekly), the better.
upon direction by the President may conduct offensive operations in cyberspace to defend our Nation, Allies and interests
"Interests" is an interesting term. We have well defined (codified in law) ideas of who our allies and what our nation is, but interests can range anywhere from democracy to oil to bombing airplane manufacturing plants in Brazil and China to protect our (civilian) areospace industry.
Diplomatic cables have already revealed that we lean pretty heavily on our allies to buy Boeing and Locheed Martin products, both civilian and defense oriented. If anyone needs a reminder, we just "convinced" Japan to buy 150+ still on the drawing board F-35 stealth fighters, (things yet to fix: major fire hazards, lack of stealth, weak airframe, buggy software, bad aerodynamics) rather than the EuroFighter earlier this week, right after Kim Jong Ill died.
How on earth did Atlanta beat out Newark, JFK, DFW etc? I've had plenty of connections through Miami and Newark (and once through Houston), but never, ever Atlanta.
I used to use a "throwaway" password for most sites, that I used for a lot of things. Over the past 10 years I realized that a single password was leaving me vulnerable, so I just started using a password gen plugin in chrome and that seems easy enough to use. I don't even bother writing down the password, I figure if I need it again, I'll just use the password recovery down the road.
What do you mean "not good service"? I've been with them since 2006 or so (with 5 domains) and would rank them right up there with T-Mobile - one of two companies whose phone support I don't completely loathe calling when something goes awry. Sure, their hosting is a little anemic compared to some newer options like slicehost and similar, but they spell out pretty clearly what you're paying for.
That said, I'm sort of disappointed on their stance on SOPA, although from a legal standpoint it doesn't seem out of character given the business they're in.
Wow, apparently this post got passed around Airbus' office; I had three consecutive upvotes, then three consecutive downvotes, and every time it gets upvoted, it immediately gets another downvote.
Here is the relevant part from wikipedia:
failures of configuration management and change control.[47][48] Specifically, it would appear that German and Spanish Airbus facilities continued to use CATIA version 4, while British and French sites migrated to version 5.[49] This caused overall configuration management problems, at least in part because wiring harnesses manufactured using aluminium rather than copper conductors necessitated special design rules including non-standard dimensions and bend radii; these were not easily transferred between versions of the software.[50]
Airbus announced the first delay in June 2005 and notified airlines that deliveries would be delayed by six months.
A blockbuster film and a 747 cost about the same in dollar amounts to make; mass piracy of a film before it's released has a huge impact (in this case, 10% or more) on sales.
In most cases I would agree that a DVD of a movie that already came out is imaginary property, but here, you were actively paying various studios and partners to develop CGI effects and finish editing a product you'd just paid megabucks for actors to star in, a film crew to build sets, a film crew to place cameras, set off explosive charges, pay insurance premiums, pay the caterers and a thousand other line items.
They weren't stealing a finished product that had done it's rounds in the theaters and was revving up for round two as a director's cut DVD release. This was an active production, he had fueled up an unpainted 747 at the factory in the dead of night, taxied to the runway and taken off, got halfway over the pacific and then parachuted out in mid-flight, watching the plane slowly arc in to the ocean.
Whoever has access to your google information, probably has physical access to whatever server your email would sit on otherwise*. I guess it's not an 100% effective means, but in terms of point-to-point email encryption, it's probably the easiest and/or most widely used email encryption scheme avalible to the general public.
*The old rule that if they have physical access to your machine, your software security is already nullified
I can't help wondering just how could a piece of code, which presumable didn't test its' input data for validity before acting on it, become part of a modern jet's onboard software suit?"
This, from the same company, while building the A380 megajet decided to upgrade half of their facilities to plant software version 5, while the other half decided to stick with version 3/4. And did not make the file formats compatible between the two versions, resulting in multi-month delays of production as a result.
Point being, in huge projects, simple things get overlooked (with catastrophic results). My favorite is when we slammed a $20 million NASA/ESA probe in to the surface of mars at high speed because some engineer forgot to convert mph in to kph (or vice-versa).
I wonder; if I am using gmail, and send an "email" to another gmail user -- both users are required to use https to connect to gmail, does that mean we're in effect using encrypted (RC4_128 according to gmail/chrome) email?
Good question! I am not a lawyer, but if a hospital decided to use your software, and someone later died due to your bug, I imagine that having waived your liability, in writing, would make your legal defense bill much less if someone decided to come after you in a wrongful death case. The odds of that happening are astronomical, but for whatever reason it's in the first paragraph of every EULA I've ever seen.
I'm not exactly sure what this entails other than it releases me from liability if someone else uses it. There are so many hobbyist level projects these days that someone is probably replicating your project's purpose under a different codebase it doesn't really matter what you licence it under - you're lucky to get 2-3 people using your project's code. My other project got released under "the Berkeley licence" simply because my father went to school there years ago, and it was relatively short. Maybe I should make a "free licence roulette" website to help other hobbyist projects pick random licences.
TL;DR most hobbyist developers only include a licence as a formality
Given the relative scarcity/slow rate of purchase during the Gen1 rollout of the PS3, I think you're in the vast minority. How long has Sony been selling the "slim" PS3 model for now? I can't think of anyone I know who bought a PS3 before 2008 or so.
The only way to get HD out of Wii games is to use an emulator like Dolphin (you can get New Super Mario Bros. Wii to run at 1080p/60fps using emulators on 2008-class hardware)
You might actually be able to pitch this to the city council as a "city beautification" project. Tell them you are going to drive it through downtown every day and stop for morning coffee at a different shop each day. I used to live in the suburbs and there was a forest green lambo parked out front of our local starbucks 3 days a week, people were always very happy to see it out and about.
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That's an awfully short-sighted opinion when dealing with a multi-billion dollar a year industry
Fark wrote the headline in a more humorous fashion, "Iran threatens to sink own navy if its demands aren't met".
Someone else pointed out that the biggest competitor to solar is Coal - the magic point where solar is cheaper than coal is around $1 per watt - keep in mind that the US of fuckin' A is the "Saudi Arabia of Coal". Yep, that would really drive up global oil prices, but the US has been a net exporter of oil now for about 6-8 months, yes, net-exporter of oil, and we have enough coal reserves to power our country for the next 300 years. Until you can power cars and farm equipment with solar, I don't think the price of oil (mainly transportation & chemical mfg) is going to effect solar tremendously. Gold star for keeping up on world news though.
The invisible hand of the free market has a second name, it's W-I-N-D P-O-W-E-R
Wind turbines are mechanical, sturdy looking, and people can easily grasp how they function. Solar, on the other hand is some sort of expensive, brittle black crystal stuff and - DON'T TOUCH IT YOU'LL BREAK IT - sort of fragile looking. And you want to put them outside in the weather with hail and stuff? Are you crazy? How does it work? You set it out in the sun and magical eco-elves fart out power or something.
People like to invest in things that don't seem completely like magic and are primarily featured in hippie movies about solar powered car races (I love you solar powered car racers, but you kind of make the whole industry look goofy). Wind turbines are a lot easier to sell to investors.
After 4 days with ICS on my Nexus S, I am seriously considering downgrading. The only end-user changes are almost completely cosmetic, and app/widget support for ICS is poor at best for many things I use on a daily basis.
I'm less interested in remembering a password than I am using the same one for each site. It's been proven that it's far easier to hack a database than it is to crack a password. The less connection there is between my password on cnn.com (that I never use) and my bank password (that I use weekly), the better.
"Interests" is an interesting term. We have well defined (codified in law) ideas of who our allies and what our nation is, but interests can range anywhere from democracy to oil to bombing airplane manufacturing plants in Brazil and China to protect our (civilian) areospace industry.
Diplomatic cables have already revealed that we lean pretty heavily on our allies to buy Boeing and Locheed Martin products, both civilian and defense oriented. If anyone needs a reminder, we just "convinced" Japan to buy 150+ still on the drawing board F-35 stealth fighters, (things yet to fix: major fire hazards, lack of stealth, weak airframe, buggy software, bad aerodynamics) rather than the EuroFighter earlier this week, right after Kim Jong Ill died.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Martin_F-35_Lightning_II
http://www.washingtonpost.com/japan-to-pick-lockheeds-f-35-as-new-stealth-fighter/2011/12/13/gIQAbuYUrO_story.html
How on earth did Atlanta beat out Newark, JFK, DFW etc? I've had plenty of connections through Miami and Newark (and once through Houston), but never, ever Atlanta.
I used to use a "throwaway" password for most sites, that I used for a lot of things. Over the past 10 years I realized that a single password was leaving me vulnerable, so I just started using a password gen plugin in chrome and that seems easy enough to use. I don't even bother writing down the password, I figure if I need it again, I'll just use the password recovery down the road.
What do you mean "not good service"? I've been with them since 2006 or so (with 5 domains) and would rank them right up there with T-Mobile - one of two companies whose phone support I don't completely loathe calling when something goes awry. Sure, their hosting is a little anemic compared to some newer options like slicehost and similar, but they spell out pretty clearly what you're paying for.
That said, I'm sort of disappointed on their stance on SOPA, although from a legal standpoint it doesn't seem out of character given the business they're in.
I'm really curious if any patent lawyers include a google search of slashdot when they do prior art discovery
Sure, but it's only 4 ft 11 5â6 in tall; compare that to 2000+ miles for the interstate system.
I nominate the US Interstate Highway project as "widest human structure", a close second being your mom.
94% of all internet statistics are made up on the spot. The important thing is that I got moderation karma for it.
Wow, apparently this post got passed around Airbus' office; I had three consecutive upvotes, then three consecutive downvotes, and every time it gets upvoted, it immediately gets another downvote.
Here is the relevant part from wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airbus_A380#Production_and_delivery_delays
A blockbuster film and a 747 cost about the same in dollar amounts to make; mass piracy of a film before it's released has a huge impact (in this case, 10% or more) on sales.
In most cases I would agree that a DVD of a movie that already came out is imaginary property, but here, you were actively paying various studios and partners to develop CGI effects and finish editing a product you'd just paid megabucks for actors to star in, a film crew to build sets, a film crew to place cameras, set off explosive charges, pay insurance premiums, pay the caterers and a thousand other line items.
They weren't stealing a finished product that had done it's rounds in the theaters and was revving up for round two as a director's cut DVD release. This was an active production, he had fueled up an unpainted 747 at the factory in the dead of night, taxied to the runway and taken off, got halfway over the pacific and then parachuted out in mid-flight, watching the plane slowly arc in to the ocean.
Whoever has access to your google information, probably has physical access to whatever server your email would sit on otherwise*. I guess it's not an 100% effective means, but in terms of point-to-point email encryption, it's probably the easiest and/or most widely used email encryption scheme avalible to the general public.
*The old rule that if they have physical access to your machine, your software security is already nullified
This, from the same company, while building the A380 megajet decided to upgrade half of their facilities to plant software version 5, while the other half decided to stick with version 3/4. And did not make the file formats compatible between the two versions, resulting in multi-month delays of production as a result.
Point being, in huge projects, simple things get overlooked (with catastrophic results). My favorite is when we slammed a $20 million NASA/ESA probe in to the surface of mars at high speed because some engineer forgot to convert mph in to kph (or vice-versa).
I wonder; if I am using gmail, and send an "email" to another gmail user -- both users are required to use https to connect to gmail, does that mean we're in effect using encrypted (RC4_128 according to gmail/chrome) email?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WTFPL
Good question! I am not a lawyer, but if a hospital decided to use your software, and someone later died due to your bug, I imagine that having waived your liability, in writing, would make your legal defense bill much less if someone decided to come after you in a wrongful death case. The odds of that happening are astronomical, but for whatever reason it's in the first paragraph of every EULA I've ever seen.
One of my projects was released under the WTFPL: http://sam.zoy.org/wtfpl/
I'm not exactly sure what this entails other than it releases me from liability if someone else uses it. There are so many hobbyist level projects these days that someone is probably replicating your project's purpose under a different codebase it doesn't really matter what you licence it under - you're lucky to get 2-3 people using your project's code. My other project got released under "the Berkeley licence" simply because my father went to school there years ago, and it was relatively short. Maybe I should make a "free licence roulette" website to help other hobbyist projects pick random licences.
TL;DR most hobbyist developers only include a licence as a formality
Given the relative scarcity/slow rate of purchase during the Gen1 rollout of the PS3, I think you're in the vast minority. How long has Sony been selling the "slim" PS3 model for now? I can't think of anyone I know who bought a PS3 before 2008 or so.
The only way to get HD out of Wii games is to use an emulator like Dolphin (you can get New Super Mario Bros. Wii to run at 1080p/60fps using emulators on 2008-class hardware)
You might actually be able to pitch this to the city council as a "city beautification" project. Tell them you are going to drive it through downtown every day and stop for morning coffee at a different shop each day. I used to live in the suburbs and there was a forest green lambo parked out front of our local starbucks 3 days a week, people were always very happy to see it out and about.