But wait! What about peak oil? I thought the earth was running out of oil? Once the last few drops of this puny "gusher" have bubbled out, the world will shudder and all the SUVs will coast to a stop.
I see. The total mass of the atmosphere for the moon is about 55 thousand pounds or to put it in terms I can relate to... it would be the maximum load of approximately 18 Ford F-350 pick-up trucks.
For comparison, the Lunar Excursion Module weighed 15,264 Kg (about one quarter of the entire moon "atmosphere".)
The "surface pressure" is freakin' close to a vacuum as well.
NASA can call it what they want and so can Wallace and Gromit.... those conditions are the equivalent of "no atmosphere"
In the last eight years China has quadrupled the number of universities they have. They see the dominance of the west in the higher education arena as a strategic (economic) threat and are trying hard to compete. Too bad that here in the USA we don't see the poor performance of our government-run K-12 educational system as a strategic weakness.
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I hand them a little tag on my keychain for my discount, they scan it and suddenly my name is on the reciept.
That's funny... I have 3 or 4 of those cards and not one of them prints my name on the reciept!
Apparently you don't hate being a dick and/or asshole enough that it stops you from posting. Therefore, I suspect you secretly LIKE taking those roles. That's not an unusual thing here at Slashdot by the way... don't feel like the Lone Ranger. I've done it myself a few times. Like, right now!
By the way:
MySpace.com.
(essentially) zero to $500,000,000 in about 18 months.
It's just too much of a lure for normal people to resist, despite the reality.
My bank, Commerce, is one of the offenders.
I checked their website and this is all I find in the "news":
05/12/2005
Commerce Bank Launches Summer Reading Program with Readings in Four States
05/05/2005
Commerce Bank Launches Online Banking Site and Service Entirely in Spanish
04/19/2005
Commerce Bank Appoints Eric Pietras to Lead Government Contractor Lending Team
04/14/2005
Commerce Bank Supports Majority of Local March of Dimes' WalkAmericas 04/13/2005
Commerce Bancorp Net Income Up 24%
Not a damn thing about their (our - potentially MY) data breach. Oh, but they sure rake in the cash!
I'd like to see us have the ability to remove our data from places like ChoicePoint and Lexus/Nexus. It should be, afer all, MY data and therefore MY property. Until there is sufficient penalty for this type of carelessness I want my private data to remain private!
"There is a real temptation that the thing that comes in the latest is the one you shift your attention to, even though that may be the least important...That turns you into a filing clerk."
I'd like to respond to this but there's a newer post in Slashdot that I have to read first...
Nah, you don't need diamond. Turbines (like turbo-chargers for internal combustion engines) spin in excess of 72,000 rpm regularly. Steel is sufficient. The real problem is keeping the darn thing cool. Turbo-chargers require a steady supply of clean, cool oil. Installing a 72,000 rpm hard drive would require locating the oil sump in the case somewhere. Imagine your computer case with
a dip-stick!
Based on your description it seems you've got some classic problems facing you. I've found you need a couple of key things to have good design documentation:
Needs to be complete - use a modeling tool that encourages complete designs.
Needs to have buy-in from all levels - so the documentation should be easy to understand by technical and business users (that leaves UML out!)
Needs to be online, navigable, flexible. Graphical models are the best by far.
I solve all these problems by using the Business Architecture Method from
Business Architects The site is new - online examples are coming later today (Monday). Yes, I'm biased... I work for them.
My son put tape on the faucet and drenched me this morning. I put crisco on the door knob for his room. When he got home his sister asked him for something from his room. Now _THAT_ is April Fools!
The latest attack (11/21/2003) in Iraq (against two very tightly guarded hotels) was carried out by cheap rockets put in to firing position by donkey cart. Donkey carts are, like humans, largely unaffected by such sophisticated weapons unless the weapon falls on the donkey.
This is more accurate than you may even know. It seems that Amazon has about 1 billion US$ in cash from earlier "good times" (inflated stock sales) and they invested it in a "euro denominated debt security". That netted them 16 Million US$ last quarter.
Gee, since they claim a profit of 5 Million US$ in the last quarter, that means that without the profits from their "Euro denominated debt security"... they still lost 11 million US$ in sales.
My opinion is that the "profit" of Amazon is just another "Potemkin village" designed to draw more suckers ^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H investors back to Wall Street.
IANAL and don't play one on TV either but I ran into this same issue several years ago while doing legal research.
As I recall the law itself is not copyright... just that particular printing of it. If you get the actual law passed and published by the original legislative body then you may publish it to your heart's content... it belongs to the people (even if it does not apply to them... different thread).
Companies like West Publishing take that law and print it in book form. The add annotations, cross references, page numbers, etc. These "additions" (including font face as I recall) are what make it "copyrightable".
The 13 Month calendar will never be allowed. There is a force so powerful that it would stop the rotation of the earth if such a calendar had even the slightest chance of being adopted.
The IRS requires quarterly payments and you cannot divide 13 by 4 evenly.
I'd recommend you read some books on Leadership... I started with "The 21 Irrefutable Laws Of Leadership" by John Maxwell. Leaders are far more valuable than managers - and the two do not always coincide - I've worked with good managers who were leaders and managers who were NOT leaders.
Look around your company. If it's successful then there are leaders. You may like them or not but they lead - get things done and lead others to get things done too. Leadership is learned but it appears less tangible than the technical stuff.
I recommend that you "go into management". Just do it as a leader. The world has too many "managers" and not enough "leaders" (just look at the elections here in the U.S. and you'll know what I mean!)
do you know the names of the pioneers in the field of alternate energy? Probably not...amazing, really, because in a few years, fossil fuels are going to run out and, as far as I'm concerned, that's a really important field of research
Well, that's interesting. Any facts to back up the assertion that fossil fuels are going to run out "in a few years"? I agree that alternate energy research is important but for environmental reasons, not because of some unsubstantiated scare tactic.
There seems to be something missing in the discussion of Carnivore - why do you even need it? If they have a court order to search Joe Geek's email then they just have the ISP give them a copy of whatever goes into the guy's spool directory! It's simple!
Folks, Carnivore is a fishing tool, designed to circumvent such inconvenient limits as the 4th or 5th amendments to the constitution. If Carnivore is installed at YOUR isp then you can presume your email is being scanned along with everybody elses (why else would it's operation be so secret?). They do say it can scan thousands of emails. Oh, so those are only for the individual named in the search warrant? Yea, RIGHT!
What about this idea? - ISP's institute a new contractual policy: If the FBI (or other "Justice" Department goons) show up with carnivore to monitor email at the ISP's office, the ISP is bound, by contract, to cancel or suspend all the affected accounts (or alternatively, increase the monthly fee) immediately. This could be justified on the basis that obviously the customer's behavior has caused the isp additional time and money (to deal with the FBI and the additional hardware.) Since she's in business to make money and the added cost is not budgeted, it must be dealt with. If the cost of a T1 went up by 100% overnight, you would expect the ISP to forward that cost on to the consumer. Court order may prevent her from telling the customer(s) why the account was suspended or the fee raised by 100% but ultimately her customer's privacy is protected from a fishing expedition. I, for one, would be glad if my ISP suspended, canceled, or doubled the fee on my account when my privacy is undermined by Carnivore (or other carnivore-like snoop tools).
Another technology breakthrough to help monitor the serfs.
This is starting to remind me of the vi/emacs religious wars.
The fact is that OO is a design paradigm. It isn't any "better" or "worse" than other design paradigms. In fact, it owes much to the structured software design movement from whence it was derived. It should all compile to the same code... it's a question of which one fits the particular mind set you have and the problem you are trying to solve.
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You are correct. I recall hearing anecdotes in the 1960's of gas-contaminated water in parts of Pennsylvania.
Of course they can't reproduce it... .. somebody at Apple has to own a Linux system first.
But wait! What about peak oil? I thought the earth was running out of oil? Once the last few drops of this puny "gusher" have bubbled out, the world will shudder and all the SUVs will coast to a stop.
Start off exercising easy and work your way up to the 300 workout (see: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggiYjRelWgc)
Go for intensity, not duration... this workout takes 10 to 15 minutes.
I see. The total mass of the atmosphere for the moon is about 55 thousand pounds or to put it in terms I can relate to... it would be the maximum load of approximately 18 Ford F-350 pick-up trucks.
For comparison, the Lunar Excursion Module weighed 15,264 Kg (about one quarter of the entire moon "atmosphere".)
The "surface pressure" is freakin' close to a vacuum as well.
NASA can call it what they want and so can Wallace and Gromit.... those conditions are the equivalent of "no atmosphere"
He refers to "lunar atmosphere" - but the moon has no atmosphere. Shouldn't that be "lunar surface"?
In the last eight years China has quadrupled the number of universities they have. They see the dominance of the west in the higher education arena as a strategic (economic) threat and are trying hard to compete. Too bad that here in the USA we don't see the poor performance of our government-run K-12 educational system as a strategic weakness.
That's funny... I have 3 or 4 of those cards and not one of them prints my name on the reciept!
You do pay with cash, don't you?
Therefore, I suspect you secretly LIKE taking those roles. That's not an unusual thing here at Slashdot by the way... don't feel like the Lone Ranger. I've done it myself a few times. Like, right now!
By the way:
MySpace.com.
(essentially) zero to $500,000,000 in about 18 months.
It's just too much of a lure for normal people to resist, despite the reality.
05/12/2005
Commerce Bank Launches Summer Reading Program with Readings in Four States
05/05/2005
Commerce Bank Launches Online Banking Site and Service Entirely in Spanish
04/19/2005
Commerce Bank Appoints Eric Pietras to Lead Government Contractor Lending Team
04/14/2005
Commerce Bank Supports Majority of Local March of Dimes' WalkAmericas
04/13/2005
Commerce Bancorp Net Income Up 24%
Not a damn thing about their (our - potentially MY) data breach. Oh, but they sure rake in the cash!
I'd like to see us have the ability to remove our data from places like ChoicePoint and Lexus/Nexus. It should be, afer all, MY data and therefore MY property. Until there is sufficient penalty for this type of carelessness I want my private data to remain private!
I'd like to respond to this but there's a newer post in Slashdot that I have to read first...
I found the article on O'Gara's site: linuxgram.com but without the pictures (which I did not care about anyway.)
Nah, you don't need diamond. Turbines (like turbo-chargers for internal combustion engines) spin in excess of 72,000 rpm regularly. Steel is sufficient. The real problem is keeping the darn thing cool. Turbo-chargers require a steady supply of clean, cool oil. Installing a 72,000 rpm hard drive would require locating the oil sump in the case somewhere. Imagine your computer case with a dip-stick!
I solve all these problems by using the Business Architecture Method from Business Architects The site is new - online examples are coming later today (Monday).
Yes, I'm biased... I work for them.
Nah, too easy!!
My son put tape on the faucet and drenched me this morning. I put crisco on the door knob for his room. When he got home his sister asked him for something from his room. Now _THAT_ is April Fools!Surprise!
But -40 degrees IS cold, no matter what scale you use!
The latest attack (11/21/2003) in Iraq (against two very tightly guarded hotels) was carried out by cheap rockets put in to firing position by donkey cart . Donkey carts are, like humans, largely unaffected by such sophisticated weapons unless the weapon falls on the donkey.
Gee, since they claim a profit of 5 Million US$ in the last quarter, that means that without the profits from their "Euro denominated debt security"... they still lost 11 million US$ in sales.
My opinion is that the "profit" of Amazon is just another "Potemkin village" designed to draw more suckers ^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H investors back to Wall Street.
Last year, General Electric's revenue exceeded 1% of the GDP of the United States.
I don't know if this ever happened before but certainly not in modern times.
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IANAL and don't play one on TV either but I ran into this same issue several years ago while doing legal research.
As I recall the law itself is not copyright... just that particular printing of it. If you get the actual law passed and published by the original legislative body then you may publish it to your heart's content... it belongs to the people (even if it does not apply to them... different thread).
Companies like West Publishing take that law and print it in book form. The add annotations, cross references, page numbers, etc. These "additions" (including font face as I recall) are what make it "copyrightable".
Don't delay - learn to fly - start TODAY!
The 13 Month calendar will never be allowed. There is a force so powerful that it would stop the rotation of the earth if such a calendar had even the slightest chance of being adopted.
The IRS requires quarterly payments and you cannot divide 13 by 4 evenly.
I'd recommend you read some books on Leadership... I started with "The 21 Irrefutable Laws Of Leadership" by John Maxwell. Leaders are far more valuable than managers - and the two do not always coincide - I've worked with good managers who were leaders and managers who were NOT leaders.
Look around your company. If it's successful then there are leaders. You may like them or not but they lead - get things done and lead others to get things done too. Leadership is learned but it appears less tangible than the technical stuff.
I recommend that you "go into management". Just do it as a leader. The world has too many "managers" and not enough "leaders" (just look at the elections here in the U.S. and you'll know what I mean!)
"Just the facts Ma'm" - Sgt. Joe Friday
There seems to be something missing in the discussion of Carnivore - why do you even need it? If they have a court order to search Joe Geek's email then they just have the ISP give them a copy of whatever goes into the guy's spool directory! It's simple!
Folks, Carnivore is a fishing tool, designed to circumvent such inconvenient limits as the 4th or 5th amendments to the constitution. If Carnivore is installed at YOUR isp then you can presume your email is being scanned along with everybody elses (why else would it's operation be so secret?). They do say it can scan thousands of emails. Oh, so those are only for the individual named in the search warrant? Yea, RIGHT!
What about this idea? - ISP's institute a new contractual policy: If the FBI (or other "Justice" Department goons) show up with carnivore to monitor email at the ISP's office, the ISP is bound, by contract, to cancel or suspend all the affected accounts (or alternatively, increase the monthly fee) immediately. This could be justified on the basis that obviously the customer's behavior has caused the isp additional time and money (to deal with the FBI and the additional hardware.) Since she's in business to make money and the added cost is not budgeted, it must be dealt with. If the cost of a T1 went up by 100% overnight, you would expect the ISP to forward that cost on to the consumer. Court order may prevent her from telling the customer(s) why the account was suspended or the fee raised by 100% but ultimately her customer's privacy is protected from a fishing expedition. I, for one, would be glad if my ISP suspended, canceled, or doubled the fee on my account when my privacy is undermined by Carnivore (or other carnivore-like snoop tools).
Another technology breakthrough to help monitor the serfs.
This is starting to remind me of the vi/emacs religious wars.
The fact is that OO is a design paradigm. It isn't any "better" or "worse" than other design paradigms. In fact, it owes much to the structured software design movement from whence it was derived. It should all compile to the same code... it's a question of which one fits the particular mind set you have and the problem you are trying to solve.