Forget the uranium. Just run a big shielded line from the earth up into the ionosphere where you remove the sheilding on that end, pass it through a full wave rectifier, normalize it, and then connect the other wire to the ground. Boom, instant free energy. Of course, I have no idea if this would actually work. Just brainstorming aloud.
Hydrogen economy? I went to your website. Why are you not calling it a solar economy. Hydrogen looks to be the energy storage mechanism, not the energy generation mechanism. That being said, exactly how could we obtain enough solar energy to power the world??
Oh and for the completely anti-patent community. I am not ecstatic about patents, but I think they should be at least enforced long enough for the company to make at most twice the amount they put into the R&D of the relevant technology.
Well, isn't that nice Mr. Owner. Lets take into account the effect of multinational corporations presenting themselves in your town. Sure you can avoid the situation all together by offering a product line that is completely orthogonal to theirs, while still being in high enough demand that your potential customers will keep your net positive. And then you can avoid their price undercutting which they can afford because they can get everything cheap (they buy from the people with the cheapest bid, thats how they work, everybody caters to them). But that doesn't sound very capitalistic. I don't see competition being encouraged there.
If you ask me, capitalism is just a darwinistic marketplace methodology. And now, thanks to the inception of the coorporation our government now caters almost completely to large meta-entities which payout to a select few, leaving everybody else to suffer. True, people shop at Wal-Mart, therefore wal-mart dominates. But no one can go up against wal-mart even when better products are needed, because now nobody can afford to shop at alternative stores because the money is so concentrated in the members of boards of directors of huge mega-coorporations, who can easily just quickly offer an alternative product at their store for cheaper. The smiling faces, the hometown attitude its all just a facade on the blatantly obvious outlook that because we as a group shopped at these huge megacoorps in the past we have now contrasted our monetary situation to the point where we can no longer even congregate enough money to even begin to compete with an entity such as this. Sure, it sounds pretty damn capitalistic to me.
As an engineer at a moderate sized company, I often get to sift through resumes and select people for interviews.
Your company's first mistake.
I would not risk hireing a person who whould bring their religion to work with them.
Why not? Your company took a big risk in hiring you, a person with an obvious prejudice against religious people. I wish I knew which business you worked for, so I could inform them of all the lost opportunities you have afforded them by not even considering people coming from "religious sounding" university's.
Attending a religious school indicates a possibility that the potential employee is a religious fundamentalist evangelical... ect, ect.
Whereas, not attending one means you have an invincible moral character and are completely, without a doubt, unbiased in every possible conversational aspect, and can never possibly give rise to a confrontational or uncomfortable situation. Give me a break. You are an asshole and a Nazi. And yes, I am prejudiced against Nazis.
It can scale, just not easily on windows where you have DLLs which need to be installed, etc. This is improved with their.net junk though. But I'd still rather just use a object enterprise broker backend any day.
Just write a batch file to run all updates on a public readable share on your network. Put it in the Windows\Run regsitry folder. Simple. You can even export the registry key and save it in the same public readable folder and all you have to do to install the autoupdate batch is double click the.reg file.
I completely agree on every issue you bring up here. Exactly why must everything be from a 3d vantage. In many circumstances it decreases your maneuverability, and increases frustration with the large portion of the environment that you can't see. And without an easy way to "look around" without any stupid looking added hardware, this issue will not likely change for a while. Also, what most game developers don't realize is that you can make a fully realized 3d environment and still have it be a side scroller. And I really miss the good ole' days when a stage was on one screen. It seemed like in the beginning of games gameplay consisted of strategy, and now its just all make it "realistic". Thats why I still play my original Nintendo. I miss good games.
I believe Snap! Servers would be more down this person's alley. They are rack mountable, easily configurable, and relatively cheap. Although, I can't imagine a plain old file server bringing a company out of the stone age. Time to bring in a middleware tier if you want to be considered "out of the stone age".
What's wrong with HFS?
1) Not optimized for catagorical querying of stored objects which can render views which are far more useful than a standard HFS. This is its primary use.
2) Distance between any two leaves is arbitrarily large and can be quite large (requires you to make sacrifices as to the categorization of your files vs. relative distance between common files or create a myriad of symlinks which is basically what a catagorization system does inherently)
3) Whats hard about setting categories:
attribute: movie
attribute: porn
attribute: Jenna Jameson
whooo, hard. And these file attributes eventually can very easily be represented across the web in saved downloads.
4) Is this not open source? patents? give me a break.
Yes, unfortunately what you say is true. I really wish that the forefathers had a seperate system for refactoring the legislation when it gets corrupt. They should have seen that no system can last forever before people find loopholes (in this case, straight greed of the politicians and the utter ignorance of the general populace). And I really wish soft-money contributions were deemed illegal long ago.
I believe America, and the other tech is god countries are the only ones with TV based societies. I agree with you on the pop culture thing. Although, you have to realize that popular culture is dictated by big entertainment super-conglomerates, and fed to all of us intravenously through every facet of media available to them.
A culture where the television is not the central focus of life. And a culture where thousands of laws do not destroy not only your freedoms but your quality of life. I do have a grass is greener outlook for non-American societies. Simply because I know that America was once a good place to live. But now it is owned by big businesses, and nearly all its inhabitants have been brainwashed by the media. Germany may or may not be an optimal choice. Hell I was only there for like a week. But given the fact that they have spurred some of the most interesting events in history, they must have some kind of inspirational force in their culture. America should redub itself home of the generic, PC, bland, shackled nothings. Because that is all an American amounts to now.
No you bring meaning to your life by not becoming just a number like every other American out there right now. I didn't say I believe in the principals of the Nazi party. And actually that was only their driving factor in one world war (they were an aggressor in both). Genocide is not something I like the idea of being a part of. I bet you 90% of the Nazi soldiers didn't even realize that is what they were doing. I'm just saying at least they have a REAL culture. I've lived in America for 23 years. All I've seen is law after law passed to restrict the rights of every person and empower big businesses. Capitalism is a darwinistic business competition method. In the shadow of 5 million laws which bind you, in a system where politicians care nothing about its constituents but only about how much money certain lobbyists are promising them, how can someone possibly differentiate themselves anymore? I crave freedom. "As government grows, freedom recedes." - Thomas Jefferson
All I was saying is that your water heating scenario you describe does emit radiation. As does everything else where heat causes oscillation. Although, it would not be classified as radioactive. I agree with what you are saying about the whole "practical fusion" scenario.
Exactly, how can you do A/D and D/A using digital electronics? Isn't Analog-to-Digital and its converse simply an edge process between Analog and Digital processing? I think so. I think what you meant to say is:
Fight the power, go learn how to program a DSP.
This all seems like a repurcussion of the general public's realization that pumping more and prettier audio/video through a TV/computer into their system (read American culture) does not make them happier. It leaves them with a hollow sensation. An utterly worthless feeling. Almost like there is not meaning to their life. This makes them no longer pursue the "bigger" and "better" technological trumps. Because they are starting to realize that all these newer technologies do not make their lives better. It makes their life more generalized. Technological innovation only turns society into a bland grey mush. The melting pot that is America has been cooked and stirred way too much because of our embracing "progress" as our common culture. Our culture is a hollow generic template, and we have finally become just a number. I want to move to Germany. At least they tried to toss things up every now and then by trying to take over the world, thereby giving their lives at least a little meaning.
Lots of energy, no radiation? You ever heard of infrared radiation? There is quite a bit of radiation pouring out. Now granted it does not become a radioactive isotope, but it does emit quite a bit of radiation none the less.
You know it sure seems that open source advocates assume that just because open source exists that everything should be open source. The open source model will have to fit in with the business world. The converse will never be true. Live with it, and quit bitching.
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Forget the uranium. Just run a big shielded line from the earth up into the ionosphere where you remove the sheilding on that end, pass it through a full wave rectifier, normalize it, and then connect the other wire to the ground. Boom, instant free energy. Of course, I have no idea if this would actually work. Just brainstorming aloud.
Hydrogen economy? I went to your website. Why are you not calling it a solar economy. Hydrogen looks to be the energy storage mechanism, not the energy generation mechanism. That being said, exactly how could we obtain enough solar energy to power the world??
Registrars exist to authenticate who owns/runs a particular domain, and to provide pointers to their DNS servers from the TLDs' records.
Oh and for the completely anti-patent community. I am not ecstatic about patents, but I think they should be at least enforced long enough for the company to make at most twice the amount they put into the R&D of the relevant technology.
Yes, lets discourage further development in the cure for cancer.
Well, isn't that nice Mr. Owner. Lets take into account the effect of multinational corporations presenting themselves in your town. Sure you can avoid the situation all together by offering a product line that is completely orthogonal to theirs, while still being in high enough demand that your potential customers will keep your net positive. And then you can avoid their price undercutting which they can afford because they can get everything cheap (they buy from the people with the cheapest bid, thats how they work, everybody caters to them). But that doesn't sound very capitalistic. I don't see competition being encouraged there.
If you ask me, capitalism is just a darwinistic marketplace methodology. And now, thanks to the inception of the coorporation our government now caters almost completely to large meta-entities which payout to a select few, leaving everybody else to suffer. True, people shop at Wal-Mart, therefore wal-mart dominates. But no one can go up against wal-mart even when better products are needed, because now nobody can afford to shop at alternative stores because the money is so concentrated in the members of boards of directors of huge mega-coorporations, who can easily just quickly offer an alternative product at their store for cheaper. The smiling faces, the hometown attitude its all just a facade on the blatantly obvious outlook that because we as a group shopped at these huge megacoorps in the past we have now contrasted our monetary situation to the point where we can no longer even congregate enough money to even begin to compete with an entity such as this. Sure, it sounds pretty damn capitalistic to me.
As an engineer at a moderate sized company, I often get to sift through resumes and select people for interviews.
Your company's first mistake.
I would not risk hireing a person who whould bring their religion to work with them.
Why not? Your company took a big risk in hiring you, a person with an obvious prejudice against religious people. I wish I knew which business you worked for, so I could inform them of all the lost opportunities you have afforded them by not even considering people coming from "religious sounding" university's.
Attending a religious school indicates a possibility that the potential employee is a religious fundamentalist evangelical... ect, ect.
Whereas, not attending one means you have an invincible moral character and are completely, without a doubt, unbiased in every possible conversational aspect, and can never possibly give rise to a confrontational or uncomfortable situation. Give me a break. You are an asshole and a Nazi. And yes, I am prejudiced against Nazis.
It can scale, just not easily on windows where you have DLLs which need to be installed, etc. This is improved with their .net junk though. But I'd still rather just use a object enterprise broker backend any day.
Just write a batch file to run all updates on a public readable share on your network. Put it in the Windows\Run regsitry folder. Simple. You can even export the registry key and save it in the same public readable folder and all you have to do to install the autoupdate batch is double click the .reg file.
I completely agree on every issue you bring up here. Exactly why must everything be from a 3d vantage. In many circumstances it decreases your maneuverability, and increases frustration with the large portion of the environment that you can't see. And without an easy way to "look around" without any stupid looking added hardware, this issue will not likely change for a while. Also, what most game developers don't realize is that you can make a fully realized 3d environment and still have it be a side scroller. And I really miss the good ole' days when a stage was on one screen. It seemed like in the beginning of games gameplay consisted of strategy, and now its just all make it "realistic". Thats why I still play my original Nintendo. I miss good games.
I believe Snap! Servers would be more down this person's alley. They are rack mountable, easily configurable, and relatively cheap. Although, I can't imagine a plain old file server bringing a company out of the stone age. Time to bring in a middleware tier if you want to be considered "out of the stone age".
Yes that brings up a good point: the advantages of having universal standardized attribute sets.
What's wrong with HFS? 1) Not optimized for catagorical querying of stored objects which can render views which are far more useful than a standard HFS. This is its primary use. 2) Distance between any two leaves is arbitrarily large and can be quite large (requires you to make sacrifices as to the categorization of your files vs. relative distance between common files or create a myriad of symlinks which is basically what a catagorization system does inherently) 3) Whats hard about setting categories: attribute: movie attribute: porn attribute: Jenna Jameson whooo, hard. And these file attributes eventually can very easily be represented across the web in saved downloads. 4) Is this not open source? patents? give me a break.
Yes, unfortunately what you say is true. I really wish that the forefathers had a seperate system for refactoring the legislation when it gets corrupt. They should have seen that no system can last forever before people find loopholes (in this case, straight greed of the politicians and the utter ignorance of the general populace). And I really wish soft-money contributions were deemed illegal long ago.
I believe America, and the other tech is god countries are the only ones with TV based societies. I agree with you on the pop culture thing. Although, you have to realize that popular culture is dictated by big entertainment super-conglomerates, and fed to all of us intravenously through every facet of media available to them.
A culture where the television is not the central focus of life. And a culture where thousands of laws do not destroy not only your freedoms but your quality of life. I do have a grass is greener outlook for non-American societies. Simply because I know that America was once a good place to live. But now it is owned by big businesses, and nearly all its inhabitants have been brainwashed by the media. Germany may or may not be an optimal choice. Hell I was only there for like a week. But given the fact that they have spurred some of the most interesting events in history, they must have some kind of inspirational force in their culture. America should redub itself home of the generic, PC, bland, shackled nothings. Because that is all an American amounts to now.
No you bring meaning to your life by not becoming just a number like every other American out there right now. I didn't say I believe in the principals of the Nazi party. And actually that was only their driving factor in one world war (they were an aggressor in both). Genocide is not something I like the idea of being a part of. I bet you 90% of the Nazi soldiers didn't even realize that is what they were doing. I'm just saying at least they have a REAL culture. I've lived in America for 23 years. All I've seen is law after law passed to restrict the rights of every person and empower big businesses. Capitalism is a darwinistic business competition method. In the shadow of 5 million laws which bind you, in a system where politicians care nothing about its constituents but only about how much money certain lobbyists are promising them, how can someone possibly differentiate themselves anymore? I crave freedom. "As government grows, freedom recedes." - Thomas Jefferson
All I was saying is that your water heating scenario you describe does emit radiation. As does everything else where heat causes oscillation. Although, it would not be classified as radioactive. I agree with what you are saying about the whole "practical fusion" scenario.
Exactly, how can you do A/D and D/A using digital electronics? Isn't Analog-to-Digital and its converse simply an edge process between Analog and Digital processing? I think so. I think what you meant to say is: Fight the power, go learn how to program a DSP.
This all seems like a repurcussion of the general public's realization that pumping more and prettier audio/video through a TV/computer into their system (read American culture) does not make them happier. It leaves them with a hollow sensation. An utterly worthless feeling. Almost like there is not meaning to their life. This makes them no longer pursue the "bigger" and "better" technological trumps. Because they are starting to realize that all these newer technologies do not make their lives better. It makes their life more generalized. Technological innovation only turns society into a bland grey mush. The melting pot that is America has been cooked and stirred way too much because of our embracing "progress" as our common culture. Our culture is a hollow generic template, and we have finally become just a number. I want to move to Germany. At least they tried to toss things up every now and then by trying to take over the world, thereby giving their lives at least a little meaning.
Lots of energy, no radiation? You ever heard of infrared radiation? There is quite a bit of radiation pouring out. Now granted it does not become a radioactive isotope, but it does emit quite a bit of radiation none the less.
You know it sure seems that open source advocates assume that just because open source exists that everything should be open source. The open source model will have to fit in with the business world. The converse will never be true. Live with it, and quit bitching.
Your .sig is the best thing since internet porn.
As an American. I'll have to agree with the parent post whole-heartedly. America blows goats.
Shut up, macs are just as susceptible to spyware.