With just one year of the DoD budget, famine could be erradicated forever in this planet
Famine happens because of bad governments in the affected nations. The leader of North Korea riding around Russia in a private train and eating with sterling silver chopsticks while half of his citizens face starvation is an excellent example. How exactly does lowering US defense spending help such situation? You want to donate more "aid" to such a person so he can resell it for more Rolls Royces?
This is more like the house of the past rather than the future. Everyone in the TV generation knows the houses in the 50s didn't have bathrooms either. Looks like MS is taking a giant leap backward. What's next, fins on the Microsoft Car???
I was amazed to find that the battery in my relatively new Toshiba Satellite is the exact same model as in a friend's vintage 386 based model. The only difference is the total capacity (2600mAh as opposed to 4000mAh). Otherwise they are interchangeable. This makes replacement batteries plentiful and inexpensive, especially if you are willing to swap batteries more often. Newly manufactured replacements sell as low as $10 on Ebay. This is opposed to a scheme like IBM's where every model year has a new battery design. Smaller markets make for higher priced replacement parts.
IRA terrorists would leave explosive in them, in order to kill or main
It must be pointed out that nowadays IRA terrorists have a habit of telling the police the general vicinity of said bombs so that civilians can be evacuated. Traffic gets snarled and countless commuters are late, but when was the last time lots of people were killed or maimed by an IRA bomb? You must be thinking of the Basque.
'One rule of joining the consortium is that any invention developed through the project and protected [by patent] will be made available to smallholders through a royalty-free license,'
Do they know to beware clever ideas put forward by the biochemists from the Rambus contingent?
OK, at least one poster has said that porn companies are barely holding their own, and more that one has said they're rolling in the dough. Anyone have any facts?
The only publicly traded company I can find that deals in pornography is Playboy Enterprises (NYSE:PLA). Revenues this year are expected to be $272 million, of which $34 million are profits after expenses. $34M makes nice walking around money but is not whopping loads of cash in the corporate world. And Playboy Enterprises is HUGE compared to an internet outfit with some women in front of webcams. Since those aren't publicly traded, no hard numbers are available. However, I think we can safely assume that the outfits selling cheap videos and internet subscriptions, while obviously profitable, are not quite so flush with funds as some people think.
The review starts off saying this is a GPU for $100 cards and then compares it to GF4-4200 and ATI9500 Pro. Then proceeds to laugh at it for poor comparisons. Methinks Trident is going to laugh all the way to the bank when they clean up the cheap prebuilt box with embedded video market.
I'm glad the Chinese are working on this valuable project instead of frittering away funds on something frivolous. This and their moon shot, which is an even better use of that country's current resources.
Spirited Away was entertaining as an exercise in wierdness for the sake of wierdness. It is not by any stretch my favorite or even a film I'd recommend to non hardcore anime enthusiasts. Typical ultra-smooth, beautiful animation. But some of the characters were just bizarre... the huge-nosed woman who runs the bath house, the eating monster... The soundtrack should be 'Twilight Zone' by Rush. DO NOT take small children to see Spirited Away! They WILL cry, like all the small kids in the theatre when I saw it. I figure 10 - 12 would be OK, but definitely keep the 6 year olds home.
"millions who will die this year alone due to intransigence on the part of rich nations"
Don't you mean by the petty dictators who let rot at the pier shiploads of food donated by rich nations? Bad local government in poor countries is almost the sole cause of starvation. A small, small percentage have weather problems.
According to the article, the larges prior order was for 30 million tags. It doesn't give a time frame other than delivery starts in March, so I wonder how well the company can absorb such an order. One assumes this order is not a complete suprise to the upper management. People may think huge orders are always great but if production capacity is exceeded, it can be a serious curse in disguise.
It doesn't have to be radio waves sent for communication. The aricebo radio telescope has an active mode used for radar scanning of solar planets. The massive burst put out will be easily detectable by any alien version of SETI@Home 60 or more light years out. While not communication, these hypothetical aliens would know that some artificial source is blasting out radio frequency energy. And while radio is, as you point out, entirely too slow for meaningful communication over such time, just KNOWING other thinking creatures are out there is the important part.
Whatever you end up doing, don't even THINK about it yet. See recent stories on/. re: companies claiming all IP created by employees during term of employment. If the company you work for now fails and your new idea takes off, the investors and whoever from the old company might come claim some of the action. Who knows, they might sue you not only for your new idea and all profits but also for goofing off planning this new idea instead of working harder at the struggling company. So make sure you document all thoughts concerning whatever new idea and date them AFTER you leave the current company.
"He tells me that they've cut 48 minutes from the movie. I tell him that they've cut an entire episode out. We laugh.
48 minutes is half of a movie, not just in the can, but cut to a presentable format. I don't know the premise of the sequence in question, but would it be hard to fill it in to make a movie of its own? Since half of it is already paid for, it doesn't really need that much budget either.
even supposing your numbers are correct, we're talking 10 of those $2.50
Even a bulb with 10 LEDs costing $22.50 is worth the price. Remember that the things have an 11.5 year lifespan of continual use. If you run it at night, all night, it still won't need to be replaced for 23 years! How many traditional light bulbs will burn out and need replacing at what total cost in that much time?
No, that was the problem with The Matrix. It assumed automatically the computers are evil. There was no discussion of this - simply taken for granted that computers and technology are inherently evil. How can any/.er like this film? I would expect Matrix to be Ted Kozinsky's (sp) favorite film. It was just another in a long string of Luddite movies. See also: The Sixth Day, Terminator (1&2), Event Horizon, Supernova, etc. For technology neutral movies in which it is the motives of people that are good or evil (the real world way), see: Star Wars1/4/5/6, CTHD, Alien/s/3, etc. The new Matrix will probably be another technophobe film, which is why I'm certain to skip it.
Order your Soviet-era WIG ship today (from autospeed.com):
"Now called the Volga Shipyard, the Orlyonok is apparently still being developed as a commercial search and rescue craft. In fact, it appears that the Orlyonok can be ordered in either cargo-carrying (50 tons with a 1500km range) or in passenger carrying (30 people and a 3000km range) versions - the yard lists it as a production model!"
Interesting that in Amazon's user ratings this novel winning the Nebula gets 4 of 5 stars while five of this same author's other books get 4.5 of 5. Does that mean one of those will be next year's winner? Or simply that, as usual, the critics and the public have different opinions?
they deserve to be fleeced. This is one of the fundamental tennets of capitalism
While it unfortunately often seems this way, the theoretical model of capitalism (free market) calls for just the opposite: All parties should have all the same information. Obviously, this never happens in the real world. A fundamental tenant of human nature makes people willing to cheat to get ahead if they think they can get away with it. Thus, governments attempt to make disclosure rules, etc, to try to get closer to the equal information model. How well this is done is quite debatable.
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With just one year of the DoD budget, famine could be erradicated forever in this planet
Famine happens because of bad governments in the affected nations. The leader of North Korea riding around Russia in a private train and eating with sterling silver chopsticks while half of his citizens face starvation is an excellent example. How exactly does lowering US defense spending help such situation? You want to donate more "aid" to such a person so he can resell it for more Rolls Royces?
This is more like the house of the past rather than the future. Everyone in the TV generation knows the houses in the 50s didn't have bathrooms either. Looks like MS is taking a giant leap backward. What's next, fins on the Microsoft Car???
I was amazed to find that the battery in my relatively new Toshiba Satellite is the exact same model as in a friend's vintage 386 based model. The only difference is the total capacity (2600mAh as opposed to 4000mAh). Otherwise they are interchangeable. This makes replacement batteries plentiful and inexpensive, especially if you are willing to swap batteries more often. Newly manufactured replacements sell as low as $10 on Ebay. This is opposed to a scheme like IBM's where every model year has a new battery design. Smaller markets make for higher priced replacement parts.
Yeah, like right now is a GREAT time to join the military...
Nevermind RETIRING right now; how the heck do you get HIRED?
The only Joe I know has no neck at all. Is Linux *really* biased towards long necked people?
IRA terrorists would leave explosive in them, in order to kill or main
It must be pointed out that nowadays IRA terrorists have a habit of telling the police the general vicinity of said bombs so that civilians can be evacuated. Traffic gets snarled and countless commuters are late, but when was the last time lots of people were killed or maimed by an IRA bomb?
You must be thinking of the Basque.
'One rule of joining the consortium is that any invention developed through the project and protected [by patent] will be made available to smallholders through a royalty-free license,'
Do they know to beware clever ideas put forward by the biochemists from the Rambus contingent?
OK, at least one poster has said that porn companies are barely holding their own, and more that one has said they're rolling in the dough. Anyone have any facts?
The only publicly traded company I can find that deals in pornography is Playboy Enterprises (NYSE:PLA). Revenues this year are expected to be $272 million, of which $34 million are profits after expenses. $34M makes nice walking around money but is not whopping loads of cash in the corporate world. And Playboy Enterprises is HUGE compared to an internet outfit with some women in front of webcams. Since those aren't publicly traded, no hard numbers are available. However, I think we can safely assume that the outfits selling cheap videos and internet subscriptions, while obviously profitable, are not quite so flush with funds as some people think.
Any metal (mining)?
And not just any metal; copper smelting is about the nastiest of all industrial processes.
The review starts off saying this is a GPU for $100 cards and then compares it to GF4-4200 and ATI9500 Pro. Then proceeds to laugh at it for poor comparisons. Methinks Trident is going to laugh all the way to the bank when they clean up the cheap prebuilt box with embedded video market.
I'm glad the Chinese are working on this valuable project instead of frittering away funds on something frivolous. This and their moon shot, which is an even better use of that country's current resources.
Spirited Away was entertaining as an exercise in wierdness for the sake of wierdness. It is not by any stretch my favorite or even a film I'd recommend to non hardcore anime enthusiasts. Typical ultra-smooth, beautiful animation. But some of the characters were just bizarre... the huge-nosed woman who runs the bath house, the eating monster... The soundtrack should be 'Twilight Zone' by Rush.
DO NOT take small children to see Spirited Away! They WILL cry, like all the small kids in the theatre when I saw it. I figure 10 - 12 would be OK, but definitely keep the 6 year olds home.
"millions who will die this year alone due to intransigence on the part of rich nations"
Don't you mean by the petty dictators who let rot at the pier shiploads of food donated by rich nations? Bad local government in poor countries is almost the sole cause of starvation. A small, small percentage have weather problems.
According to the article, the larges prior order was for 30 million tags. It doesn't give a time frame other than delivery starts in March, so I wonder how well the company can absorb such an order. One assumes this order is not a complete suprise to the upper management. People may think huge orders are always great but if production capacity is exceeded, it can be a serious curse in disguise.
"aliens do not use radio waves for communication"
It doesn't have to be radio waves sent for communication. The aricebo radio telescope has an active mode used for radar scanning of solar planets. The massive burst put out will be easily detectable by any alien version of SETI@Home 60 or more light years out. While not communication, these hypothetical aliens would know that some artificial source is blasting out radio frequency energy. And while radio is, as you point out, entirely too slow for meaningful communication over such time, just KNOWING other thinking creatures are out there is the important part.
Whatever you end up doing, don't even THINK about it yet. See recent stories on /. re: companies claiming all IP created by employees during term of employment. If the company you work for now fails and your new idea takes off, the investors and whoever from the old company might come claim some of the action. Who knows, they might sue you not only for your new idea and all profits but also for goofing off planning this new idea instead of working harder at the struggling company. So make sure you document all thoughts concerning whatever new idea and date them AFTER you leave the current company.
"He tells me that they've cut 48 minutes from the movie.
I tell him that they've cut an entire episode out. We laugh.
48 minutes is half of a movie, not just in the can, but cut to a presentable format. I don't know the premise of the sequence in question, but would it be hard to fill it in to make a movie of its own? Since half of it is already paid for, it doesn't really need that much budget either.
we'll see a rash of suddenly rich farmers
I don't know about where you live, but here (USA) farmers are very heavily subsidized and most are quite well-off.
If you lose the Great Wall (city is taken or time limit expires) you aren't suddenly defenseless.
even supposing your numbers are correct, we're talking 10 of those $2.50
Even a bulb with 10 LEDs costing $22.50 is worth the price. Remember that the things have an 11.5 year lifespan of continual use. If you run it at night, all night, it still won't need to be replaced for 23 years! How many traditional light bulbs will burn out and need replacing at what total cost in that much time?
it was about good vs evil (people vs. computers
/.er like this film? I would expect Matrix to be Ted Kozinsky's (sp) favorite film. It was just another in a long string of Luddite movies. See also: The Sixth Day, Terminator (1&2), Event Horizon, Supernova, etc.
No, that was the problem with The Matrix. It assumed automatically the computers are evil. There was no discussion of this - simply taken for granted that computers and technology are inherently evil. How can any
For technology neutral movies in which it is the motives of people that are good or evil (the real world way), see: Star Wars1/4/5/6, CTHD, Alien/s/3, etc.
The new Matrix will probably be another technophobe film, which is why I'm certain to skip it.
Order your Soviet-era WIG ship today (from autospeed.com):
"Now called the Volga Shipyard, the Orlyonok is apparently still being developed as a commercial search and rescue craft. In fact, it appears that the Orlyonok can be ordered in either cargo-carrying (50 tons with a 1500km range) or in passenger carrying (30 people and a 3000km range) versions - the yard lists it as a production model!"
Interesting that in Amazon's user ratings this novel winning the Nebula gets 4 of 5 stars while five of this same author's other books get 4.5 of 5. Does that mean one of those will be next year's winner? Or simply that, as usual, the critics and the public have different opinions?
While it unfortunately often seems this way, the theoretical model of capitalism (free market) calls for just the opposite: All parties should have all the same information. Obviously, this never happens in the real world. A fundamental tenant of human nature makes people willing to cheat to get ahead if they think they can get away with it. Thus, governments attempt to make disclosure rules, etc, to try to get closer to the equal information model. How well this is done is quite debatable.