Why do people think that Tim Cook, a gay man, speaking towards gay rights in his own country where he has some influence, is a hypocrite for doing business in countries where he has absolutely zero influence whatsoever and yet has a legally binding fiduciary responsibility to make money for his shareholders nonetheless. This speaks more towards conservatives desire to paint everything in culture war terms than anything else.
We have a Qwest network juncture in our back yard. When it was originally installed, there were phone cables laying on the ground for much of the neighborhood. Worked pretty good, so long as people had no plans to mow their yards.
I live in Santa Fe, unfortunately people around here give these cranks far to much leeway. Case in point, ATT Wireless wanted to put a cell tower on top of a building at Santa Fe High School which sits on top of a hill. They'd pay the school district thousands of dollars a month to allow them to do this. So, although the school district is in a budget crisis the School Board decided against it because they were concerned about the backlash from the public for inflicting electromagnetic energies on the students. The City wanted to set up a city wide public WiFi network, but while admitting that there was no proven correlation between EMF and health problems the City decided to let these wingnuts get their way and they stopped it because of the 'health effects'.
I thought it was 'ok', but redundant level design made me think I was playing the same level over and over again. They could have improved the driving capabilities, I felt like I was driving a golf cart rather than an SUV. Also, they could have done something about the damn camera, especially when your fighting the agent on the plane and you've got to do a flying kick to knock him out of the plane and while doing that the camera pans to the side (nice cinematic effect, but bad for gameplay) but it doesn't adjust the controls accordingly so you do a flying kick flying past the agent and almost falling out the back of the plane yourself. It's clear that the Wachowski brothers should stick with movies and avoid games.
Bullshit, I grew up in SE Kansas about 10 miles from Treece. My school bus picked up kids in Treece. If anything the article is extremely conservative about how bad the lead poisoning is there. The entire region is an environmental disaster.
I'm thinking that it would be a good idea that before we start pumping life back into Mars we first verify that it is truly a dead world and if there are any martian bacteria that it won't harm people. Rather than continuing down the path of 'is it possible' we should continue down the path of 'is it safe as well as possible'. We don't want a virus hitting the human race that is unstoppable. The Black Plague in time died out, since we don't know anything about any Martian bugs that may or may not exist, we should err on the side of caution.
I'm thinking you don't understaned the difference between on-duty and off-duty. The people you are describing are 'on-duty' and therefore can already be reprimanded for not doing their work during working hours. This change to NLRB rules effects people off the clock, not on the clock. You need to re-read the article again buddy.
I live in Santa Fe and one thing is certain, if this bill does become law and when it comes time for me to buy a new car, I'll cut it out of my car with considerable aggression and throw it through the window of Rep. Ken Martinez. I've never had a drinking problem so it is unjust to punish me for the problems of others. This law is no different than collective punishment.
Everytime I hear visions of the future that predict vast changes in as little as a half century I wonder why we don't have Atomic powered Flying Cars like we were told we'd have by now, in the 1930's. We don't have flying cars, and heaven help us if we did! There are thousands of car wrecks a day, imagine if there were thousands of Aircar crashes a day. Rather than be confined near a road they'd be all over the map. Also imagine the amount of energy it takes to power a flying car and then multiply that by 100 million flying cars. Ground based cars are much more realistic for energy conservation beleive it or not.
Anyone can come up with a wild claim that in 50 years the world will be run by robots, we were told we'd have robotic butlers today to clean up after ourselves. Weren't we told that 50 years ago?? People always say that "This technology is only X years away." And when that day comes they say, "This technology is only X years away" again!
Only the stupid beleives such wild rantings. The intelligent disregard them as the useless claptrap that they are.
However, when it comes to transferring data files, I'd personally be happy sticking with the slower old version of TCP. Who would like to have a file 600 gigs in size that potentially has errors in it, and cannot be trusted? It really has problems when your calculating mountains of data to estimate future stock values, or something else requiring massive amounts of accurate data. An error here or there may not matter, but then again, it may, and you can't tell if there are errors in it or not.
Now, this may help with streaming content, such as perhaps streaming on demand high quality video. This may help in the future with an on demand video system much like Pay-Per-View, but over the internet. Though, lets not forget that Snail Mail is still beating out the Internet.
1. It's not practical, mail routes must be easier to identify with spacial orientation wise. Can you imaging being a mailmain figuring out a delivery route for addresses comprising nothing but alphanumeric codes such as B3G45WE JU2D35P and 1JP2C7Q QB43ON0??
2. MapPoint doesn't show my place, it shows a building about four buildings down my street.
3. Resolution, the system in use can identify down to 1 meter in size. The system doesn't seem to allow for Mail Box clusters found in apartment complexes. Frequently these mail box clusters are smaller than 1 meter in size and yet holds mail for dozens of people.
3. Unless the new system can overcome these issues and proves superior, yet is at least as easy to use as the current hodgepodge of systems in use, nobody will go along with it.
This type of legislation is of course cutting into their bottom line. Linksys (who makes pretty good resedential Router, VPN, Firewall boxes) was just aquired by Cisco and I'm sure that Cisco would like to expand their presance into the residential market.
I was once asked to provide credit information for a local delivery company I was trying to get a job with. I said no thanks because they had no reason to know that. Afterwards I went to the Department of Labor and explained to them that the company was using illegal immigrants for a large portion of it's work force so they wouldn't have to pay minimum wage and comply with tax laws, which was true. The boss would also threaten the employees that if they didn't agree to work for so little money he'd call INS on them. About a week later the boss of the company was arrested and last I heard was being charged with slavery laws. I could be wrong about the slavery thing but I do know he was arrested. Revenge is sweet. Nobody should have to suffer credit checks, there is no rock solid business reason to need it.
About 10 years ago my boss at the time bought a GRID laptop from an Army auction. Interestingly, there was still the fire control system to an artillery field cannon loaded on the drive. I was surprised as was he.
They have developed various controler cores as well as a functioning x86 core that ran at 200mhz. Sure, thats not much, but with not many people working on the project, I think it's a wonderful success so far.
The more engineers working on the various projects, the better. Who knows, one day we may have a computer where you can look at the schematics of everything from the keyboard controller to the FSB core.
"After all the best way to stop all of us "pirates" is to eliminate the tools we use."
Of course, the obvious way to prevent graverobbing is by outlawing shovels. And the obvious way to prevent theives from stripping a car of all of it's most valuable parts is by outlawing automotive tools. That'll stop them.
It's interesting to see Mundie declare that the GPL reduces taxes paid to the government when Microsoft itself doesn't pay taxes. Thats right, Microsoft didn't pay a single dime in taxes for the year 2000.
Besides, the software industry would shift from almost a pure vendor based structure to more of a services based structure. Lou Gerstner helped change IBM that way, and Red Hat is doing that very well, finding customers everywhere. Wait, both of those companies are both strong supporters of Linux. Fascinating.
Mundie's argument is baseless and merely trying to throw more hot air to prop up the Microsoft sanctioned FUD\Propaganda which is rapidly deflating, which is necessary to save their deteriorating server market share.
Both are headed by inept management. Both used to be visionaries in their industry. And both don't care about support. Why do they outsource allmost all support for their PC's & printers? They offload their problems onto another company in doing so.
Having worked for both Compaq and HP before I can say with absolute certainty that if the merger goes through that it will be a match made in hell.
Here in New Mexico Qwest decided that the best way to improve customer service was to lay off 5000 employees in the state. Apparently all those people answering the phones and helping people wasn't improving customer service. I'm not kidding they actually said that, and then did that. Now if you need help for a problem with your CO you've got to call Seattle. Qwest used to be 'USWorst' and now it's 'Qworst'!!!
Slashdot Mirror
Why do people think that Tim Cook, a gay man, speaking towards gay rights in his own country where he has some influence, is a hypocrite for doing business in countries where he has absolutely zero influence whatsoever and yet has a legally binding fiduciary responsibility to make money for his shareholders nonetheless. This speaks more towards conservatives desire to paint everything in culture war terms than anything else.
We have a Qwest network juncture in our back yard. When it was originally installed, there were phone cables laying on the ground for much of the neighborhood. Worked pretty good, so long as people had no plans to mow their yards.
Interrogator : "What is your password?"
Suspect : "I honestly don't know what your talking about."
interrogator : "So, your being difficult eh?"
Actual password - I honestly don't know what your talking about.
I live in Santa Fe, unfortunately people around here give these cranks far to much leeway. Case in point, ATT Wireless wanted to put a cell tower on top of a building at Santa Fe High School which sits on top of a hill. They'd pay the school district thousands of dollars a month to allow them to do this. So, although the school district is in a budget crisis the School Board decided against it because they were concerned about the backlash from the public for inflicting electromagnetic energies on the students. The City wanted to set up a city wide public WiFi network, but while admitting that there was no proven correlation between EMF and health problems the City decided to let these wingnuts get their way and they stopped it because of the 'health effects'.
I thought it was 'ok', but redundant level design made me think I was playing the same level over and over again. They could have improved the driving capabilities, I felt like I was driving a golf cart rather than an SUV. Also, they could have done something about the damn camera, especially when your fighting the agent on the plane and you've got to do a flying kick to knock him out of the plane and while doing that the camera pans to the side (nice cinematic effect, but bad for gameplay) but it doesn't adjust the controls accordingly so you do a flying kick flying past the agent and almost falling out the back of the plane yourself. It's clear that the Wachowski brothers should stick with movies and avoid games.
Bullshit, I grew up in SE Kansas about 10 miles from Treece. My school bus picked up kids in Treece. If anything the article is extremely conservative about how bad the lead poisoning is there. The entire region is an environmental disaster.
I always figured that a Space Cube would at least be bigger than the Enterprise.
Reminds me of a friend of mine.
I'm thinking that it would be a good idea that before we start pumping life back into Mars we first verify that it is truly a dead world and if there are any martian bacteria that it won't harm people. Rather than continuing down the path of 'is it possible' we should continue down the path of 'is it safe as well as possible'. We don't want a virus hitting the human race that is unstoppable. The Black Plague in time died out, since we don't know anything about any Martian bugs that may or may not exist, we should err on the side of caution.
I'm thinking you don't understaned the difference between on-duty and off-duty. The people you are describing are 'on-duty' and therefore can already be reprimanded for not doing their work during working hours. This change to NLRB rules effects people off the clock, not on the clock. You need to re-read the article again buddy.
I live in Santa Fe and one thing is certain, if this bill does become law and when it comes time for me to buy a new car, I'll cut it out of my car with considerable aggression and throw it through the window of Rep. Ken Martinez. I've never had a drinking problem so it is unjust to punish me for the problems of others. This law is no different than collective punishment.
Everytime I hear visions of the future that predict vast changes in as little as a half century I wonder why we don't have Atomic powered Flying Cars like we were told we'd have by now, in the 1930's. We don't have flying cars, and heaven help us if we did! There are thousands of car wrecks a day, imagine if there were thousands of Aircar crashes a day. Rather than be confined near a road they'd be all over the map. Also imagine the amount of energy it takes to power a flying car and then multiply that by 100 million flying cars. Ground based cars are much more realistic for energy conservation beleive it or not.
Anyone can come up with a wild claim that in 50 years the world will be run by robots, we were told we'd have robotic butlers today to clean up after ourselves. Weren't we told that 50 years ago?? People always say that "This technology is only X years away." And when that day comes they say, "This technology is only X years away" again!
Only the stupid beleives such wild rantings. The intelligent disregard them as the useless claptrap that they are.
I think Homer said it best.
"If you dont like your job, you dont strike, you just go in every day and do it really half-assed, thats the american way!" -Homer Simpson
I hope they aren't using a Pentium with the notorious F00F bug to calculate that. It could be off by who knows how much!!!
However, when it comes to transferring data files, I'd personally be happy sticking with the slower old version of TCP. Who would like to have a file 600 gigs in size that potentially has errors in it, and cannot be trusted? It really has problems when your calculating mountains of data to estimate future stock values, or something else requiring massive amounts of accurate data. An error here or there may not matter, but then again, it may, and you can't tell if there are errors in it or not.
9 23 4&mode=thread
Now, this may help with streaming content, such as perhaps streaming on demand high quality video. This may help in the future with an on demand video system much like Pay-Per-View, but over the internet. Though, lets not forget that Snail Mail is still beating out the Internet.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/09/23/171
Interesting concept. Except for a few things.
1. It's not practical, mail routes must be easier to identify with spacial orientation wise. Can you imaging being a mailmain figuring out a delivery route for addresses comprising nothing but alphanumeric codes such as B3G45WE JU2D35P and 1JP2C7Q QB43ON0??
2. MapPoint doesn't show my place, it shows a building about four buildings down my street.
3. Resolution, the system in use can identify down to 1 meter in size. The system doesn't seem to allow for Mail Box clusters found in apartment complexes. Frequently these mail box clusters are smaller than 1 meter in size and yet holds mail for dozens of people.
3. Unless the new system can overcome these issues and proves superior, yet is at least as easy to use as the current hodgepodge of systems in use, nobody will go along with it.
Might it be this?
6 8. html
http://www.thislife.org/pages/descriptions/00/1
This type of legislation is of course cutting into their bottom line. Linksys (who makes pretty good resedential Router, VPN, Firewall boxes) was just aquired by Cisco and I'm sure that Cisco would like to expand their presance into the residential market.
I was once asked to provide credit information for a local delivery company I was trying to get a job with. I said no thanks because they had no reason to know that. Afterwards I went to the Department of Labor and explained to them that the company was using illegal immigrants for a large portion of it's work force so they wouldn't have to pay minimum wage and comply with tax laws, which was true. The boss would also threaten the employees that if they didn't agree to work for so little money he'd call INS on them. About a week later the boss of the company was arrested and last I heard was being charged with slavery laws. I could be wrong about the slavery thing but I do know he was arrested. Revenge is sweet. Nobody should have to suffer credit checks, there is no rock solid business reason to need it.
About 10 years ago my boss at the time bought a GRID laptop from an Army auction. Interestingly, there was still the fire control system to an artillery field cannon loaded on the drive. I was surprised as was he.
You should check out http://www.opencores.org
They have developed various controler cores as well as a functioning x86 core that ran at 200mhz. Sure, thats not much, but with not many people working on the project, I think it's a wonderful success so far.
The more engineers working on the various projects, the better. Who knows, one day we may have a computer where you can look at the schematics of everything from the keyboard controller to the FSB core.
"After all the best way to stop all of us "pirates" is to eliminate the tools we use."
Of course, the obvious way to prevent graverobbing is by outlawing shovels. And the obvious way to prevent theives from stripping a car of all of it's most valuable parts is by outlawing automotive tools. That'll stop them.
It's interesting to see Mundie declare that the GPL reduces taxes paid to the government when Microsoft itself doesn't pay taxes. Thats right, Microsoft didn't pay a single dime in taxes for the year 2000.
Besides, the software industry would shift from almost a pure vendor based structure to more of a services based structure. Lou Gerstner helped change IBM that way, and Red Hat is doing that very well, finding customers everywhere. Wait, both of those companies are both strong supporters of Linux. Fascinating.
Mundie's argument is baseless and merely trying to throw more hot air to prop up the Microsoft sanctioned FUD\Propaganda which is rapidly deflating, which is necessary to save their deteriorating server market share.
HP and Compaq are similar in many ways.
Both are headed by inept management. Both used to be visionaries in their industry. And both don't care about support. Why do they outsource allmost all support for their PC's & printers? They offload their problems onto another company in doing so.
Having worked for both Compaq and HP before I can say with absolute certainty that if the merger goes through that it will be a match made in hell.
Here in New Mexico Qwest decided that the best way to improve customer service was to lay off 5000 employees in the state. Apparently all those people answering the phones and helping people wasn't improving customer service. I'm not kidding they actually said that, and then did that. Now if you need help for a problem with your CO you've got to call Seattle. Qwest used to be 'USWorst' and now it's 'Qworst'!!!