I used to watch CNN Headline News in the mornings, and sometimes CNN in the evening, and liked it for the same reasons. The sad thing is that Fox News is doing something rught- Fox is somewhat addictive in its inanely irritating style and "personalities". (one-sided and dumb as fuck, they make you hate them and want to throw stuff at your TV, but somehow because of that you have to watch them)
CNN's got nothing. Well, actually they still have some respectable stuff (Larry King and Wolf Blitzer), but like you say, their pure-news channels and programs are a waste of time.
But then all american news channels blow. war on terror, war on saddam, democrats pissing their pants, republicans saying racist shit, blah blah blah.
There is only one solution: The Daily Show (when news breaks, they fix it!)
In my first 4 years of buying CDs I accumulated about 500 total.
Wow, you're a dream customer. (500 cds) * (1 hour/cd) = 500 hours, divide by (4 yrs*50 wks/yr) = 2.5 hours a week listening to NEW music that you've never heard before, forget about listening to a CD twice.
Huge companies like Proctor and Gamble have to divert production when Wal-mart wants to run a special on their products.
P&G makes lots of consumer products like cleaning products and diapers and stuff where it really doesnt matter which kind you buy, and you buy it all the time. So its easy to see 10s of millions of sales when something goes on sale and becomes the cheapest.
I doubt it's as drastic with PC's. Then again, if you have budget PC's that can run AOL . ..
it wouldnt be that hard - most ads run in zillions of households. Each "smart" TV set could have a button similar to the "this is spam" button on yahoo mail. Have a distributed database of image-hashes (requires development of robust image hash technology, but thats about it). You get the idea.
The cost of space stuff should concern you, because as a taxpayer you're paying for it. It's not as much money as the military, but the article is trying to say we could get more capable technology for our buck.
Check this out. It basically is an example of a low-cost commercial launch system company going under as a result having to compete with NASA.
I don't know if the company in the link would have actually made a working system, but the link makes the point that private sector space tech would not even be able to get investment capital, because of the uncertainties created from having to compete with NASA-subsidized projects which do not need to make a profit.
OTOH, NASA contractors compete with each other to win the contracts, so it's not really a monopoly. Then again, the project requirements often dictate the complexity and (in)efficiency in $$$. So really, to fixing the "problem" is more a manner of tweaking the way money is counted, rather then eliminating NASA.
What did the US get out of the apollo missions? Twelve pounds of rocks?
And it beat the USSR to the moon in the middle of the cold war, which was huge because the USSR was ahead of the U.S. in the "space race" until that point. Back then, space technology was directly relevant to military power (think ICBM's, "star wars", etc).
Contact with other people would be like getting hit by an (american) football player on roller blades:-)
A segway will move in approximately the same way as a man on roller blades (wearing a 65 lb pack on his lower body). Zero turning radius is bullshit except at low speed.
It would work pretty well totally un-crowded sidewalks. Not sure how it would handle curbs (can you jump? you would have to slow down then.)
On city streets around here, bladers often have to go on the road to get room - and the segway is not meant for roads. That said, it is a cool and futuristic idea.
The time WILL come eventually for a device like it. But i'm thinking more of a hovering / flying device:-)
But actually, if all teams were partially honest and partially deceptive, it would be better.
In effect, the deceptive teams are implementing a form of communication which is immune to the typical employee boss relationship. (i.e., hide the bad news from the boss to avoid blame, which short circuits managerial feedback)
so maybe deceptive teams are not so bad in a way (unless they are deceptive to the extreme). And the theory is, that halfway deceptive teams are more successful than either fully deceptive teams (who will be caught eventually), or fully honest teams (who can't communicate in a way management responds too).
Which is why capitalism works despite dishonesty:-)
mmmm. More like $5000 per kg ballpark for cheap launch vehicles. (which is still much less than shuttle)
Also it depends on what orbit you're launching into- big cost difference for Geosynchronous (comm sats) vs Low Earth Orbit (everything else). However, shuttle has lots of goodies that justify the extra cost -- robot arm, big cargo capacity, can take lots of people, is piloted, etc.
The ISS, on the other hand, eats up lots of $$$. I've heard scientists say you would get vastly more for your money by paying for individual launches for each project that would go on the ISS (i.e., ROI of the ISS doesnt nearly justify its cost)
And who is to check. I know 3 object oriented languages, distributed systems and component technology. If you want me to do J2EE/w Beans, no problem. Even though I have never really done that before. But if you hire me I will know by the day I start.
Sucks for whoever hires you. No offense, I believe that your experience has made you adaptable, and a fast and effective learner. But experience really is valuable.
All technologies have quirks and whatnot that you can't get from books or classes. But Why should "they" hire you when they can spend an extra $10-20k to hire a dot-commer who'se been doing nothing but J2EE + Beans in his previous posn
So, whats next... assuming that the laser works by calculating the trajectory of the shell, and positions itself ahead of the shell, would the next advancement in artillery be shells that wobble to avoid running into a high powered laser
Probably, the next thing is "stealth" artillery rounds.
Or possibly, shoot at a really low trajectory and explode over the target.
Or modify artillery round to confuse the targeting system by having the shell trail a long stream of aluminum foil or something like that (if it can be done).
Here are just some of the factors that go into calculating the trajectory of an artillery shell.
In this regard, the laser has the advantage. It is really not necessary to "calculate" the trajectory of the shell in the same way as the person who is firing the artillery. The laser can "lock on" to the shell's motion, compensating for acceleration, curvature in its motion, etc. This is standard control system stuff.
Wobbling might be an issue... it depends on the time-scale of the wobbling and the (very short but measurable) time that the laser needs to be on one "spot" to be effective.
dont be fooled. The XML format is gonna be like 99.5% open and compatible, but there will be one small option that will screw it up... maybe something like "patented smart-page-width- technology", so that if you load the same xml-doc file with open office and office the page width will be subtly different based on a secret formula, which will then make the whole document align differently.
the community is foolish to expect anything less than the usual embrace, extend, etc.
hmm. reminds me of a reserach lab I used to work in- off in one corner there were a two of small flattish HP boxes of some sort, with only one cable going into them (power? network? i dunno). The sticker with the serial number had a date that was about 10 years old.
I was asked to clean up that half of the lab one day, so I unplug one of the boxes. After about 15 minutes, a buzzing alarm goes off. Soon an IT guy comes through a back door that I had never seen opened, and plugs them back in.
except that JPEG is the de-facto standard for images (especially since digital cameras automatically make jpegs).
btw, you can have very high-quality (but large filesize) jpegs by using quality 100 and eliminating the subsampling when encoding. (it will make no difference for the viewers).
don't like it? use savannah.gnu.org instead. its a sourceforge clone, run by gno.org - I suspect their licensing scheme lets your software be Free (as in GNU)
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So true.
I used to watch CNN Headline News in the mornings, and sometimes CNN in the evening, and liked it for the same reasons. The sad thing is that Fox News is doing something rught- Fox is somewhat addictive in its inanely irritating style and "personalities". (one-sided and dumb as fuck, they make you hate them and want to throw stuff at your TV, but somehow because of that you have to watch them)
CNN's got nothing. Well, actually they still have some respectable stuff (Larry King and Wolf Blitzer), but like you say, their pure-news channels and programs are a waste of time.
But then all american news channels blow. war on terror, war on saddam, democrats pissing their pants, republicans saying racist shit, blah blah blah.
There is only one solution: The Daily Show (when news breaks, they fix it!)
Also, Conan.
-Pete
In my first 4 years of buying CDs I accumulated about 500 total.
Wow, you're a dream customer. (500 cds) * (1 hour/cd) = 500 hours, divide by (4 yrs*50 wks/yr) = 2.5 hours a week listening to NEW music that you've never heard before, forget about listening to a CD twice.
Huge companies like Proctor and Gamble have to divert production when Wal-mart wants to run a special on their products.
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P&G makes lots of consumer products like cleaning products and diapers and stuff where it really doesnt matter which kind you buy, and you buy it all the time. So its easy to see 10s of millions of sales when something goes on sale and becomes the cheapest.
I doubt it's as drastic with PC's. Then again, if you have budget PC's that can run AOL . .
what about GE? dont they have more employees than any company in the world?
Hey! Judge dredd wasnt all that bad. You just have to suspend disbelief a little bit, thats all. And, Rob Schneider put in a very solid performance.
it wouldnt be that hard - most ads run in zillions of households. Each "smart" TV set could have a button similar to the "this is spam" button on yahoo mail. Have a distributed database of image-hashes (requires development of robust image hash technology, but thats about it). You get the idea.
Yess!
I LOVE starcon2! The melee is fun, and the full game is one of the best computer games of all time (ran on 386, no less).
I wonder if the creators of the game have made anything else since SC2 (other than SC3...)
The cost of space stuff should concern you, because as a taxpayer you're paying for it. It's not as much money as the military, but the article is trying to say we could get more capable technology for our buck.
Check this out. It basically is an example of a low-cost commercial launch system company going under as a result having to compete with NASA.
I don't know if the company in the link would have actually made a working system, but the link makes the point that private sector space tech would not even be able to get investment capital, because of the uncertainties created from having to compete with NASA-subsidized projects which do not need to make a profit.
OTOH, NASA contractors compete with each other to win the contracts, so it's not really a monopoly. Then again, the project requirements often dictate the complexity and (in)efficiency in $$$. So really, to fixing the "problem" is more a manner of tweaking the way money is counted, rather then eliminating NASA.
What did the US get out of the apollo missions? Twelve pounds of rocks?
And it beat the USSR to the moon in the middle of the cold war, which was huge because the USSR was ahead of the U.S. in the "space race" until that point. Back then, space technology was directly relevant to military power (think ICBM's, "star wars", etc).
Contact with other people would be like getting hit by an (american) football player on roller blades :-)
:-)
A segway will move in approximately the same way as a man on roller blades (wearing a 65 lb pack on his lower body). Zero turning radius is bullshit except at low speed.
It would work pretty well totally un-crowded sidewalks. Not sure how it would handle curbs (can you jump? you would have to slow down then.)
On city streets around here, bladers often have to go on the road to get room - and the segway is not meant for roads. That said, it is a cool and futuristic idea.
The time WILL come eventually for a device like it. But i'm thinking more of a hovering / flying device
and more importantly- if you use a stylus you might occasionally get that awful NAILS-SCRATCHING-ON-CHALKBOARD sound
that sucks.
But can't you get VPN functionality by tunneling with SSH over an unblocked port? surely they wouldn't prevent ssh!
Woohoo - Game theory :-)
:-)
But actually, if all teams were partially honest and partially deceptive, it would be better.
In effect, the deceptive teams are implementing a form of communication which is immune to the typical employee boss relationship. (i.e., hide the bad news from the boss to avoid blame, which short circuits managerial feedback)
so maybe deceptive teams are not so bad in a way (unless they are deceptive to the extreme). And the theory is, that halfway deceptive teams are more successful than either fully deceptive teams (who will be caught eventually), or fully honest teams (who can't communicate in a way management responds too).
Which is why capitalism works despite dishonesty
> > Corporate Greed knowns no shame.
> > And since Enron, it knows no fear.
> Huh? Enron was annihilated, and when they went
> down, they took Arthur Andersen with them.
Yup, the company died and shareholders lost tons of money. Guess where that money went?
With a few exceptions, the "logic" of the decision-makers at the top was handsomely rewarded, and continues to be.
plus they forbid using VPN over the 'residential' package.
how on earth can they prevent you from using VPN ??
Also it depends on what orbit you're launching into- big cost difference for Geosynchronous (comm sats) vs Low Earth Orbit (everything else). However, shuttle has lots of goodies that justify the extra cost -- robot arm, big cargo capacity, can take lots of people, is piloted, etc.
The ISS, on the other hand, eats up lots of $$$. I've heard scientists say you would get vastly more for your money by paying for individual launches for each project that would go on the ISS (i.e., ROI of the ISS doesnt nearly justify its cost)
And who is to check. I know 3 object oriented languages, distributed systems and component technology. If you want me to do J2EE
Sucks for whoever hires you. No offense, I believe that your experience has made you adaptable, and a fast and effective learner. But experience really is valuable.
All technologies have quirks and whatnot that you can't get from books or classes. But Why should "they" hire you when they can spend an extra $10-20k to hire a dot-commer who'se been doing nothing but J2EE + Beans in his previous posn
So, whats next... assuming that the laser works by calculating the trajectory of the shell, and positions itself ahead of the shell, would the next advancement in artillery be shells that wobble to avoid running into a high powered laser
Probably, the next thing is "stealth" artillery rounds.
Or possibly, shoot at a really low trajectory and explode over the target.
Or modify artillery round to confuse the targeting system by having the shell trail a long stream of aluminum foil or something like that (if it can be done).
Here are just some of the factors that go into calculating the trajectory of an artillery shell.
In this regard, the laser has the advantage. It is really not necessary to "calculate" the trajectory of the shell in the same way as the person who is firing the artillery. The laser can "lock on" to the shell's motion, compensating for acceleration, curvature in its motion, etc. This is standard control system stuff.
Wobbling might be an issue... it depends on the time-scale of the wobbling and the (very short but measurable) time that the laser needs to be on one "spot" to be effective.
It is likely that any deployed system will have a range vastly greater than artillery. These things can be miles behind the front or even in the air.
:-)
Well i guess the solution to defeat is to use "stealth" artillery shells which are invisible to radar
isn't BSD dead?
jackass
dont be fooled. The XML format is gonna be like 99.5% open and compatible, but there will be one small option that will screw it up... maybe something like "patented smart-page-width- technology", so that if you load the same xml-doc file with open office and office the page width will be subtly different based on a secret formula, which will then make the whole document align differently.
the community is foolish to expect anything less than the usual embrace, extend, etc.
hmm. reminds me of a reserach lab I used to work in- off in one corner there were a two of small flattish HP boxes of some sort, with only one cable going into them (power? network? i dunno). The sticker with the serial number had a date that was about 10 years old.
I was asked to clean up that half of the lab one day, so I unplug one of the boxes. After about 15 minutes, a buzzing alarm goes off. Soon an IT guy comes through a back door that I had never seen opened, and plugs them back in.
I still dont know what those things are.
JPEG would never cut it for forensics photos.
except that JPEG is the de-facto standard for images (especially since digital cameras automatically make jpegs).
btw, you can have very high-quality (but large filesize) jpegs by using quality 100 and eliminating the subsampling when encoding. (it will make no difference for the viewers).
It can't be perpetual since copyright is limited.
Thats what you think. Remember that every decade or so Congress retroactively extends the length of copyright by about 20 years.
don't like it?
use savannah.gnu.org instead. its a sourceforge clone, run by gno.org - I suspect their licensing scheme lets your software be Free (as in GNU)