The question is not, "Can America," but "Will America trust online voting?" I'd be afraid of Florida's popping up all over the place next year because of people claiming that the system was rigged/cracked.
Gee, would you rather buy an iPod, or a device that is comprised of the best features of _SEVEN_ other devices? What, you can't buy such a device? This article is more a collection of reasons another device might suit your needs better than an iPod, not a collection of reasons not to get one. Sure, if you could make an MP3 player that has better battery life, was shock proof, costed less than an iPod, held as much music, could act as a recording studio, and could play any format ever created, I'd buy it. But you can't. That's why this guy has to use seven different devices to beat the iPod hands-down. I wonder how much free stuff this guy gets from Microsoft for spouting this shit.
(1) Power is really related to heat and volume, not heat alone. Ie, it may be as hot at a nuclear reactor, but it can't heat the same volume of water as a nuclear reactor can to boiling.
(2) Processors are not designed to generate heat, this is just a byproduct, so the Power consumed by the chip is probably MUCH greater than the power delivered by the chip as heat. Since you'd have to pump an insane amount of power into the thing to get a little power out, you would not be able to run your house economically.
What is stopping moral persons from starting a renegade DNS? Sure it would be a non-trivial task to get people to actually start using this lesser domain service, but like with anything once you get the ball rolling, it's all downhill from there. Are there any laws that require you to use the rootservers and verisign? Can't people choose to utilize a third party maintained domain service, if it is in fact their choice? This would be purism at the cost of usability, but for some that would be a worthwhile tradeoff. If there were an open-source DNS out there, I'd use it. What do the rest of you think?
They should set up a clinic for people who start out to use facts and evidence to prove that Windows is better than GNU/Linux. Eventually they're just gonna get fed up and go postal.
I really wonder if the damage done to the environment and cost of recharging a battery is really all that much better than buying disposable ones. Especially if you factor in the loss in efficiency associated with the delivery of AC power, the conversion to DC and the interface between the charger and the battery (not to mention leakage). Of course, that raises another question: what/how efficient are the methods used by Duracell and the like to build disposable batteries?
In a surprise move earlier today, God announced a multibillion dollar lawsuit against Coca-Cola Co. Apparently the soft drink company has been sneaking water into their flagship products for several years. God said He would be requiring licensing fees from all Coca-Cola drinkers, but anyone who has previously been baptized will not be expected to pay usage fees for water.
Ever notice how Google is really just the phrase 'Go Ogle' crammed together? I really think they should take advantage of this coincidence (or is it?) and rename the image search . . .
Although I'm sure that most benchmarks for hire are going to be a little tilted, I think I'd probably trust apple's numbers slightly more than Dell's. Having worked in a campus computer store, and having to sell the damned things, I've NEVER gotten a Dell to come out to anything near the advertised price. Apples can be pricey, but at least they are upfront about it; if it says x dollars in the apple store, then that's what you pay. Just my 299900 cents.
It seems that one of the biggest reasons OSX works is that they have such a tight-fisted control over the hardware it runs on. If they go around supporting x86 hardware, they're development costs are going to skyrocket. Hell, if I remember correctly, Darwin x86 won't so much as boot on my Via chipset based mobo . . .
"that equipment would become like a router; taking in information and broadcasting it out to a global network of computers listening for packets coming to them, broadcasting the ones that aren't."
You have described the operation of a bridge/switch, not a router, and a large network based entirely on switching technology (that isn't as organized/centralized as the Public Switched Telephone Network) would work about as well as Avian Carrier IP.
Hot damn, why don't we all get together, build our own roads, and stop paying the portion of our taxes that go to highway maintenence? We wouldn't have to worry about getting pulled over by the police on our highways or all those time-consuming road work crews always holding up traffic!
I don't mean to nit-pick, but for future reference, TextEdit would actually be the incumbent word processor (the one already in use). In keeping with the political tone of this posting, a more appropriate description of any newcomer word proccessors would be "freshman," or perhaps, "challenging."
I think the question here is not, "does what you do make you an engineer?" Asking, "Is a programmer an engineer?" is something akin to asking, "Is someone who owns a Porsche a racecar driver?" Well, maybe. Then again, maybe they're just an old fart with more money than they know what to do with. No one asks if someone who works on cars is a mechanical engineer, and no one asks if someone who builds electronics is an electrical engineer. So why should we ask if someone who simply programs is an engineer? Engineering is much less what you do than it is how you do it. If someone approaches programming problems with professionalism, thoughtfulness, and regard for its social impact, then yes, this person is probably an engineer. If someone tackles obstacles by haphazardly throwing code out until something works, then probably not. It should be noted that hacks should not be tossed into this later category; on the contrary, it's engineers come up with some of the best hacks around. These are my thoughts on the subject, anyway. Feel free to agree or disagree as you see fit.
It's a lot cheaper to produce CD's and DVD's than it is to produce solid state storage (like a videogame cartridge). At the prices you can get pirated stuff for in China--depending on how you bargain, under 0.70USD for a DVD last time I was there--it just isn't economical for someone to produce illegal carts.
The fact of the matter is, that unless you're just stupid (not wearing a helmet, or biking in shorts/short sleeves/sandals or other loose-fitting shoes) motorcycle accidents--despite how spectacular they look--are less often fatal than car accidents. This is primarily because in a car, you go where the car goes, but on a bike, you just sort of fall off. That may sound like a bad thing, but when fate takes your respective vehicle on a joyride through the forest, taking a dive seems like a pretty damned good idea. Sure you might break a limb or two, but it beats researching the effectiveness of implanting a human brain in a tree.
Diamond (aka, coal) has no real value whatsoever. It's rarity is entirely artificial. While gold is elemental and rare-unless of course you do some funky chemistry-diamond is just crystalized carbon atoms. Actually, sand is probably more useful since it is easier to work with (already granular) and it is also a strong crystal (silicon). There is plenty of diamond already and plenty of diamond to be made, all you need is carbon-which we aren't running out of anytime soon-and a few million years. Diamonds sell for so much because after westerners strip-mined Africa for its gold, they found a crapload of this carbon crystal that looked kinda neat but didn't really do anything. So, lacking any more gold to steal, they got women intersted in it and made it into a fortune. In all fairness, if someone tried the same stunt today they'd probably get their asses sued off by some government somewhere, but nobody does anything new because loosing the diamond industry would hurt any economy, no matter how you cut it (no pun intended), and nobody in office wants to do anything that would make it look like they were hurting the economy.
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So when's someone gonna fess up and admit that the Power Grid is not ready for critical infrastructure either?
The question is not, "Can America," but "Will America trust online voting?" I'd be afraid of Florida's popping up all over the place next year because of people claiming that the system was rigged/cracked.
Gee, would you rather buy an iPod, or a device that is comprised of the best features of _SEVEN_ other devices? What, you can't buy such a device? This article is more a collection of reasons another device might suit your needs better than an iPod, not a collection of reasons not to get one. Sure, if you could make an MP3 player that has better battery life, was shock proof, costed less than an iPod, held as much music, could act as a recording studio, and could play any format ever created, I'd buy it. But you can't. That's why this guy has to use seven different devices to beat the iPod hands-down. I wonder how much free stuff this guy gets from Microsoft for spouting this shit.
That would work great except for two things:
(1) Power is really related to heat and volume, not heat alone. Ie, it may be as hot at a nuclear reactor, but it can't heat the same volume of water as a nuclear reactor can to boiling.
(2) Processors are not designed to generate heat, this is just a byproduct, so the Power consumed by the chip is probably MUCH greater than the power delivered by the chip as heat. Since you'd have to pump an insane amount of power into the thing to get a little power out, you would not be able to run your house economically.
What is stopping moral persons from starting a renegade DNS? Sure it would be a non-trivial task to get people to actually start using this lesser domain service, but like with anything once you get the ball rolling, it's all downhill from there. Are there any laws that require you to use the rootservers and verisign? Can't people choose to utilize a third party maintained domain service, if it is in fact their choice? This would be purism at the cost of usability, but for some that would be a worthwhile tradeoff. If there were an open-source DNS out there, I'd use it. What do the rest of you think?
What the internet really needs is a good 5 cent asshole detector.
They should set up a clinic for people who start out to use facts and evidence to prove that Windows is better than GNU/Linux. Eventually they're just gonna get fed up and go postal.
I really wonder if the damage done to the environment and cost of recharging a battery is really all that much better than buying disposable ones. Especially if you factor in the loss in efficiency associated with the delivery of AC power, the conversion to DC and the interface between the charger and the battery (not to mention leakage). Of course, that raises another question: what/how efficient are the methods used by Duracell and the like to build disposable batteries?
Why not rename it the Hubbard Space Telescope? Then you can get Hollywood Scientology types to pay big bucks to keep it in the air.
In a surprise move earlier today, God announced a multibillion dollar lawsuit against Coca-Cola Co. Apparently the soft drink company has been sneaking water into their flagship products for several years. God said He would be requiring licensing fees from all Coca-Cola drinkers, but anyone who has previously been baptized will not be expected to pay usage fees for water.
Introducing Poopout Prism. When countless slashdot readers access the website, the important information becomes no longer accessible . . .
So . . . how much will it cost to recharge/replace the fuel cell?
Ever notice how Google is really just the phrase 'Go Ogle' crammed together? I really think they should take advantage of this coincidence (or is it?) and rename the image search . . .
Although I'm sure that most benchmarks for hire are going to be a little tilted, I think I'd probably trust apple's numbers slightly more than Dell's. Having worked in a campus computer store, and having to sell the damned things, I've NEVER gotten a Dell to come out to anything near the advertised price. Apples can be pricey, but at least they are upfront about it; if it says x dollars in the apple store, then that's what you pay. Just my 299900 cents.
It seems that one of the biggest reasons OSX works is that they have such a tight-fisted control over the hardware it runs on. If they go around supporting x86 hardware, they're development costs are going to skyrocket. Hell, if I remember correctly, Darwin x86 won't so much as boot on my Via chipset based mobo . . .
"that equipment would become like a router; taking in information and broadcasting it out to a global network of computers listening for packets coming to them, broadcasting the ones that aren't."
You have described the operation of a bridge/switch, not a router, and a large network based entirely on switching technology (that isn't as organized/centralized as the Public Switched Telephone Network) would work about as well as Avian Carrier IP.
Hot damn, why don't we all get together, build our own roads, and stop paying the portion of our taxes that go to highway maintenence? We wouldn't have to worry about getting pulled over by the police on our highways or all those time-consuming road work crews always holding up traffic!
oh, wait . . .
In Communist Russia, Exodus results in Mass Departmental Execution!
I don't mean to nit-pick, but for future reference, TextEdit would actually be the incumbent word processor (the one already in use). In keeping with the political tone of this posting, a more appropriate description of any newcomer word proccessors would be "freshman," or perhaps, "challenging."
I think the question here is not, "does what you do make you an engineer?" Asking, "Is a programmer an engineer?" is something akin to asking, "Is someone who owns a Porsche a racecar driver?" Well, maybe. Then again, maybe they're just an old fart with more money than they know what to do with. No one asks if someone who works on cars is a mechanical engineer, and no one asks if someone who builds electronics is an electrical engineer. So why should we ask if someone who simply programs is an engineer? Engineering is much less what you do than it is how you do it. If someone approaches programming problems with professionalism, thoughtfulness, and regard for its social impact, then yes, this person is probably an engineer. If someone tackles obstacles by haphazardly throwing code out until something works, then probably not. It should be noted that hacks should not be tossed into this later category; on the contrary, it's engineers come up with some of the best hacks around. These are my thoughts on the subject, anyway. Feel free to agree or disagree as you see fit.
I imagine that the sun would have a decent shot at a prior art defense ;)
It's a lot cheaper to produce CD's and DVD's than it is to produce solid state storage (like a videogame cartridge). At the prices you can get pirated stuff for in China--depending on how you bargain, under 0.70USD for a DVD last time I was there--it just isn't economical for someone to produce illegal carts.
The fact of the matter is, that unless you're just stupid (not wearing a helmet, or biking in shorts/short sleeves/sandals or other loose-fitting shoes) motorcycle accidents--despite how spectacular they look--are less often fatal than car accidents. This is primarily because in a car, you go where the car goes, but on a bike, you just sort of fall off. That may sound like a bad thing, but when fate takes your respective vehicle on a joyride through the forest, taking a dive seems like a pretty damned good idea. Sure you might break a limb or two, but it beats researching the effectiveness of implanting a human brain in a tree.
"It still takes more than running Word to expose the contents of your hard drive though."
I guess it's not too surprising that Microsoft can't even successfully implement a security hole.
Diamond (aka, coal) has no real value whatsoever. It's rarity is entirely artificial. While gold is elemental and rare-unless of course you do some funky chemistry-diamond is just crystalized carbon atoms. Actually, sand is probably more useful since it is easier to work with (already granular) and it is also a strong crystal (silicon). There is plenty of diamond already and plenty of diamond to be made, all you need is carbon-which we aren't running out of anytime soon-and a few million years. Diamonds sell for so much because after westerners strip-mined Africa for its gold, they found a crapload of this carbon crystal that looked kinda neat but didn't really do anything. So, lacking any more gold to steal, they got women intersted in it and made it into a fortune. In all fairness, if someone tried the same stunt today they'd probably get their asses sued off by some government somewhere, but nobody does anything new because loosing the diamond industry would hurt any economy, no matter how you cut it (no pun intended), and nobody in office wants to do anything that would make it look like they were hurting the economy.