The beta feedback discussion for the last couple days has been literate andwellthought out, but there has been no public response of any kind. Not even a half-hearted "we hear you and we'll see what we can do about making classic available in perpetuity, but no promises."
What you're saying only applies if the people communicating are not all sharing the same server.
As long as there is proper encryption between the clients and server, if you have members of a research group who all belong to the same organization (say, Uinv. of Hawaii) who need to exchange emails with (and only with) each other which contain confidential material, why on earth shouldn't they use a properly configured and managed server controlled by their organization?
So what happens when a pedestrian walks up to a filling station with a gas can in hand and has no car to fill either because it ran out of gas down the road, or he's just walked from his house down the street to get some gas for his lawnmower?
For the foreseeable future, any autonomous vehicle is going to be so covered in extra highly visible sensors that the fact that it might have a different color license plate will only be a trivial increment in the degree that it will stand out from any non-autonomous vehicles.
Seems like a maximum of 400k is a rather limited amount of life insurance if you're planning to simultaneously cover your lost income for your spouse and also plan to put your kid(s) through schools that could cost upwards of $100k/year 18 years from now (with the current rates of college tuition inflation).
Are there other options that service members have in addition to SGLI?
Spend the few minutes it'll take to learn to use screen. It's absolutely the way to go:
- You won't need to open any extra ports - All you'll need is an ssh client to get in - It should already be there and won't require extra software/complexity.
Additionally, the widespread deportation of undocumented laborers and its associated increase in labor costs will likely spur development of automation technology in the agricultural, manufacturing, and service industries.
While I understand your point about living simply being able to provide a potentially greater free time than pushing deeper into "consumer culture", I disgree with your characterization of high-qality schools as luxuries.
The capacity to learn and educate ourselves is a vital part of what makes us human. I believe that providing the best possible educational opportunities that I can to my children is just as non-optional as food or shelter. And moreover, just as I want to feed them whatever food will be healthiest, I want to provide them education in the same manner. Now certainly they may not want or need to go to a $100,000/year school to pursue their educations. But if that happens to be the best fit for them then I'm going to make sure I'm ready to support their endevours.
Or would you argue that all anyone really needs to learn is how to grow their own food and build their own home? And even if that is the case, where does buying the land for said home and garden fit in to all that?
I'm not making any claims about the effectiveness of college on business. (Heck I'm not making any cliams about business at all.) All I want is to give my children the opportunity to get the best possible educations they can, wherever happens to make the most sense for them. I don't care if that's a $5000/year state school, a $100,000/year Harvard/MIT/CMU, or volunteering somewhere with the Peace Corps. I don't know what it will be, but I damn sure want to be prepared for any of them.
Part of what I loved about the Fallout games was how the final cut scenes and narration were _entirely_ dependant on how you'd played the game. Blowing away the (long deserving it) Overseer was a welcome surprise, and getting the "good ending" for the Necropolis in Fallout 1 took some real effort. Even though the endings were stills faded in and out with voiceover, they really provided the kind of closure to the game that a final cutscene ought to.
I don't know. $200k seems a little low to me. If I want to be able to give my children the opportunity to attend top-flight schools that could end up costing as much as $100k/year (if the current rate of increases continues), then I think I'd still have to be spending a lot more time earning money to do that if I only have $200k instead of $2 billion. Still, the concept of a cutoff makes sense. I just think it's an awful lot higher than you might expect. Heck, in an extreme case, if I bought and maintained a private jet to take me from place to place that certainly could save me some time over flying commercial...
I'm _still_ using my first-gen 8100/80 (with an added G3 upgrade card) for scanning and photoshop work. (and the OrangePC 486 card inside to play XCom)
It's the second most solid peice of computer hardware I've ever owned. 12 years old, and I've never had to replace anything. The only thing that beats it is the Apple IIe.;)
I'm actually serious in the question. What problems did you see with them?
HP has a couple of decent models - the 2280 and the 3000. We ended up going with the 2280 here, but both are very good models.
I'll second the HP 22xx's as an excellent choice. I've got a 2250TN here at home; it's been a joy to configure and maintain and the print quality is gorgeous. I hardly ever use my HP 4M Plus anymore, even for text. (The only thing it always gets is the CAD output. Inkjet still can't quite compete with that laser crispness for the finest lines.)
And as LoadStar mentions, the JetDirect card is an absolute must. Ahhh, PostScript & ethernet networking, how do I love thee?
These are robots which need to be able to autonomously traverse 50-100 miles of unknown terrain, perform operations at their destinations, and return. Testing them on the 3 acre front lawn doesn't quite give enough opportunity to prove out systems like that.
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Where is this claim being made?
Wish I had some mod points... +1 Deeply Appropriately Funny and spoken on a site that is soon to die in battle.
The beta feedback discussion for the last couple days has been literate and well thought out, but there has been no public response of any kind. Not even a half-hearted "we hear you and we'll see what we can do about making classic available in perpetuity, but no promises."
And with the revelation of Dice's view of the slashdot finances projections, and the heavy handed mass downmodding it's hard to see what reason the users have to retain any faith in the editors or their superiors.
Well, when/if beta becomes non-optional, this _will_ go away - because so will the users.
And then so will the site.
What you're saying only applies if the people communicating are not all sharing the same server.
As long as there is proper encryption between the clients and server, if you have members of a research group who all belong to the same organization (say, Uinv. of Hawaii) who need to exchange emails with (and only with) each other which contain confidential material, why on earth shouldn't they use a properly configured and managed server controlled by their organization?
So what happens when a pedestrian walks up to a filling station with a gas can in hand and has no car to fill either because it ran out of gas down the road, or he's just walked from his house down the street to get some gas for his lawnmower?
For the foreseeable future, any autonomous vehicle is going to be so covered in extra highly visible sensors that the fact that it might have a different color license plate will only be a trivial increment in the degree that it will stand out from any non-autonomous vehicles.
s/chess/cheese/?
While your link is fascinating, how is spending over a decade of your life in court fighting a libel suit and related proceedings not expensive?
Sure, it's not money, but do you consider your time valueless?
Seems like a maximum of 400k is a rather limited amount of life insurance if you're planning to simultaneously cover your lost income for your spouse and also plan to put your kid(s) through schools that could cost upwards of $100k/year 18 years from now (with the current rates of college tuition inflation). Are there other options that service members have in addition to SGLI?
Have you thought about sharing that code for other UPB users to employ?
Spend the few minutes it'll take to learn to use screen. It's absolutely the way to go:
- You won't need to open any extra ports
- All you'll need is an ssh client to get in
- It should already be there and won't require extra software/complexity.
Additionally, the widespread deportation of undocumented laborers and its associated increase in labor costs will likely spur development of automation technology in the agricultural, manufacturing, and service industries.
This has already started.
was wearing a bulletproof vest - something not available to the general public at all.
Bulletproof vests are in fact (as they should be) readily available to the general public.
One very reliable source.
While I understand your point about living simply being able to provide a potentially greater free time than pushing deeper into "consumer culture", I disgree with your characterization of high-qality schools as luxuries.
The capacity to learn and educate ourselves is a vital part of what makes us human. I believe that providing the best possible educational opportunities that I can to my children is just as non-optional as food or shelter. And moreover, just as I want to feed them whatever food will be healthiest, I want to provide them education in the same manner. Now certainly they may not want or need to go to a $100,000/year school to pursue their educations. But if that happens to be the best fit for them then I'm going to make sure I'm ready to support their endevours.
Or would you argue that all anyone really needs to learn is how to grow their own food and build their own home? And even if that is the case, where does buying the land for said home and garden fit in to all that?
I'm not making any claims about the effectiveness of college on business. (Heck I'm not making any cliams about business at all.) All I want is to give my children the opportunity to get the best possible educations they can, wherever happens to make the most sense for them. I don't care if that's a $5000/year state school, a $100,000/year Harvard/MIT/CMU, or volunteering somewhere with the Peace Corps. I don't know what it will be, but I damn sure want to be prepared for any of them.
Part of what I loved about the Fallout games was how the final cut scenes and narration were _entirely_ dependant on how you'd played the game. Blowing away the (long deserving it) Overseer was a welcome surprise, and getting the "good ending" for the Necropolis in Fallout 1 took some real effort. Even though the endings were stills faded in and out with voiceover, they really provided the kind of closure to the game that a final cutscene ought to.
I don't know. $200k seems a little low to me. If I want to be able to give my children the opportunity to attend top-flight schools that could end up costing as much as $100k/year (if the current rate of increases continues), then I think I'd still have to be spending a lot more time earning money to do that if I only have $200k instead of $2 billion. Still, the concept of a cutoff makes sense. I just think it's an awful lot higher than you might expect. Heck, in an extreme case, if I bought and maintained a private jet to take me from place to place that certainly could save me some time over flying commercial...
What was wrong with the first PowerPC systems?
;)
I'm _still_ using my first-gen 8100/80 (with an added G3 upgrade card) for scanning and photoshop work. (and the OrangePC 486 card inside to play XCom)
It's the second most solid peice of computer hardware I've ever owned. 12 years old, and I've never had to replace anything. The only thing that beats it is the Apple IIe.
I'm actually serious in the question. What problems did you see with them?
No they don't. That's why god made Mac OS. :P
So where's my persuadatron, then?
HP has a couple of decent models - the 2280 and the 3000. We ended up going with the 2280 here, but both are very good models.
I'll second the HP 22xx's as an excellent choice. I've got a 2250TN here at home; it's been a joy to configure and maintain and the print quality is gorgeous. I hardly ever use my HP 4M Plus anymore, even for text. (The only thing it always gets is the CAD output. Inkjet still can't quite compete with that laser crispness for the finest lines.)
And as LoadStar mentions, the JetDirect card is an absolute must. Ahhh, PostScript & ethernet networking, how do I love thee?
These types of robots.
These are robots which need to be able to autonomously traverse 50-100 miles of unknown terrain, perform operations at their destinations, and return. Testing them on the 3 acre front lawn doesn't quite give enough opportunity to prove out systems like that.
Heh. They made me check my handcuffs the last time I forgot to take them out of my carry-on...
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