Network TV I could do without, but discovery and the like are fine educators that have been relatively left out of the "reality" craze and are more times than not very educational. I find that people that don't watch any TV become a little less grounded, much in the same way that people that watch too much TV do. I guess what I am trying to say is that not all TV is dross "reality" TV. Keep your TV, Kill your SUV!
I'm not saying we put it in the center of the earth, I'm saying we put it on the ground that is subducting to the center of the earth. let the earth take it under. It would be quite another feat to actually dig to the center. Much more importantly, the bottom of the ocean and the ocean itself have quite a bit of radioactive materials already, naturally. Properly contained, I think it may be safer. The same concerns exist of transporting it there, and then making sure no one tries to snag it before it goes under the subduction zone. But I can't think of a less accessable area. We should at least put it in an area that will be going under sooner than yucca.
Estimated percentage of the inhabitants of the contiguous United States who have been exposed to nuclear fallout : 100
Shipments of nuclear waste to be trucked cross-country once Nevada's Yucca Mountain dump opens in 2010 : 96,000
Annual number of "accidents or incidents" that Nevada estimates these trucks will be involved in through 2048 : 54
I am not afraid that the "Evil radiation monsters are going to get me!" I've studied, and I know what's dangerous and what is not. I am afraid of what our government has done in the past, especially when this much money is out. This is potentially a huge problem, and I have a feeling that after they show off a bit, and do the PR thing to alay our fears, they will hand this off to the highest bidder, standards will drop, profits will rise, and so will the potential for accidents. If they don't mess around and just eat the cost, this seems like an ideal place. No one wants to live in the middle of that desert, so it's really not n anyone's backyard. The staff of people to support, maintain, and protect it would have to be around I would imagine, but the place is a desert wasteland already... why not get the stuff out of the dozens of more populated areas where it is now, and use a wasteland for what it is for? Personally, I like the idea of sitting these next to a subduction zone on the bottom of the ocean. Send it to the chewy, nougat filled, radioactive core of the earth. Does anyone know if this is a viable solution?
Launch.com has 3 of the four. Harder, Better, faster, Stonger, One More Try, and Aerodynamic. All at up to 300kps. Get them before launch runs out of money completely and dies any second now. BTW, a fake email address is fine for registration.
-Tom
One day Heisenberg is driving along in his car, when he gets pulled over by an officer.
The officer says "Do you know how fast you were going?"
Heisenberg says "No... but I know where I am!"
If you are going to leave something like that, at least make it worth a damn. I always put abuse@verizon.com or postmaster@sprintpcs.com and sign them up for all those silly newsletters.
The site I use that is somewhat similar to this is experts-exchange.com. Lots of people posting problems and solutions on all sorts of stuff. First place I check for an obscure problem.
-Tom
...is going to come to an answer for on this for a while.
Ask an art expert, who doesn't know about computers, about digital art. He'll say it will never be fine art, and give you a thousand reasons why.
Ask slashdot, and you'll get random responses, mostly saying "Yeah... someday." and another thousand reasons why.
Off the top of my head, I can't think of any art that I liked that was "accepted" by artists, or anyone really. Trying to define art is a moving target. Just do your thing, and keep at it.
Personally, I think the pretentious artsy people are exactly what is wrong with art. It's made to be looked at, if it's on a wall with oil and canvas or out a monitor, it's roughly the same electrons, and gives me the same feeling. All the other factors are meaningless to me.
...while waiting in line at a Henry Rollins show in LA last week, a guy talking to some friends, who were also in line behind me. He told them that they got a new account, and it was a big secret in the office, and that he found out that the company was Napster.
I didn't get the name of the company, but overheard that they were going to be the POS when Napster goes to a pay service.
Well said. If you haven't already read the book "the Media Monopoly" by Ben Bagdician, go get it. it's in it's sixth edition, and covers just how we got to 6 major players in the media. Tom Frank's "One Market Under God" is another, slightly more humorous book about these topics. I would also recomend any of Jello Biafra's recent speeches on CD. Very informative.
The problem I have with it is not the lack of entertainment or options, simply the spin that corporate media puts on their topics. Like the WTO and IMF. Geneticly modified food. And considering that GE is also the worlds largest arms manufacturer, especially nuclear, wait and see the spin they are going to out on any accdents that happen.
So are software prices going to go down after the introduction of this perfect Anti-piracy scheme? I had the understanding that the reason why software prices were do high was the cost of the pirates that were stealing their software and in some sort of bass-ackwards math, costing the company money, past development. Obviously the prices of cd's would have to fall too. If either of those things ever happened, I would suck rancid tuna juice out of my own ass.
...for 90% of the consumers. Yeah, you might have to use this scheme if you run SoftImage, or Lightwave pro, or some other super expensive, highly specialized software. But there is no way this would ever fall on the average consumer's system. Companies won't do it, because they know that the tech support calls would hit the roof, and they get almost no benefit from it.
Here's my question: So you have solved piracy? Well the reason that I was told why software costs so much more is because of those damn pirates that were using the software without paying for it. So how much less is software going to cost now? Hell... if this made the way for reasonably priced software, I'd switch over and start working out those bugs in it.
As for making cd's with this protection, same arguement above, but will this cd work in my car's cd player? Of course. No one would buy a new cd player, just to hear a new cd. A new player with essentally less options (See MSDOS 6.21 "upgrade"(Del stacker*.*)). If I can play it, I can encode it. Poof! No more copy protection on that cd.
Bottom line: If it's at all interoperable, it susceptible to crackers. If it's not interoperable, it's doomed.
If it's not better, it's not an upgrade.
Standards just aren't.
This will not happen.
...this costs $1 million a day to operate?
72 million = 2 years?
With the way the DoD misappropriates funds, this isn't that bad really. Although, I think we can safely assume that they aren't funding a glogal wireless telecommunications empire because the public (Most of which don't know where on a map is, much less that there are the satilites in the lower atmosphere. Imagine that? The DoD not telling us the whole story.
Exchange 2000 is Per Seat licensed only. At $67 per client and $4,000 per server, software only. Or with the "competitive" upgrade you get a whopping $13 off! But for your place, that may be worth it for the $13,000 it would save you. With those numbers, it should take all of 20-30 minutes to convince management not to do it. And you can thank Microsoft for doing all the work for you.
Somehow I am reminded of Wally training ASOK in the dilbert comics. Good post. You get the point across, and still manage to have me thinking while trying to wipe the spittle off my monitor from laughing so hard.
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Network TV I could do without, but discovery and the like are fine educators that have been relatively left out of the "reality" craze and are more times than not very educational. I find that people that don't watch any TV become a little less grounded, much in the same way that people that watch too much TV do. I guess what I am trying to say is that not all TV is dross "reality" TV. Keep your TV, Kill your SUV!
From data storage to Snow Crash in just a couple comments. Think this will facilitate the Uncle Enzo's pizza Delivery service too?
Funniest. Comment. Ever.
I'm not saying we put it in the center of the earth, I'm saying we put it on the ground that is subducting to the center of the earth. let the earth take it under. It would be quite another feat to actually dig to the center. Much more importantly, the bottom of the ocean and the ocean itself have quite a bit of radioactive materials already, naturally. Properly contained, I think it may be safer. The same concerns exist of transporting it there, and then making sure no one tries to snag it before it goes under the subduction zone. But I can't think of a less accessable area. We should at least put it in an area that will be going under sooner than yucca.
Estimated percentage of the inhabitants of the contiguous United States who have been exposed to nuclear fallout : 100
Shipments of nuclear waste to be trucked cross-country once Nevada's Yucca Mountain dump opens in 2010 : 96,000
Annual number of "accidents or incidents" that Nevada estimates these trucks will be involved in through 2048 : 54
I am not afraid that the "Evil radiation monsters are going to get me!" I've studied, and I know what's dangerous and what is not. I am afraid of what our government has done in the past, especially when this much money is out. This is potentially a huge problem, and I have a feeling that after they show off a bit, and do the PR thing to alay our fears, they will hand this off to the highest bidder, standards will drop, profits will rise, and so will the potential for accidents. If they don't mess around and just eat the cost, this seems like an ideal place. No one wants to live in the middle of that desert, so it's really not n anyone's backyard. The staff of people to support, maintain, and protect it would have to be around I would imagine, but the place is a desert wasteland already... why not get the stuff out of the dozens of more populated areas where it is now, and use a wasteland for what it is for?
Personally, I like the idea of sitting these next to a subduction zone on the bottom of the ocean. Send it to the chewy, nougat filled, radioactive core of the earth. Does anyone know if this is a viable solution?
If only I had points. That is damn funny. I don't know why this isn't +5... doesn't make any sense.
-Tom
I could watch her reading a phone book.
Launch.com has 3 of the four. Harder, Better, faster, Stonger, One More Try, and Aerodynamic. All at up to 300kps. Get them before launch runs out of money completely and dies any second now. BTW, a fake email address is fine for registration.
-Tom
hrmmm... I just went to 1010220.com, and they seem to have a copyright on that number, and a trademark. Did worldcom do what intel couldn't?
-Tom
Wonder if they got the 10-10-220 and 1800-collect numbers?
I'm sure they were already copyrighted, but wouldn't that be cool.
So couldn't you circumvent this by dialing the country code also?
-Tom
I heard this one differently:
What do you get when you cross an air conditioner and a mountain climber?
You can't cross a vector and a scalar.
err... something like that.
One day Heisenberg is driving along in his car, when he gets pulled over by an officer.
The officer says "Do you know how fast you were going?"
Heisenberg says "No... but I know where I am!"
If you are going to leave something like that, at least make it worth a damn. I always put abuse@verizon.com or postmaster@sprintpcs.com and sign them up for all those silly newsletters.
The site I use that is somewhat similar to this is experts-exchange.com. Lots of people posting problems and solutions on all sorts of stuff. First place I check for an obscure problem.
-Tom
...is going to come to an answer for on this for a while.
Ask an art expert, who doesn't know about computers, about digital art. He'll say it will never be fine art, and give you a thousand reasons why.
Ask slashdot, and you'll get random responses, mostly saying "Yeah... someday." and another thousand reasons why.
Off the top of my head, I can't think of any art that I liked that was "accepted" by artists, or anyone really. Trying to define art is a moving target. Just do your thing, and keep at it.
Personally, I think the pretentious artsy people are exactly what is wrong with art. It's made to be looked at, if it's on a wall with oil and canvas or out a monitor, it's roughly the same electrons, and gives me the same feeling. All the other factors are meaningless to me.
-Tom
I was just going to post that... Damnit. The core of the earth is radioactive already, so why not?
Before it gets to it's half life, it will probably make it there on it's own. We can just leave it in California somewhere.
Then again, we could do what we always do with highly dangerous, weapons grade payloads... Sell it to Iran!
-Tom
...while waiting in line at a Henry Rollins show in LA last week, a guy talking to some friends, who were also in line behind me. He told them that they got a new account, and it was a big secret in the office, and that he found out that the company was Napster.
I didn't get the name of the company, but overheard that they were going to be the POS when Napster goes to a pay service.
Oh well... It was fun while it lasted.
Well said. If you haven't already read the book "the Media Monopoly" by Ben Bagdician, go get it. it's in it's sixth edition, and covers just how we got to 6 major players in the media. Tom Frank's "One Market Under God" is another, slightly more humorous book about these topics. I would also recomend any of Jello Biafra's recent speeches on CD. Very informative.
The problem I have with it is not the lack of entertainment or options, simply the spin that corporate media puts on their topics. Like the WTO and IMF. Geneticly modified food. And considering that GE is also the worlds largest arms manufacturer, especially nuclear, wait and see the spin they are going to out on any accdents that happen.
So are software prices going to go down after the introduction of this perfect Anti-piracy scheme? I had the understanding that the reason why software prices were do high was the cost of the pirates that were stealing their software and in some sort of bass-ackwards math, costing the company money, past development. Obviously the prices of cd's would have to fall too. If either of those things ever happened, I would suck rancid tuna juice out of my own ass.
...for 90% of the consumers. Yeah, you might have to use this scheme if you run SoftImage, or Lightwave pro, or some other super expensive, highly specialized software. But there is no way this would ever fall on the average consumer's system. Companies won't do it, because they know that the tech support calls would hit the roof, and they get almost no benefit from it.
Here's my question: So you have solved piracy? Well the reason that I was told why software costs so much more is because of those damn pirates that were using the software without paying for it. So how much less is software going to cost now? Hell... if this made the way for reasonably priced software, I'd switch over and start working out those bugs in it.
As for making cd's with this protection, same arguement above, but will this cd work in my car's cd player? Of course. No one would buy a new cd player, just to hear a new cd. A new player with essentally less options (See MSDOS 6.21 "upgrade"(Del stacker*.*)). If I can play it, I can encode it. Poof! No more copy protection on that cd.
Bottom line: If it's at all interoperable, it susceptible to crackers. If it's not interoperable, it's doomed.
If it's not better, it's not an upgrade.
Standards just aren't.
This will not happen.
...this costs $1 million a day to operate?
72 million = 2 years?
With the way the DoD misappropriates funds, this isn't that bad really. Although, I think we can safely assume that they aren't funding a glogal wireless telecommunications empire because the public (Most of which don't know where on a map is, much less that there are the satilites in the lower atmosphere. Imagine that? The DoD not telling us the whole story.
...It must be hell trying to get into his office.
Throws that who;e "Open Door" management thing right out.
Exchange 2000 is Per Seat licensed only. At $67 per client and $4,000 per server, software only. Or with the "competitive" upgrade you get a whopping $13 off! But for your place, that may be worth it for the $13,000 it would save you. With those numbers, it should take all of 20-30 minutes to convince management not to do it. And you can thank Microsoft for doing all the work for you.
Boo... Pi humor. That's just bad. Moderate as (-1 Punny)
Somehow I am reminded of Wally training ASOK in the dilbert comics. Good post. You get the point across, and still manage to have me thinking while trying to wipe the spittle off my monitor from laughing so hard.
-fonetik