" If a 175 pound man fell into one end, he would come out the other end of 38 pounds of oil, 7 pounds of gas, and 7 pounds of minerals, as well as 123 pounds of sterlized water. "
I'm embarassed for the/. crew. This is like when a drunk stands up and starts going on and on about something. Of course, he's too drunk to know he's being an ass.
A friend reported this story to me in detail 2 or 3 days ago in great detail.
There are two plants either in operation now, or just starting up. One is right next to a Butterball Turkey factory.
The process breaks organic materials down thru some process of super-hydration, 500 degree heat, some moderate amount of pressure, and then results in various oils and water (clean enough to go into normal treatment plants).
Also, oil companies reportedly support this because the novel approach is actually easier and cleaner for processing crude oils than existing refineries. So they stand to gain from this as well.
There's a lot of good info on this, so don't discount it just because/. posted it today.
Ignoring any issues of stupidity regarding this proposal, there is one practical point that cannot be ignored.
The IP address space isn't big enough for all the nodes on the internet. NAT alleviates this problem by "sharing" IP addresses. Remove NAT, and you're going to have to disconnect most computers from the internet.
This isn't an issue of programming speed. But by your explanation, you tend to stick with things you know.
If that's the case, and if you've been doing C/C++ for 15 years, then are you keeping pace with the "improvements" in C++ as time goes by? Are you using STL extensively? Are you following some of Meyer's rules? If you are inclined to just stick with what you know, instead of learning something new and potentially more useful, safer, etc., then you're part of the problem.
If, however, you have been keeping pace with changes to C++, then you could just have easily have been learning many higher level languages (and I daresay, in less time).
But all this is a little off topic. The issue the author points out is that more modern languages offer safer, more secure building blocks.
Here's a sloppy analogy. Manufacturing has been moving for years to more automated (robotic in some cases) methods. This certainly requires retraining of workers, as well as significant capital investment. But the benefits are well worth it. You have a safer work environment, you tend to get more uniform output. In many cases you get more result from fewer people, and in less time overall.
Besides, C++ really does stink:). And with Moore's law racing on as ever, how many of us are really hurting for day-to-day performance on our boxes?
The protection against BSA audits is a HUGE benefit. Schools are regularly targeted (often for good reason) for audits.
The cost in person-hours for school staff is very high, as is the tension created by the whole event. I daresay it's more stress than an IRS audit.
Of course, since most schools (and companies for that matter) haven't begun with a good license management system, they have no idea where their licenses are for most of their installed software.
In the future of course, we're all learning to be vigilant with our license tracking, but big companies and institutions have a much harder climb to get there. Meanwhile they get slammed periodically at a big cost.
Of course, if all of your software is open source, and you pay even modest attention to the licenses of the apps, you can rest very easy.
Those are just some of the articles I've saved. If you wade thru a/. search, you may find more. I found those particularly interesting because some of them give details of companies or goverment agencies who have moved to Linux (away from MS), and their difficulties and successes doing so.
I think you just described Television. I think you also described a lot of other industries.
Since the US began to focus increasingly on Quarterly Earnings Per Share (for publicly traded companies), companies have lost interest in creation of new, exciting content/products.
Creating new content is risky. Varying something that worked in the past can be profitable, in the short term. Of course this is at the expense of long term value, since in 5 years, there will be nothing to re-work.
Television has been doing this for the last few years. Reality TV has innundated nearly every channel. Even the once groundbreaking, cool channels like Discovery finally succumbed, and started producing the same kind of "danger, death, destruction". My favorite is Animal Channel, with their version of COPS - ASPCA on Patrol!
Point is, the whole US (and elsewhere) needs to refocus on actually making things for a reason, not just making things for pure money. Of course that means more risk, but it also means more reward.
I hate to use this line, but "nobody is forcing him to play".
I've "quit" EQ two times, gave all my stuff away, and deleted all my chars. Then I came back after the following expansion. I've had fun more than not, and that's why I keep coming back.
I also have made plenty of friendly associates in game (and I started playing when EQ first opened). I've made few enemies. It's not difficult to NOT make enemies. If there's a problem, ignore them, or even move on.
I'm not even going to try to address all his points, but one really grabs my attention. He complains of trains, player arguments over mobs, loot, etc. There are a ton of zones to play in, and at any given time most of them are nearly empty. Sure, the high level game leaves players with fewer options and fewer places to hunt/raid, but if that's a problem, quit the game or make a new char.
I won't refute his argument that Sony is only after money. But I will say that in my opinion, there is fair value for the $13/month price (and it's cheaper if you buy blocks of months).
Sounds like it's time for that tired necro to pack it up and get on with life.
There was a recent article (no I don't have link, and I don't feel like finding it... karma be damed) where the author reportedly asked the Segway creator a question, and was told (paraphrased)
I don't like Win2k Server, but people (MCSEs and me) are just now starting to get a good hang of the quirks and "features" of Win2k Server.
Many companies, mine included, have no interest to go release hopping. Once something works, lord help us, leave it alone.
And for those who got suckered into buying a Win2k Server license with 2 years of free upgrades... chuckle, what were you thinking? We won't be upgrading (to a new MS OS) until we have to. My unrealistic hope is that in a couple of years I'll be able to replace Win2k, one server at a time, with Linux or BSD. In any case, who wants to be the first to put a new MS server OS into production?
Based on the problems people were having in this study, it sounds a lot more like general work stress.
Things may have changed somewhat in Japan, but when I worked at NEC America, our Japanese co-workers who would spend 3 to 12 months with us at a time used to tell us about the differences in work conditions between the American NEC offices and the Japanese NEC offices.
On amiable fellow described narrow rows of tables in a big room, with workers packed closely side to side, and with little room behind workers (before the row behind them), and supervisors seated at the center of each row.
That doesn't sound too comfortable to me. And if I had to ride a train for 75 minutes each way to work, and work long hours (except Wednesday, where people are "forced" to work a normal work day:) ), I might not be so excited about going to work either.
In contrast, I spend about 12 hours a day on a computer, and have had months where I spent many more hours than that, and the only thing I have to complain about is a growing belly and Microsoft.
I highly recommend that everyone _frequently_ check back to the site PetSwarehouse for great Deals on Stuff (DoS) for pets. And be sure you don't get a cached copy, or else you just might miss out on great Deals on Stuff (DoS).
In fact, companies like this really need all the business they can get, so it helps them very much if more and more people visit their site more often. Imagine all the business they will do!
"11. PW is a New York based national seller of pet products and live aquaria under the trademark PETS WAREHOUSE(r). PW has spent years... PW enjoys a strong reputation in the trade and its PETS WAREHOUSE(r) products enjoy tremendous consumer recognition and goodwill."
What a lame-ass misrepresentation. The company itself apparently hasn't garnered as much positive consumer recognition and goodwill. After re-reading this, I saw the catch: "... products enjoy...".
The products, which as I understand are not manufactured by PW, but rather are sold/distributed by PW, are the objects enjoying this regognition.
What's at least somewhat comforting about this whole thing is that on his deathbed, you just know that Robert Novak isn't going to be thinking, "ahh, I got some money from some frivolous lawsuits."
These new density increases are great, but so many other aspects of hard drives aren't coming close to keeping pace.
Backup systems aren't keeping pace with hard drive storage. Neither is hard drive performance. Doing a format on a 120GB is an enormous pain... imagine formatting a terabyte drive. Worse yet, imagine such a drive at half capacity, being defragmented.
Very soon we'll have drives with more space literally than we can use, due to other constraints. I'd rather see work on these related issues.
Slashdot Mirror
This is no joke. The preview button really exists!
This quote may not be exact, it's second hand:
"
If a 175 pound man fell into one end, he would come out the other end of 38 pounds of oil, 7 pounds of gas, and 7 pounds of minerals, as well as 123 pounds of sterlized water.
"
Yum!
Springfield News isn't the source of this information.
Read other people's posts. I believe someone talks specifically about reading this article in Discover Magazine.
It's funny how you spoke with such authority when you're just making assumptions.
Who's there?
/. crew. This is like when a drunk stands up and starts going on and on about something. Of course, he's too drunk to know he's being an ass.
I'm embarassed for the
A friend reported this story to me in detail 2 or 3 days ago in great detail.
/. posted it today.
There are two plants either in operation now, or just starting up. One is right next to a Butterball Turkey factory.
The process breaks organic materials down thru some process of super-hydration, 500 degree heat, some moderate amount of pressure, and then results in various oils and water (clean enough to go into normal treatment plants).
Also, oil companies reportedly support this because the novel approach is actually easier and cleaner for processing crude oils than existing refineries. So they stand to gain from this as well.
There's a lot of good info on this, so don't discount it just because
I hope it's a huge success.
Slashdot itself should be stamped REDUNDANT every April 1st.
:)
The attempts at April Fools jokes each year are so lame, and so prolific, you have to wonder what these guys are thinking.
Now a real April Fools joke would be to have an April 1 with no stupid stories
duh
Ignoring any issues of stupidity regarding this proposal, there is one practical point that cannot be ignored.
The IP address space isn't big enough for all the nodes on the internet. NAT alleviates this problem by "sharing" IP addresses. Remove NAT, and you're going to have to disconnect most computers from the internet.
...of what he's talking about, I think.
:). And with Moore's law racing on as ever, how many of us are really hurting for day-to-day performance on our boxes?
This isn't an issue of programming speed. But by your explanation, you tend to stick with things you know.
If that's the case, and if you've been doing C/C++ for 15 years, then are you keeping pace with the "improvements" in C++ as time goes by? Are you using STL extensively? Are you following some of Meyer's rules? If you are inclined to just stick with what you know, instead of learning something new and potentially more useful, safer, etc., then you're part of the problem.
If, however, you have been keeping pace with changes to C++, then you could just have easily have been learning many higher level languages (and I daresay, in less time).
But all this is a little off topic. The issue the author points out is that more modern languages offer safer, more secure building blocks.
Here's a sloppy analogy. Manufacturing has been moving for years to more automated (robotic in some cases) methods. This certainly requires retraining of workers, as well as significant capital investment. But the benefits are well worth it. You have a safer work environment, you tend to get more uniform output. In many cases you get more result from fewer people, and in less time overall.
Besides, C++ really does stink
The protection against BSA audits is a HUGE benefit. Schools are regularly targeted (often for good reason) for audits.
The cost in person-hours for school staff is very high, as is the tension created by the whole event. I daresay it's more stress than an IRS audit.
Of course, since most schools (and companies for that matter) haven't begun with a good license management system, they have no idea where their licenses are for most of their installed software.
In the future of course, we're all learning to be vigilant with our license tracking, but big companies and institutions have a much harder climb to get there. Meanwhile they get slammed periodically at a big cost.
Of course, if all of your software is open source, and you pay even modest attention to the licenses of the apps, you can rest very easy.
The Case For OpenOffice
Secretaries use Linux, taxpayers save millions (part 1 of 2)
Largo loves Linux more than ever (part 2 of 2)
How To Run a Microsoft-Free Shop
Reasons to Avoid Microsoft (summary and links)
Microsoft loses showdown in Houston
Making a Living Saving the Government Money
Those are just some of the articles I've saved. If you wade thru a /. search, you may find more. I found those particularly interesting because some of them give details of companies or goverment agencies who have moved to Linux (away from MS), and their difficulties and successes doing so.
/. is a news digest of sorts. it's good for this article to appear because those of us looking for ammunition now have another bit.
/. I would never have seen it.
had this not appeared on
They have a statement on their website about closing the project now...
I think you just described Television. I think you also described a lot of other industries.
Since the US began to focus increasingly on Quarterly Earnings Per Share (for publicly traded companies), companies have lost interest in creation of new, exciting content/products.
Creating new content is risky. Varying something that worked in the past can be profitable, in the short term. Of course this is at the expense of long term value, since in 5 years, there will be nothing to re-work.
Television has been doing this for the last few years. Reality TV has innundated nearly every channel. Even the once groundbreaking, cool channels like Discovery finally succumbed, and started producing the same kind of "danger, death, destruction". My favorite is Animal Channel, with their version of COPS - ASPCA on Patrol!
Point is, the whole US (and elsewhere) needs to refocus on actually making things for a reason, not just making things for pure money. Of course that means more risk, but it also means more reward.
I could rant about this forever...
Simple.
He's a celebrity because he's the underdog, one of the greatest modern underdogs.
He was blatantly denied his constitutional rights, and some of the world was aware of it (and it brought people to his cause).
There is no excuse for how he was treated by the US Govt.
At this point, I'd say he's a celebrity because he survived the ordeal, apparently in tact.
damn /.
ate my less-than rant greater-than in subject.
This is just a rant from a disillusioned player.
I hate to use this line, but "nobody is forcing him to play".
I've "quit" EQ two times, gave all my stuff away, and deleted all my chars. Then I came back after the following expansion. I've had fun more than not, and that's why I keep coming back.
I also have made plenty of friendly associates in game (and I started playing when EQ first opened). I've made few enemies. It's not difficult to NOT make enemies. If there's a problem, ignore them, or even move on.
I'm not even going to try to address all his points, but one really grabs my attention. He complains of trains, player arguments over mobs, loot, etc. There are a ton of zones to play in, and at any given time most of them are nearly empty. Sure, the high level game leaves players with fewer options and fewer places to hunt/raid, but if that's a problem, quit the game or make a new char.
I won't refute his argument that Sony is only after money. But I will say that in my opinion, there is fair value for the $13/month price (and it's cheaper if you buy blocks of months).
Sounds like it's time for that tired necro to pack it up and get on with life.
What modders are working this shift? The parent post makes a valid point, and it isn't obnoxious about it.
There was a recent article (no I don't have link, and I don't feel like finding it... karma be damed) where the author reportedly asked the Segway creator a question, and was told (paraphrased)
Segway is not "IT".
Many companies, mine included, have no interest to go release hopping. Once something works, lord help us, leave it alone.
And for those who got suckered into buying a Win2k Server license with 2 years of free upgrades... chuckle, what were you thinking? We won't be upgrading (to a new MS OS) until we have to. My unrealistic hope is that in a couple of years I'll be able to replace Win2k, one server at a time, with Linux or BSD. In any case, who wants to be the first to put a new MS server OS into production?
Things may have changed somewhat in Japan, but when I worked at NEC America, our Japanese co-workers who would spend 3 to 12 months with us at a time used to tell us about the differences in work conditions between the American NEC offices and the Japanese NEC offices.
On amiable fellow described narrow rows of tables in a big room, with workers packed closely side to side, and with little room behind workers (before the row behind them), and supervisors seated at the center of each row.
That doesn't sound too comfortable to me. And if I had to ride a train for 75 minutes each way to work, and work long hours (except Wednesday, where people are "forced" to work a normal work day :) ), I might not be so excited about going to work either.
In contrast, I spend about 12 hours a day on a computer, and have had months where I spent many more hours than that, and the only thing I have to complain about is a growing belly and Microsoft.
In fact, companies like this really need all the business they can get, so it helps them very much if more and more people visit their site more often. Imagine all the business they will do!
"11. PW is a New York based national seller of pet products and live aquaria under the trademark PETS WAREHOUSE(r). PW has spent years ... PW enjoys a strong reputation in the trade and its PETS WAREHOUSE(r) products enjoy tremendous consumer recognition and goodwill."
What a lame-ass misrepresentation. The company itself apparently hasn't garnered as much positive consumer recognition and goodwill. After re-reading this, I saw the catch: "... products enjoy ...".
The products, which as I understand are not manufactured by PW, but rather are sold/distributed by PW, are the objects enjoying this regognition.
What's at least somewhat comforting about this whole thing is that on his deathbed, you just know that Robert Novak isn't going to be thinking, "ahh, I got some money from some frivolous lawsuits."
Rest in peace...
Backup systems aren't keeping pace with hard drive storage. Neither is hard drive performance. Doing a format on a 120GB is an enormous pain... imagine formatting a terabyte drive. Worse yet, imagine such a drive at half capacity, being defragmented.
Very soon we'll have drives with more space literally than we can use, due to other constraints. I'd rather see work on these related issues.
well if she loves you, that means allowing you to maintain your ethics, which in this case may mean no diamonds.
*gasp* some people actually buy plain gold bands for their symbols of unity.
of course I prefer titanium or titanium, but gold or silver or platinum is good too.
do what you believe in. if your wife to be can't handle that, you're in for bad times down the road.