If you can make fuel out of CO2 from a power plant, why use that power plant in the first place? Why not make fuel out of thin air? There's plenty of CO2 in the atmosphere.
I think you'll have a hard time starting an open source project if you're not a programmer. As far as I know, most os projects get started by someone who provides the first code and a working alpha system, then if all goes well other people join. Or not. Also, the project needs a person who's willing to put in almost all of their time in order to keep it going. You'll have to find a programmer who is as thrilled about your project as you are:-)
I did the same you did a looong time ago. Got myself an old computer, put Linux on it, Apache, Sendmail (now you would use Postfix), bought a book about Linux. I ran my own website and my own mail server, and kept doing that for 15 years. It doesn't make you the ultimate expert, but at least you get to know what it's all about. I must say that back then, it was much easier to get started because security wasn't such an issue. Right now, you'll spend a considerable amount of time keeping your server secure....
What if some antimatter turns out to fall up, and some to fall down? Would that require ordinary matter to come in upfalling and downfalling types too? If upfalling matter is just never created any more, all upfalling matter that exists has been pushed away from us a long time ago.
Surely, there's a database somewhere with distances and galaxy types which could be easily looked at to see if that's true. I think the uncertainty in distances of galaxies is greater than the difference in distance for facing and edge-on galaxies.
I don't think that dust obscures galaxies facing us more than galaxies we see edge-on. Dust reduces the light we see by a percentage. Galaxies we see edge-on seem brighter in the middle, but the percentage remains the same.
I gave up on Quicksilver after a few pages. Shouldn't have bought the three volumes in one purchase:-( If this book is more like his other work, I'll definitely read it. Of all Stephenson's novels, I like Snow Crash most. Ever since it came out I've used it as my guide to what the future will bring us. So far, I'm very satisfied with my current pizza delivery boy.
I couldn't agree more. Wilders is nuts, and what he stands for sucks. But he does have the right to say what he is saying. If muslims feel offended, that's their problem. If they use violence against Wilders' words, then I don't think they are part of a civilized society.
btw, Wilders is not a filmmaker. He's an MP. He's permanently accompanied by bodyguards which are paid for by the government. What country are we in, if speaking out makes you need bodyguards?
I think this is a cool feature. It won't stop all thieves, but it makes stealing gadgets less worthwhile. Thieves don't want to spend an hour cleaning up the gadget, they want to push it though their channel of stolen goods resellers asap. Also, if the feature only works for one thief out of ten, it's still cool.
Bringing guns onto the VT campus was/is illegal That is not my point. It doesn't help to make guns illegal on campus if it's easy to bring one to the campus. This deranged student isn't going to care if it's illegal or not. Fact is, he can get hold of a gun fairly easily.
In Holland, guns are illegal for everybody except law enforcement and the military. Guards don't carry guns. Permits for huntin rifles are extremely hard to get. Sports guns can be only small caliber, and are extremely hard to get a permit for. Of course, there's shootings. Criminals shoot each other, happened a couple of times in the last few years. If you really want to have a gun and you are ready to pay big money, you can. But it's not easy. I don't have the statistics at hand, but some time ago I found statistics that the number of murders in the use per capita is 20 times higher than in Holland.
But maybe the person from Denmark is right. Maybe there's no cause-effect relation between law and murders. Maybe there's other reasons why the number of murders is so much higher in some countries than in others.
Hacking tools are more like guns: make them illegal and only the criminals will have them.
That is sooooo untrue. In countries where guns are illegal, criminals don't use guns very often. In countries where guns are legal, deranged college students use them to kill their fellow students. If you pick a metaphore, pick one that works.
What makes you think child porn is blown out of proportion? Child porn is not pictures of naked teenage girls. Gild porn is about infants being traumatized for the rest of their lives. Child porn is 50 year old men who rape 4 year old kids in front of a video camera, viewers get off on the crying of the kid. If you think that's not a problem, then you have a problem.
Whatever you think of the Bush administration and the way they use child porn for their own agenda, child porn _is_ a problem. You see one of those video's in which a couple of guys tie up an infant and fuck it from both sides. They get off on the crying of the child. Happens every day. I'll support whatever it takes to get that kind of people behind bars.
The/. article says "pornographic photos". But the case is not about pornography, it is about child abuse. Child abuse has nothing to do with pornography.
I'm convinced that baby bootstrap is the best way, or even the only way, to create really intelligent computers. The problem is that so far, nobody found the right computing algorithm. What's needed is a good idea rather than a lot of money.
I think that's a good advice. I'd rather hire someone who's been working in construction, or contributed to BSD, or created some good stuff they put up on their website to show off, than someone who can't account for the missing months.
As for the layoffs, it would depend on whether everybody in the company was laid off, or just you, or some of the people but not everyone.
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Sucks on the wrong things. He should go to jail, definitly. But even that won't solve your problem.
If you can make fuel out of CO2 from a power plant, why use that power plant in the first place? Why not make fuel out of thin air? There's plenty of CO2 in the atmosphere.
I think you'll have a hard time starting an open source project if you're not a programmer. As far as I know, most os projects get started by someone who provides the first code and a working alpha system, then if all goes well other people join. Or not. Also, the project needs a person who's willing to put in almost all of their time in order to keep it going. :-)
You'll have to find a programmer who is as thrilled about your project as you are
I did the same you did a looong time ago. Got myself an old computer, put Linux on it, Apache, Sendmail (now you would use Postfix), bought a book about Linux. I ran my own website and my own mail server, and kept doing that for 15 years. It doesn't make you the ultimate expert, but at least you get to know what it's all about. I must say that back then, it was much easier to get started because security wasn't such an issue. Right now, you'll spend a considerable amount of time keeping your server secure....
NBCOlympics.com doesn't support linux for their videos. That's why the internet didn't melt: linux users can't watch.
What if some antimatter turns out to fall up, and some to fall down? Would that require ordinary matter to come in upfalling and downfalling types too? If upfalling matter is just never created any more, all upfalling matter that exists has been pushed away from us a long time ago.
I don't think that dust obscures galaxies facing us more than galaxies we see edge-on. Dust reduces the light we see by a percentage. Galaxies we see edge-on seem brighter in the middle, but the percentage remains the same.
I gave up on Quicksilver after a few pages. Shouldn't have bought the three volumes in one purchase :-(
If this book is more like his other work, I'll definitely read it. Of all Stephenson's novels, I like Snow Crash most. Ever since it came out I've used it as my guide to what the future will bring us. So far, I'm very satisfied with my current pizza delivery boy.
I couldn't agree more. Wilders is nuts, and what he stands for sucks. But he does have the right to say what he is saying. If muslims feel offended, that's their problem. If they use violence against Wilders' words, then I don't think they are part of a civilized society.
btw, Wilders is not a filmmaker. He's an MP. He's permanently accompanied by bodyguards which are paid for by the government. What country are we in, if speaking out makes you need bodyguards?
I think this is a cool feature. It won't stop all thieves, but it makes stealing gadgets less worthwhile. Thieves don't want to spend an hour cleaning up the gadget, they want to push it though their channel of stolen goods resellers asap.
Also, if the feature only works for one thief out of ten, it's still cool.
Train stations have bugs too, apparently.
Bringing guns onto the VT campus was/is illegal
That is not my point. It doesn't help to make guns illegal on campus if it's easy to bring one to the campus. This deranged student isn't going to care if it's illegal or not. Fact is, he can get hold of a gun fairly easily.
In Holland, guns are illegal for everybody except law enforcement and the military. Guards don't carry guns. Permits for huntin rifles are extremely hard to get. Sports guns can be only small caliber, and are extremely hard to get a permit for. Of course, there's shootings. Criminals shoot each other, happened a couple of times in the last few years. If you really want to have a gun and you are ready to pay big money, you can. But it's not easy. I don't have the statistics at hand, but some time ago I found statistics that the number of murders in the use per capita is 20 times higher than in Holland.
But maybe the person from Denmark is right. Maybe there's no cause-effect relation between law and murders. Maybe there's other reasons why the number of murders is so much higher in some countries than in others.
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Hacking tools are more like guns: make them illegal and only the criminals will have them.
That is sooooo untrue. In countries where guns are illegal, criminals don't use guns very often. In countries where guns are legal, deranged college students use them to kill their fellow students.
If you pick a metaphore, pick one that works.
Doesn't surprise me a bit. I've always felt more at ease and more creative in big spaces with a high ceiling. I thought everyone would.
What makes you think child porn is blown out of proportion? Child porn is not pictures of naked teenage girls. Gild porn is about infants being traumatized for the rest of their lives. Child porn is 50 year old men who rape 4 year old kids in front of a video camera, viewers get off on the crying of the kid. If you think that's not a problem, then you have a problem.
Whatever you think of the Bush administration and the way they use child porn for their own agenda, child porn _is_ a problem. You see one of those video's in which a couple of guys tie up an infant and fuck it from both sides.
They get off on the crying of the child. Happens every day. I'll support whatever it takes to get that kind of people behind bars.
I was thinking of the Player of Games too, but now I think The Bridge should be on the list.
The /. article says "pornographic photos". But the case is not about pornography, it is about child abuse. Child abuse has nothing to do with pornography.
I'm convinced that baby bootstrap is the best way, or even the only way, to create really intelligent computers. The problem is that so far, nobody found the right computing algorithm. What's needed is a good idea rather than a lot of money.
Why is the guy who's called Volker Hartmann in the Spiegel original, called "Volker hard man" in the English translation?
Maybe they think girls online are more dangerous than boys?
Seriously, I'm sure they will use the gender info in a sexist way.
The study says "people pay more attention when they hear only half a conversation".
The solution to this is to have a bigger speaker on the cellphone so that bystanders can hear both sides of the conversation.
It shows responsibility and a hard work ethic.
I think that's a good advice. I'd rather hire someone who's been working in construction, or contributed to BSD, or created some good stuff they put up on their website to show off, than someone who can't account for the missing months.
As for the layoffs, it would depend on whether everybody in the company was laid off, or just you, or some of the people but not everyone.
Wireless power distribution, that's what the Russians would need for their nuclear power plant on Mars.