What if I am looking through my UV protectant 12-shade welding goggles? I'll be lucky to see anything at all. In comparison, the arc from welding is way brighter in the entire spectrum than the sun is. I can get a UV burn from my welding equipment in less than an entire when I'm not wearing a coat.
Government employees are government employees because they can't get a job any place else.
That's just not true. Have you ever considered that some people just like their job, even if it is government?
they make too much money, work too little, and you can't fire them.
That's some pretty good motivation for Federal Government work, wouldn't you say?
In all honesty, the only employees not working very hard for the money are probably doing something mundane. The government does have software developers, they just don't sell it; they are the consumers. You should read some stuff from RMS on software development, and that often the best reason to make software is to use it.
Self as first consumer.
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Why? The information the SEC has is probably true.
No, this will have a major good effect. Right now, the US didn't sign the new greenhouse gas emission reduction treaty. Everyone else agreed to an 8% reduction, yet the US only agreed to 7%. This is a big deal. The EU is now saying that we don't make an adequate effort to protect the environment.
The United States EPA looks at automobile tailpipe emissions in a fundamentally different way than the rest of the world. Right now, the smog laws are quite out of whack, and the new CARB laws are making things even more difficult for enthusiasts. This new law will make it easier for many of us to play with our cars. According to CARB, almost any change made to an engine will cause it to produce more emissions. That is just not true; yet without this law, there really isn't any way for the enthusiast market to fight back. Right now, the only way to get an Executive Order(EO) to state that a new engine part does not increase emissions is a quite lengthy process and is far beyond the reach of most enthusiasts or shops.
Maybe, with the aid of this new act, tailpipe emissions will remain strict while allowing those of us who make cars our hobby to do what we want. I fear the abuse that many will use it for, but it does have many legitimate purposes and this is but one example.
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No. Many union dues are excessively high and really give back very little. I once was in a union. The guilty shall remain nameless.
I had a grievance with the company and I couldn't get the union to give me 5 minutes. They were useless. Not only did they not help me, they weren't helping anyone. We were all underpaid, under-benefitted, workhorses in a respectable job. I'm working 40 hours at $10.50 and I didn't get any benefits, and to top it off my union dues were $46 monthly!
Oh yeah, and the union wasn't an option. Don't want the union? You must not want the job.
The existence of the union was merely a ploy to make new workers think they were being well taken care of. If someone sued, they could just say, "Hey, we have a union. Everyone's in it, and they haven't said anything.". It sucked because of the top union mediators were upper level management. How much freaking sense does that make?
Didn't AOL/Time Warner just post the single biggest losing quarter in American corporate history? I doubt they have enough money even if they wanted to.
I don't have to know your history, or your family or friends. I'm not god. Heres a little history from my point of view:
I'm a waiter when I'm not coding C++. By company rules, I must present a bottle of wine when I greet the guest. Do you realize how many AA customers I get who seriously freak out because I brought the wine; even if I don't even present or mention the wine and I'm just holding it. They try to give me their entire story about how it is personally offensive to them.
*I DON'T CARE*
Don't want any, just say 'no thank you'.
How was the original post in poor taste? He was noting the similarity between geeks and battered wives. They often DO return to the batterer. That's a fact.
You seem to have had a raw nerve hit. You know, abusers and abusees may have found that comment offensive. Just as alcoholics find beer in their face offensive. But you need to realize that it is *you* with the problem, not everyone else. If that post made your hair stand up straight, you need to take some time to think about why.
You have issues buddy.
Go seek professional psychiatric assistance immediately.
I for one understand the need and importance of this bell curve. What I don't understand is everyone thinking this is a problem. Every civilization since the dawn of time has had this socioeconomic distribution.
Amazon and Priceline don't have to be sued to get involved. Let's say their own lawyers take up the suit on behalf of the defendant and do it pro-bono. They get to squash a bug before it even gets to them and probably do it for a lot less than they would if it actually made all the way to them.
First off, we need people in the USPTO office to actually read the patent submissions and maybe pay them enough to keep technically minded people working there. The turnover has got to be rediculous.
And secondly, if we did the above, PanIP would not have been granted the patent. Nor would the guy who patented a method of swinging. Or many other stupid patents. Patents were designed to allow ingenious people protect their inventions and ideas. The method for inputting customer information on a computer is extremely obvious, and thusly doesn't qualify for a patent under current legislation. Or their 'invention' of the process of doing business by using the combination of images and text. Again, very obvious. I agree that 'processes', even in software, can and should be patented. I DO NOT agree that the end results should be able to be patented.
Some people disagree with Amazons '1 Click Purchase' patent. I don't. The text of their patent describes how it works, not just that a single click can purchase something. PS:Great business idea. There's no easier way to sell than with INSTANT GRATIFICATION.
I even agree with our legislation. A software patent should something not obvious, and should explicitly and exactly outline a process. If we had Patent examiners who gave two shits about their job, things like these wouldn't happen. But, we'd probably have to pay them better. Mr. Bush probably gave all of their money to the army:(
I don't doubt it. But, maybe next time you read the whole fucking thread, eh?
This guy was trying to say that a 256-pc platoon of Dell's beat a T3E in raw computational power. Just aint gonna happen. Not even close. And, as far as the ASCI red, it kind of sucks, comparatively. The ASCI White is peaking at 4 times the speed of ASCI red, and doing it all with less processors. Then again, they are *Power3*.
The only way this will fly is through legislation. Intel has a few smart cookies working for them. I don't think they will do this unless they are forced. For two reasons: You can't alienate your customers. More than a few corporate suits and home users would be a little miffed about this. Two: Something like this will probably cost quite a bit of money.
There's different kinds of computers for different kinds of needs. Anything that is easily done in parallel and is only computational(not memory) bound is easily solved with racks of P3's or Athlons.
Certain kinds of problems that are memory bandwidth intensive will run extremely well on computers such as the Cray T3E because that's basically what they were built for. However, you cannot dismiss the shear power of the Cray.
Your example is either a folks tale or mere disinformation. Even if they were OC'd Dell dual P3 Xeons, there's no way a fully equiped T3E wouldn't beat it in every single benchmark. Assuming the application or benchmark was compiled with optimizations for the platform.
The T3E is built in a very seperate, modular fashion. Not all Crays are built the same. There's also many very nice advantages to writing code for a supercomputer: Message passing in threaded applications is so simple, there's nothing easier. The compiler kicks serious arse. You get native 64bit memory mapping.
Then again, the T3E is old school even at Cray. They've got much cooler stuff coming out right now. If you've got the mandwidth and a half an hour of time, I suggest you take a look at the Good Shit. [MPEG/400MB]
If we're mining for resources, and we change primary fuel sources to Hydrogen, I have a feeling we'll be doing much of our 'mining' on gas giants. Nothing beats floating balls of liquid and gaseous H2.
I certainly hope he gains interest in science. He wants the US to play World Cop. Well, if we are gonna be a world leader, why should our science lag? Technology was one field that helped us get where we're at today. Being at the forefront of the tech industry places us in a very good position. I think that this mission could easily be done, and for even less than a cool $500M.
How, you say?
NASA wants relatively few scientific measurements taken. There's a whole basket full of stuff they aren't doing. This project could easily be subsidized by foreign countries. Don't you think there are a few European countries that would pay $50 or even $100 million to get onboard with one or two of their own scientific devices onboard? That's a *really* good deal for them, considering where it's going and how cheap that is.
I really hate to see productive science budgets dwindle.
Great. Senator Hollings is in charge of the Senate Commerce Committe. We're fucked now. New licensce:
You may not tape this broadcast for time-delay or time-shift purposes. You may not view it more than once. Any device built to circumvent the commercial advertisements will land you in jail for 30 years. Coaxial cable splitters are now circumvention devices and are thusly illegal. Every television in your house must now be licensed on a per-TV basis. All televisions will promptly self destruct if there are more than one person sitting in front of it. Licensing will be payed on a per-person basis. All new TV's will have integral credit card scanners as well as the ability to directly debit your checking account or EFT your life savings away for watching a movie or two. The option to donate to Sen. Hollings reelection will of course be provided, and will be the default selection.
And, the apathetic americans will laugh and pay the Hollings tax to the MPAA; not even realizing what has happened. In fact, history will be rewritten to make future generations think it's ok because "That's the way it's always been".
Why do senators feel the need to be controversial? And why do they feel the need to 'stimulate our economy'? Our industry is just fine, thank you very much.
We may have differing points of view about gun control. Or even different interpretations of the bill of rights. But, try reading what I think about a vastly more important issue, which I think will let you know I'm a good guy.
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What if I am looking through my UV protectant 12-shade welding goggles? I'll be lucky to see anything at all. In comparison, the arc from welding is way brighter in the entire spectrum than the sun is. I can get a UV burn from my welding equipment in less than an entire when I'm not wearing a coat.
So, it's safe, right?
Government employees are government employees because they can't get a job any place else.
That's just not true. Have you ever considered that some people just like their job, even if it is government?
they make too much money, work too little, and you can't fire them.
That's some pretty good motivation for Federal Government work, wouldn't you say?
In all honesty, the only employees not working very hard for the money are probably doing something mundane. The government does have software developers, they just don't sell it; they are the consumers. You should read some stuff from RMS on software development, and that often the best reason to make software is to use it.
Self as first consumer.
Why? The information the SEC has is probably true.
No, this will have a major good effect. Right now, the US didn't sign the new greenhouse gas emission reduction treaty. Everyone else agreed to an 8% reduction, yet the US only agreed to 7%. This is a big deal. The EU is now saying that we don't make an adequate effort to protect the environment.
The United States EPA looks at automobile tailpipe emissions in a fundamentally different way than the rest of the world. Right now, the smog laws are quite out of whack, and the new CARB laws are making things even more difficult for enthusiasts. This new law will make it easier for many of us to play with our cars. According to CARB, almost any change made to an engine will cause it to produce more emissions. That is just not true; yet without this law, there really isn't any way for the enthusiast market to fight back. Right now, the only way to get an Executive Order(EO) to state that a new engine part does not increase emissions is a quite lengthy process and is far beyond the reach of most enthusiasts or shops.
Maybe, with the aid of this new act, tailpipe emissions will remain strict while allowing those of us who make cars our hobby to do what we want. I fear the abuse that many will use it for, but it does have many legitimate purposes and this is but one example.
No. Many union dues are excessively high and really give back very little. I once was in a union. The guilty shall remain nameless.
I had a grievance with the company and I couldn't get the union to give me 5 minutes. They were useless. Not only did they not help me, they weren't helping anyone. We were all underpaid, under-benefitted, workhorses in a respectable job. I'm working 40 hours at $10.50 and I didn't get any benefits, and to top it off my union dues were $46 monthly!
Oh yeah, and the union wasn't an option. Don't want the union? You must not want the job.
The existence of the union was merely a ploy to make new workers think they were being well taken care of. If someone sued, they could just say, "Hey, we have a union. Everyone's in it, and they haven't said anything.". It sucked because of the top union mediators were upper level management. How much freaking sense does that make?
Didn't AOL/Time Warner just post the single biggest losing quarter in American corporate history? I doubt they have enough money even if they wanted to.
I don't have to know your history, or your family or friends. I'm not god. Heres a little history from my point of view:
I'm a waiter when I'm not coding C++. By company rules, I must present a bottle of wine when I greet the guest. Do you realize how many AA customers I get who seriously freak out because I brought the wine; even if I don't even present or mention the wine and I'm just holding it. They try to give me their entire story about how it is personally offensive to them.
*I DON'T CARE*
Don't want any, just say 'no thank you'.
How was the original post in poor taste? He was noting the similarity between geeks and battered wives. They often DO return to the batterer. That's a fact.
You seem to have had a raw nerve hit. You know, abusers and abusees may have found that comment offensive. Just as alcoholics find beer in their face offensive. But you need to realize that it is *you* with the problem, not everyone else. If that post made your hair stand up straight, you need to take some time to think about why.
You have issues buddy.
Go seek professional psychiatric assistance immediately.
I'll take all the punishment George can give out for just a little more Natalie Portman
:)
When I was your age... {mutters, trailing off}
This is great.
That's the AT&T I remember.
{/NOSTALGIA}
I for one understand the need and importance of this bell curve. What I don't understand is everyone thinking this is a problem. Every civilization since the dawn of time has had this socioeconomic distribution.
It is necessary.
No spam?
You must really lucky. I get like 40 spams a week. No joke.
Yeah, get over it. Don't wanna read my .sig, adjust your prefs.
Be nice, or else...
Amazon and Priceline don't have to be sued to get involved. Let's say their own lawyers take up the suit on behalf of the defendant and do it pro-bono. They get to squash a bug before it even gets to them and probably do it for a lot less than they would if it actually made all the way to them.
It's just good business.
You're gonna boycot lawsuits? Just not show up? What a novel idea. Maybe you should patent it.
No, this PanIP doesn't make any products and probably doesn't offer any services, you can't just boycot them. They are a lawsuit-financed company.
First off, we need people in the USPTO office to actually read the patent submissions and maybe pay them enough to keep technically minded people working there. The turnover has got to be rediculous.
:(
And secondly, if we did the above, PanIP would not have been granted the patent. Nor would the guy who patented a method of swinging. Or many other stupid patents. Patents were designed to allow ingenious people protect their inventions and ideas. The method for inputting customer information on a computer is extremely obvious, and thusly doesn't qualify for a patent under current legislation. Or their 'invention' of the process of doing business by using the combination of images and text. Again, very obvious. I agree that 'processes', even in software, can and should be patented. I DO NOT agree that the end results should be able to be patented.
Some people disagree with Amazons '1 Click Purchase' patent. I don't. The text of their patent describes how it works, not just that a single click can purchase something. PS:Great business idea. There's no easier way to sell than with INSTANT GRATIFICATION.
I even agree with our legislation.
A software patent should something not obvious, and should explicitly and exactly outline a process. If we had Patent examiners who gave two shits about their job, things like these wouldn't happen. But, we'd probably have to pay them better. Mr. Bush probably gave all of their money to the army
I don't doubt it. But, maybe next time you read the whole fucking thread, eh?
This guy was trying to say that a 256-pc platoon of Dell's beat a T3E in raw computational power. Just aint gonna happen. Not even close. And, as far as the ASCI red, it kind of sucks, comparatively. The ASCI White is peaking at 4 times the speed of ASCI red, and doing it all with less processors. Then again, they are *Power3*.
The only way this will fly is through legislation. Intel has a few smart cookies working for them. I don't think they will do this unless they are forced. For two reasons: You can't alienate your customers. More than a few corporate suits and home users would be a little miffed about this. Two: Something like this will probably cost quite a bit of money.
There's different kinds of computers for different kinds of needs. Anything that is easily done in parallel and is only computational(not memory) bound is easily solved with racks of P3's or Athlons.
Certain kinds of problems that are memory bandwidth intensive will run extremely well on computers such as the Cray T3E because that's basically what they were built for. However, you cannot dismiss the shear power of the Cray.
Your example is either a folks tale or mere disinformation. Even if they were OC'd Dell dual P3 Xeons, there's no way a fully equiped T3E wouldn't beat it in every single benchmark. Assuming the application or benchmark was compiled with optimizations for the platform.
The T3E is built in a very seperate, modular fashion. Not all Crays are built the same. There's also many very nice advantages to writing code for a supercomputer:
Message passing in threaded applications is so simple, there's nothing easier. The compiler kicks serious arse. You get native 64bit memory mapping.
Then again, the T3E is old school even at Cray. They've got much cooler stuff coming out right now.
If you've got the mandwidth and a half an hour of time, I suggest you take a look at the Good Shit. [MPEG/400MB]
I think I want one.
Something like...
this.
sweet jesus.
I'm paying 6.5 cents per mile on average and I have a fairly heavy right foot.
ouch...
Hmmmm....
If we're mining for resources, and we change primary fuel sources to Hydrogen, I have a feeling we'll be doing much of our 'mining' on gas giants. Nothing beats floating balls of liquid and gaseous H2.
I certainly hope he gains interest in science. He wants the US to play World Cop. Well, if we are gonna be a world leader, why should our science lag? Technology was one field that helped us get where we're at today. Being at the forefront of the tech industry places us in a very good position. I think that this mission could easily be done, and for even less than a cool $500M.
How, you say?
NASA wants relatively few scientific measurements taken. There's a whole basket full of stuff they aren't doing. This project could easily be subsidized by foreign countries. Don't you think there are a few European countries that would pay $50 or even $100 million to get onboard with one or two of their own scientific devices onboard? That's a *really* good deal for them, considering where it's going and how cheap that is.
I really hate to see productive science budgets dwindle.
I once said 'No amount of advertising can compensate for mediocrity'.
Well...
I was wrong.
Great. Senator Hollings is in charge of the Senate Commerce Committe. We're fucked now. New licensce:
You may not tape this broadcast for time-delay or time-shift purposes. You may not view it more than once. Any device built to circumvent the commercial advertisements will land you in jail for 30 years. Coaxial cable splitters are now circumvention devices and are thusly illegal. Every television in your house must now be licensed on a per-TV basis. All televisions will promptly self destruct if there are more than one person sitting in front of it. Licensing will be payed on a per-person basis. All new TV's will have integral credit card scanners as well as the ability to directly debit your checking account or EFT your life savings away for watching a movie or two. The option to donate to Sen. Hollings reelection will of course be provided, and will be the default selection.
And, the apathetic americans will laugh and pay the Hollings tax to the MPAA; not even realizing what has happened. In fact, history will be rewritten to make future generations think it's ok because "That's the way it's always been".
Why do senators feel the need to be controversial? And why do they feel the need to 'stimulate our economy'? Our industry is just fine, thank you very much.
We may have differing points of view about gun control. Or even different interpretations of the bill of rights. But, try reading what I think about a vastly more important issue, which I think will let you know I'm a good guy.
My thoughts on personal freedom.