1) You plug your car into the house. 2) Your house gets electricty from "somewhere." 3) That somewhere is a diesel fired power plant.
Knowing that energy isn't going to be 100% perfectly conserved, how is this any more environmentally friendly? It seems mandatory according to the fact that energy will be lost as heat at every stage of this that an electric car is less environmentally friendly than a gasoline car, unless powered by an environmentally-friendly power plant.
1) Yes, the death of the pope is important. 2) Slashdot is hosted in the United States by American Citizens. Get over yourself. Don't post to an American board saying that 9/11 was somehow less important. I'll try not to go to your country and badmouth your people. 3) This is News for Nerds... or at least it was until 9/11, when every tech site posted a bunch of 9/11 articles, and people who had no interest in techonology started using boards intended for technology talk. I can hardly blame the guys for trying to leave such matter off of/. 4) The pope's death is a big story. I'd say that they are probably waiting for the best source of the news to post.
There's a big difference between funding CS research, and competing with the code for hire shops in India.
DARPA funds quite a bit of research that is a long way from becoming technology that we use in our homes. Many papers that I read that are funded by DARPA, I read with the realization that I won't see a practical system do these things for at least 10 years, probably much longer.
That said, there are a few other things to say: 1) The D in DARPA is for defense... many of these projects get into places that are hard to tie directly to defence. 2) Most of the work is publicly published, companies in India would have it anyway. 3) It really is a problem that they are cutting this money. Universities desparately need it. It is hard to find funding for everything that needs to get done. Somebody needs to fund it. 4) DARPA probably gets much more bang out of their buck for university research funding than they do internal projects. I know it cost quite a bit more to run projects at my contract house than it does to get projects funded at a University. All the U is looking for is money to run the lab and pay the students' tuition and stipends. There is significantly more overhead for contractors.
I think that a lot of companies treat their programmers like a necessary evil. These aren't companies that I would advocate working for, but if you have a distinct "executive class" that comprises more than 10% of your office, then "others," then "geeks," you're probably in a job where you're underappreciated.
To be clear by what I mean. I've been to a job site where we called the lab the "playpen." All of the programmers shared a single, wrap-around, cubicle-desk. Everyone else (everyone, secretaries, interns, everyone...) got private offices. This was sold off as a sort of "collaborative work area." Perhaps the idea was liked in fruition, but people coming in from my company who "got it", invariably, called it the "playpen."
Whoa there buddy. You're making a rather big leap there.
Sure, the guy didn't sound good saying that they got bonus points for being underpriveleged. I'm not going to comment about that, since I don't know.
That said, he certainly didn't make any statements about how they should live out their lives. He just stated an opinion that's fairly popular. They're illegal immigrants... why do we owe them money? There is a fairly solid argument to be made for that. If I just crossed the boarder to Canada and started asking for freebies from them, would you think it appropriate?
I think that it's absolutely tragic that these kids aren't in college. I'm not going to state an opinion on who should or shouldn't give them money, but flaming up like that is why people are afraid to discuss these social issues rationally. The second that someone says what he did, someone comes along and calls them a biggot. All he said is that if they're not here legally, they should probably not get aid packages.
Just to raise the question, what do you think is appropriate for an illegal immigrant to receive? Drivers licenses? Voting priveleges? Social Security benefits? Welfare?
Here's another question. Have you ever considered that perhaps, rather than providing many privileges to illegal immigrants that are traditionally reserved for citizens, that perhaps we should consider why illegal immigrants are coming to the country illegally rather than legally. Perhaps, rather than changing laws to give illegal immigrants rights as citizens, we should be looking at what is preventing them from coming here legally, and consider changing the requirements if they are inappropriate.
I just thought that my band teachers wanted us to walk funny... like an overtrained animal, I glidestepped much of my way through highschool unwittingly after the many hours a day I spent correcting my normal walking style my freshman year.
That said, the reason he states is The 5100 has the ability to easily translate between the old IBM code, APL, BASIC and (with a few tweaks in 1975) UNIX.
This makes little sense to me, it can translate between 2 languages and an operating system? Perhaps this is a hoax *grin* Still, hundreds have read this guys postings, and he has been the topic of coast2coast more than once. The inconsistencies in his story lead little credence to his claims, as for Art Bell's show, that's for you to decide.
Honestly, I've read a lot of posts saying "is this appropriate for Slashdot?"
The short answer is yes. Adult Swim caters to a niche audience... interestingly, the audience that is the sort that used to be the majority composition of Slashdot.
Slashdot even has a topic for Anime (though not all Adult Swim shows are Anime).
I would have to say that this particular interview is about 1000x as appropriate as any story on this site that has anything nice (or, at least, not maen) to say about Microsoft products. You see quite a few more of those than you used to, and many posters posting from Microsoft platform machines.
Yeah, there are downloadable shows, but they do want you to pay for them.
That said, if you've a long commute or road trip, the program, which runs for several hours and covers various outlandish topics ranging from aliens to the occult may be well worth it.
It's good that they can take any relatively harmless apparatus like that and make it look like it's going to hurt like a some of a gun, and like it was built by the lowest bidder.
I am of the opinion that people will eventually become sick of this, it will be the Libertarians and the Democrats.
Several Libertarian speakers that I have heard on the radio think it will be Republican's and Libertarians. Perhaps... I think that much of America is much more moderate on conservative issues than the Republicans are, and that this might be our in, whereas the Democrats have many many supporting factions. The other side might be that that flame my get quenched a bit when people get tired of hearing from factions that should have died out 20 years ago.
It is official; Netcraft confirms: OpenBSD's RAID is dying
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered OpenBSD community when IDC confirmed that the OpenBSD RAID has failed again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent properly operating. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that OpenBSD's raid has lost more sectors, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. OpenBSD's RAID is collapsing into complete Redundant Disarray of Inexpensive Disks, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last [samag.com] in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin [amdest.com] to predict OpenBSD's RAID's future. The hand writing is on the wall: OpenBSD's RAID faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for OpenBSD's RAID because OpenBSD's RAID is dying. Things are looking very bad for OpenBSD's RAID. As many of us are already aware, OpenBSD's RAID continues to data. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
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I should put my response better.
If I went to a board hosted by Frenchmen. I would expect events in France to be posted to the board, if they were of significant impact.
To speak to the effect of your follow up post, yes, I do speak the language.
I guess that you're going to call me a stupid American because I don't speak the language?
I'd just like to point out another victory for Big Red!
GO CU!
I don't go onto Iraqi boards bitching about Iraq.
Ok, so, it works something like this.
1) You plug your car into the house.
2) Your house gets electricty from "somewhere."
3) That somewhere is a diesel fired power plant.
Knowing that energy isn't going to be 100% perfectly conserved, how is this any more environmentally friendly? It seems mandatory according to the fact that energy will be lost as heat at every stage of this that an electric car is less environmentally friendly than a gasoline car, unless powered by an environmentally-friendly power plant.
Use an inertial navigation unit.
You're right.
A couple comments:
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1) Yes, the death of the pope is important.
2) Slashdot is hosted in the United States by American Citizens. Get over yourself. Don't post to an American board saying that 9/11 was somehow less important. I'll try not to go to your country and badmouth your people.
3) This is News for Nerds... or at least it was until 9/11, when every tech site posted a bunch of 9/11 articles, and people who had no interest in techonology started using boards intended for technology talk. I can hardly blame the guys for trying to leave such matter off of
4) The pope's death is a big story. I'd say that they are probably waiting for the best source of the news to post.
PARC is still around.
AT&T laid off a lot of good people, but they still have a research branch (not of the magnitude they had before, I'll give you).
Microsoft has a large research branch.
There's a big difference between funding CS research, and competing with the code for hire shops in India.
DARPA funds quite a bit of research that is a long way from becoming technology that we use in our homes. Many papers that I read that are funded by DARPA, I read with the realization that I won't see a practical system do these things for at least 10 years, probably much longer.
That said, there are a few other things to say:
1) The D in DARPA is for defense... many of these projects get into places that are hard to tie directly to defence.
2) Most of the work is publicly published, companies in India would have it anyway.
3) It really is a problem that they are cutting this money. Universities desparately need it. It is hard to find funding for everything that needs to get done. Somebody needs to fund it.
4) DARPA probably gets much more bang out of their buck for university research funding than they do internal projects. I know it cost quite a bit more to run projects at my contract house than it does to get projects funded at a University. All the U is looking for is money to run the lab and pay the students' tuition and stipends. There is significantly more overhead for contractors.
I think that a lot of companies treat their programmers like a necessary evil. These aren't companies that I would advocate working for, but if you have a distinct "executive class" that comprises more than 10% of your office, then "others," then "geeks," you're probably in a job where you're underappreciated.
To be clear by what I mean. I've been to a job site where we called the lab the "playpen." All of the programmers shared a single, wrap-around, cubicle-desk. Everyone else (everyone, secretaries, interns, everyone...) got private offices. This was sold off as a sort of "collaborative work area." Perhaps the idea was liked in fruition, but people coming in from my company who "got it", invariably, called it the "playpen."
Whoa there buddy. You're making a rather big leap there.
Sure, the guy didn't sound good saying that they got bonus points for being underpriveleged. I'm not going to comment about that, since I don't know.
That said, he certainly didn't make any statements about how they should live out their lives. He just stated an opinion that's fairly popular. They're illegal immigrants... why do we owe them money? There is a fairly solid argument to be made for that. If I just crossed the boarder to Canada and started asking for freebies from them, would you think it appropriate?
I think that it's absolutely tragic that these kids aren't in college. I'm not going to state an opinion on who should or shouldn't give them money, but flaming up like that is why people are afraid to discuss these social issues rationally. The second that someone says what he did, someone comes along and calls them a biggot. All he said is that if they're not here legally, they should probably not get aid packages.
Just to raise the question, what do you think is appropriate for an illegal immigrant to receive? Drivers licenses? Voting priveleges? Social Security benefits? Welfare?
Here's another question. Have you ever considered that perhaps, rather than providing many privileges to illegal immigrants that are traditionally reserved for citizens, that perhaps we should consider why illegal immigrants are coming to the country illegally rather than legally. Perhaps, rather than changing laws to give illegal immigrants rights as citizens, we should be looking at what is preventing them from coming here legally, and consider changing the requirements if they are inappropriate.
Ahh, that's the reason for drillmasters.
I just thought that my band teachers wanted us to walk funny... like an overtrained animal, I glidestepped much of my way through highschool unwittingly after the many hours a day I spent correcting my normal walking style my freshman year.
The IBM 5100 is the fav' of time travelers!
Visit, http://www.johntitor.com/ to see why!
That said, the reason he states is The 5100 has the ability to easily translate between the old IBM code, APL, BASIC and (with a few tweaks in 1975) UNIX.
This makes little sense to me, it can translate between 2 languages and an operating system? Perhaps this is a hoax *grin* Still, hundreds have read this guys postings, and he has been the topic of coast2coast more than once. The inconsistencies in his story lead little credence to his claims, as for Art Bell's show, that's for you to decide.
Honestly, I've read a lot of posts saying "is this appropriate for Slashdot?"
The short answer is yes. Adult Swim caters to a niche audience... interestingly, the audience that is the sort that used to be the majority composition of Slashdot.
Slashdot even has a topic for Anime (though not all Adult Swim shows are Anime).
I would have to say that this particular interview is about 1000x as appropriate as any story on this site that has anything nice (or, at least, not maen) to say about Microsoft products. You see quite a few more of those than you used to, and many posters posting from Microsoft platform machines.
CleverNickName (129189) is Wil Wheaton.
;-)
He even has a lower UID than you
Yeah, there are downloadable shows, but they do want you to pay for them.
That said, if you've a long commute or road trip, the program, which runs for several hours and covers various outlandish topics ranging from aliens to the occult may be well worth it.
It's going to sound lame, but you can get some reasonably good audio from 2600.
2600
Or Sun has their Java evangelists create real audio lectures.
Also, I purchased Verbal Advantage
Verbal Advantage
When going through DC I listen to C-SPAN Radio, or whenever available.
C-SPAN Radio
When available, I listen to NPR.
NPR
If it's the wee hours, I listen to Coast to Coast AM
Coast to Coast AM
I also like Neil Boortz.
I also purchased "Word Smart" and "Grammar Smart" on Amazon.com, which are published by the Princeton Review.
Ahh, the military.
It's good that they can take any relatively harmless apparatus like that and make it look like it's going to hurt like a some of a gun, and like it was built by the lowest bidder.
I am of the opinion that people will eventually become sick of this, it will be the Libertarians and the Democrats.
Several Libertarian speakers that I have heard on the radio think it will be Republican's and Libertarians. Perhaps... I think that much of America is much more moderate on conservative issues than the Republicans are, and that this might be our in, whereas the Democrats have many many supporting factions. The other side might be that that flame my get quenched a bit when people get tired of hearing from factions that should have died out 20 years ago.
It was really only intended to be funny.
A person that shall not be named donated a PERC4/DC RAID controller.
Lets go with "an anonymous benefactor" next time this comes up. I know, not anonymous to you.
It just sounds less like it "feel off a truck," you know?
It is official; Netcraft confirms: OpenBSD's RAID is dying
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered OpenBSD community when IDC confirmed that the OpenBSD RAID has failed again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent properly operating. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that OpenBSD's raid has lost more sectors, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. OpenBSD's RAID is collapsing into complete Redundant Disarray of Inexpensive Disks, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last [samag.com] in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin [amdest.com] to predict OpenBSD's RAID's future. The hand writing is on the wall: OpenBSD's RAID faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for OpenBSD's RAID because OpenBSD's RAID is dying. Things are looking very bad for OpenBSD's RAID. As many of us are already aware, OpenBSD's RAID continues to data. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
Fact: OpenBSD's RAID is dying
Here's the link to CU. (Go Big Red!!)
Here's the link to CMU.
Kids will like
1) Coffee
2) High-resolution displays
3) Violent video games
Tell them that you get to drink coffee, look at high-resolution displays, and make video games.