I still wonder that the technology-oriented/. crowd doesn't understand a major problem with almost all energy sources. The source of wind power (wind energy) is NOT "safe" energy. Removing energy from the wind affects climate, migration, pollination, seeding, and probably other factors I haven't considered.
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Only solar energy has a chance at being "safe".
You do realise that Wind energy is solar energy? So it doesn't matter how you pull the energy out of the system, you are still pulling it out.
Regulation doesn't produce things. Government doesn't make anything. By and large, government just means worthless expense, and pointless obstruction.
Ah yes . the myth of the "Free Market is best" argument. Simplistic, naive and dangerous.
A totally free and unregulated market gives you the Thalidomide, the Ford Pinto, lead paint in children's toys, contaminated pet food and (the latest one) contaminated Chinese dry wall. Why should the government regulate things, as after all the market will sort things out eventually.
Who cares about the damage done to the consumer between the the time a company enters a market and the time people realise that something bad is happening.
citation for this? In the US, there is a high high bar to criminalize incitement.
See Brandenburg v. Ohio
The repercussions of that case are that the government cannot prosecute abstract speech. However I would not want to be the authors of a book where defendants of an actual crime all were saying ".. The book said it was OK to do this."
Frankly, I was a bit surprised to see LON come out and suggest people should not commit crimes when they are desperate for money. I think this would be obvious to any rational person.
How about because inciting a person to commit a crime is a criminal offense? And the authors like to stay out of pound-the-arse prisons?
Well to be fair, it is possible that both are true...
For Pound Sterling amounts less than (about) £66,666.. but given the cost of military hardware, that may or may not be a reasonable assumption of the price.
The device, the size and shape of a PSP game console and costing tens of thousands of pounds, reads signals transmitted by the camera pods strapped to the underside of all NATO fighter aircraft.
From TFS:
The device, the size and shape of a PSP game console and costing tens of thousands of dollars, reads signals transmitted by the camera pods strapped to the underside of all NATO fighter aircraft.
This kind of shit is totally insulting. This isn't even the old sawhorse of/. being a US site - this is just plain outright vandalism of TFA
I ran the command on the test page and the results are
>>dig +short rs.dns-oarc.net txt
rst.x476.rs.dns-oarc.net.
rst.x485.x476.rs.dns-oarc.net.
rst.x490.x485.x476.rs.dns-oarc.net.
"68.87.73.244 DNS reply size limit is at least 490"
"68.87.73.244 lacks EDNS, defaults to 512"
"Tested at 2010-04-30 13:42:26 UTC"
According to the test page this seems to mean that Comcast doesn't support EDSL (at the moment). So the big question is: What can I do - aside from praying that Comcast will get their shit together by next week?
I read the letter and it seems to offer to fly him *to* Munich, but nothing about flying him back again. Maybe they think he'll get so drunk in their business class lounge that he won't realise where he is.
Whenever I see these reports, it makes me wonder about the implications on manufacturing. Someone in the US or Europe can't/won't compete with someone in China working 15 hour days in a sweatshop for 50 cents an hour, and so from the company's standpoint, it makes economic sense to move. But will the rise in robotics cause a return of manufacturing? You will still need some people working in the factory maintaining the robots and what-not, but it may be cheaper to manufacture things closer to their destination rather than manufacturing them in a developing country and shipping them.
You do realize that manufacturing in the US has been automated for a very very long time and it is *still* going down the drain.
But even with automated manufacturing you still need manual labour to work the production lines. Its economically infeasible to produce a robot that has the flexibility and dexterity of a human for general purpose use. You should watch the shows like "how its made" etc. They show lots of automated processes, yet there are always manual steps involved. I remember seeing one show where a workers job was solely to turn socks inside out.
In the end, US companies have already cut resources to the bone in order to stay competitive with overseas manufacturing. What would really help is de-walmart-ing the consumer part of the equation.
In China, it is common in many places to take a 30-45 minute nap after lunch, just sitting at your desk/workspace. While I cannot say that this is the case in this picture, it may not be as sinister as you would think at first glance.
Last time I saw this pic it was titled as something like "workers taking nap during downtime". So I feel that this story is really an attempt at an anti-MS beat up
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And why should we care?
web (specifically, web browser) development, with Major (capital M) contributions to the mozilla/netscape/firefox ecosystem since before mozilla/firefox existed as projects in their own right (going all the way back to Netscape 1.0), as well as fingers in things like Emacs and popular X applications.
Yes, we know he is a smart cookie, but that still doesn't answer the OPs question.
After looking at the webpage of the app in question (as posted by someone else here - I had never heard of the app before) all I see is some nostalgic clock App that seems to be being forced into a cross-platform test case where it doesn't really fit, and then complaining about the process. And then gratuitously throwing in some rant about the $100 developer cost. Yet nowhere have I seen any claims that a) OS-X and iPhone OS are meant to be *cross-platform* at all, and b) that the developer registration cost has ever been anything but $100. All I have seen is someone who disagrees with Apples development process for OS-X and the iPhone and does so in the same way as a multitude of un-notworthy people have done before.
So to me, none of this is really newsworthy and I am also left with the OPs question being unanswered.
For the me, the defining moment in this rant (where I couldn't take it seriously any more) was when he complained about the $100 developer fee required to get his code running on a real iPhone. I know that other people have sad it before me - if you want to play with Apples ball, you have to play by their rules. So that knowing what the (in this case well known - App approval is different) rules are and then bitching about them comes across as childish.
I'm also tempted to comment on his choice of development hardware (G4) being a bit on the cheapskate side, but I am not familiar with it and don't know how serviceble this older hardware is.
You got modded funny on this.. but that is one of the main benefits I see in the iPad as I can't stand the whiny mosquito sound of my EEE pc. Though I will be looking into any other small form factor system that doesn't have a fan in it before I sell my soul to Apple.
While it won't be filled up with computer equipment, Quality Technology Services just bought the former Qimonda fab plant in Richmond VA for use as a data centre. At 1.3 million square feet it ranks (according the link) as one of largest in the USA. Who knows how much of it will be actually used, as I heard an interview with the CEO that said one of the reasons they bought the site was because it had "room for growth".
I am a christian.
My thoughts on sex ed are not informed by the Bible or a preacher..... Over here in NZ.
You are also not American and that is the differance. American society weird on a lot of things from the point of view of outsiders. Yet if you try and tell them that its all "I can't hear you" or "you are one of them commo anti-americans that hates our guts"
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I still wonder that the technology-oriented /. crowd doesn't understand a major problem with almost all energy sources. The source of wind power (wind energy) is NOT "safe" energy. Removing energy from the wind affects climate, migration, pollination, seeding, and probably other factors I haven't considered.
...
Only solar energy has a chance at being "safe".
You do realise that Wind energy is solar energy? So it doesn't matter how you pull the energy out of the system, you are still pulling it out.
Regulation doesn't produce things. Government doesn't make anything. By and large, government just means worthless expense, and pointless obstruction.
Ah yes . the myth of the "Free Market is best" argument. Simplistic, naive and dangerous.
A totally free and unregulated market gives you the Thalidomide, the Ford Pinto, lead paint in children's toys, contaminated pet food and (the latest one) contaminated Chinese dry wall. Why should the government regulate things, as after all the market will sort things out eventually.
Who cares about the damage done to the consumer between the the time a company enters a market and the time people realise that something bad is happening.
I missed posting this in the last Cape Wind Farm story. I read this book a couple of years ago and its description of nimby politics is chilling.
Cape Wind: Money, Celebrity, Class, Politics, and the Battle for Our Energy Future on Nantucket Sound
citation for this? In the US, there is a high high bar to criminalize incitement. See Brandenburg v. Ohio
The repercussions of that case are that the government cannot prosecute abstract speech. However I would not want to be the authors of a book where defendants of an actual crime all were saying ".. The book said it was OK to do this."
Frankly, I was a bit surprised to see LON come out and suggest people should not commit crimes when they are desperate for money. I think this would be obvious to any rational person.
How about because inciting a person to commit a crime is a criminal offense? And the authors like to stay out of pound-the-arse prisons?
Well to be fair, it is possible that both are true...
For Pound Sterling amounts less than (about) £66,666 .. but given the cost of military hardware, that may or may not be a reasonable assumption of the price.
From TFA:
The device, the size and shape of a PSP game console and costing tens of thousands of pounds, reads signals transmitted by the camera pods strapped to the underside of all NATO fighter aircraft.
From TFS:
The device, the size and shape of a PSP game console and costing tens of thousands of dollars, reads signals transmitted by the camera pods strapped to the underside of all NATO fighter aircraft.
This kind of shit is totally insulting. This isn't even the old sawhorse of /. being a US site - this is just plain outright vandalism of TFA
I asked someone at HP about this on Friday, and this was her answer...
Heads up on your Slate post to me this morning. I had to delete it! .....
If the PR team is planning to "manage the rumors", I'm hesitant to believe that the rumor is accurate.
It sounds like what your heard about the PR team was in fact a rumor itself.
If it was 3 hours a day of Wii Fit?
You have Baudot?
You lucky bastard, all I've got is ones and zeroes.
Um .. Baudot *is* ones and zeroes.
+1 Thanks for that. Now I realised that I just fell for the FUD - although I did find out that my router will have issues with EDNS.
This link is apparently a port of dig to windows Dig
Now you will have an excuse to replace all that crappy old networking equipment "because it does not work with the new secure internet".
I still support 7-bit ASCII, you insensitive clod!
7 bit ASCII?!??!?! Geez .. get off my lawn .. its Baudot or nothing!!
Oops - I meant EDNS. not EDSL
And BTW moving off Comcast is not an option.
I ran the command on the test page and the results are
>>dig +short rs.dns-oarc.net txt
rst.x476.rs.dns-oarc.net.
rst.x485.x476.rs.dns-oarc.net.
rst.x490.x485.x476.rs.dns-oarc.net.
"68.87.73.244 DNS reply size limit is at least 490"
"68.87.73.244 lacks EDNS, defaults to 512"
"Tested at 2010-04-30 13:42:26 UTC"
According to the test page this seems to mean that Comcast doesn't support EDSL (at the moment). So the big question is:
What can I do - aside from praying that Comcast will get their shit together by next week?
I read the letter and it seems to offer to fly him *to* Munich, but nothing about flying him back again. Maybe they think he'll get so drunk in their business class lounge that he won't realise where he is.
Whenever I see these reports, it makes me wonder about the implications on manufacturing. Someone in the US or Europe can't/won't compete with someone in China working 15 hour days in a sweatshop for 50 cents an hour, and so from the company's standpoint, it makes economic sense to move. But will the rise in robotics cause a return of manufacturing? You will still need some people working in the factory maintaining the robots and what-not, but it may be cheaper to manufacture things closer to their destination rather than manufacturing them in a developing country and shipping them.
You do realize that manufacturing in the US has been automated for a very very long time and it is *still* going down the drain.
But even with automated manufacturing you still need manual labour to work the production lines. Its economically infeasible to produce a robot that has the flexibility and dexterity of a human for general purpose use. You should watch the shows like "how its made" etc. They show lots of automated processes, yet there are always manual steps involved. I remember seeing one show where a workers job was solely to turn socks inside out.
In the end, US companies have already cut resources to the bone in order to stay competitive with overseas manufacturing. What would really help is de-walmart-ing the consumer part of the equation.
In China, it is common in many places to take a 30-45 minute nap after lunch, just sitting at your desk/workspace. While I cannot say that this is the case in this picture, it may not be as sinister as you would think at first glance.
Last time I saw this pic it was titled as something like "workers taking nap during downtime". So I feel that this story is really an attempt at an anti-MS beat up
And why should we care?
web (specifically, web browser) development, with Major (capital M) contributions to the mozilla/netscape/firefox ecosystem since before mozilla/firefox existed as projects in their own right (going all the way back to Netscape 1.0), as well as fingers in things like Emacs and popular X applications.
Yes, we know he is a smart cookie, but that still doesn't answer the OPs question.
After looking at the webpage of the app in question (as posted by someone else here - I had never heard of the app before) all I see is some nostalgic clock App that seems to be being forced into a cross-platform test case where it doesn't really fit, and then complaining about the process. And then gratuitously throwing in some rant about the $100 developer cost. Yet nowhere have I seen any claims that a) OS-X and iPhone OS are meant to be *cross-platform* at all, and b) that the developer registration cost has ever been anything but $100. All I have seen is someone who disagrees with Apples development process for OS-X and the iPhone and does so in the same way as a multitude of un-notworthy people have done before.
So to me, none of this is really newsworthy and I am also left with the OPs question being unanswered.
I'm also tempted to comment on his choice of development hardware (G4) being a bit on the cheapskate side, but I am not familiar with it and don't know how serviceble this older hardware is.
A delightful microfan to hum you to sleep.
You got modded funny on this .. but that is one of the main benefits I see in the iPad as I can't stand the whiny mosquito sound of my EEE pc. Though I will be looking into any other small form factor system that doesn't have a fan in it before I sell my soul to Apple.
While it won't be filled up with computer equipment, Quality Technology Services just bought the former Qimonda fab plant in Richmond VA for use as a data centre. At 1.3 million square feet it ranks (according the link) as one of largest in the USA. Who knows how much of it will be actually used, as I heard an interview with the CEO that said one of the reasons they bought the site was because it had "room for growth".
This was the first thing I thought of when I saw the story! Shoot Me Kangaroo Down Sport
I am blind in one eye
So I am not even going to go to one to see what the hype is all about
I am a christian. My thoughts on sex ed are not informed by the Bible or a preacher. .... Over here in NZ .
You are also not American and that is the differance. American society weird on a lot of things from the point of view of outsiders. Yet if you try and tell them that its all "I can't hear you" or "you are one of them commo anti-americans that hates our guts"