Oh, NO! The pen geeks are back. Everyone run and hide. We are cool now. We don't want the pen geeks back. Quick someone trick some famous actors into using these.
Oh, great I can see it know. Get your own personal Backyard AA gun. Will shoot down any flying objects up to the size of a flying pig. (All flies, bees, birds, frisbees, kites, and anything else airborne above your backyard.) Anything the size of a flying pig, the military should handle.
It sounds like a brain is just a beowulf cluster of alot of tiny neurons. The neurons compared to silicon aren't much at processing individually, but they are orders of magitude better connected. How many beowulf clusters have each machine connected to 10,000+ other machines? That there is I/O bandwidth. The sum is more than the individual parts. Besides how many beowulf clusters have standard self repair? That don't just route around bad machines but repair it and the connections to other machines? Organic will be awesome, but really scary. I'd be easir to make organic machines that are sentient than fully silicon ones.
Frames are expensive because of style. If you want to look like a dork with big TV glasses, then you can get frames real cheap. For smaller round frames with shiny gold looking arms that look cool, expect to pay an arm or leg.
Wouldn't this be a nice healthy outlet for kids to get their very restrained creativity loose in. We already "know" that anyone that does any harm to an animal as a child will grow up to be a serial killer. Well, lets expand that myth to include any virtual animal destruction. Why not a save the demons group? Or a save the virtual represtantion of enemy solders group? Nope, these folks just want us to leave the critters alone. In a digital envirnment, why? I'd say it would be wrong to simulate a human with emotions and full human thought, and shot at in in Doom 999. But animals? Nope, let the folks have their fun.
That's just well, odd. How does that SIN program work if they don't use unique numbers per person? Do Banks in Canada have to report these SINs for tax purposes? If they do, then the same rules should apply for both. Credit Card companies are banks. Real banks just offer more services such as mortages. The only service a credit card company offerrs is very high interest, short term loans that I'm aware of. I'd hope this information would be required to be submitted to the government for tax reasons also. O.k. maybe the government only cares about how much income you have and not your debt.
I hate the "Universal Access Fee". Do you really want to know why? I couldn't afford the $20 for dialup access to the internet. I had a phone bill of $10-$15 and universal access fee of $5. I had to go to a public library where I could spend only an hour a day on the internet. I could carless about farms getting free or reduced rate stuff. I care when I can't afford a service that I want because a tax that was supposed to help schools and libraries have access to the internet has prevented me from it!
Some of us can't afford high monthly rates for broad band and are not farmers.
I want to tell you what ever you do. Don't get Dual 15" LCD. Just buy a good 19" LCD. Dual Monitor are only good for work apps that I've seen. All my current gaming/entertainment apps suck for dual monitors. I wanted to have a useful monitor up on one screen and a Turn Based Game like oh, civ. on the other. Nope, almost every single game takes full control of your desktop and resizes your resolution to meet its requirements. Games are awfully impolite. There is also that DirectX issue that moves the second screen to the right when ever you start a game also. That dual setup was the worst mistake that I made. The problem is it does come in usefull for work stuff. I don't do that at home so it was a waste of my money.
It'll probably even say something allong the lines of "Forward this to 10 friends or you'll be cursed with 4 years of bad govornment."
It'll be worse. Those that forward it will be cursed with 4 years of bad government. It will be really bad for all those forwarding the e-mail to everyone they know. Or how about the first one that takes an uses Outlook to assist in spreading, but tells the user click here to send to those you think may like this? I'd be surprised if some one else hasn't thought of it.
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Was that one letter or 4 seperate letters? It sounds impressive, but I have the feeling that nothing changed except you.
Reasonable people change themselves to conform with their environment. Unreasonable people change their environment to conform to themself so all progress has been made by unreasonable people.
It's illegal to REQUIRE a SIN (Social Insurance Number) in Canada if you aren't the government, an employer, or are somehow related to taxation. My bank can ask me for a SIN because they need to report the amount of income I made on interest. A credit card company CAN NOT ask for my SIN. If I refuse to provide it, and they refuse their service, I can file a complaint against the company. The SIN number is not meant as a unique identifier for anyone other than the government.
I hope you know that credit card companies are generally treated as banks. Yes, that's right banks. They give you high interest loans. They should be able to report to the government how much you bought. They need your unique identifier.
That energy comes from fossil fuels. Ethanol is not an energy source; it is a different way to store energy, and not a particularly efficient one.
We get all our enery from a fusion reaction that we don't control.
Umm. Fossil Fuels are not a source of energy either. The last that I was taught was that Fossil Fuels were made by plants made many (millions) of years ago. I'd say that fossil fuels are not an efficient energy source. Ethanol or some other type of direct solar to energy storage device is our only hope. I don't think that it is too bright to use some of ethanol's energy just to get hydrogen. They should be looking at more efficient ways of using ethanol directly. We should be looking to making plants that absorb the entire spectrum and store the energy directly some kind of ethanol.
The thing about it is that it seems that any NASA source code would be a monument to overbuilt, overengineered, triply-redundant failsafeness.... My question is: how much would we learn from this? When people writing code for business are optimizing for speed and redundancy mainly in the parallel sense (i.e., a failsafe swap to a sister server), how RELEVANT is that to blocks of code written never, ever, ever, ever, ever to fail on tested but "outdated" hardware?
Well, I'd say that the NASA software is one of the few that is actually engineered as most business software should be. It won't happen, but it would be nice that my OS never ever ever crashed, or that my office suite, web browser, virsus scanner, and image editing software didn't crash the system as well. I think all sold business software should meet NASA standards.
The problem is the code written for the Government. Arguably, we should have access to it since we paid for it, but the authors have the copyright. Thus NASA's need for a special written-by-Government-contract-but-licensed-to-the -world license.
Do you want the US to make all those custom NSA & CIA data warehousing programs open source and downloadable by all? Have you ever looked at the CIA computer employment section? They have some really neat tech hidden somewhere. I'd guess that the big boys like IBM already have as much access to it that they need. I on the other hand as an average joe citizen don't need to know about it. They really don't many potential enemies of the US to look at it. Its not my job to worry about who wants to blow up the US. I don't have to worry about searching through Terabytes of Data for leads on things rated Top Secret. I'm happy just being in the country thank you very much.
In a secret government lab, my threat to the US government was just lowered a notch.
I looked into purchasing one of Intergraphs VISAR systems. They wanted somewhere around 25K for the machine, which was way out of our price range. We were looking to spend about 4-5K. Local police departments can't afford the damn software. We have several machines that can do image capture from VCR sources, but nothing to pull out blurred images.
Actually, from the way the article sounds, the black out might not have been as large, as long, or even happened if the software was properly updating. The electrical grid is constantly falling apart. It is never all up. That's o.k. It is the status quo. It is when the electrical company doesn't know what is happening and get people to the trouble spots that these things become noticable. Usually they are fixed within 30mins to 2 hours. From everything that I've read it wasn't a big problem at all. It was a fixable problem that was allowed to exist too long. After that point it became a big problem. I'd hold the monitoring software responsible.
He'll be a net profit to the jail system. They charge inmates for just about everything. In the states that I'm aware of, all inmates have to have some sort of work or labor to pay for it. I'd hope that he could just arrange a deal where he spends the weekend in jail for the next several years and just has a large fine to pay. Most murders usually get out under 10 years. Then again murders just target individuals, they don't target corporations so the sentences aren't as heavy. One of these days I should complain where it will make an effect.
Umm, I don't know about you, but I didn't pay for Netscape or IE. I always have downloaded my webrowser for free. I really don't see the point in paying for a web browser if I can download any one of them for free. I've been using Phoenix for the most part. I didn't have to pay for that either.
Um. No one outside of Techies knows usenet exists. Because of all the RIAA whining, everyone has started to know that P2P is used to share copyrighted materials, and thats about it. I doesn't matter what Techies call their toys; The Lawyers, Lobbists, and Politicans will label it P2P and use that label to limit usenet how they want it limited. Remember, Napster was slammed down because they were a central server. I think someone wants some laws limiting all client/server transfers. Usenet isn't one server, but if they could limit AOL; they could limit any small time ISP, and any university.
When I started using the net in 93-94. Text filez were the information then, to find a say 10 page text file on a technical subject was a God send, today, I can find complete books, we have come a long way.
Yes, but you have to buy those books now. Those 10 page tech. docs. were useful and free. Searching on the internet now is difficult. Small usefull content is just a grain of sand in all the "Learn X in 21 Time Units", "X Bible", "Everything you need to know about X", "X for Dummies", or "5 vol. X Reference"
At one point in time, we could get alot of that information for free through several scattered sources. Now, I can find out were the info is at. But I have to buy a 3-4 $50 Books to make use of it. I'd say it was a step back not a step forward.
But what leverage do you have to force Slashdot to be a good net citizen? They could claim Slashdot is a DDOS attack against research facilities preventing the US from making more money. Watch how fast those men in black come knocking on Slashdot's door.
It's government. We are attempting to reduce our paper work our selves. We are a local police department with a "newly purchased" (2-3 years old) RMS. We have one individual that gets paper copies of all the police reports. Why? So she can look through them and put UCR data into an Access database! Arrgg. We can query off that RMS. She also sorts those papers for 3 others. All the accident reports get sent to the front desk sec. to be typed into another access database. We are required to use the state form and aren't currently using accident reporting. She sends off all juv. stuff to the Jun. Corre. Facility, after she is finished with all these papers she sends them all to 2 guys that are working under a grant. They look through all reports for anyone arrested or involved in several areas send them on to some one else, the rest they goes to the trash. Most of these people have full access to the RMS! There was a project bejore the RMS to scan most of the reports as JPGs and leave it at that. I'm amazed government works as well as it does.
Yeap, cause the microscopic organisms on the scientist might gasp out compet these organisms that have spent their entire lives in this one "extreme" enviromment. Yeah right. They are extreme environments for humans and most known life. I wonder how durable these organisms actually are. Could they actually oh reproduce and live out in the oceans near the surface, on land, or in the air? I bet they would consider us extreme organisms as well.
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Oh, NO! The pen geeks are back. Everyone run and hide. We are cool now. We don't want the pen geeks back. Quick someone trick some famous actors into using these.
Oh, great I can see it know. Get your own personal Backyard AA gun. Will shoot down any flying objects up to the size of a flying pig. (All flies, bees, birds, frisbees, kites, and anything else airborne above your backyard.) Anything the size of a flying pig, the military should handle.
It sounds like a brain is just a beowulf cluster of alot of tiny neurons. The neurons compared to silicon aren't much at processing individually, but they are orders of magitude better connected. How many beowulf clusters have each machine connected to 10,000+ other machines? That there is I/O bandwidth. The sum is more than the individual parts. Besides how many beowulf clusters have standard self repair? That don't just route around bad machines but repair it and the connections to other machines? Organic will be awesome, but really scary. I'd be easir to make organic machines that are sentient than fully silicon ones.
Frames are expensive because of style. If you want to look like a dork with big TV glasses, then you can get frames real cheap. For smaller round frames with shiny gold looking arms that look cool, expect to pay an arm or leg.
You said it wrong.
In Soviet Russia, the cops are arrested by you for not showing papers.
Wouldn't this be a nice healthy outlet for kids to get their very restrained creativity loose in. We already "know" that anyone that does any harm to an animal as a child will grow up to be a serial killer. Well, lets expand that myth to include any virtual animal destruction. Why not a save the demons group? Or a save the virtual represtantion of enemy solders group? Nope, these folks just want us to leave the critters alone. In a digital envirnment, why? I'd say it would be wrong to simulate a human with emotions and full human thought, and shot at in in Doom 999. But animals? Nope, let the folks have their fun.
That's just well, odd. How does that SIN program work if they don't use unique numbers per person?
Do Banks in Canada have to report these SINs for tax purposes? If they do, then the same rules should apply for both. Credit Card companies are banks. Real banks just offer more services such as mortages. The only service a credit card company offerrs is very high interest, short term loans that I'm aware of. I'd hope this information would be required to be submitted to the government for tax reasons also. O.k. maybe the government only cares about how much income you have and not your debt.
I hate the "Universal Access Fee". Do you really want to know why? I couldn't afford the $20 for dialup access to the internet. I had a phone bill of $10-$15 and universal access fee of $5. I had to go to a public library where I could spend only an hour a day on the internet. I could carless about farms getting free or reduced rate stuff. I care when I can't afford a service that I want because a tax that was supposed to help schools and libraries have access to the internet has prevented me from it!
Some of us can't afford high monthly rates for broad band and are not farmers.
I want to tell you what ever you do. Don't get Dual 15" LCD. Just buy a good 19" LCD. Dual Monitor are only good for work apps that I've seen. All my current gaming/entertainment apps suck for dual monitors. I wanted to have a useful monitor up on one screen and a Turn Based Game like oh, civ. on the other. Nope, almost every single game takes full control of your desktop and resizes your resolution to meet its requirements. Games are awfully impolite. There is also that DirectX issue that moves the second screen to the right when ever you start a game also. That dual setup was the worst mistake that I made. The problem is it does come in usefull for work stuff. I don't do that at home so it was a waste of my money.
It'll probably even say something allong the lines of "Forward this to 10 friends or you'll be cursed with 4 years of bad govornment."
It'll be worse. Those that forward it will be cursed with 4 years of bad government. It will be really bad for all those forwarding the e-mail to everyone they know. Or how about the first one that takes an uses Outlook to assist in spreading, but tells the user click here to send to those you think may like this? I'd be surprised if some one else hasn't thought of it.
Was that one letter or 4 seperate letters? It sounds impressive, but I have the feeling that nothing changed except you.
Reasonable people change themselves to conform with their environment. Unreasonable people change their environment to conform to themself so all progress has been made by unreasonable people.
It's illegal to REQUIRE a SIN (Social Insurance Number) in Canada if you aren't the government, an employer, or are somehow related to taxation. My bank can ask me for a SIN because they need to report the amount of income I made on interest. A credit card company CAN NOT ask for my SIN. If I refuse to provide it, and they refuse their service, I can file a complaint against the company. The SIN number is not meant as a unique identifier for anyone other than the government.
I hope you know that credit card companies are generally treated as banks. Yes, that's right banks. They give you high interest loans. They should be able to report to the government how much you bought. They need your unique identifier.
That energy comes from fossil fuels. Ethanol is not an energy source; it is a different way to store energy, and not a particularly efficient one.
We get all our enery from a fusion reaction that we don't control.
Umm. Fossil Fuels are not a source of energy either. The last that I was taught was that Fossil Fuels were made by plants made many (millions) of years ago. I'd say that fossil fuels are not an efficient energy source. Ethanol or some other type of direct solar to energy storage device is our only hope. I don't think that it is too bright to use some of ethanol's energy just to get hydrogen. They should be looking at more efficient ways of using ethanol directly. We should be looking to making plants that absorb the entire spectrum and store the energy directly some kind of ethanol.
You forgot the 3 most important Windows Programs of all time: WinMin, Solitaire, and FreeCell. The card game market is doomed now!
The thing about it is that it seems that any NASA source code would be a monument to overbuilt, overengineered, triply-redundant failsafeness. ...
My question is: how much would we learn from this? When people writing code for business are optimizing for speed and redundancy mainly in the parallel sense (i.e., a failsafe swap to a sister server), how RELEVANT is that to blocks of code written never, ever, ever, ever, ever to fail on tested but "outdated" hardware?
Well, I'd say that the NASA software is one of the few that is actually engineered as most business software should be. It won't happen, but it would be nice that my OS never ever ever crashed, or that my office suite, web browser, virsus scanner, and image editing software didn't crash the system as well. I think all sold business software should meet NASA standards.
The problem is the code written for the Government. Arguably, we should have access to it since we paid for it, but the authors have the copyright. Thus NASA's need for a special written-by-Government-contract-but-licensed-to-the -world license.
Do you want the US to make all those custom NSA & CIA data warehousing programs open source and downloadable by all? Have you ever looked at the CIA computer employment section? They have some really neat tech hidden somewhere. I'd guess that the big boys like IBM already have as much access to it that they need. I on the other hand as an average joe citizen don't need to know about it. They really don't many potential enemies of the US to look at it. Its not my job to worry about who wants to blow up the US. I don't have to worry about searching through Terabytes of Data for leads on things rated Top Secret. I'm happy just being in the country thank you very much.
In a secret government lab, my threat to the US government was just lowered a notch.
I looked into purchasing one of Intergraphs VISAR systems. They wanted somewhere around 25K for the machine, which was way out of our price range. We were looking to spend about 4-5K. Local police departments can't afford the damn software. We have several machines that can do image capture from VCR sources, but nothing to pull out blurred images.
Actually, from the way the article sounds, the black out might not have been as large, as long, or even happened if the software was properly updating. The electrical grid is constantly falling apart. It is never all up. That's o.k. It is the status quo. It is when the electrical company doesn't know what is happening and get people to the trouble spots that these things become noticable. Usually they are fixed within 30mins to 2 hours. From everything that I've read it wasn't a big problem at all. It was a fixable problem that was allowed to exist too long. After that point it became a big problem. I'd hold the monitoring software responsible.
He'll be a net profit to the jail system. They charge inmates for just about everything. In the states that I'm aware of, all inmates have to have some sort of work or labor to pay for it. I'd hope that he could just arrange a deal where he spends the weekend in jail for the next several years and just has a large fine to pay. Most murders usually get out under 10 years. Then again murders just target individuals, they don't target corporations so the sentences aren't as heavy. One of these days I should complain where it will make an effect.
Umm, I don't know about you, but I didn't pay for Netscape or IE. I always have downloaded my webrowser for free. I really don't see the point in paying for a web browser if I can download any one of them for free. I've been using Phoenix for the most part. I didn't have to pay for that either.
Um. No one outside of Techies knows usenet exists. Because of all the RIAA whining, everyone has started to know that P2P is used to share copyrighted materials, and thats about it. I doesn't matter what Techies call their toys; The Lawyers, Lobbists, and Politicans will label it P2P and use that label to limit usenet how they want it limited. Remember, Napster was slammed down because they were a central server. I think someone wants some laws limiting all client/server transfers. Usenet isn't one server, but if they could limit AOL; they could limit any small time ISP, and any university.
When I started using the net in 93-94. Text filez were the information then, to find a say 10 page text file on a technical subject was a God send, today, I can find complete books, we have come a long way.
Yes, but you have to buy those books now. Those 10 page tech. docs. were useful and free. Searching on the internet now is difficult. Small usefull content is just a grain of sand in all the "Learn X in 21 Time Units", "X Bible", "Everything you need to know about X", "X for Dummies", or "5 vol. X Reference"
At one point in time, we could get alot of that information for free through several scattered sources. Now, I can find out were the info is at. But I have to buy a 3-4 $50 Books to make use of it. I'd say it was a step back not a step forward.
But what leverage do you have to force Slashdot to be a good net citizen? They could claim Slashdot is a DDOS attack against research facilities preventing the US from making more money. Watch how fast those men in black come knocking on Slashdot's door.
It's government. We are attempting to reduce our paper work our selves. We are a local police department with a "newly purchased" (2-3 years old) RMS. We have one individual that gets paper copies of all the police reports. Why? So she can look through them and put UCR data into an Access database! Arrgg. We can query off that RMS. She also sorts those papers for 3 others. All the accident reports get sent to the front desk sec. to be typed into another access database. We are required to use the state form and aren't currently using accident reporting. She sends off all juv. stuff to the Jun. Corre. Facility, after she is finished with all these papers she sends them all to 2 guys that are working under a grant. They look through all reports for anyone arrested or involved in several areas send them on to some one else, the rest they goes to the trash. Most of these people have full access to the RMS! There was a project bejore the RMS to scan most of the reports as JPGs and leave it at that. I'm amazed government works as well as it does.
Yeap, cause the microscopic organisms on the scientist might gasp out compet these organisms that have spent their entire lives in this one "extreme" enviromment. Yeah right. They are extreme environments for humans and most known life. I wonder how durable these organisms actually are. Could they actually oh reproduce and live out in the oceans near the surface, on land, or in the air? I bet they would consider us extreme organisms as well.