Someone should get together a data standard for a universal frozen food barcode. Each item has a special barcode on it that says some stuff like density, weight, specific heat, and then you scan it WITH THE MICROWAVE and it automatically calculates the best profile to heat the food. You could also have a few modes, "Quality" which might take longer (as it heats the food more slowly) or "Sport" which heats the food on maximum power but may result in a rubbery texture. Since all microwaves are different, this would go a long ways towards making the science of frozen food better without having to have 20 sets of written instructions.
This could also be of GREAT use in a commercial setting.
Between federal, state, and local taxes, tax money is equivalent to approximately 50% of our GDP. The Federal tax alone is approximately 5 TRILLION, with about 1 TRILLION for state, and another trillion for county and local. And when they aren't taxing us, they are printing more money thus diluting the small amount of savings we have. Inflation numbers are underreported for fear they will put the brakes on this huge scam. Beware, people, you are being milked. Since Late 2000, all of your money has been taxed away, and diluted by at least 50%. And all of Bush's friends have gotten way richer. Weird.
What about a distributed file system that works like DNS? Hierarchial servers that each are responsible for a different level of the DTD. The "Root" is a trusted group of servers, which maintain a list of other servers where you can get a copy of the rest of the DTD. Then plugin builders and other sub-entities can have their own server for extensions to the base DTD.
Unfortunately, the DNS method has proven to not necessarily be the best way, with poisoning and stuff that can occur. Of course, it was designed during the days when they didn't just let anyone on the internet. But you can always diff your copy all the way to the publisher if you are paranoid, and with a signing server or something MD5ish that signs the DTD.
Even though they (AT&T) are coming "back", the climate is a leeetle different. It's all mobile centric and data centric now. There are other players in the cross-country network game (such as Google). The most expensive (because it's the most common) part of telephone service has always been residential last mile. With mobile phones, you don't need that any more. As far as competition, cable companies have proven it's possible to compete and even beat the phone companies at their own game. Right now it's a battle of ISPs, trying to get you voice, video, data wirelessly and/or over fiber. Oh, and with copper prices the way they are, fiber is going to be cheaper than cat-6 soon... since it's made out of, you know, SAND and not fairly rare metal. Anyone can get into the game right now. I wouldn't be surprised to see MSFT in there. Fiber is dirt cheap. What is not is the protectionism in the cities that prevents competition from building new plant, without serious knob-bobbing. It would be fairly simple to run fiber to every city dwelling in America, and it would pay for itself. But to do that you need permits, easements, you have to tear up roads (with union labor) and everyone wants a piece of the pie.
Actually, even Microsoft says that it's always the management's responsiblity to ensure all the copies are licensed. Just make sure you do an accurate inventory, submit to management that they are short X number of licenses, and what they do after that is up to them.
Why would you format it NTFS? If you're doing a backup, use backup software to package and store the ACLs. If you're moving files to other networks (and possibly other GUID space), you might run into problems with the ACL's anyway. At any rate, these drives do not claim to be "enterprise" level by any means. People with a critical business use for portable drives are going to go with hotswap SCSI or SAS drives (or FibreChannel) and not mess with iffy USB/Firewire drivers, cheap drives and bad powersupplies.
This sounds a lot like the Slashdot moderation system. Humans check what other humans write, then get graded on their grade. Thusly they build a karma which enables them to be read.
I think we just discovered what that new image search engine is!
SCENE INT: Enter room with 300,000 East Indians with turbans sitting in cubicles in front of computer monitors
Or amazon could be getting into the concert ticket business;)
Don't knock federal highway subsidies--it's the way the government bribes states into following federal laws instead of doing their own thing as the framers intended.
You should add a field for Mass and calculate the Joules to accelerate that mass for the accel time. Granted you could convert some of that back into reusable energy with regenerative braking at the slowdown. Actually, I guess with maglevs, vacuum tubes and superconducting transmission lines you could get pretty high efficiency, and perhaps store the energy in a capacitor network or superconducting ring which could theoretically store energy infinitly (See "Danny Dunn and the Swamp Monster"
Uh, actually, it's up to the H15 right now and it has an entrance ESCALATOR. Climb? What will you suggest next? Walking?! And I'm only mentioning the escalator because you mentioned your entrance "ladder"; I never leave my H15. In fact, the driver's bed is so comfortable that I never want to hoist my 1250 pound frame to the entrance anyway? What would I need to leave for? I have all the drive-thrus I want, full-service fuel stops and a wide screen television with 25 hours of Fox War a day. Jesus, save these peace loving, tree hugging, homosexual infidels, with their functioning legs and minds, broken themometers and . Jesus, when are you going to take us to your H15 in the sky?
The problem is some asshole will patent it and make it too expensive to implement during our lifetimes, even if it's totally economically, physically, technologically possible. The only thing really lacking is motiviation. If someone made this system, sold the idea big time to the American people, got donations going from big companies, made a little trial version in a smaller city such as Cleveland or something; well. anyway.
Yeah, because the Teamster's union (Truckers) wouldn't let that happen. All of a sudden they can't charge fifty cents per mile to move plastic lawnchairs to your local Walmart.
I think we should get off our asses as a country and reengineer the IDEA of rail transport. First of all, it has a lot of tradeoffs that make it suck, such as having to stop at "stations" rather than going straight there. It's a group transport, so this makes sense. But what if each "car" had an engine in it, but it gets turned off when it's connected in a "train". Then, the whole sucker could break off from the train after a cross country high speed run and run it's small cargo to a smaller local station. More light rails, with an efficient switching system. Multiple sizes of standard containers so a large single car could offload at the local station to a light rail or truck easily (and automatically).
Use *gasp* computers to model the entire land area and figure out the best places to really put tracks; not the easiest, such as when it was done in the 1800's.
With about a trillion bucks and a few decades, we could have the best system around, perfectly matched automobile and rail standards, easily transfer between the two. Granted, we'd have to stop spending 2 trillion a year on some stupid war (which is really just paying a shitload of cash to contractors and oil companies, duh), but why would we want to do that. Why would we want to build anything SUSTAINABLE and good for our economic future when our PRESIDENT actually REALLY thinks that Jesus Christ is going to "come again" (whatever that means) and him and his fellow followers are going to magically disappear of the earth and into heaven. There's no need for planning, America, Jesus will save us.
The thing that killed the American rail industry was not the automobile but labor unions. That's why it would still fail to this day. Right now, rail workers and engineers are fairly unskilled (compared to their European counterparts). Granted, the people working the rail system here are good people, and they all want to work in their jobs, but they are not the best in the world. They have strong union ties, which prevents the rail companies from firing the workers and hiring cheaper labor. In order for us to replace the rails in this country with a decent system like the French, it would take billions and it would also take a total workforce replacement. The current rail workers are not capable of doing quality track at good prices. You would need 100x the current number of rail workers and a total top-down replacement of the engineers to retrack the country in under a decade.
Also, America is quite a big bigger than France area-wise. And more mountainous.
Incidentally, it's the labor unions who are again destroying the American auto industry now. So, maybe there is a chance for rail again. With GM's balls cut off, Chrysler probably getting dumped by Daimler to some chinese owners, Ford just being Ford, it might be the only chance for American industry to fight back against the rise of Toyota. Or maybe Toyota itself will build the new trains, since they are so good at stuff.
The American way is blah. We are an economic superpower because our factories never got bombed in WWII. We don't have good management and our engineers suck. We really need to step it up. Europe is already past us again, although they cheated and unified, but they would have been anyway. America is full of farmers, ranchers, and insurance salesmen. Engineers are very very rare. The few thousand on slashdot might be the exception to the rule, but I'm sure most of you know a shitty engineer somewhere...
Also, I'm sorry to be so down on labor unions, it's sortof like kicking them when they are already down. But they didn't work. They managed to suck the life out of a lot of great american industries. However, why not let China make the stuff for us? I mean, really. They ship us shittonnes of stuff every day, made of metal, plastic, silicon, and more. And what do we ship them? Paper. Well, not even paper, the promise of paper, in the form of little ones and zeros in a bank transaction packet. Information basically. So we are getting physical shit for information.
The problem is that they are taking that information over to the middle east and buying oil with it, and they're taking that information up to Russia and buying minerals with it.
Luckly, they buy the oil from Exxon, so the information comes back here. And then we use it to get more physical shit.
I mean, isn't this a scam? I don't really care because I'm on the benefitting end of it, and I guess China can use the fake growth to put it's people to work, educate a few hundred million of them enough to improve the quality of life over there. But still, it's all based on confidence, which is of course where the word "con" comes from.
I highly recommend buying gold, btw.
Anyway, the trains are a good idea, and I don't know why we haven't done it yet. With the immense growth of air travel, you'd think someone would look at the train business again. But, think about how much damn steel it would take to run 4000 miles of rail cross-country. It would cost a lot in energy to move all that steel, even if it's on the track behind the work crews... Of course, that would enliven the steel industries. But just getting rid of SUV's would save more energy.
It's not just support reasons. A lot of MSFT products require a dedicated server because they use the Default Web Site in IIS;) Multi-Tenancy is not an option for many even modern server products. So, virtualize the server.
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My '94 Dodge Grand Caravan had a "Check Gages" light. WTF is a Gages?
Someone should get together a data standard for a universal frozen food barcode. Each item has a special barcode on it that says some stuff like density, weight, specific heat, and then you scan it WITH THE MICROWAVE and it automatically calculates the best profile to heat the food. You could also have a few modes, "Quality" which might take longer (as it heats the food more slowly) or "Sport" which heats the food on maximum power but may result in a rubbery texture. Since all microwaves are different, this would go a long ways towards making the science of frozen food better without having to have 20 sets of written instructions.
This could also be of GREAT use in a commercial setting.
Between federal, state, and local taxes, tax money is equivalent to approximately 50% of our GDP. The Federal tax alone is approximately 5 TRILLION, with about 1 TRILLION for state, and another trillion for county and local. And when they aren't taxing us, they are printing more money thus diluting the small amount of savings we have. Inflation numbers are underreported for fear they will put the brakes on this huge scam. Beware, people, you are being milked. Since Late 2000, all of your money has been taxed away, and diluted by at least 50%. And all of Bush's friends have gotten way richer. Weird.
I love my Powerglove. It's SO bad.
What about a distributed file system that works like DNS? Hierarchial servers that each are responsible for a different level of the DTD. The "Root" is a trusted group of servers, which maintain a list of other servers where you can get a copy of the rest of the DTD. Then plugin builders and other sub-entities can have their own server for extensions to the base DTD.
Unfortunately, the DNS method has proven to not necessarily be the best way, with poisoning and stuff that can occur. Of course, it was designed during the days when they didn't just let anyone on the internet. But you can always diff your copy all the way to the publisher if you are paranoid, and with a signing server or something MD5ish that signs the DTD.
I thought compression pushes the valves shut, the springs just help.
Even though they (AT&T) are coming "back", the climate is a leeetle different. It's all mobile centric and data centric now. There are other players in the cross-country network game (such as Google). The most expensive (because it's the most common) part of telephone service has always been residential last mile. With mobile phones, you don't need that any more. As far as competition, cable companies have proven it's possible to compete and even beat the phone companies at their own game. Right now it's a battle of ISPs, trying to get you voice, video, data wirelessly and/or over fiber. Oh, and with copper prices the way they are, fiber is going to be cheaper than cat-6 soon... since it's made out of, you know, SAND and not fairly rare metal. Anyone can get into the game right now. I wouldn't be surprised to see MSFT in there. Fiber is dirt cheap. What is not is the protectionism in the cities that prevents competition from building new plant, without serious knob-bobbing. It would be fairly simple to run fiber to every city dwelling in America, and it would pay for itself. But to do that you need permits, easements, you have to tear up roads (with union labor) and everyone wants a piece of the pie.
Yeah, but worst case you get unemployment. "Why were you fired?" "I refused to install illegal software." *approved*
Actually, even Microsoft says that it's always the management's responsiblity to ensure all the copies are licensed. Just make sure you do an accurate inventory, submit to management that they are short X number of licenses, and what they do after that is up to them.
Of course, this assumes you use the OEM versions.
True - but if you look at the shell they've cooked up, maybe they didn't do so poorly after all. There's a lot of great ideas in that thing.
I take it you haven't installed it and tried using it yet?
What about:
"A network of computer networks invented by Al Gore."
I was just bragging to the office MS pundit that Leopard would be out soon. Then I get Vista'd (tm) by APPLE.
Vista'd- to be up a creek without a paddle
Why would you format it NTFS? If you're doing a backup, use backup software to package and store the ACLs. If you're moving files to other networks (and possibly other GUID space), you might run into problems with the ACL's anyway. At any rate, these drives do not claim to be "enterprise" level by any means. People with a critical business use for portable drives are going to go with hotswap SCSI or SAS drives (or FibreChannel) and not mess with iffy USB/Firewire drivers, cheap drives and bad powersupplies.
This sounds a lot like the Slashdot moderation system. Humans check what other humans write, then get graded on their grade. Thusly they build a karma which enables them to be read.
;)
I think we just discovered what that new image search engine is!
SCENE INT: Enter room with 300,000 East Indians with turbans sitting in cubicles in front of computer monitors
Or amazon could be getting into the concert ticket business
Not to mention trains are solid steel while planes are little more than a skin of aluminum around a frame.
Don't knock federal highway subsidies--it's the way the government bribes states into following federal laws instead of doing their own thing as the framers intended.
You should add a field for Mass and calculate the Joules to accelerate that mass for the accel time. Granted you could convert some of that back into reusable energy with regenerative braking at the slowdown. Actually, I guess with maglevs, vacuum tubes and superconducting transmission lines you could get pretty high efficiency, and perhaps store the energy in a capacitor network or superconducting ring which could theoretically store energy infinitly (See "Danny Dunn and the Swamp Monster"
Uh, actually, it's up to the H15 right now and it has an entrance ESCALATOR. Climb? What will you suggest next? Walking?! And I'm only mentioning the escalator because you mentioned your entrance "ladder"; I never leave my H15. In fact, the driver's bed is so comfortable that I never want to hoist my 1250 pound frame to the entrance anyway? What would I need to leave for? I have all the drive-thrus I want, full-service fuel stops and a wide screen television with 25 hours of Fox War a day. Jesus, save these peace loving, tree hugging, homosexual infidels, with their functioning legs and minds, broken themometers and . Jesus, when are you going to take us to your H15 in the sky?
The problem is some asshole will patent it and make it too expensive to implement during our lifetimes, even if it's totally economically, physically, technologically possible. The only thing really lacking is motiviation. If someone made this system, sold the idea big time to the American people, got donations going from big companies, made a little trial version in a smaller city such as Cleveland or something; well. anyway.
Yeah, because the Teamster's union (Truckers) wouldn't let that happen. All of a sudden they can't charge fifty cents per mile to move plastic lawnchairs to your local Walmart.
I think we should get off our asses as a country and reengineer the IDEA of rail transport. First of all, it has a lot of tradeoffs that make it suck, such as having to stop at "stations" rather than going straight there. It's a group transport, so this makes sense. But what if each "car" had an engine in it, but it gets turned off when it's connected in a "train". Then, the whole sucker could break off from the train after a cross country high speed run and run it's small cargo to a smaller local station. More light rails, with an efficient switching system. Multiple sizes of standard containers so a large single car could offload at the local station to a light rail or truck easily (and automatically).
Use *gasp* computers to model the entire land area and figure out the best places to really put tracks; not the easiest, such as when it was done in the 1800's.
With about a trillion bucks and a few decades, we could have the best system around, perfectly matched automobile and rail standards, easily transfer between the two. Granted, we'd have to stop spending 2 trillion a year on some stupid war (which is really just paying a shitload of cash to contractors and oil companies, duh), but why would we want to do that. Why would we want to build anything SUSTAINABLE and good for our economic future when our PRESIDENT actually REALLY thinks that Jesus Christ is going to "come again" (whatever that means) and him and his fellow followers are going to magically disappear of the earth and into heaven. There's no need for planning, America, Jesus will save us.
Sorry, maybe next time.
The thing that killed the American rail industry was not the automobile but labor unions. That's why it would still fail to this day. Right now, rail workers and engineers are fairly unskilled (compared to their European counterparts). Granted, the people working the rail system here are good people, and they all want to work in their jobs, but they are not the best in the world. They have strong union ties, which prevents the rail companies from firing the workers and hiring cheaper labor. In order for us to replace the rails in this country with a decent system like the French, it would take billions and it would also take a total workforce replacement. The current rail workers are not capable of doing quality track at good prices. You would need 100x the current number of rail workers and a total top-down replacement of the engineers to retrack the country in under a decade.
Also, America is quite a big bigger than France area-wise. And more mountainous.
Incidentally, it's the labor unions who are again destroying the American auto industry now. So, maybe there is a chance for rail again. With GM's balls cut off, Chrysler probably getting dumped by Daimler to some chinese owners, Ford just being Ford, it might be the only chance for American industry to fight back against the rise of Toyota. Or maybe Toyota itself will build the new trains, since they are so good at stuff.
The American way is blah. We are an economic superpower because our factories never got bombed in WWII. We don't have good management and our engineers suck. We really need to step it up. Europe is already past us again, although they cheated and unified, but they would have been anyway. America is full of farmers, ranchers, and insurance salesmen. Engineers are very very rare. The few thousand on slashdot might be the exception to the rule, but I'm sure most of you know a shitty engineer somewhere...
Also, I'm sorry to be so down on labor unions, it's sortof like kicking them when they are already down. But they didn't work. They managed to suck the life out of a lot of great american industries. However, why not let China make the stuff for us? I mean, really. They ship us shittonnes of stuff every day, made of metal, plastic, silicon, and more. And what do we ship them? Paper. Well, not even paper, the promise of paper, in the form of little ones and zeros in a bank transaction packet. Information basically. So we are getting physical shit for information.
The problem is that they are taking that information over to the middle east and buying oil with it, and they're taking that information up to Russia and buying minerals with it.
Luckly, they buy the oil from Exxon, so the information comes back here. And then we use it to get more physical shit.
I mean, isn't this a scam? I don't really care because I'm on the benefitting end of it, and I guess China can use the fake growth to put it's people to work, educate a few hundred million of them enough to improve the quality of life over there. But still, it's all based on confidence, which is of course where the word "con" comes from.
I highly recommend buying gold, btw.
Anyway, the trains are a good idea, and I don't know why we haven't done it yet. With the immense growth of air travel, you'd think someone would look at the train business again. But, think about how much damn steel it would take to run 4000 miles of rail cross-country. It would cost a lot in energy to move all that steel, even if it's on the track behind the work crews... Of course, that would enliven the steel industries. But just getting rid of SUV's would save more energy.
Pure opinion, sorry.
There was also a receding ice age which would probably lead to colder temps in the region, which is still continuing, i might add.
DB Server, no
Dedicated Time Server, yes
Web Front End, maybe
It's not just support reasons. A lot of MSFT products require a dedicated server because they use the Default Web Site in IIS ;) Multi-Tenancy is not an option for many even modern server products. So, virtualize the server.
What's an "electronic knob" anyway?