Many programs which require significant development, and then get shelved into "production" with no push to advance or modernize fall prey to this. NASA maned spaceflight vehicles is a prime example.
If you only need to do research and development once every 25-50 years you end up starting nearly from scratch every time you decide to upgrade. Now, I'm not advocating some kind of special nuclear bomb advancement program. Still, by the time somebody wants to "replace" these, there will be nobody left who actually worked on them tom begin with. Humans are particularly bad at passing this kind of knowledge over extended time gaps.
Stupid is as stupid does. There are lots of people with high IQs that do stupid things. THOSE are the ones who constantly amaze me. Once you take the statistically dumb people, carve out the minor fraction who are actually sane and rational, then add in all the smart people who do stupid things (or fall for stupid shit like this) on a regular basis anyway, and you've got way more than 50% acting like idiots.
My sister is a good example. I put her squarely in the stupid category. She does things, and falls for pseudo-science hoopla, on a regular basis. Her IQ is 122 - 1.5 std deviations above the mean. She's smart, but she does dumb things. I think rational thinking and analytical skills are absent from most people - or at least unexercised.
A rare first post, and the sig is the most appropriate text in there. Go figure.
Actually, the IQ thing is only part of the problem. Smart people have a tendency to "not think" on a frequent basis. I'm always amazed how sane human beings are just fantastically gullible. I won't claim to be immune to this, but - damn - people will fall for the craziest shit.
Not really. The issue with "peak" anything is that once a critical point is reached, the price skyrockets, and 10x-20x is in the realm of reality. This happens on a time scale much shorter than the design-build cycle of a reactor (which is 10-12 years, or something like that).
Now, a true peak is difficult to hit, as the pressure will force people to other measures (if beef prices rise, people will eat more chicken). Also - as you point out - extraction of more expensive sources gets financially practical, at least in the short term. My point is that if a true peak is hit, there won't be time to build a reactor before some other form of energy takes the place of the reactors.
Sure, you can change these things, but most apps are meant to be run at a typical resolution and don't look nearly as good otherwise. You also spend half your day fiddling with the resolution to get it just right.
I use this with Firefox on my "primary" laptop, which has a 15" screen and a 1920x1200 resolution. It's cool that FF remembers the setting for each page. It's annoying to have to set each page. Sadly, when I dock at work, I use a 24" monitor and then everything has to get set back (thank goodness for ctrl-0).
I used to complain about Macs connecting monitors only at a given resolution (CRTs)...it's clear they just favored old people. Now that I'm old I see the logic, not that I agree with it.
No, no no...either leave the seats empty, or send a _single_ person decked out in Google gear (no to be confused with ZipZoomFly). Playing for a year in an empty house would be much more demoralizing (and financially damaging) than having the seats filled with oppotistion.
Your condition and the need to archive the ability to use it for all time seem to be mutually exclusive. If you have to manually type or recite by voice, it's pretty reasoable to presume you aren't digitally archiving that information where the _only_ link is through the shortened URL. In other words, you're using it for convenience in a temporary way - you can always create a new one if you're going to type or say it later.
The claim that these are "critical" seems to stem from either (a) people who use twitter for archival purposes (b) people who have both an antiquated email/usenet reader _and_ are too f'n lazy to copy and paste a URL that wraps a line or (c) hopelessly incompetent website developers.
You'll have to excuse me if this seems to be an issue only for the incompetent (or those who rely on the incompetent for their information).
If I publish a book in CD form, I don't create a new, copyrightable work. I might have the copyright on the software reader, but the work itself belongs to the original author (presumably the city council, and normally public domain), not the transcriber. They might require you purchase their $200 reader, and give you the law text for free. They could also charge you a "convenience fee" for delivering the content in a mroe useful form, provided they are licensed to do so (which would be the case for a public domain work). It sounds like they're claiming copyright on the law, which is generally frowned upon as is disallowing citizens to read the law without going though a third party.
Don't law offices generally pay for annual versions of the local law, all neatly printed and bound so that the conference room bookshelves look nice?
It was the first thing I noticed when I zoomed in. Well, after I noticed how much smog there is in the milky way. There should be an intergalactic summit on that - nobody should have to live with all that dust.
That's interesting, but for mine I will sometimes choose a password that wraps and (more commonly) one which is backwards. Funny thing about it, though, is that for my "secure" sites I add a non-alphanumaric to the end (bang is my normal, but I've used the asterisk in the past). My list is shorter than the GP's, though. I've used this method since the early 90s when my group at NASA implemented a draconian password regimen which required a new password every 30 days, 8 character minimum, 2 non-alpha characters, and no more than 3 repeated characters. There was no sensitive information, and it was an internal network.
Somehow, the need to know both my user name (may be easily guessed, sometimes, but that does multiply the number of tries) and have to go through even 100,000 passwords* before I realize my wallet is lost/stolen is pretty low probability. And that's really what security is about. Not the complete inability to break in, but the inability to do so in a reasonable length of time.
*without hacking the interface of my particular institutions to bypass timeout limits and account locks, a fully automated script to enter those over a remote link would likely take a couple of days at a minimum. If you are both lucky enough to steal/find my wallet and 1337 enough to get direct access to the bank's server, I'd say there are bigger problems.
Actually, I'm disappointed that Obama didn't push his pre-election idea of extending the Federal Employee Health Benefits enrollment to every citizen. Yes, it's expensive, though no more than private "full" insurance, but it's good, and the group includes all the federal retirees - so it's not like the group would get worse.
I do find it funny that there's such an outcry that 1.2T over 10 years to get most people health insurance is a big number, but 1.5T to bail out the banks and economy over an 8 month period doesn't have people in the streets with pitchforks.
I'm going to disagree on the painless part. Anyone who has observed a post-neutered animal would be hard pressed to admit that there was no pain involved. It is however, temporary (the pain, that is), and they can give them medication to reduce the ill effects.
Yes, but as a previous poster pointed out, at least eight of the ten viruses were actually trojans. The only program which tried to execute an administrator-privilege operation was blocked by UAC.
Since Spring (presumably) has patents on key elements, B&N is going to have to find a copy of the licensing agreement that hasn't been used for bird cage liners. NDAs wouldn't matter in this case, except to magnify the potential penalties by making the infringement willful.
When you're a computer scientist, your most effective path to help others is to leverage your computer science knowledge. Attempting to fix the world hunger problem without the appropriate background would be a foolish waste of time.
Then again OLPC has been a foolish waste of time so far, so it may not have mattered either way.
There was never a time when the web truly content rich. It was all content, but very poor and very incomplete, and then it morphed into today's web somewhat seamlessly with both fluff and content coming on line in parallel. I'm just glad the developers have gotten over full page flash for the most part. There was a time 3-4 years ago when entire, major corporate sites (Bath & Body Works comes to mind) were protected by flash-only portals. No flash, no entry.
This would be a fabulous idea if the web were limited to accomplished graphic designers, but it's not - and that's where the problem comes in. There are a lot of people out there who just don't have the ability to create a readable site, even if they have otherwise good content. This just gives them another way to present their useful information poorly.
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Many programs which require significant development, and then get shelved into "production" with no push to advance or modernize fall prey to this. NASA maned spaceflight vehicles is a prime example.
If you only need to do research and development once every 25-50 years you end up starting nearly from scratch every time you decide to upgrade. Now, I'm not advocating some kind of special nuclear bomb advancement program. Still, by the time somebody wants to "replace" these, there will be nobody left who actually worked on them tom begin with. Humans are particularly bad at passing this kind of knowledge over extended time gaps.
Yeah, but they did it on the internet. That, as you know, makes it entirely novel and fully patentable!
Stupid is as stupid does. There are lots of people with high IQs that do stupid things. THOSE are the ones who constantly amaze me. Once you take the statistically dumb people, carve out the minor fraction who are actually sane and rational, then add in all the smart people who do stupid things (or fall for stupid shit like this) on a regular basis anyway, and you've got way more than 50% acting like idiots.
My sister is a good example. I put her squarely in the stupid category. She does things, and falls for pseudo-science hoopla, on a regular basis. Her IQ is 122 - 1.5 std deviations above the mean. She's smart, but she does dumb things. I think rational thinking and analytical skills are absent from most people - or at least unexercised.
A rare first post, and the sig is the most appropriate text in there. Go figure.
Actually, the IQ thing is only part of the problem. Smart people have a tendency to "not think" on a frequent basis. I'm always amazed how sane human beings are just fantastically gullible. I won't claim to be immune to this, but - damn - people will fall for the craziest shit.
Just, wow.
Not really. The issue with "peak" anything is that once a critical point is reached, the price skyrockets, and 10x-20x is in the realm of reality. This happens on a time scale much shorter than the design-build cycle of a reactor (which is 10-12 years, or something like that).
Now, a true peak is difficult to hit, as the pressure will force people to other measures (if beef prices rise, people will eat more chicken). Also - as you point out - extraction of more expensive sources gets financially practical, at least in the short term. My point is that if a true peak is hit, there won't be time to build a reactor before some other form of energy takes the place of the reactors.
Sure, you can change these things, but most apps are meant to be run at a typical resolution and don't look nearly as good otherwise. You also spend half your day fiddling with the resolution to get it just right.
I use this with Firefox on my "primary" laptop, which has a 15" screen and a 1920x1200 resolution. It's cool that FF remembers the setting for each page. It's annoying to have to set each page. Sadly, when I dock at work, I use a 24" monitor and then everything has to get set back (thank goodness for ctrl-0).
I used to complain about Macs connecting monitors only at a given resolution (CRTs)...it's clear they just favored old people. Now that I'm old I see the logic, not that I agree with it.
Yes, that works. Except for the cheap part. Much cheaper to buy them a 32" TV and throw away the remote.
It's really just a monitor with speakers and a tuner. Why not solder on a terminator to the antenna in and be done with it?
No, no no...either leave the seats empty, or send a _single_ person decked out in Google gear (no to be confused with ZipZoomFly). Playing for a year in an empty house would be much more demoralizing (and financially damaging) than having the seats filled with oppotistion.
Your condition and the need to archive the ability to use it for all time seem to be mutually exclusive. If you have to manually type or recite by voice, it's pretty reasoable to presume you aren't digitally archiving that information where the _only_ link is through the shortened URL. In other words, you're using it for convenience in a temporary way - you can always create a new one if you're going to type or say it later.
The claim that these are "critical" seems to stem from either (a) people who use twitter for archival purposes (b) people who have both an antiquated email/usenet reader _and_ are too f'n lazy to copy and paste a URL that wraps a line or (c) hopelessly incompetent website developers.
You'll have to excuse me if this seems to be an issue only for the incompetent (or those who rely on the incompetent for their information).
If I publish a book in CD form, I don't create a new, copyrightable work. I might have the copyright on the software reader, but the work itself belongs to the original author (presumably the city council, and normally public domain), not the transcriber. They might require you purchase their $200 reader, and give you the law text for free. They could also charge you a "convenience fee" for delivering the content in a mroe useful form, provided they are licensed to do so (which would be the case for a public domain work). It sounds like they're claiming copyright on the law, which is generally frowned upon as is disallowing citizens to read the law without going though a third party.
Don't law offices generally pay for annual versions of the local law, all neatly printed and bound so that the conference room bookshelves look nice?
It was the first thing I noticed when I zoomed in. Well, after I noticed how much smog there is in the milky way. There should be an intergalactic summit on that - nobody should have to live with all that dust.
Your TV with a camera. They should build one into an LCD TV next, and give it a catchy name like Telescreen.
That's interesting, but for mine I will sometimes choose a password that wraps and (more commonly) one which is backwards. Funny thing about it, though, is that for my "secure" sites I add a non-alphanumaric to the end (bang is my normal, but I've used the asterisk in the past). My list is shorter than the GP's, though. I've used this method since the early 90s when my group at NASA implemented a draconian password regimen which required a new password every 30 days, 8 character minimum, 2 non-alpha characters, and no more than 3 repeated characters. There was no sensitive information, and it was an internal network.
Somehow, the need to know both my user name (may be easily guessed, sometimes, but that does multiply the number of tries) and have to go through even 100,000 passwords* before I realize my wallet is lost/stolen is pretty low probability. And that's really what security is about. Not the complete inability to break in, but the inability to do so in a reasonable length of time.
*without hacking the interface of my particular institutions to bypass timeout limits and account locks, a fully automated script to enter those over a remote link would likely take a couple of days at a minimum. If you are both lucky enough to steal/find my wallet and 1337 enough to get direct access to the bank's server, I'd say there are bigger problems.
Actually, I'm disappointed that Obama didn't push his pre-election idea of extending the Federal Employee Health Benefits enrollment to every citizen. Yes, it's expensive, though no more than private "full" insurance, but it's good, and the group includes all the federal retirees - so it's not like the group would get worse.
I do find it funny that there's such an outcry that 1.2T over 10 years to get most people health insurance is a big number, but 1.5T to bail out the banks and economy over an 8 month period doesn't have people in the streets with pitchforks.
...and it is frowned upon by most of society.
It wouldn't alter it, but it would certainly keep him from passing it on to offspring...
I'm going to disagree on the painless part. Anyone who has observed a post-neutered animal would be hard pressed to admit that there was no pain involved. It is however, temporary (the pain, that is), and they can give them medication to reduce the ill effects.
Yes, but as a previous poster pointed out, at least eight of the ten viruses were actually trojans. The only program which tried to execute an administrator-privilege operation was blocked by UAC.
Since Spring (presumably) has patents on key elements, B&N is going to have to find a copy of the licensing agreement that hasn't been used for bird cage liners. NDAs wouldn't matter in this case, except to magnify the potential penalties by making the infringement willful.
When you're a computer scientist, your most effective path to help others is to leverage your computer science knowledge. Attempting to fix the world hunger problem without the appropriate background would be a foolish waste of time.
Then again OLPC has been a foolish waste of time so far, so it may not have mattered either way.
Yeah, but that's the case pretty much every time you overclock...
That took me three readings to parse. I'd say it was me, but it's more fun to blame it on the mods.
There was never a time when the web truly content rich. It was all content, but very poor and very incomplete, and then it morphed into today's web somewhat seamlessly with both fluff and content coming on line in parallel. I'm just glad the developers have gotten over full page flash for the most part. There was a time 3-4 years ago when entire, major corporate sites (Bath & Body Works comes to mind) were protected by flash-only portals. No flash, no entry.
This would be a fabulous idea if the web were limited to accomplished graphic designers, but it's not - and that's where the problem comes in. There are a lot of people out there who just don't have the ability to create a readable site, even if they have otherwise good content. This just gives them another way to present their useful information poorly.