Every once in a while you just feel the need to bite;)
For the argument of diversity in the space program, the problem with not ensuring that you select from various ethnic groups, and genders, is that the people will always have some form of prejudice for who they see in the role they're hiring for. Most people, if hiring for a secretary position, expect a woman, and are probably more likely to hire one over a man. I think this still occurs in most if not all fields, and the only way to combat it is "artifical diversity", whereby you force yourself to hire an equal amount from the genders and ethnic groups so that eventually those traits will no longer be considered. Then the assumption is that eventually this will lead to actual equality in the work place. Not to say that this will necessarily work, but I see it as a worthy endeavor. Plus, really, in regards to astronauts, I suspect that you can throw any competent scientist up into space to do experiments. All you need is a good pilot to get you there and back. So really, if you don't need Albert Einstein in space, you're going to choose people that help in the realm of PR. If the population wants to see more women astronauts, you hire some, because you want people to stay interested in the space program to keep it going (keep the fat paycheque coming;)
As for the tree huggers. I think that is an unfair generalization. In reality I would say most so-called tree huggers are not asking for us to stop doing anything on the planet. The fact is life creates a footprint on the Earth's ecosystem, no matter what. The issue is to try to find alternatives that are better than what we currently do. Such as, is there not a more fuel efficient vehical than an SUV that will serve the same purpose? Could we do more research into alternatively fueled vehicles? Perhaps we could work on reducing the amount of fossil fuels we use, and at the same time improve their cleanliness because we're not likely to completely remove our dependence on them. Many of these so-called tree huggers you'll probably find do make an effort to have a smaller footprint on the environment than most people. They bike to work rather than drive, eat organically grown foods, don't use pesiticides on their lawns, wear sweaters in the winter to keep their heat lower, use flourescent lights over incandescent, etc. Individually, it's about doing small things to help. On the large scale, it's about trying to improve what we have, and to find better alternatives. Very few believe that we should go back to living in caves and living off of lichen. The ones that do just tend to be quite vocal:)
And yes, I think we should focus on this "peace" thing, whatever that is, and our consumption of natural resources. However, do realize that a global scale problem can be fought with microscale efforts. Imagine if every person in the world biked to work? (I no, it's not possible for everyone, but let's be hypothetical). I also agree that NASA it seems has failed to do anything to really advance science in a long time. Have we seen a space elevator? Trips to Mars? A spacestation that has an actual purpose rather than random tests (oh look, crystals grow differently in zero-g!) Let's either get some real science, some real exploration, or put the money to better uses. NASA has become simply another bureaucratic mess.
Optician - eye-wear. Optometrist - eye-wear and eye exams, in some states low level eye treatment for diseases. Ophthalmologist - eye exams, prescriptions and surgeries.
I usually go to optometrist first, and tell him my problems and he gives me a referral to an ophthalmologist when I need it.
I was hoping to one day visit some of the interesting sites in the US. Guess I won't be doing that anytime soon. Ahh well, whole lot of world to see outside the US.
If I had to hazard a guess, I would think retinal detachment or machular degeneration. Go see an optometrist (and not an optician).
I went in for getting small flashes in the corner or my vision and found out that my retina is thinning, which is not really a good thing.
Whenever you see anything like flashes of light that aren't from the room, or new floaters in your vision, you should see your optometrist.
Here's a tip that I learned recently. Don't rub your eyes if you have high myopia (extreme near sightedness). It can increase your chances of retinal detachment.
Isn't the mundane drivel of people's lives usually why the phone each other? Why should it be any different on a plane? It just sucks that they're sharing it with you, kind of like on the street, in a mall, at restaurants...
"When one party can ram anything down the throat of the legislature you have"... The Canadian Federal Liberals? Ahh, but all it took was one scandal and their day of reckoning is almost here. Now if only there was an alternative..
So now that he owns the sun, can he claim that our use of the light and UV radiation from the since is illegal decryption of a private algorithm and therefore illegal under the DMCA?
That sunburn is proof enough that you decrypted our signal without licensed tools!
As I was under the impression, we were originally scavengers. We waited while the lions etc killed and ate the prey, waited for the hyeannas to get their share, then swooped in to eat what was left before the rats showed up. Supplement this with fruit, berries and assorted roots, and you have my understanding of original man's main diets.
Hunting, fishing, and farming type foods couldn't have come along until we were able to make tools good enough to do those things, and that wasn't for a while.
But, in the words of everyone on slashdot, I Am Not A(n).... In this case anthropologist.
Actually, this is how I understand that things happened:
Bill and Paul put a lot of work into developing Basic. They sold it to thta company that made the Altair. They became known as a programming language company. IBM was building a PC and needed an operating system so they went to Microsoft. Bill pointed them to Gary Kildall, the guy that developed CP/M (precurssor to DOS). The guy and his wife basically threw them out of the house because of ND agreements that they IBM wanted signed, etc. IBM went back to Microsoft. Bill said that they could get them an OS. The bought QDOS from some guy that had reverse engineered CP/M.
IBM had no funding the make PCs, they just saw that the market was moving along with out them, so they did something that was nearly impossible for IBM at the time, they made something in a short time and use components from other companies to do it. Software was one of those companies. Microsoft was lucky they decided to go back after the Gary Kildall's wife threw them out.
Bill's most important work to Microsoft was Basic. After that I think he largely became the knowledgable overlord with Paul as the main programming guru, but early on still did a lot of programming.
Actually, as I recal it went a little like this: Apple invents first personal computer aimed at the non-hobbyiest. Well, apparently there was one before it made in Canada, but it never took off, so that point is moot. It wasn't called a personal computer, but it was, os, apps, games, and a sleek new box, ahh the apple ][.
Then IBM said, what the hell! And decided that had to get a personal computer or risk losing the market to Apple (IBM was only servers at this point). They made the "personal computer", and hired microsoft to write apps for it (who bought DOS from a guy that wrote a copy of the OS CP/M).
Then come along guys like compaq, dell, etc, and they steal the PC market away from IBM, so IBM retreats from it for a while, realizing that their massive overhead guarantees that they cannot sell things as cheaply as the smaller companies and still make a profit.
So that, is how I understand the history of the personal computer. To the best of my knowledge, Apple was first (by about a year) to have the first consumer targetted computer, or "personal computer", but IBM invented the Personal Computer, or PC, and most the software for the PC was written by Microsoft.
So it's a matter of semantics. Personal computing, as a generic term was started by Apple, but personal computer as a reference to the personal computer, was by IBM/Microsoft.
And no, we all know the GUI was stolen from Xerox, but they weren't going to use it anyways.
The problem with GM people is cost. It's going to cost a lot of money to do it, so who'll get the benefits and become the best scientists, workers and athletes? The wealthy. Then the poorer people will just get poorer and you get people that are only suited for janitorial type jobs. IT's not good.
If GM people becomes envogue, it must be funded in a way that it becomes free from everyone, and equal across the board!
Assuming you could build such a bot, as soon as you gave it AI you'd be screwed (metaphorically). If the real chick wouldn't sleep with you then any reasonably form of AI wouldn't sleep with you either!:)
If you have a product, and a cheap version of that product, most users will buy the cheap version.
If you have a product, a cheap version and a middle priced version, most users will buy the middle priced one because it's cheaper than the expensive one and supposedly better than the cheaper one.
People are gullible. The difference between the mid-range and low end product can be as subtle as packaging.
Sounds to me from reading that somewhat inadequate article that it's all advertising hype.
They're claiming it will run 5x faster than 56k modem. Well, the thing is they're only employing compression technology to web pages.
So, it's still running at 56k. But webpages may download up to 5x faster, depending on their content.
The speed is the same, it's just web content is compressed. Which means if you get kazaa happy just thinking of this, remember that the compression is not going to compress content from kazaa (that and you'd be hard pressed to find something to compress oggs, mp3s and movies smaller than many already are).
Summary, speed the same, may appear faster, but this is mostly marketting hype.
You could create your safe list of email accounts.
Any addresses that you use for business or personal stuff. Then anything going to other email addresses on your domain (ie, moofoo@mydomain.com) sent to/dev/null.
As long as you don't have a massive and always changing user base with email addresses at your domain, you should be fine,
The easiest solution is to have no open relays. I know I know, it ain't gonna happen, but perhaps this could convince more of those relays to close their doors:
What we do is have a small app that plugs into eudora, outlook, evolution, kmail etc. Whenever you get a spam, you click a button, it scans the header, finds the smtp server that sent the spam and then sends them 1 email informing them of the fact that they are sending spam (of course you need a way of getting the sysadmin's email address). If enough people did this then the bad relays would be swamped with emails informing them of the spam they've been relaying, and they might close their relay. And non-open relays that just allow spammers to spam might think about being less friendly to spammers.
Have a signal being put out while in the theatre/restaurant, etc. This signal is interpretted by the cell phone as a vibrate only signal, and the phone automatically switches, even if it was ring only.
Of course then we'll have lawsuits against the signal causing cancer or something.
But this way the theatre could enforce making phones quiet without having to send in legions of pimply faced teenagers to try and force the issues.
Some doctors suspect that Mr Hawking may not even have ALS and may actually have a different but similar disease that works more slowly. But they don't know how to check this.
At least that's what I saw in a program about him.
There's a program called MailWasher. You can set up filters and stuff on it and what it does is it bounces spam back with the typical "The email doesn't exist" message.
I'm hoping that it might get me removed from at least a couple lists. Well, at the very least it doesn't hurt, and I was checking my email on the server first before downloading anyways (stupid virii)
Slashdot Mirror
There is, it's right here:
http://canada.gc.ca/directories/direct_e.html
A quick search for "Canada Federal Government" and the click the link for "Your MP" gets you there. It wasn't exactly hidden.
That being said, you point of view may actually count for something if you show up at your MP's office. Emails pretty much get stop responses back.
Every once in a while you just feel the need to bite ;)
;)
:)
For the argument of diversity in the space program, the problem with not ensuring that you select from various ethnic groups, and genders, is that the people will always have some form of prejudice for who they see in the role they're hiring for. Most people, if hiring for a secretary position, expect a woman, and are probably more likely to hire one over a man. I think this still occurs in most if not all fields, and the only way to combat it is "artifical diversity", whereby you force yourself to hire an equal amount from the genders and ethnic groups so that eventually those traits will no longer be considered. Then the assumption is that eventually this will lead to actual equality in the work place. Not to say that this will necessarily work, but I see it as a worthy endeavor.
Plus, really, in regards to astronauts, I suspect that you can throw any competent scientist up into space to do experiments. All you need is a good pilot to get you there and back. So really, if you don't need Albert Einstein in space, you're going to choose people that help in the realm of PR. If the population wants to see more women astronauts, you hire some, because you want people to stay interested in the space program to keep it going (keep the fat paycheque coming
As for the tree huggers. I think that is an unfair generalization. In reality I would say most so-called tree huggers are not asking for us to stop doing anything on the planet. The fact is life creates a footprint on the Earth's ecosystem, no matter what. The issue is to try to find alternatives that are better than what we currently do. Such as, is there not a more fuel efficient vehical than an SUV that will serve the same purpose? Could we do more research into alternatively fueled vehicles? Perhaps we could work on reducing the amount of fossil fuels we use, and at the same time improve their cleanliness because we're not likely to completely remove our dependence on them.
Many of these so-called tree huggers you'll probably find do make an effort to have a smaller footprint on the environment than most people. They bike to work rather than drive, eat organically grown foods, don't use pesiticides on their lawns, wear sweaters in the winter to keep their heat lower, use flourescent lights over incandescent, etc. Individually, it's about doing small things to help. On the large scale, it's about trying to improve what we have, and to find better alternatives.
Very few believe that we should go back to living in caves and living off of lichen. The ones that do just tend to be quite vocal
And yes, I think we should focus on this "peace" thing, whatever that is, and our consumption of natural resources. However, do realize that a global scale problem can be fought with microscale efforts. Imagine if every person in the world biked to work? (I no, it's not possible for everyone, but let's be hypothetical).
I also agree that NASA it seems has failed to do anything to really advance science in a long time. Have we seen a space elevator? Trips to Mars? A spacestation that has an actual purpose rather than random tests (oh look, crystals grow differently in zero-g!) Let's either get some real science, some real exploration, or put the money to better uses. NASA has become simply another bureaucratic mess.
Found this easy breakdown:
Optician - eye-wear.
Optometrist - eye-wear and eye exams, in some states low level eye treatment for diseases.
Ophthalmologist - eye exams, prescriptions and surgeries.
I usually go to optometrist first, and tell him my problems and he gives me a referral to an ophthalmologist when I need it.
I don't know too many humans with four legs....
;)
(don't worry, I _do_ get your point
I was hoping to one day visit some of the interesting sites in the US. Guess I won't be doing that anytime soon. Ahh well, whole lot of world to see outside the US.
If I had to hazard a guess, I would think retinal detachment or machular degeneration. Go see an optometrist (and not an optician).
I went in for getting small flashes in the corner or my vision and found out that my retina is thinning, which is not really a good thing.
Whenever you see anything like flashes of light that aren't from the room, or new floaters in your vision, you should see your optometrist.
Here's a tip that I learned recently. Don't rub your eyes if you have high myopia (extreme near sightedness). It can increase your chances of retinal detachment.
Isn't the mundane drivel of people's lives usually why the phone each other? Why should it be any different on a plane? It just sucks that they're sharing it with you, kind of like on the street, in a mall, at restaurants...
"When one party can ram anything down the throat of the legislature you have"... The Canadian Federal Liberals? Ahh, but all it took was one scandal and their day of reckoning is almost here. Now if only there was an alternative..
So as long as the spreadsheet it's based on never has more than 65536 entries.... or has that limitation finally been removed?
I do want to point out want thing....
"indefinite"... as I understand that does not mean "infinite", it means, undefined.. So really those could read:
Psalm 78:69 . . . the earth that he has founded to an undefined age.
Psalm 104:5 He has founded the earth upon its established places; It will not be made to totter to an undefined age, or forever.
hmm, undefined or forever, I figure which ever comes first
So now that he owns the sun, can he claim that our use of the light and UV radiation from the since is illegal decryption of a private algorithm and therefore illegal under the DMCA?
That sunburn is proof enough that you decrypted our signal without licensed tools!
So when did eclipse do it?
We just need to beat 2000 (when the patent was filed)
As I was under the impression, we were originally scavengers. We waited while the lions etc killed and ate the prey, waited for the hyeannas to get their share, then swooped in to eat what was left before the rats showed up. Supplement this with fruit, berries and assorted roots, and you have my understanding of original man's main diets.
.... In this case anthropologist.
Hunting, fishing, and farming type foods couldn't have come along until we were able to make tools good enough to do those things, and that wasn't for a while.
But, in the words of everyone on slashdot,
I Am Not A(n)
Actually, this is how I understand that things happened:
Bill and Paul put a lot of work into developing Basic. They sold it to thta company that made the Altair. They became known as a programming language company. IBM was building a PC and needed an operating system so they went to Microsoft. Bill pointed them to Gary Kildall, the guy that developed CP/M (precurssor to DOS). The guy and his wife basically threw them out of the house because of ND agreements that they IBM wanted signed, etc. IBM went back to Microsoft. Bill said that they could get them an OS. The bought QDOS from some guy that had reverse engineered CP/M.
IBM had no funding the make PCs, they just saw that the market was moving along with out them, so they did something that was nearly impossible for IBM at the time, they made something in a short time and use components from other companies to do it. Software was one of those companies. Microsoft was lucky they decided to go back after the Gary Kildall's wife threw them out.
Bill's most important work to Microsoft was Basic. After that I think he largely became the knowledgable overlord with Paul as the main programming guru, but early on still did a lot of programming.
Actually, I know a guy who does this for a living and yah, he drives around all day recording key points.
Actually, as I recal it went a little like this:
Apple invents first personal computer aimed at the non-hobbyiest. Well, apparently there was one before it made in Canada, but it never took off, so that point is moot. It wasn't called a personal computer, but it was, os, apps, games, and a sleek new box, ahh the apple ][.
Then IBM said, what the hell! And decided that had to get a personal computer or risk losing the market to Apple (IBM was only servers at this point). They made the "personal computer", and hired microsoft to write apps for it (who bought DOS from a guy that wrote a copy of the OS CP/M).
Then come along guys like compaq, dell, etc, and they steal the PC market away from IBM, so IBM retreats from it for a while, realizing that their massive overhead guarantees that they cannot sell things as cheaply as the smaller companies and still make a profit.
So that, is how I understand the history of the personal computer. To the best of my knowledge, Apple was first (by about a year) to have the first consumer targetted computer, or "personal computer", but IBM invented the Personal Computer, or PC, and most the software for the PC was written by Microsoft.
So it's a matter of semantics. Personal computing, as a generic term was started by Apple, but personal computer as a reference to the personal computer, was by IBM/Microsoft.
And no, we all know the GUI was stolen from Xerox, but they weren't going to use it anyways.
The problem with GM people is cost. It's going to cost a lot of money to do it, so who'll get the benefits and become the best scientists, workers and athletes? The wealthy. Then the poorer people will just get poorer and you get people that are only suited for janitorial type jobs. IT's not good.
If GM people becomes envogue, it must be funded in a way that it becomes free from everyone, and equal across the board!
Assuming you could build such a bot, as soon as you gave it AI you'd be screwed (metaphorically). If the real chick wouldn't sleep with you then any reasonably form of AI wouldn't sleep with you either! :)
It's called marketting.
If you have a product, and a cheap version of that product, most users will buy the cheap version.
If you have a product, a cheap version and a middle priced version, most users will buy the middle priced one because it's cheaper than the expensive one and supposedly better than the cheaper one.
People are gullible. The difference between the mid-range and low end product can be as subtle as packaging.
Sounds to me from reading that somewhat inadequate article that it's all advertising hype.
They're claiming it will run 5x faster than 56k modem. Well, the thing is they're only employing compression technology to web pages.
So, it's still running at 56k. But webpages may download up to 5x faster, depending on their content.
The speed is the same, it's just web content is compressed. Which means if you get kazaa happy just thinking of this, remember that the compression is not going to compress content from kazaa (that and you'd be hard pressed to find something to compress oggs, mp3s and movies smaller than many already are).
Summary, speed the same, may appear faster, but this is mostly marketting hype.
You could create your safe list of email accounts.
/dev/null.
Any addresses that you use for business or personal stuff. Then anything going to other email addresses on your domain (ie, moofoo@mydomain.com) sent to
As long as you don't have a massive and always changing user base with email addresses at your domain, you should be fine,
I would think...
The easiest solution is to have no open relays. I know I know, it ain't gonna happen, but perhaps this could convince more of those relays to close their doors:
What we do is have a small app that plugs into eudora, outlook, evolution, kmail etc. Whenever you get a spam, you click a button, it scans the header, finds the smtp server that sent the spam and then sends them 1 email informing them of the fact that they are sending spam (of course you need a way of getting the sysadmin's email address).
If enough people did this then the bad relays would be swamped with emails informing them of the spam they've been relaying, and they might close their relay. And non-open relays that just allow spammers to spam might think about being less friendly to spammers.
What do people think, is it lame?
Of course then we'll have lawsuits against the signal causing cancer or something.
But this way the theatre could enforce making phones quiet without having to send in legions of pimply faced teenagers to try and force the issues.
Some doctors suspect that Mr Hawking may not even have ALS and may actually have a different but similar disease that works more slowly. But they don't know how to check this.
At least that's what I saw in a program about him.
There's a program called MailWasher. You can set up filters and stuff on it and what it does is it bounces spam back with the typical "The email doesn't exist" message.
I'm hoping that it might get me removed from at least a couple lists. Well, at the very least it doesn't hurt, and I was checking my email on the server first before downloading anyways (stupid virii)