Shotguns and muskets? The weapon of choice for knocking off banks and the like was always a sawn off.
I would suggest most people go and watch "Bowling for Columbine" It gives a very clear picture of the question. It's not guns it's people it's always dumb schmucks like you and me.
America has a number of problems at the moment the least of which is guns. A corrupt administration, a corrupt legislature for starters. When Bush strolls into Iraq do not expect things to get any better.
As a side point has any gun legislature in the last 100 years made the citizens safer or has it made the politicians safer?
This is exactly what a diesel engine does. Spins a generator so it can drive an electric motor. Hell we could have nuclear trains if we wanted.
The US is not ready for high speed trains, the infrastructre is FUBAR. Railroad crossings are lethal at the moment and likely to become worse with 100mph+ trains.
The Amercian public is not wishing to travel by train, so get the passangers off the track and make them exclusively for freight.
The best thing that could happen is for AmTrak to be put out of it's misery it's assets sold off and everyone forget about rail travel in the US.
Maybe in 50 years if nothing better has come along America can rediscover trains but until the current crippled system is ripped out nothing will improve.
And the correct answer is.....Shoot Richard Stallman.....TWICE
Re:Easy prediction: It'll Never Happen.
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The emergency medical helo in London *ALWAYS* takes off by flying backwards up the autogyrate route. Appraently it's saved at least one crew who had an engine off during take off.
Until it's cheap. I want my Silver Surfer fantasy damn it now just hurry up and make it happen.
It won't happen with current tech, too expensive and liable to fail. We need something like anti gravity, ducks the punches thrown by physicists, or something similar that provides oodles of lift for a few cents.
Having surfed, skateboarded, snow boarded I'm all set to flyboard.
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That's assuming you have a place to land, the rotors are still in one piece, the rotors are free to auto rotate, the other control surfaces are still functioning. There is plenty of footage of autorotation accidents.
Having an engine shut off at speed in a corner is vicious, suddenly no drive going to braking. When your car is balanced at speed any change in force is a big problem.
I thought Aurora was testing ION drive. The light from the wings is not buring fuel but the wings radiate thrust. Or at least that's what some fool told me in a bar.
His is a middle view point. He in no way advocates taking control of the PC away from the user. He is merely saying that there should be different levels of availability for information.
I am pretty far out there on this point in that I believe we would be better served with no security or anonimity but rather a completely open society from top to bottom. It ain't going to happen in America but prehaps the next empire can start off with this in it's constitution.
When there's a plug in my coach seat flying intercontinental then prehaps I'll see the benefit of large, heavy, long time to recharge, heavy metal laden, short usage time capacitors.
When did SAP, BANN et al get created? Did they come ready formed at their present huge size? No, they started off as small packages satisfying one or two areas of need. They then grew to encompass other areas.
No Linux system currently has the name brand of Sun, but what about Linux/390? or whatever the mainframe version is called. Sun has an uphill battle to keep intel out of the high end server market.
Both of the preceeding points are really the same one.
A very common exaample of the same things is that of steel mills. When the US ruled the world of steel there was massive plants churning out steel. Then someone developed the mini mill. These mills did not produce as good steel as the big plants but their steel was cheap. So companies that needed cheap steel and did not need the quality bought steel from the mini mills. The large plants discovered the demand for their low end steel was diminishing so they started to withdraw from the low margin market. All the while mini mills researched how to make better steel cheaply. Thus they started enchroaching on the next level of steel quality and so on and so forth.
Digital cameras are another example. Kodak dismissed digital cameras because the quality was so poor. Pity they didn't understand Moores law exponential growth in digital quality?
I forsee the day when most vertical software is Open Source. Someone or some company decides that it needs an accounting system and decides to write one. They release the code because one of their developers convinces the board that like most companies software is not an asset but a liability to them. Another developer sees this accounting package and thinks it's a good fit for his company if only he can change a few things. So he releases his fixes etc etc. Now this accounting package is rolling along and everything is gelling, hell they even get a mention on/. Another company needs inventory control, they have this accounting package and they decide to write inventory control, they might even solicite other companies to see if they need inventry control.
An added bonus for companies that decide to implement this package is that upgrades are free, the demand for expensive developers decreases.
There are already Open Source projects dealing with ERP/CRM.
It has already matured and will continue to do so. IT does not change every day, in fact since I started working in the industry very little has changed. There has been no ground breaking discoveries in a long time, say 15+ years. What has happened is that IT staff are becoming more aware that they have to provide working systems not flashy technology. My employer cares not that we have a character based system but that we never have an unplanned outage.
As a side, and this is/., I see more and more IT shops moving to linux. If Linux gets some half decent Open Source vertical applications then companies will flock to it. Why pay $2,500,000 for an ERP package that you have to tailor?
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...same as the old boss.
Politicians, politicians we don't need no politicians.
Go read Animal Farm!
What about other areas with a high density of intelligent people? OR what does Silicon Valley have that no other area does?
I have no idea what causes the problem but neither does anyone else.
Clive GPL'd the roms?
Bullshit. It only operates in 2D it ain't going to fly.
Bad Maths Alert
It might not be that apple's user base is getting smaller but rather growing less than the total number of desktops is growing.
Ah yes moderation (-1 pedantic)
Shotguns and muskets? The weapon of choice for knocking off banks and the like was always a sawn off.
I would suggest most people go and watch "Bowling for Columbine" It gives a very clear picture of the question. It's not guns it's people it's always dumb schmucks like you and me.
America has a number of problems at the moment the least of which is guns. A corrupt administration, a corrupt legislature for starters. When Bush strolls into Iraq do not expect things to get any better.
As a side point has any gun legislature in the last 100 years made the citizens safer or has it made the politicians safer?
This is exactly what a diesel engine does. Spins a generator so it can drive an electric motor. Hell we could have nuclear trains if we wanted.
The US is not ready for high speed trains, the infrastructre is FUBAR. Railroad crossings are lethal at the moment and likely to become worse with 100mph+ trains.
The Amercian public is not wishing to travel by train, so get the passangers off the track and make them exclusively for freight.
The best thing that could happen is for AmTrak to be put out of it's misery it's assets sold off and everyone forget about rail travel in the US.
Maybe in 50 years if nothing better has come along America can rediscover trains but until the current crippled system is ripped out nothing will improve.
OK I'll bite...
How did you get Linux running on a Z80? I think you might be pulling this stuff out of the air.
Considering HIV has yet to be isolated just how can computer simulations help?
And the correct answer is.....Shoot Richard Stallman.....TWICE
The emergency medical helo in London *ALWAYS* takes off by flying backwards up the autogyrate route. Appraently it's saved at least one crew who had an engine off during take off.
Until it's cheap. I want my Silver Surfer fantasy damn it now just hurry up and make it happen.
It won't happen with current tech, too expensive and liable to fail. We need something like anti gravity, ducks the punches thrown by physicists, or something similar that provides oodles of lift for a few cents.
Having surfed, skateboarded, snow boarded I'm all set to flyboard.
That's assuming you have a place to land, the rotors are still in one piece, the rotors are free to auto rotate, the other control surfaces are still functioning. There is plenty of footage of autorotation accidents.
Having an engine shut off at speed in a corner is vicious, suddenly no drive going to braking. When your car is balanced at speed any change in force is a big problem.
I thought Aurora was testing ION drive. The light from the wings is not buring fuel but the wings radiate thrust. Or at least that's what some fool told me in a bar.
Well I've had AOL, yahoo, MIT and CERN addresses what does that tell you.
Apart from that I'm a big fat liar, that is.
Email address is no indication of anything. It's like having a president from Harvard.
They are niether inscruitable or wrong.
His is a middle view point. He in no way advocates taking control of the PC away from the user. He is merely saying that there should be different levels of availability for information.
I am pretty far out there on this point in that I believe we would be better served with no security or anonimity but rather a completely open society from top to bottom. It ain't going to happen in America but prehaps the next empire can start off with this in it's constitution.
Careful, /. has heard of you does that mean you exist?
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MBONE?
Multicast vs Unicast guess which is better for a large number of viewers?
I'm hoping that more TV/Cable/Internet conglomerates wake up to what a boon MBone would be to them.
And when did a set of box cutters bring down an airplane? Ahh I see the same way alchol causes cars to crash. Bad example?
When there's a plug in my coach seat flying intercontinental then prehaps I'll see the benefit of large, heavy, long time to recharge, heavy metal laden, short usage time capacitors.
Something about salt and a flash cube spring to mind
Look Ma no cabin pressure
33 yrs old and posting on /. V. sad
Never say never!
/. Another company needs inventory control, they have this accounting package and they decide to write inventory control, they might even solicite other companies to see if they need inventry control.
When did SAP, BANN et al get created? Did they come ready formed at their present huge size? No, they started off as small packages satisfying one or two areas of need. They then grew to encompass other areas.
No Linux system currently has the name brand of Sun, but what about Linux/390? or whatever the mainframe version is called. Sun has an uphill battle to keep intel out of the high end server market.
Both of the preceeding points are really the same one.
A very common exaample of the same things is that of steel mills. When the US ruled the world of steel there was massive plants churning out steel. Then someone developed the mini mill. These mills did not produce as good steel as the big plants but their steel was cheap. So companies that needed cheap steel and did not need the quality bought steel from the mini mills. The large plants discovered the demand for their low end steel was diminishing so they started to withdraw from the low margin market. All the while mini mills researched how to make better steel cheaply. Thus they started enchroaching on the next level of steel quality and so on and so forth.
Digital cameras are another example. Kodak dismissed digital cameras because the quality was so poor. Pity they didn't understand Moores law exponential growth in digital quality?
I forsee the day when most vertical software is Open Source. Someone or some company decides that it needs an accounting system and decides to write one. They release the code because one of their developers convinces the board that like most companies software is not an asset but a liability to them. Another developer sees this accounting package and thinks it's a good fit for his company if only he can change a few things. So he releases his fixes etc etc. Now this accounting package is rolling along and everything is gelling, hell they even get a mention on
An added bonus for companies that decide to implement this package is that upgrades are free, the demand for expensive developers decreases.
There are already Open Source projects dealing with ERP/CRM.
It has already matured and will continue to do so. IT does not change every day, in fact since I started working in the industry very little has changed. There has been no ground breaking discoveries in a long time, say 15+ years. What has happened is that IT staff are becoming more aware that they have to provide working systems not flashy technology. My employer cares not that we have a character based system but that we never have an unplanned outage.
/., I see more and more IT shops moving to linux. If Linux gets some half decent Open Source vertical applications then companies will flock to it. Why pay $2,500,000 for an ERP package that you have to tailor?
As a side, and this is
hmm no, killing in war is legal and therefore not murder which is unlawful killing.