>I think you're laboring under the belief that: >1. the sole of a shoe can contain any significant amount of explosive >2. that walking on such a shoe would not cause the explosive to go off
Dude, why do you think they suddenly started making people take their shoes off? Does the name "Richard Reid" ring a bell? Inept idiot or not, he does [ahem] totally blow away your argument.
>To get apples to apples, compare the cost of the panel (1$ someday) with the production (mining, transport) cost of 1 Watt of coal.
For coal, that's easy. The purchase price of coal includes all of that. It must, otherwise coal mines wouldn't be selling coal.
These might be the solar cells to solve some problems, but you've got to keep in mind there's a ton of cost overhead to turn those photons into usable electrons.
Coal you burn once, and you're done. Easy price calculation.
With solar, you buy the solar cells. And the regulators (Sunlight's variable ya know). And the battery packs, assuming you're not going directly back into the grid. And maint of said batteries.
And the solar cells aren't producing 100% output for 12 hours/day. And the lifespan of these solar cells are an estimate.
Don't get me wrong, I'm all for this. I'm just very suspcious of an apples to oranges comparison used in marketing speak.
I learned to type on my C=64. Mainly because I had neither tape or floppy storage. I'd type in a program from Compute's Gazzete, and leave the computer on all day. Once it turned off - it was all gone.
I had a stack of hand-written programs next to the computer. Think of it as an analog hard drive.
Ah, those were the days... Now kindly remove yourself from my front yard.
...my boss will fire me and replace me with someone that wont ask for overtime.
Your statement is coming from the premise that your employer has all of the power here.
The reality is that you've got more power. If your employer wants a different employee, they'll fire you and pay you +2 weeks pay, possibly severance. If you want a different employer, you can find one, then quit without notice.
It hurts the company more financially to lose you.
If you're unhappy about your job, you need to take control of your life and do something about it. You're only a slave and victim as long as you want to be.
I hope they've solved some of the problems getting lunar soil samples back. The Apollo program had some issues, and they never did get a sample back still sealed air-tight. http://www.mitchross.com/blog/index.php?itemid=35
The peoblem is lack of perceived value. You're combating "Why bother logging it, it's fixed now anyway?" - or to put it another way "What's in it for me?"
Tell your staff what you're trying to get for them (more hands? more budget? more ThinkGeek toys?), and let them know that logging calls will convince the Big Boss that you really do need it.
Posting stats is a great idea. Throw in some competition, and then you've got an inventive. To start, how about an award/bonus/go home early prize for the most [legit] calls logged in a week?
Getting detail on the calls is a battle to fight later- and may never be worth the effort.
(Pardon the King James, couldn't find a modern transation in short order)
21.6. And the Lord sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died. 7. Therefore the people came to Moses, and said, We have sinned, for we have spoken against the Lord, and against thee; pray unto the Lord, that he take away the serpents from us. And Moses prayed for the people. 8. And the Lord said unto Moses, Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole: and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live. 9. And Moses made a serpent of brass, and put it upon a pole, and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived.
> I can point other HUGE problem regarding Windows on OLPC: > > - Lack of OPEN developer tools
I agree- and I'm quite sure Microsoft's push for XP (or XPe or some custom XP-OLPC edition) is based on selling the developer tools & office.
Here's what OLPC *really* needs. Hear me out on this one: BASIC. Think about it for a second- what made the Commodore-64 so successfull, before all those games were released? Thousands of wide-eyed kids got their first computer, and discovered that they could make it do what *they* wanted it to do. because the tools were built-in!
That's the same environment that OLPC's are going into- people who haven't seen computers much, if at all. What's really going to make these things take off is Jr. writing a little app to track dad's crops, livestock, etc. And then Jr. going off to sell said apps, get hired to write more code, and behold, a new industry is off & rolling!
The goal of OLPC is to get them into the hands of the child. Empower him, and then you'll start a technology revolution
Mediation is based on the premise that it's better to get an agreement than determine who's right. It doesn't matter what the contract/terms of service/agreement was.
Mediation is your mother saying "Can't we all just get along?" Courts are your father saying "You lied. Play time is over, go to your room."
I've done mediation, and I'll never do it again. Not that I'm bitter.
Dude, ever hear of integrating hotfixes? Just like slipstreaming Service Packs, only smaller. When I deploy an XP machine, it doesn't need ANY updates. It's hours faster, and takes a large burden off your internet pipe.
Sounds like an opening for competition against Media Player. If WMP is shipped brain damaged, what's to stop 3rd party apps from doing full HD payback instead?
Partisanship, you say? On the part of whom? It's a large country with both red & blue states (and counties, and townships). These devices are used in both. For every example of "Party A" [potential|real] corruption, I could find the same for "Party B".
Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
Besides, look at the level of access that the article's photographers had to the unit. Give the same amount of access to *any* other voting style (even pull-lever) and it could be hacked.
*Snow. Sleet. Slush. (Michigan snow is not to be underestimated) *Wind. If it's hard to keep a car on the road, I'm sure not going out in a bike! *Safety. Given the morons on the road, I'll take my hard top & airbag and live longer, thank-you-very-much. *Passengers. *Dork factor. The stereotypical dress code of *nix users keeps people from taking it seriously. Ditto for biking. I'll drive a car and advance my career faster. That's life folks- deal with it.
I'm sure it works for some people, but I can't imagine it working for the vast majority of people.
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>I think you're laboring under the belief that:
>1. the sole of a shoe can contain any significant amount of explosive
>2. that walking on such a shoe would not cause the explosive to go off
Dude, why do you think they suddenly started making people take their shoes off? Does the name "Richard Reid" ring a bell? Inept idiot or not, he does [ahem] totally blow away your argument.
http://www.google.com/search?q=shoe+bomber
>Link or it didn't happen
ISO 9000, is that you?
>To get apples to apples, compare the cost of the panel (1$ someday) with the production (mining, transport) cost of 1 Watt of coal.
For coal, that's easy. The purchase price of coal includes all of that. It must, otherwise coal mines wouldn't be selling coal.
These might be the solar cells to solve some problems, but you've got to keep in mind there's a ton of cost overhead to turn those photons into usable electrons.
$1/watt? Cheaper than coal? I'm confused.
Coal you burn once, and you're done. Easy price calculation.
With solar, you buy the solar cells. And the regulators (Sunlight's variable ya know). And the battery packs, assuming you're not going directly back into the grid. And maint of said batteries.
And the solar cells aren't producing 100% output for 12 hours/day. And the lifespan of these solar cells are an estimate.
Don't get me wrong, I'm all for this. I'm just very suspcious of an apples to oranges comparison used in marketing speak.
I learned to type on my C=64. Mainly because I had neither tape or floppy storage. I'd type in a program from Compute's Gazzete, and leave the computer on all day. Once it turned off - it was all gone.
I had a stack of hand-written programs next to the computer. Think of it as an analog hard drive.
Ah, those were the days... Now kindly remove yourself from my front yard.
I've always heard taht 100 watt/person, but have never seen real data to back that up.
According to
http://www.swarthmore.edu/NatSci/es/energy/bodyheat.html
A person puts out 54 watts. Or at least 1 standard professor unit does.
x) Cable TV (thanks to government granted monopolies)
x) Credit Monitoring
x) Realtors
"Non-human primates"? Reminds me of the "pilotless drone" bit from The Seanachai
http://www.theseanachai.com/2007/04/04/yeah-yeah-but-whos-flying-the-plane/
http://www.theseanachai.com/podpress_trac/web/206/0/plane.mp3
Your statement is coming from the premise that your employer has all of the power here.
The reality is that you've got more power. If your employer wants a different employee, they'll fire you and pay you +2 weeks pay, possibly severance. If you want a different employer, you can find one, then quit without notice.
It hurts the company more financially to lose you.
If you're unhappy about your job, you need to take control of your life and do something about it. You're only a slave and victim as long as you want to be.
I hope they've solved some of the problems getting lunar soil samples back. The Apollo program had some issues, and they never did get a sample back still sealed air-tight. http://www.mitchross.com/blog/index.php?itemid=35
http://www.wired.com/techbiz/it/magazine/15-08/st
Cool Pixel graph that says:
37% Other
18% Transportation
16% Shelter
13% Food
5% Tech
4% Apparel
3% Health Ins
3% Entertainment
1% Prescriptions
>There's no way to tell if the world would have come out
>better or worse had the colonies not declared independence.
You seriously need to read "Common Sense" by Thomas Paine. He directly addresses your point in a very logical approach.
Your ideas intrigue me and I wish to subscribe to your torrent.
Man, can you imagine the sheer pressure of being on that show?
"The experiments were done with Legos because most of the things around his office were protected by copyright"
Um, the Lego folks might want to have a word with him...
Only on Slashdot could an OS be listed as both Vintage and New Release - in the same day.
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http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/12/26/0
http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=213634&ci
The peoblem is lack of perceived value. You're combating "Why bother logging it, it's fixed now anyway?" - or to put it another way "What's in it for me?"
Tell your staff what you're trying to get for them (more hands? more budget? more ThinkGeek toys?), and let them know that logging calls will convince the Big Boss that you really do need it.
Posting stats is a great idea. Throw in some competition, and then you've got an inventive. To start, how about an award/bonus/go home early prize for the most [legit] calls logged in a week?
Getting detail on the calls is a battle to fight later- and may never be worth the effort.
Yes, but not the reason you think.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nehushtan
Numbers 21:4-9
(Pardon the King James, couldn't find a modern transation in short order)
21.6. And the Lord sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died. 7. Therefore the people came to Moses, and said, We have sinned, for we have spoken against the Lord, and against thee; pray unto the Lord, that he take away the serpents from us. And Moses prayed for the people. 8. And the Lord said unto Moses, Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole: and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live. 9. And Moses made a serpent of brass, and put it upon a pole, and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived.
> I can point other HUGE problem regarding Windows on OLPC:
>
> - Lack of OPEN developer tools
I agree- and I'm quite sure Microsoft's push for XP (or XPe or some custom XP-OLPC edition) is based on selling the developer tools & office.
Here's what OLPC *really* needs. Hear me out on this one: BASIC. Think about it for a second- what made the Commodore-64 so successfull, before all those games were released? Thousands of wide-eyed kids got their first computer, and discovered that they could make it do what *they* wanted it to do. because the tools were built-in!
That's the same environment that OLPC's are going into- people who haven't seen computers much, if at all. What's really going to make these things take off is Jr. writing a little app to track dad's crops, livestock, etc. And then Jr. going off to sell said apps, get hired to write more code, and behold, a new industry is off & rolling!
The goal of OLPC is to get them into the hands of the child. Empower him, and then you'll start a technology revolution
Mediation is based on the premise that it's better to get an agreement than determine who's right. It doesn't matter what the contract/terms of service/agreement was.
Mediation is your mother saying "Can't we all just get along?"
Courts are your father saying "You lied. Play time is over, go to your room."
I've done mediation, and I'll never do it again. Not that I'm bitter.
Dude, ever hear of integrating hotfixes? Just like slipstreaming Service Packs, only smaller. When I deploy an XP machine, it doesn't need ANY updates. It's hours faster, and takes a large burden off your internet pipe.
r vicepacks/sp3/hfdeploy.htm
It's written for 2k, but works for XP too...
http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/downloads/se
>Most likely, the cable would break, the 99.999% of the cable above the impact point would start to drift upwards,
r eaks/index.html
Umm, no. Real answer: It depends, and none of the answers are good. See also:
http://www.mit.edu/people/gassend/spaceelevator/b
Sounds like an opening for competition against Media Player. If WMP is shipped brain damaged, what's to stop 3rd party apps from doing full HD payback instead?
VideoLan anyone? http://www.videolan.org/
Good Gravy! It's a Stepford Mouse!
Partisanship, you say? On the part of whom? It's a large country with both red & blue states (and counties, and townships). These devices are used in both. For every example of "Party A" [potential|real] corruption, I could find the same for "Party B".
Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
Besides, look at the level of access that the article's photographers had to the unit. Give the same amount of access to *any* other voting style (even pull-lever) and it could be hacked.
>Need i say more?
Totally agree, and add:
*Snow. Sleet. Slush. (Michigan snow is not to be underestimated)
*Wind. If it's hard to keep a car on the road, I'm sure not going out in a bike!
*Safety. Given the morons on the road, I'll take my hard top & airbag and live longer, thank-you-very-much.
*Passengers.
*Dork factor. The stereotypical dress code of *nix users keeps people from taking it seriously. Ditto for biking. I'll drive a car and advance my career faster. That's life folks- deal with it.
I'm sure it works for some people, but I can't imagine it working for the vast majority of people.