There is a lot more oil to be removed from the ground than we have even taken out of it. A lot of it is locked up in materials not normally drilled or in areas with environmental worries.
There are oil fields in parts of the former Soviet Union that only need a pipeline and investment to make them worthwhile, these fields alone last for more than 20 years.. and that is just the reserves they know of. Right now Japan and China are both negotiating for a pipeline from those areas so that they can reduce their reliance on M.E. oil.
You tell me which would happen first...
World collapses because no one will drill in areas where the environmental protesters will go crazy or they drill anyway?
Besides, if their like most protest groups they get the land donated to them and then they drill on it!
Oh, quit parroting the environmental wacko crew... its been 10-20 years of soon to run out of oil for HOW LONG now? I don't know who is worse, them or the Fusion guys.
Seems their goal (Segway) of having the taxpayers buy up their production via Government purchases didn't materialize. They knew they had no real commercial viability, hence all the attempts to get large government organizations to test it out in hopes of getting a buyer.
My favorite were the lard ass Atlanta cops that tried it, trouble was they were too clutzy to operate it.
Segway, a product that looked neat but had no market yet was hyped to all heck and back. Just another feature of the dot-com craze.
But I downloaded it. Gave them correct information. Plan to expand my horizons by finding out what it is about.
On a side note, the Economist recently ran an article asking if Public Libraries are now out dated. If so then it is says a lot about society and not much of that is bad. Making texts of books like this available is a start, making the fact that they are available is the real task. Perhaps the government can use some of that money wasted on pork barrel projects to provide a public "Internet library" which collects such releases as this?
Never assume that who you marching for has your best interest at heart, let alone your way of living. Many protest marchs are funded by groups that if the protesters knew they would hopefully not march.
Just slapping a "sounds nice / feed good" name on a group seems to satisfy most peoples needs. I guess it goes to show a lot of people feel the need to show they care even if they are not willing to go to the effort to find out why.
I don't care how powerful it is, if the interface is confusing then it is not written correctly.
Burn my Karma, but frankly its attitudes like this which leave a lot of OS projects forever in the "also ran" category.
I don't care if its free. I don't care if its open-source. I don't care it is not Microsoft/insert-evil-of-week
I care that it is intuitive I care that it follows standard conventions I care that they look forward to implementing things better I care that they look forward to adding that feature that makes product-X so great I care that what I need to make it work is easy to find, as in linked from one place.
These professional packages did not become the dominant players by just passing themselves off as "assuming a competent user". They did their time of ass kissing to the consumer for many years to earn their reputation as the best or most used packages.
Tell people that they need to put forth more effort to get something to work like they are used to the competition working is the same as saying, don't bother, we don't care.
We can bitch all we want about their human rights abuses, but if we slap some trade embargoes or similar we will get run up by the WTO for it.
China knew that getting WTO approval meant a free hand in how they run roughshod over their own.
Besides, the world already caved in and gave them the Olympics.
Lastly, the best route to flipping China, besides waiting for their soon to be Christian majority to do it, is through trade, capitialism, and information.
They can tell the store an item is leaving, they cannot tell you who it is on.
Now if your the only person in the store and you leave with the item you just bought they could do it. However in a busy store and especially with a popular sale item they are not going to be able to say Joe was the 3rd person out in the last 5 minutes with item x.
As far as correlation between you and your purchase, if you don't pay with cash they already have that, RFID doesn't change the picture.
"A spokeswoman for Bowen said getting the bill through the Senate--which approved it in a 22-8 vote--was relatively easy because the senators as a group don't have a thorough grasp of the technology. "
I am more concerned with a bunch of aristocrats setting policy without knowledge than what Wal-Mart is doing.
I also fail to see the privacy issue. The tags do not tell the store WHO you are. They can't see you walk out and say, "Joe took a walk-man out of the store" they can only say that one left.
Besides, where was the concern when tags were placed inside of CDs and DVDs? Is this just another "attack Wal-Mart" parade? Wal-Mart is big, but they still are only 8% of the retail market... which makes them anything but a monopoly.
First you need to have Linux challenging Windows on the desktop in a big way. Its not happening.
What one thing many OS supporters forget is a lot of these applications don't have the features of commercial products nor do the teams seem to be inclined in many cases to do so.
Comments like yours are one thing many companies use as an excuse for NOT writing software for Linux. It is almost becoming a stereotype that OS=FREE or Linux Software must be free as Linux is. That makes it difficult to move non-Linux products to Linux. Where is the return?
Back to my first point. Office will remain dominant until the common features used by users are all supported and supported flawlessly. Competition to windows on the desktop will not truly happen until OS programmers/teams realize that kissing up to the customer is job #1. Kissing up to the Linux community won't get you anywhere.... you have to kiss up to the Windows community. Instead of saying "we ain't putting that feature in" it needs to become "That is indeed useful, we need to see when we can support it"
Back on topic.
Yeah, they are late to the party, but they do offer a lot and are not asking for an arm and a leg.
I am in the crowd who does not support most global warming theories. Why? Because they are just that, theories. We try to explain how something works, have the audacity to think we can model it, then go along the lines of where the most money is.
The trouble with most Global Warming solutions is that they only want to selectively enforce them on Western countries. Go to the East and see their pollution. They are where most Western countries were in the 50s. Yet no treat seeks to restrict them.
One volcano had more of an effect on sunlight penetration in just a few days than man managed burning all the wells in Iraq. The Amazon river puts out more CO2 than most countries. The ice caps are melting, the ice caps are getting thicker...
In other words, every 2 to 3 years we get presented with a new theory about what is causing it and why yet we get the same old rehashed solution, restrict the most industrialized countries.
Blame Bush is in fashion, he is an easy target. Yet the EPA is actually testing for stuff now that never was. We do have cleaner water than just a few years ago, we have a real and enforceable means of testing for mercury. We are even going after MBTEs? (sp? - the gas additive pushed by Gore that is a cancer causing seeps into our water chemical). The EU even acknowledges they can't meet targets. The US Sentate regardless of when Clinton was President voted it down.
Yeah, man can affect the environment. However we aren't the only game in town. The Earth and the Sun can do things in days we can only fear we will cause in years or decades.
One side effect of clean energy is more energy consumption and production. This leads to a new pollution which may account for some of what we see, heat. Heat is a standard byproduct of all energy use. As we get more efficient in producing it we consume more... so how long before we stop worrying about what chemicals go into the air and start worrying about the excess heat we push there.
Anyone have some good methods for having random playlists that EXCLUDE certain tracks/albums? Most soundtracks will sound out of place in a random list.
I think he or his generals are loopy enough to be that rogue nation. Throw in any Muslim country that gets taken over by Islamic Fundamentalist as well...
The Cold War came to an end because of someone else the Left hated. Reagan.
He figured out the only peaceful solution to defeating the Soviet Union. Spend them into a hole.
Unfortunately this could not work with Iraq. See, while the Soviets were "bad" they were rationale. Iraq and Saddam weren't. This is the same problem we face in North Korea except he already has the bomb and is further down the crazy train than Saddam was.
That is going to be next big issue we have to face. Jimmy Carter basically sold us out to North Korea. He tied Bill Clinton's hands in that whole nefarious caper. Then again I haven't seen one dictator that Carter DOESN'T like. Clinton didn't do anything about Saddam because he was too paralyzed by poll numbers. This led the expansion of terrorism that we are fighting now. The terrorist even agreed with the assessment. After our LACK OF response they saw us as a paper tiger.
Peace sometimes cost lives. The value of any peaceful society is how many lives are you willing to spend to obtain it. Those who would not spend any do not deserve to even live in a free world.
He proved he had them by using them on his own people. Trouble was he never proved he got rid of them.
So when the truth hits you upside the head don't cry because it hurts.
Finally, Iraq isn't some little country. Are you telling me that it is inconceivable that they are well hidden? Could you find all the storage places in THIS country?
It gives undue influence to large population centers. The people who set up our system were indeed very wise.
This is why the Senate has 2 members per state. It is balanced against the House which is "proportionally" setup. It keeps big population centers from running over little ones.
The worst change the Constitution was making Senators elected by popular vote. It has essentially ruined the Senate.
When you are not satisfied with your current notoriety what better than to make yourself a victim!
Hence, any respect for this guy just tanked. As pointed out if he were against using something because of the military I doubt he would find anything he could use.
Selfish people like him aren't good for organizations.
The key thing you forget to mention is that the cable companies PAID FOR their own networks. Hence I think they have every right to monopolize them.
I have shopped around for DSL. That was why I ended up on Mindspring way back when. Bellsouth is required to resell their services but there isn't much in rate control.
The biggest problem switching is losing the e-mail address.. but I am getting closer to not caring
Two things are wrong with a lot of people I have seen hired recently... (yeah we went through a few)
1. They didn't really know what they were doing. Sure they could get past an interview and even a technical interview but they couldn't think... if you know what I mean.
2. Attitude. Damn if some of these people aren't either biggest jerks or just damn lazy. Sorry, your not a prima donna, your expected to anwser questions if you know, and you damn well should bother to work. Your not entitled to your job.
As for those saying, your vote will decide. Sorry dingos, but if you believe Kerry's promise your just ignorant, worse your stupid. Protectionist laws will backfire quickly.
Suggestions for those who think the big old government will save them.
1. Wake up, they want your money, not your happiness.
2. Change careers. There are many technical careers that don't outsource.
3. Get away from the in-languages or faddish languages. You would be amazed at the work potential of all those non-boutique languages (ie, most PC languages are that)
4. If you believe someone else can do your job cheaper its probably true. Don't just code, solve problems. Too many programmers are just coders, the business world today does not need one dimensional people.
5. Understand the truth. There are less jobs outsourced in the tech industry now than during the tech boom. The key difference? The media wants it to be an election issue. They know how to find mindless people who will repeat it without bothering to really dig it up.
7. More jobs will be destroyed by the normal economic cycle this year than are outsourced.
8. Work for the small fry, big companies have it easier when it comes to outsourcing.
9 and 10.
READ UP ON IT..
http://www.freetrade.org/pubs/briefs/tbp-019es.h tm l
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For those of us in the suburbs they have no real use.
They are fair weather short distance toys... A golf cart is similarly priced and more useful, and more useful to a wider range of people.
There is a lot more oil to be removed from the ground than we have even taken out of it. A lot of it is locked up in materials not normally drilled or in areas with environmental worries.
There are oil fields in parts of the former Soviet Union that only need a pipeline and investment to make them worthwhile, these fields alone last for more than 20 years.. and that is just the reserves they know of. Right now Japan and China are both negotiating for a pipeline from those areas so that they can reduce their reliance on M.E. oil.
You tell me which would happen first...
World collapses because no one will drill in areas where the environmental protesters will go crazy or they drill anyway?
Besides, if their like most protest groups they get the land donated to them and then they drill on it!
Oh, quit parroting the environmental wacko crew... its been 10-20 years of soon to run out of oil for HOW LONG now? I don't know who is worse, them or the Fusion guys.
Let alone worry about it.
Seems their goal (Segway) of having the taxpayers buy up their production via Government purchases didn't materialize. They knew they had no real commercial viability, hence all the attempts to get large government organizations to test it out in hopes of getting a buyer.
My favorite were the lard ass Atlanta cops that tried it, trouble was they were too clutzy to operate it.
Segway, a product that looked neat but had no market yet was hyped to all heck and back. Just another feature of the dot-com craze.
As for Megway/Smegway... its a joke... rta
But I downloaded it. Gave them correct information. Plan to expand my horizons by finding out what it is about.
On a side note, the Economist recently ran an article asking if Public Libraries are now out dated. If so then it is says a lot about society and not much of that is bad. Making texts of books like this available is a start, making the fact that they are available is the real task. Perhaps the government can use some of that money wasted on pork barrel projects to provide a public "Internet library" which collects such releases as this?
side...
Never assume that who you marching for has your best interest at heart, let alone your way of living. Many protest marchs are funded by groups that if the protesters knew they would hopefully not march.
Just slapping a "sounds nice / feed good" name on a group seems to satisfy most peoples needs. I guess it goes to show a lot of people feel the need to show they care even if they are not willing to go to the effort to find out why.
anyone familiar with FreeAgent/Agent from Forteinc?
Is this a good replacement?
TransAtlantic voyages were nearly death wishes 600 years ago...
So while the analogy seems far fetched, just remember that telling people the world wasn't flat was just as far fetched...
I don't care how powerful it is, if the interface is confusing then it is not written correctly.
Burn my Karma, but frankly its attitudes like this which leave a lot of OS projects forever in the "also ran" category.
I don't care if its free.
I don't care if its open-source.
I don't care it is not Microsoft/insert-evil-of-week
I care that it is intuitive
I care that it follows standard conventions
I care that they look forward to implementing things better
I care that they look forward to adding that feature that makes product-X so great
I care that what I need to make it work is easy to find, as in linked from one place.
These professional packages did not become the dominant players by just passing themselves off as "assuming a competent user". They did their time of ass kissing to the consumer for many years to earn their reputation as the best or most used packages.
Tell people that they need to put forth more effort to get something to work like they are used to the competition working is the same as saying, don't bother, we don't care.
We can bitch all we want about their human rights abuses, but if we slap some trade embargoes or similar we will get run up by the WTO for it.
China knew that getting WTO approval meant a free hand in how they run roughshod over their own.
Besides, the world already caved in and gave them the Olympics.
Lastly, the best route to flipping China, besides waiting for their soon to be Christian majority to do it, is through trade, capitialism, and information.
They can tell the store an item is leaving, they cannot tell you who it is on.
Now if your the only person in the store and you leave with the item you just bought they could do it. However in a busy store and especially with a popular sale item they are not going to be able to say Joe was the 3rd person out in the last 5 minutes with item x.
As far as correlation between you and your purchase, if you don't pay with cash they already have that, RFID doesn't change the picture.
"A spokeswoman for Bowen said getting the bill through the Senate--which approved it in a 22-8 vote--was relatively easy because the senators as a group don't have a thorough grasp of the technology. "
I am more concerned with a bunch of aristocrats setting policy without knowledge than what Wal-Mart is doing.
I also fail to see the privacy issue. The tags do not tell the store WHO you are. They can't see you walk out and say, "Joe took a walk-man out of the store" they can only say that one left.
Besides, where was the concern when tags were placed inside of CDs and DVDs? Is this just another "attack Wal-Mart" parade? Wal-Mart is big, but they still are only 8% of the retail market... which makes them anything but a monopoly.
Get real.
First you need to have Linux challenging Windows on the desktop in a big way. Its not happening.
What one thing many OS supporters forget is a lot of these applications don't have the features of commercial products nor do the teams seem to be inclined in many cases to do so.
Comments like yours are one thing many companies use as an excuse for NOT writing software for Linux. It is almost becoming a stereotype that OS=FREE or Linux Software must be free as Linux is. That makes it difficult to move non-Linux products to Linux. Where is the return?
Back to my first point. Office will remain dominant until the common features used by users are all supported and supported flawlessly. Competition to windows on the desktop will not truly happen until OS programmers/teams realize that kissing up to the customer is job #1. Kissing up to the Linux community won't get you anywhere.... you have to kiss up to the Windows community. Instead of saying "we ain't putting that feature in" it needs to become "That is indeed useful, we need to see when we can support it"
Back on topic.
Yeah, they are late to the party, but they do offer a lot and are not asking for an arm and a leg.
ITMS is already restricting some sales to complete albums. There are even "by the track only" songs out there.
I think Radiohead needs to check again.
On a side note: How many albums are truly good from end to end?
256kb works just fine. It is a standard used at many radio stations. Finding people who can tell the difference in a double blind test isn't easy.
On the previous version I sometimes would have CDs that maintained a constant sound level but others that did not.
Anyone know if this is working better? (yeah I can't wait till I get home)
If energy becomes cheap how do we discard the byproduct of it use which is mostly heat?
One of the paths that Arthur C. Clarke went down exposed this issue with cheap and nearly unlimited energy.
CO2 would go down, but do we really know enough about how the enviroment works to say that that is the only cause or the biggest?
I am in the crowd who does not support most global warming theories. Why? Because they are just that, theories. We try to explain how something works, have the audacity to think we can model it, then go along the lines of where the most money is.
The trouble with most Global Warming solutions is that they only want to selectively enforce them on Western countries. Go to the East and see their pollution. They are where most Western countries were in the 50s. Yet no treat seeks to restrict them.
One volcano had more of an effect on sunlight penetration in just a few days than man managed burning all the wells in Iraq. The Amazon river puts out more CO2 than most countries. The ice caps are melting, the ice caps are getting thicker...
In other words, every 2 to 3 years we get presented with a new theory about what is causing it and why yet we get the same old rehashed solution, restrict the most industrialized countries.
Blame Bush is in fashion, he is an easy target. Yet the EPA is actually testing for stuff now that never was. We do have cleaner water than just a few years ago, we have a real and enforceable means of testing for mercury. We are even going after MBTEs? (sp? - the gas additive pushed by Gore that is a cancer causing seeps into our water chemical). The EU even acknowledges they can't meet targets. The US Sentate regardless of when Clinton was President voted it down.
Yeah, man can affect the environment. However we aren't the only game in town. The Earth and the Sun can do things in days we can only fear we will cause in years or decades.
One side effect of clean energy is more energy consumption and production. This leads to a new pollution which may account for some of what we see, heat. Heat is a standard byproduct of all energy use. As we get more efficient in producing it we consume more... so how long before we stop worrying about what chemicals go into the air and start worrying about the excess heat we push there.
Anyone have some good methods for having random playlists that EXCLUDE certain tracks/albums? Most soundtracks will sound out of place in a random list.
I think he or his generals are loopy enough to be that rogue nation. Throw in any Muslim country that gets taken over by Islamic Fundamentalist as well...
The Cold War came to an end because of someone else the Left hated. Reagan.
He figured out the only peaceful solution to defeating the Soviet Union. Spend them into a hole.
Unfortunately this could not work with Iraq. See, while the Soviets were "bad" they were rationale. Iraq and Saddam weren't. This is the same problem we face in North Korea except he already has the bomb and is further down the crazy train than Saddam was.
That is going to be next big issue we have to face. Jimmy Carter basically sold us out to North Korea. He tied Bill Clinton's hands in that whole nefarious caper. Then again I haven't seen one dictator that Carter DOESN'T like. Clinton didn't do anything about Saddam because he was too paralyzed by poll numbers. This led the expansion of terrorism that we are fighting now. The terrorist even agreed with the assessment. After our LACK OF response they saw us as a paper tiger.
Peace sometimes cost lives. The value of any peaceful society is how many lives are you willing to spend to obtain it. Those who would not spend any do not deserve to even live in a free world.
He proved he had them by using them on his own people. Trouble was he never proved he got rid of them.
So when the truth hits you upside the head don't cry because it hurts.
Finally, Iraq isn't some little country. Are you telling me that it is inconceivable that they are well hidden? Could you find all the storage places in THIS country?
It gives undue influence to large population centers. The people who set up our system were indeed very wise.
This is why the Senate has 2 members per state. It is balanced against the House which is "proportionally" setup. It keeps big population centers from running over little ones.
The worst change the Constitution was making Senators elected by popular vote. It has essentially ruined the Senate.
When you are not satisfied with your current notoriety what better than to make yourself a victim!
Hence, any respect for this guy just tanked. As pointed out if he were against using something because of the military I doubt he would find anything he could use.
Selfish people like him aren't good for organizations.
The key thing you forget to mention is that the cable companies PAID FOR their own networks. Hence I think they have every right to monopolize them.
I have shopped around for DSL. That was why I ended up on Mindspring way back when. Bellsouth is required to resell their services but there isn't much in rate control.
The biggest problem switching is losing the e-mail address.. but I am getting closer to not caring
Two things are wrong with a lot of people I have seen hired recently... (yeah we went through a few)
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1. They didn't really know what they were doing. Sure they could get past an interview and even a technical interview but they couldn't think... if you know what I mean.
2. Attitude. Damn if some of these people aren't either biggest jerks or just damn lazy. Sorry, your not a prima donna, your expected to anwser questions if you know, and you damn well should bother to work. Your not entitled to your job.
As for those saying, your vote will decide. Sorry dingos, but if you believe Kerry's promise your just ignorant, worse your stupid. Protectionist laws will backfire quickly.
Suggestions for those who think the big old government will save them.
1. Wake up, they want your money, not your happiness.
2. Change careers. There are many technical careers that don't outsource.
3. Get away from the in-languages or faddish languages. You would be amazed at the work potential of all those non-boutique languages (ie, most PC languages are that)
4. If you believe someone else can do your job cheaper its probably true. Don't just code, solve problems. Too many programmers are just coders, the business world today does not need one dimensional people.
5. Understand the truth. There are less jobs outsourced in the tech industry now than during the tech boom. The key difference? The media wants it to be an election issue. They know how to find mindless people who will repeat it without bothering to really dig it up.
7. More jobs will be destroyed by the normal economic cycle this year than are outsourced.
8. Work for the small fry, big companies have it easier when it comes to outsourcing.
9 and 10.
READ UP ON IT..
http://www.freetrade.org/pubs/briefs/tbp-019es.
http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/meyer2004