Now let's say you want to create a list of foods and classify them as "sweet", "sour", or "salty".
Guess what! You can't include cheese, because I own that database.
What a nightmare!
Who modded this interesting!? Damn folks, read the parent posts, they are incisive and to the point. This isn't interesting, it's blatantly wrong. You cannot own cheese classifications, you can just own your list of cheese classifications. If I make my own list independently, it is mine to do with as I please.
Riiiiight.... those playmates are truly tired of all those rock stars and professional athletes at the mansion. They'll be blown away to hear about your new linux PDA and your Star Wars Lego collection.
I don't care what kind of job I have.
I care about what kind of compensation I get!
And that is why you'll never get your dream job. Most of us who've been around the tech industry for a while have seen dozens of people who went into IT because they thought there was a lot of money to be made. And almost without exception they were terrible and didn't last long (despite perhaps making a lot of money for a while). Maybe you should be in sales. That sounds like your dream job....
Do what you love. That's the only road to longterm success.
Add the fact that there's no feasable way to contain enough H2 for use in your car
Make sure you let General Motors know that. They seem to be betting the future of their company on their hydrogen fuel cell powered "skateboard" design.
The level of ignorance of basic biology among this technocratic crowd is startling. Somebody mod the parent up!
Any gene that carries a significant survival penalty (such as only producing male offspring) is going to die out relatively quickly. It is certainly not going to run rampant through the ecosystem spreading to every species on earth. The worry with GM plants is that their pest-resistance genes will get cross-bred into compatible non-desirable species (weeds), which will then be free to proliferate without the control of insect herbivores. So, if they had transplanted the Fugu toxin gene from the pufferfish into the carp, that might be a reason for you to have some concerns. This is simply a creative variation on the "release a bunch of sterile males" population control strategy. The creativity is that they allow the population to create it's own supply of non-reproducers.
On the inbox side, set aside time twice a day to respond to normal mail, and configure your mail client to do pop-up / audio notification only for priority msgs. And avoid IM at all costs. On the outbox side, use mail if a response isn't needed within four hours; otherwise, call.
Brilliant! That's exactly the way I tried to live a few years ago. Unfortunately there is another feature of email that is not being discussed here. In many corporate cultures, email is used explicitly as a CYA feature. Something that could easily be covered in a ten second conversation is converted into a CC half the executives in the company email to document just how unresponsive you are being. So then you have to CC a response back immediately so that you can demonstrate to everyone that you are right on top of things. I have some managers who are really into that game that will wait until you walk out the door and then send an email, then a follow up an hour later just to make it look like they've been getting no response. It's crap but if you don't respond then you are loosing the game.
BTW, I usually don't respond and I don't play that game, but then I'm always catching hell for it too.
In order to RTFA you need to follow the "IT Week Tests" link at the bottom of the page. Under the heading of RTFA: They tested to a 500 client benchmark on a low end modern piece of hardware, identical for Windows and Samba.
The IT Week Labs tests used Ziff-Davis NetBench file server benchmark with 48 client systems. We selected a low-specification but otherwise modern server for our tests. We used an HP ProLiant BL10 eClass Server fitted with a 900MHz Pentium III chip, a single 40GB ATA hard disk and 512MB of RAM. We did not tune any of the software to improve performance.
Each NetBench client makes a constant stream of file requests to the server under test, whereas in real-world environments many users would remain idle for long periods. Consequently our test environment simulates the workload of some 500 client PCs in a typical production environment
The other interesting thing to be gleaned from reading TFA is that SAMBA 3 is much more scalable on identical hardware:
In terms of scalability, the gains of upgrading to Samba 3 are even more striking. Last year we found that Samba could handle four times as many clients as Windows 2000 before performance began to drop off.
This year we would need to upgrade our test network in order to identify the point where Samba performance begins to fall in earnest.
So, using ZDlabs standard benchmarks, on identical low end hardware
From a recent slashdot posting about how crappy the video game industry is, at $8 billion annually the video game industry already surpasses the movie industry. Nice to start your article out on a false premise....
We as a developer community should loudly and publicly question the academic virtue of schools who whore themselves and their students out like this.
Although it seems obvious that this "take over the classroom" strategy will work, I feel compelled to point out that I have never developed anything for the Apple IIe, or in Fortran, (which is what classes were taught in back in my day...), and I've never developed anything for Sun/Sparc, although that's where I learned C++. Nope, everything I've ever gotten paid to do was for what my customers/employers were using, Windows.
DeBeers dosn't have a total monopoly on diamonds now, and there is no reason that any democratic government would give them total control.
Actually, you are completely wrong about this. Frontline and Nova have both done excellent documentaries about the depth of control of the DeBeers cartel. A couple of examples that I can remember include Diamond National Park in the United States, which was declared as a national park to block it's exploitation as a diamond mine. Also, when a huge supply of pink diamonds was discovered in Australia, DeBeers moved to block the companies mining the diamonds by lobbying the political leadership. When that failed, they simply bought nearly 25% of the publicly traded stock of the entire country and then had the boards of all of the major companies in which they now owned a major stake lobby the government on their behalf. Done deal, diamonds significantly restricted. The examples go on, but I highly recommend the Frontline documentary for those who think that democracy is a barrier to DeBeers.
synthetic diamonds are almost always made using catalysts like nickel or iron - thats why they are yellowish. usually
At the risk of being labled a neophyte, I suggest that you RTFA. They specifically talk about making clear gemstones using the metal solvent process (it takes longer than yellow), and they also spend a good deal of time talking about carbon plasma deposition, which is being done in Boston right now and creates absolutely flawless stones. It is this process that is of interest for producing semiconductor substrates. The $5 gemstone is simply a stepping stone on the way to diamond based computer chips running at tens of gHz. That is the "News for Nerd" that really matters.
and you can be damned sure that the people holding the keys are being VERY dilligent about who can get their hands on something large enough to cause any real damage.
One would think so, but believe it or not: back in May a 727 was stolen in Angola. It still hasn't been found. Speculation is that it was stolen to be resold and used for transport in the sometimes shady air industry of the region.
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/08/14/10605885 23649.html
This is a pretty good point, fatigue would seem to be an impediment with this solution. However, the real headline is using cellophane to rotate the polarization 90 degrees.
Now all you need to do is develop an interlaced cellophane overlay for the laptop (not nearly as simple as just covering half the screen, but pretty straightforward nonetheless). Then you drive your images in interlaced form and booya! simple 3d game display! Probably adds $5 to the cost of a flat panel (if that) when mass produced.
Do you think you could sell this product? With a feature set like this: Costs the same as a regular display, looks identical when running normal applications, can run full 3d games and applications with simple polarizing lense 3d glasses (that also cost pennies). Sounds pretty marketable to me!
Why not make a version of the Roomba that does that? It's technically an analog computer, and would be cheap as hell to mass produce.
This was my first thought as well. Despite the obviously fraudulent Robosweep, as I watched a real Roomba tackle a friends kitchen floor I realized that investing in a bigger battery to power a stronger vacuum and longer runtime and dumping the computerized electronics for a simpler "bump and go" type circuit might do a better job of actually getting a floor cleaned unattended.
The nice moire pattern in the photo showing changes in elevation was from after the quake. It does a nice job of showing how the stress along the fault was released at this point during a quake, but isn't directly a lot of help in predicting anything. However, one would assume that if you looked at similar photos along a known fault for long enough, there would be areas that did not show any colorfull moire patterns, surrounded by lots of color (indicating movement in the fault). Pretty cool, but I think most of the major faults already have this information from ground measurements.
The "60% chance of earthquakes in the next two days" portion of the prediction seems to rely on some piezo electric effect detected via magnetometers and thermal imaging. This has been speculated about for at least a couple of decades now, but I guess the signal to noise ratio is pretty bad since they haven't declared success yet. Maybe QuakeSat, mentioned at the end of the article, will provide enough comprehensive data to make some useful predictions. Predicting 12 out of the last 3 earthquakes isn't going to win you any friends!
As a network/web/computer manager, my email has been provided to dozens of companies and trade shows. I still remember the day (August, 3 years ago) when someone first sold my address to a spam list. I went from 2-3 spams per day to 15-20. This spring brought another explosion, this time into the 100+ range. I am currently receiving over 6,000 spam messages every month! Obviously my main email address was useless and needed to be burned on a pyre to purge the evil.
After a week or two of this, I installed SpamBayes in the form of it's outlook plugin. I showed it my email archive as my "good" messages, and a bunch of spam gleaned from my deleted folder as "bad". My mailbox is now perfectly clean. I have received at least 15,000 spam messages since installing SpamBayes, and I have probably had to hit the "Delete As Spam" button about 10 times for ones that it missed, most of those being variations on the Nigerian scheme. It has never grabbed a real message, and the "Unsure" feature localizes everything that I really need to look at in one place.
If you have a spam problem, get SpamBayes. It is that simple. There is no need to speculate about that better method that you thought up, or how it really won't work because of XYZ theory... it works almost perfectly, and it lets you know about anything that it is not sure about with the "Unsure" folder, so it never throws the baby out with the bathwater. In short, this is almost the perfect Spam filter. It even caught the emails that were using GIFs to avoid being filtered on content, placing them in unsure until I said "this is spam", after which I never saw another one. Pretty darned cool!
It is actually kind of fun to watch this thing work. I came in this morning to find 568 new messages in my spam folder, 3 in unsure, all of which were spam. No spam anywhere to be found in my inbox, just 15 unread messages that were correctly left alone by SpamBayes. Just imagine having to flip through 600 emails to find 15 real messages! Now I just hit "CTRL-A DEL" in my spam folder and it is all gone! 5 seconds a day to deal with spam, I can live with that....
Actually, no. If you read the founding fathers and all that, you will find that man has no rights but thos granted by the society. So Society gives you rights, and government is restricted by the Constitution from infringing on these rights. On your own have no rights.
You have put your finger on the entire distinction between the western democratic/libertarian movement and the socialist/communist movement that followed. The founding fathers you are quoting are the fathers of Marksism, not the American model. The notion of individual rights and liberties is anathma to the communist model, just as the notion of societal or governmental rights is completely contradictory to the democratic republic. Unfortunately, as your post painfully points out, this vital distinction is often lost in this era.
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The Constitution is a restraint on government power, not a list of things we're allowed to do.
This is a brilliant comment that bears repeating. So many seem to have forgotten that the government does not have any rights at all to grant. Our rights are innate, the government gets its power (and its 'rights') from the consent of the governed. The only thing that any government can do with your rights is take them away (or perhaps help protect you from having someone else take them away).
Actually "With us" or "Against us" is how all contacts with congress and the White House have been tallied for years. None of these entities read your letter, email or listen to your phone call. An aid merely tallies "for HR126" or "Against HR 126" as you call, write or email about your favorite bill. When they get hundreds, or even thousands of letters and calls on each of hundreds of issues, well, you can see why they only bother to deal with our opinions in the aggregate.
The only innovation here is the web page confirmation, which is clearly designed as a spam-buster. As I currently receive over 5,000 spam emails each month (caught nicely by SpamBayes BTW), I can certainly understand why they might want to find a way to prevent spam from preventing them from hearing from the citizenry.
The current modulation technologies are much too inefficient at delivering content. At some point analog TV will have to die, and then they can grab it and use that spectrum to deliver digital content using spread spectrum technology to make a super clean, high bandwidth medium.
If we don't funnel them toward this now, while broadcast TV is still somewhat viable, then this spectrum will end up getting repurposed for pay-per-service uses like cell phones, pagers etc. The media companies have already tried this with their HDTV bandwidth, breaking it up to deliver multiple digital chanels and other services for a fee.
I can't believe all of the rants about how there are no good cartoons anymore because they quit making them for adults. Nothing could be further from the truth. In fact, the most biting social commentary of our time is to be found on the current "classics", the Simpsons, King Of The Hill, and especially South Park. As political correctness ruled the air beginning in the 80's, people with something to say moved into animation. It's just less threatening to have a yellow, painted cartoon boy comment on the state of the education system, or race or whatever.
As for kids cartoons, there's plenty of great stuff out there, it's just all living on cable now. And there is way less of the mindless crap that so many here have tried to wax nostalgic over, like He-Man and Transformers. Woah! you want to know what killed Saturday morning? Look no further than that kind of "design the toy and then make up a show to market it" junk.
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My theory of dinosaurs is this. This is my theory, and it belongs to me, and to me alone. Here is my theory of dinsaurs:
Dinosaurs are quite small at one end. Then, they get quite a bit larger in the middle. Finally, they are quite small agian on the far end.
This is my theory of dinosaurs, which belongs to me.
My apologies to the boys from Python.
Do what you love. That's the only road to longterm success.
The level of ignorance of basic biology among this technocratic crowd is startling. Somebody mod the parent up!
Any gene that carries a significant survival penalty (such as only producing male offspring) is going to die out relatively quickly. It is certainly not going to run rampant through the ecosystem spreading to every species on earth. The worry with GM plants is that their pest-resistance genes will get cross-bred into compatible non-desirable species (weeds), which will then be free to proliferate without the control of insect herbivores. So, if they had transplanted the Fugu toxin gene from the pufferfish into the carp, that might be a reason for you to have some concerns. This is simply a creative variation on the "release a bunch of sterile males" population control strategy. The creativity is that they allow the population to create it's own supply of non-reproducers.
BTW, I usually don't respond and I don't play that game, but then I'm always catching hell for it too.
Now all you need to do is develop an interlaced cellophane overlay for the laptop (not nearly as simple as just covering half the screen, but pretty straightforward nonetheless). Then you drive your images in interlaced form and booya! simple 3d game display! Probably adds $5 to the cost of a flat panel (if that) when mass produced.
Do you think you could sell this product? With a feature set like this: Costs the same as a regular display, looks identical when running normal applications, can run full 3d games and applications with simple polarizing lense 3d glasses (that also cost pennies). Sounds pretty marketable to me!
The nice moire pattern in the photo showing changes in elevation was from after the quake. It does a nice job of showing how the stress along the fault was released at this point during a quake, but isn't directly a lot of help in predicting anything. However, one would assume that if you looked at similar photos along a known fault for long enough, there would be areas that did not show any colorfull moire patterns, surrounded by lots of color (indicating movement in the fault). Pretty cool, but I think most of the major faults already have this information from ground measurements.
The "60% chance of earthquakes in the next two days" portion of the prediction seems to rely on some piezo electric effect detected via magnetometers and thermal imaging. This has been speculated about for at least a couple of decades now, but I guess the signal to noise ratio is pretty bad since they haven't declared success yet. Maybe QuakeSat, mentioned at the end of the article, will provide enough comprehensive data to make some useful predictions. Predicting 12 out of the last 3 earthquakes isn't going to win you any friends!
As a network/web/computer manager, my email has been provided to dozens of companies and trade shows. I still remember the day (August, 3 years ago) when someone first sold my address to a spam list. I went from 2-3 spams per day to 15-20. This spring brought another explosion, this time into the 100+ range. I am currently receiving over 6,000 spam messages every month! Obviously my main email address was useless and needed to be burned on a pyre to purge the evil.
After a week or two of this, I installed SpamBayes in the form of it's outlook plugin. I showed it my email archive as my "good" messages, and a bunch of spam gleaned from my deleted folder as "bad". My mailbox is now perfectly clean. I have received at least 15,000 spam messages since installing SpamBayes, and I have probably had to hit the "Delete As Spam" button about 10 times for ones that it missed, most of those being variations on the Nigerian scheme. It has never grabbed a real message, and the "Unsure" feature localizes everything that I really need to look at in one place.
If you have a spam problem, get SpamBayes. It is that simple. There is no need to speculate about that better method that you thought up, or how it really won't work because of XYZ theory... it works almost perfectly, and it lets you know about anything that it is not sure about with the "Unsure" folder, so it never throws the baby out with the bathwater. In short, this is almost the perfect Spam filter. It even caught the emails that were using GIFs to avoid being filtered on content, placing them in unsure until I said "this is spam", after which I never saw another one. Pretty darned cool!
It is actually kind of fun to watch this thing work. I came in this morning to find 568 new messages in my spam folder, 3 in unsure, all of which were spam. No spam anywhere to be found in my inbox, just 15 unread messages that were correctly left alone by SpamBayes. Just imagine having to flip through 600 emails to find 15 real messages! Now I just hit "CTRL-A DEL" in my spam folder and it is all gone! 5 seconds a day to deal with spam, I can live with that....
You have put your finger on the entire distinction between the western democratic/libertarian movement and the socialist/communist movement that followed. The founding fathers you are quoting are the fathers of Marksism, not the American model. The notion of individual rights and liberties is anathma to the communist model, just as the notion of societal or governmental rights is completely contradictory to the democratic republic. Unfortunately, as your post painfully points out, this vital distinction is often lost in this era.
Actually "With us" or "Against us" is how all contacts with congress and the White House have been tallied for years. None of these entities read your letter, email or listen to your phone call. An aid merely tallies "for HR126" or "Against HR 126" as you call, write or email about your favorite bill. When they get hundreds, or even thousands of letters and calls on each of hundreds of issues, well, you can see why they only bother to deal with our opinions in the aggregate.
The only innovation here is the web page confirmation, which is clearly designed as a spam-buster. As I currently receive over 5,000 spam emails each month (caught nicely by SpamBayes BTW), I can certainly understand why they might want to find a way to prevent spam from preventing them from hearing from the citizenry.
The current modulation technologies are much too inefficient at delivering content. At some point analog TV will have to die, and then they can grab it and use that spectrum to deliver digital content using spread spectrum technology to make a super clean, high bandwidth medium.
If we don't funnel them toward this now, while broadcast TV is still somewhat viable, then this spectrum will end up getting repurposed for pay-per-service uses like cell phones, pagers etc. The media companies have already tried this with their HDTV bandwidth, breaking it up to deliver multiple digital chanels and other services for a fee.
I can't believe all of the rants about how there are no good cartoons anymore because they quit making them for adults. Nothing could be further from the truth. In fact, the most biting social commentary of our time is to be found on the current "classics", the Simpsons, King Of The Hill, and especially South Park. As political correctness ruled the air beginning in the 80's, people with something to say moved into animation. It's just less threatening to have a yellow, painted cartoon boy comment on the state of the education system, or race or whatever.
As for kids cartoons, there's plenty of great stuff out there, it's just all living on cable now. And there is way less of the mindless crap that so many here have tried to wax nostalgic over, like He-Man and Transformers. Woah! you want to know what killed Saturday morning? Look no further than that kind of "design the toy and then make up a show to market it" junk.