Well I think it is a step in the right direction. We have to realize that the price of electricity will be rising and rising due to the effects of peak oil. Oil is running out in +/- 43 years so the price of oil will start rising and so will the price of electricity.
I think it is time to start looking at alternatives and Google starting this initiative to power their workplaces with solar power is a good thing in my opinion. I could only whish that more companies started to experiment with those kinds of things.
It would be ideal if in lets say 10 years all new offices should be equipped with there own alternative energy supply, think solar power, wind power,... It is not a thing of extremist save the world kind op people, it is a thing for modern corporations to protect their way of doing business for the future.
If it really makes you more productive, I don't know. I know I feel more happy in working on large screens.... And when you are happy you do more work. So in that case yes.
And to be honest, if you are doing code it is better to have a large screen so you just can have more information on your screen.... And you do not have to scroll so much. So yes I think it can be a gain in productivity.
I do not think they will stop working on the projects however I think that if he is convicted this will have a serious drawback to the project and the developments will slow down for some time.
But in the end they will keep working on it,.... I think and I hope.
To make sure that those kids will not become cyber terrorists and start learning all the good stuff from the beginning the US government has made sure that all those laptops will be shipped with Windows as the standard OS.
And thanks to some DRM chips you can only run Windows on them;-) Well I jus made this up for fun but in fact it could very well be that it is running windows. Anyone knows what those machines are running?
Not be able to play DVD's on a computer? And what are you supposed to do when you do not have a DVD player? And what about watching a DVD on your laptop when you are traveling?
I cannot believe that they will really do this. There are so many people watching DVD's on a computer. This is one of the good things about DVD's you can watch them everywhere on your laptop.
"All of which seems to suggest that at some time soon we may be able to load our user accounts onto an iPod, hard drive or USB keydrive and take them wherever we go.'"
Why not store this online. Do not take anything with you, simply click a "get online account details" and download all you settings and preferences from an online vault? This would make life quite easy. Working at the office, shutdown the computer and go home, turn on your computer at home and you are back in the same environment as on your work.... and euuuuu also the other way around;-) login to your home computer environment in the office to finish that last bit of the game you where playing before you left this morning.
I really wonder what the big idea behind this is. What will the judge do when he thinks the game is too violent, or not "nice" for some people, or even give people the idea that to bully is a good thing.
I do not think the judge will be able to stop the release of the game; he will not have the power to do anything about the content of the game. What are the intentions?
Do we not have the freedom to express in an artistic way by for example creating a video game? If people thing that their kids should not play this game because it is bad influence for them they should simply not allow them to play the game. It is the same thing as, if you think your child should be allowed to watch a adult movie you should simply not allow him to.
People do have their own responsibility and the responsibility towards their kids to give them the education they think is good for them. If this includes not playing a certain game they should simply not allow the kid to do so.
How long can it take before the government blocks it again? Users from all over the world will post their opinions on there and they are not all pro China. I wonder if they will do filtering per subject and deny access to some parts that are not pro China in the eyes of the Chinese government.
"The FDA is only concerned with nanotechnology that would be eaten, injected, used internally, or otherwise ingested. I don't believe they would have regulatory authority over nano-assembler use in manufacturing or environmental dumping. The EPA could possibly set regulations on the environmental aspects, and OSHA might be able to deal with the worker safety aspect of nantech used in manufacturing."
It is a good thing they keep a close look at anything that is ingested. However they should also keep a close look on all nano tech that is leaving the laboratory and is coming into the world. The consequences if things get wrong are just to big to get sloppy with it.
True true, when the money dries up he will be having a problem,... however as he is getting so much experience right now from playing the game he can always start helping to develop them. Think about that he could become a consultant in a game company giving developers advice on the best way to develop the interaction between player and computer.
I think he will be in the gaming industry for a long time, maybe not as a star player but he will have a role in the development. At least that is what I am thinking about it.
Correct they did not lose them. They found them again. 3 of them on land and 1 of them in the ocean. However it is reported that the bombs, which landed on, land where damaged and burst open spilling it on a large slab of land. It is not reported what the condition was of the one that ended up in the ocean. If this one was also damaged and spilled a lot od waste it could still be out there and having a effect on the wildlife.
I however have never heard of strange creatures in the surroundings of chernobyl...? Not taking in account the misformed children from people who where working in the plant during the blast,... or where very close. They however where misformed and did not become radioactive themselves.
I would like to see some scientific reports on this....
If you read the research papers and if you do the math and put in some plain and simple thinking you will know this. If we do not get aware very very quickly we will have a huge problem in 50 years.
Oil reserves are running out and we are missing a energy source to bridge the gab between a oil driven world and a world working on a new energy source. Yes we could use nuclear power but this will not make your car run, and yes we could use hydrogen fuel cell cars but to be honest in the upcoming 50 years not everyone will be driving a hydrogen fuel cell powered car in the upcoming 50 years.
What will the cost be of the food you buy in the supermarket if the trucks transporting it will have to buy fuel for a $100 a liter? Could you still afford it? Will you still own a car? Could you still pay the energy costs to run your computer?
Think about flying? Will there be cheap flights? No way, because there is no alternative than the current way of flying airplanes will still need aviation fuels. That is to say, it will not be there in the upcoming 50 years. So you will not be able to pay a ticket anymore. Modern ships are running on diesel engines so transport over sea will become to expensive.
And now take a look around you, how many things you own are made of plastic, those will be hard to produce without using oil.
So if we do not take action right now there will be a great problem ahead. Do not even think about global warming or the ozone layer or things like that... most of us, if you are young, or most of our kids will not even be there to see this. And the co2 emission will not be enough to really start global warming. The problem to focus on is what to do for when there is no oil anymore. And for some reason nobody is recognizing this problem... why? I do not have a clue..
Looking at some of the results that google code is returning I cannot understand how it is possible that some companies place internal code online. I am in favor of Open Source so I think companies should share more code but before you do so you might want to check some things. Like bulls*t comments from coders, passwords, private internal addresses etc etc..
Those kinds of things should be sifted out of the code before making it available to the public. Looking at these results it looks like a lot of companies do not have a good policy for these kinds of things.
Ok, cool and all...... I have read the article and the article state that the results of the lab tests should be there in a week.... as this article is from January 6, 2006 the results should be there.... anybody knows a what the outcome is?
"Some users say they have protected their computers but have decided to keep their networks open as a passive protest of what they consider the exorbitant cost of Internet access."
I think a lot of people have an open WiFi connection for the rest of the world to use. This however is not only because they want to give some protest but also to simply add a other node to the ever growing number of open "uplinks".
As more and more people are doing so at the moment it becomes easy for traveling laptop users to get online everywhere they want. Closing you "uplink" will become more and more rude in the global opinion I think. Sharing the connection will become more natural to people as they become more aware of the benefit they have from the open uplinks offered by other users.
WiFi will become eventually something like opensource code, sharing and be shared only here we are not talking about code but about internet access. You give access to users and those users give you access in return.
So looking from a Microsoft perspective open office is not as good as MS office because we do not have a e-mail client embedded, meaning that the entire open office is crap because of this?
I still have the opinion you should not embed a e-mail application in open office as this is a mail application and has nothing to do with the things you do in a office application. The beauty of opensource projects is that the final application is build upon users input, not only code but also expectation. If, please read IF, there was a need for a e-mail application within open office the community would have made sure this was a building option.
In my opinion is the fact nobody has implemented this evidence that there is no need for this in the open office user community. The moment it will be embedded it will be done because of users requesting this and start building this. Maybe Microsoft should pay some more attention on opensource to look what people are building if they have the freedom to do this themselves... and maybe Microsoft should find out that some of there products do not "completely" satisfy the needs of there users...
"Open source projects need to spend a little cash to get quality artwork that corporations have for all their products. This may seem a shallow analysis, but the truth is the initial appearence of the application does matter."
In general I do agree with this, opensource is in most cases not about the good look and feel as commercial products do. However spending the bucket loads of money on this as commercial products do is not a good option. I know there are open projects out there helping developers to get nice looking GUI's. I think that in general one of the aims of the opensource community should be to attacked more and more GUI designers to provide work in a GPL or Creative Commons license.
"Investigators traced the computer to Krastof when he logged onto his own America Online account at home through one of the stolen computers"
He used his own account and NOT a account that was on the computer. So there was NO direct link to the stolen computer by a username or something. Looking from a pure ISP point of view he was just user login in.
There was NO information transmitted talking about that the computer was not his computer except for the MAC adres. This means that a ISP in america must log MAC adresses in combination with dialin information and run those MAC adresses against a MAC-database hosted by the FBI or something like that.
That is the scary part of this story. Think about it,they have a list to lookup what user is when online, dialing from where and using whose computer.
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Well I think it is a step in the right direction. We have to realize that the price of electricity will be rising and rising due to the effects of peak oil. Oil is running out in +/- 43 years so the price of oil will start rising and so will the price of electricity.
I think it is time to start looking at alternatives and Google starting this initiative to power their workplaces with solar power is a good thing in my opinion. I could only whish that more companies started to experiment with those kinds of things.
It would be ideal if in lets say 10 years all new offices should be equipped with there own alternative energy supply, think solar power, wind power,... It is not a thing of extremist save the world kind op people, it is a thing for modern corporations to protect their way of doing business for the future.
I am offended by all domains started with a A.... Where can i request them to remove all those domains?
Tadaa..... You see... But yes I certainly belief this to be true indeed. And they're are numerous reports to back this up scientifically.
If it really makes you more productive, I don't know. I know I feel more happy in working on large screens.... And when you are happy you do more work. So in that case yes.
And to be honest, if you are doing code it is better to have a large screen so you just can have more information on your screen.... And you do not have to scroll so much. So yes I think it can be a gain in productivity.
I do not think they will stop working on the projects however I think that if he is convicted this will have a serious drawback to the project and the developments will slow down for some time.
But in the end they will keep working on it,.... I think and I hope.
To make sure that those kids will not become cyber terrorists and start learning all the good stuff from the beginning the US government has made sure that all those laptops will be shipped with Windows as the standard OS.
;-) Well I jus made this up for fun but in fact it could very well be that it is running windows. Anyone knows what those machines are running?
And thanks to some DRM chips you can only run Windows on them
Not be able to play DVD's on a computer? And what are you supposed to do when you do not have a DVD player? And what about watching a DVD on your laptop when you are traveling?
I cannot believe that they will really do this. There are so many people watching DVD's on a computer. This is one of the good things about DVD's you can watch them everywhere on your laptop.
"All of which seems to suggest that at some time soon we may be able to load our user accounts onto an iPod, hard drive or USB keydrive and take them wherever we go.'"
;-) login to your home computer environment in the office to finish that last bit of the game you where playing before you left this morning.
Why not store this online. Do not take anything with you, simply click a "get online account details" and download all you settings and preferences from an online vault? This would make life quite easy. Working at the office, shutdown the computer and go home, turn on your computer at home and you are back in the same environment as on your work.... and euuuuu also the other way around
I really wonder what the big idea behind this is. What will the judge do when he thinks the game is too violent, or not "nice" for some people, or even give people the idea that to bully is a good thing.
I do not think the judge will be able to stop the release of the game; he will not have the power to do anything about the content of the game. What are the intentions?
Do we not have the freedom to express in an artistic way by for example creating a video game? If people thing that their kids should not play this game because it is bad influence for them they should simply not allow them to play the game. It is the same thing as, if you think your child should be allowed to watch a adult movie you should simply not allow him to.
People do have their own responsibility and the responsibility towards their kids to give them the education they think is good for them. If this includes not playing a certain game they should simply not allow the kid to do so.
How long can it take before the government blocks it again? Users from all over the world will post their opinions on there and they are not all pro China. I wonder if they will do filtering per subject and deny access to some parts that are not pro China in the eyes of the Chinese government.
Regards,
Johan Louwers.
"The FDA is only concerned with nanotechnology that would be eaten, injected, used internally, or otherwise ingested. I don't believe they would have regulatory authority over nano-assembler use in manufacturing or environmental dumping. The EPA could possibly set regulations on the environmental aspects, and OSHA might be able to deal with the worker safety aspect of nantech used in manufacturing."
It is a good thing they keep a close look at anything that is ingested. However they should also keep a close look on all nano tech that is leaving the laboratory and is coming into the world. The consequences if things get wrong are just to big to get sloppy with it.
Regards,
Johan Louwers
True true, when the money dries up he will be having a problem,... however as he is getting so much experience right now from playing the game he can always start helping to develop them. Think about that he could become a consultant in a game company giving developers advice on the best way to develop the interaction between player and computer.
I think he will be in the gaming industry for a long time, maybe not as a star player but he will have a role in the development. At least that is what I am thinking about it.
Regards,
Johan Louwers.
Correct they did not lose them. They found them again. 3 of them on land and 1 of them in the ocean. However it is reported that the bombs, which landed on, land where damaged and burst open spilling it on a large slab of land. It is not reported what the condition was of the one that ended up in the ocean. If this one was also damaged and spilled a lot od waste it could still be out there and having a effect on the wildlife.
I however have never heard of strange creatures in the surroundings of chernobyl...? Not taking in account the misformed children from people who where working in the plant during the blast,... or where very close. They however where misformed and did not become radioactive themselves.
I would like to see some scientific reports on this....
Regards
Johan Louwers.
If you read the research papers and if you do the math and put in some plain and simple thinking you will know this. If we do not get aware very very quickly we will have a huge problem in 50 years.
Oil reserves are running out and we are missing a energy source to bridge the gab between a oil driven world and a world working on a new energy source. Yes we could use nuclear power but this will not make your car run, and yes we could use hydrogen fuel cell cars but to be honest in the upcoming 50 years not everyone will be driving a hydrogen fuel cell powered car in the upcoming 50 years.
What will the cost be of the food you buy in the supermarket if the trucks transporting it will have to buy fuel for a $100 a liter? Could you still afford it? Will you still own a car? Could you still pay the energy costs to run your computer?
Think about flying? Will there be cheap flights? No way, because there is no alternative than the current way of flying airplanes will still need aviation fuels. That is to say, it will not be there in the upcoming 50 years. So you will not be able to pay a ticket anymore. Modern ships are running on diesel engines so transport over sea will become to expensive.
And now take a look around you, how many things you own are made of plastic, those will be hard to produce without using oil.
So if we do not take action right now there will be a great problem ahead. Do not even think about global warming or the ozone layer or things like that... most of us, if you are young, or most of our kids will not even be there to see this. And the co2 emission will not be enough to really start global warming. The problem to focus on is what to do for when there is no oil anymore. And for some reason nobody is recognizing this problem... why? I do not have a clue..
Regards,
Johan Louwers
Looking at some of the results that google code is returning I cannot understand how it is possible that some companies place internal code online. I am in favor of Open Source so I think companies should share more code but before you do so you might want to check some things. Like bulls*t comments from coders, passwords, private internal addresses etc etc..
Those kinds of things should be sifted out of the code before making it available to the public. Looking at these results it looks like a lot of companies do not have a good policy for these kinds of things.
Regards,
Johan Louwers.
Ok, cool and all...... I have read the article and the article state that the results of the lab tests should be there in a week.... as this article is from January 6, 2006 the results should be there.... anybody knows a what the outcome is?
Regards,
Johan Louwers.
I think a lot of people have an open WiFi connection for the rest of the world to use. This however is not only because they want to give some protest but also to simply add a other node to the ever growing number of open "uplinks".
As more and more people are doing so at the moment it becomes easy for traveling laptop users to get online everywhere they want. Closing you "uplink" will become more and more rude in the global opinion I think. Sharing the connection will become more natural to people as they become more aware of the benefit they have from the open uplinks offered by other users.
WiFi will become eventually something like opensource code, sharing and be shared only here we are not talking about code but about internet access. You give access to users and those users give you access in return.
At least this is my opinion.
Regards,
Johan Louwers
So looking from a Microsoft perspective open office is not as good as MS office because we do not have a e-mail client embedded, meaning that the entire open office is crap because of this?
I still have the opinion you should not embed a e-mail application in open office as this is a mail application and has nothing to do with the things you do in a office application. The beauty of opensource projects is that the final application is build upon users input, not only code but also expectation. If, please read IF, there was a need for a e-mail application within open office the community would have made sure this was a building option.
In my opinion is the fact nobody has implemented this evidence that there is no need for this in the open office user community. The moment it will be embedded it will be done because of users requesting this and start building this. Maybe Microsoft should pay some more attention on opensource to look what people are building if they have the freedom to do this themselves... and maybe Microsoft should find out that some of there products do not "completely" satisfy the needs of there users...
Regards,
Johan Louwers.
In general I do agree with this, opensource is in most cases not about the good look and feel as commercial products do. However spending the bucket loads of money on this as commercial products do is not a good option. I know there are open projects out there helping developers to get nice looking GUI's. I think that in general one of the aims of the opensource community should be to attacked more and more GUI designers to provide work in a GPL or Creative Commons license.
Regards,
Johan Louwers.
Looking at yahoo.com the news report.....
"Investigators traced the computer to Krastof when he logged onto his own America Online account at home through one of the stolen computers"
He used his own account and NOT a account that was on the computer. So there was NO direct link to the stolen computer by a username or something. Looking from a pure ISP point of view he was just user login in.
There was NO information transmitted talking about that the computer was not his computer except for the MAC adres. This means that a ISP in america must log MAC adresses in combination with dialin information and run those MAC adresses against a MAC-database hosted by the FBI or something like that.
That is the scary part of this story. Think about it,they have a list to lookup what user is when online, dialing from where and using whose computer.