Can we not use sea water to generate the Hydrogen (plenty of that in iceland too) and since the oceans are rising... well...
I know it's inefficient. But then again if you can make the electricity anywhere and not have to carry it hundreds of miles over power lines, you wil gain some efficiency.
You're walking down the street. You see a door open next to a business. You hear two guys talking about how next month they're going to paint their brown delivery vans forest green.
You rush to the internet, you announce UPS is changing their color to green, and, presto, a month later, they do, and UPS sues you for you to reveal your sources.
Who is in the wrong? They should have closed the fucking door.
Likewise with the leak: The 19 year old did not create the leak. Apple let the leak happen. Apple did not find the leak, fix the leak etc. Apple is responsible. They were careless. If it was such a big secret, only need-to-know people should have known, and only really-need-to-know people, not 75% of Apple employees.
Apple screwed up, they know it, and they don't want to spend the time and money to fix their institution, but would rather sue a 19 year old into silence instead of doing their own damn job. I say shame shame shame. I'm not buying a mini just for that. Take that Jobs.
Finally, NDAs are Fine and Dandy, but they DO NOT supercede the Constitution of the United States of America. (for those who might have missed it, the First Amendment is IN the US constitution, not some outside document tagged on as an afterthought. That's why it's an amendment).
See the case of the chinese woman who had a 20 year affair with a FBI agent. She was spying on the Chinese, for the FBI, and they paid her 1.7 million. Then the FBI got an interesting notion that she might be spying for the chinese, so they dragged her in court. Of course, the prosecution screwed up and the judge dismissed the case for infringement of her constitutional right. (that was in the paper a couple days ago).
All this to show that the US government is not above giving lots of money (if for 20 years, 1.7 million is 85,000 a year, and I bet she did not pay taxes on that (what whould she put under profession?)).
What the chinese used as a lever, if indeed they used her (she might have been a throwaway agent (read last chapter of The Art of War)), might also have been money (they have lots), since it obviously worked as a lever for her.
As far as keeping them blackmailed, that's very very bad. It is very easy for foreign agents to turn such elements over. They say something like: We'll fake your death, you move to japan, give you an interpreter/girlfriend (here's her picture: Yowza!) and a beautiful house on the hill, with internet and computers, and 140,000 a year for 10 years. After that, you're free to go as you please. Think about it, you can get back at the SS for making you miserable. And you'll be helping mankind by keeping the balance of power so that there is no war.
You think the CIA was born yesterday? (well, actually, under Bush Jr, it's being strangled to death now) They know their stuff. perhapes not as well as the russians or the chinese, but they do know their stuff. They would not be stupid enough to blackmail the guy. They want to make him think they saved his life from being the cig trade.
What do you mean playing against a human team? Your robots will play against my robots.
I suppose the Windows 2050 "Processors" will get trounced in the quarterfinals by the Linux 2050 "Beowulf Clusters" 5-1, to the delight of the fans watching on cornea-integrated-media-delivery systems.
Of course, same robots will be busy eradicating the last of mankind to "restore peace and democracy" in the "digital world."
My first compnuter, a casio PB-700 had 4Kb of ram, expandable to 16Kb (I went to 12Kb). with plastic modules the size of cigarette lighters for each 4kb.
It had BASIC, and I COULD NOT save programs on any media. It was battery operated (4 AA iirc), and I lost all memory when changing.
it had 160*32 pixels display, and I got good at writing games for it, and drawing out quadratic equations. I carried it in my jacket pocket.(That was 1984).
My friend had a Z-80 with 24Kb... Man, he was hot. It plugged in to the tv... The games used the ascii extended tileset for display...
Anyways. My parents didn't want to buy me the Texas Instrument 99/4i (i think that's the right name), so I became a programmer. Now, I have too many computers, from the ones I own, work with, and manage.
What happened to the PB 700? I busted the lcd when I dropped it. I still remember what it looked like, the crystals liquit all smeared in there... boo hoo...
Not a 5 page article. An article on the web does not have pages, since the web does not have pages (you scroll down), What we do have is an article split in 5 sections to allow for more ads, more branding, more clicks.
Wired Marketing droid to potential advertisers: We got 5 million clicks yesterday--grumble under breath: one million people clicked 5 times-- and displayed 25 million ads --grumble under breath: 5 ads per click, times 5 sections.
That's because all movies are the same price. Imagine three restaurants: A fast food chain, texas steakhouse, and sushi restaurant. Now, in all three, the meal is $9.99. Where do you go? Mmmm? Where the food is better (pick sushi or steak).
If Jack Nicholson, Robin Williams and Nichole Kidman in a "verysexy" scene movie was $60 and the third remake of "I was a nut" by 5 poorly paid actors was $4, then, some people would spring for the talent, and the masses would go fo the $4 movie.
But if enough went to the $60, they would be able to pay JN, RW and NK 20 mil each. And I guess you'd really have a killer movie.
It happens in DVD sales. Really good movies with good actors never dip below the $20 mark. the crappy stuff falls to 7.99.
The movie theatres are at fault here. They should demand-price the movies.
If my parents were heart broken that I died in Iraq, reading my email is not going to make things any easier for them.
Finally, as I took my last dying breath, the last thing I would tell the medic would be: Rasspppp ohh i can see the light, tell my parents my password is... arrhgg, the pain...
That's why, ultimately, you cannot rely on that book to give you the "optimum" solution for your business. You will get IBM's optimum solution for your business. If the book was really altruistic, and not carry the hidden agenday, then it would be more useful. The hidden agenda is that it would help IBM sell more products, peripheral products. I'm not saying this is bad, but I think it needs to be explained in the book.
I agree with everything you said. And someone else did point out that the author had mentioned it.
[Dream mode enabled--relatively off-topic]
What I would really like is spreadsheet grids in a distributed computing envirnment, out on the net, with limitless bounds, and all the excel functions, supplemented by real programming on specific functions.
To some extent, web services do provide some of this. [/deam mode tuned down (it's never really off)]
What you point to, however, is that complex spreadsheet functionality should be moved to a better platform/environment.
Slashdot Mirror
Premise A: RedHat is a company.
Premise B: Companies lie.
Comclusion: hehe
If you object to the word "lie", substitute "have different interpretations of the perceived truth"
Much harder than natural gas?
Actually, you could charge more. I hear people are willing to pay $20M US to get to orbit...
This sub-thread is now officially closed.
Which makes me wonder: Since they can generate the hydrogen super cheap and other countries can't, why can't they export it?
That would be a good source of revenue.
Can we not use sea water to generate the Hydrogen (plenty of that in iceland too) and since the oceans are rising... well...
I know it's inefficient. But then again if you can make the electricity anywhere and not have to carry it hundreds of miles over power lines, you wil gain some efficiency.
Plus, no power lines.
If all the americans moved to a country that had no crime and no government oppression, that country would get crime and government oppression.
As far as guns:
If politicians don't like their constituency to have guns, they can leave office and let someone else take up the job.
You're walking down the street. You see a door open next to a business. You hear two guys talking about how next month they're going to paint their brown delivery vans forest green.
You rush to the internet, you announce UPS is changing their color to green, and, presto, a month later, they do, and UPS sues you for you to reveal your sources.
Who is in the wrong? They should have closed the fucking door.
Likewise with the leak: The 19 year old did not create the leak. Apple let the leak happen. Apple did not find the leak, fix the leak etc. Apple is responsible. They were careless. If it was such a big secret, only need-to-know people should have known, and only really-need-to-know people, not 75% of Apple employees.
Apple screwed up, they know it, and they don't want to spend the time and money to fix their institution, but would rather sue a 19 year old into silence instead of doing their own damn job. I say shame shame shame. I'm not buying a mini just for that. Take that Jobs.
Finally, NDAs are Fine and Dandy, but they DO NOT supercede the Constitution of the United States of America. (for those who might have missed it, the First Amendment is IN the US constitution, not some outside document tagged on as an afterthought. That's why it's an amendment).
Spy agencies use a lot of different levers.
See the case of the chinese woman who had a 20 year affair with a FBI agent. She was spying on the Chinese, for the FBI, and they paid her 1.7 million. Then the FBI got an interesting notion that she might be spying for the chinese, so they dragged her in court. Of course, the prosecution screwed up and the judge dismissed the case for infringement of her constitutional right. (that was in the paper a couple days ago).
All this to show that the US government is not above giving lots of money (if for 20 years, 1.7 million is 85,000 a year, and I bet she did not pay taxes on that (what whould she put under profession?)).
What the chinese used as a lever, if indeed they used her (she might have been a throwaway agent (read last chapter of The Art of War)), might also have been money (they have lots), since it obviously worked as a lever for her.
As far as keeping them blackmailed, that's very very bad. It is very easy for foreign agents to turn such elements over. They say something like: We'll fake your death, you move to japan, give you an interpreter/girlfriend (here's her picture: Yowza!) and a beautiful house on the hill, with internet and computers, and 140,000 a year for 10 years. After that, you're free to go as you please. Think about it, you can get back at the SS for making you miserable. And you'll be helping mankind by keeping the balance of power so that there is no war.
You think the CIA was born yesterday? (well, actually, under Bush Jr, it's being strangled to death now) They know their stuff. perhapes not as well as the russians or the chinese, but they do know their stuff. They would not be stupid enough to blackmail the guy. They want to make him think they saved his life from being the cig trade.
What do you mean playing against a human team? Your robots will play against my robots.
I suppose the Windows 2050 "Processors" will get trounced in the quarterfinals by the Linux 2050 "Beowulf Clusters" 5-1, to the delight of the fans watching on cornea-integrated-media-delivery systems.
Of course, same robots will be busy eradicating the last of mankind to "restore peace and democracy" in the "digital world."
Woah there...
Bush, Israel, and Al-Quaeda cause loss of sleep.
The French cause obesity. Primarily throught their main weapons, French Fries. French toasts also are a culprit in many areas.
Get your enemies straight, man!
(btw, I am French. Mouaaaaahahahahahah!)
And that is why I brought in the gun control thing, because there's a devilization of p2p that mirrors that of the gun.
My first compnuter, a casio PB-700 had 4Kb of ram, expandable to 16Kb (I went to 12Kb). with plastic modules the size of cigarette lighters for each 4kb.
It had BASIC, and I COULD NOT save programs on any media. It was battery operated (4 AA iirc), and I lost all memory when changing.
it had 160*32 pixels display, and I got good at writing games for it, and drawing out quadratic equations. I carried it in my jacket pocket.(That was 1984).
link: http://pocket.free.fr/html/casio/pb-700_e.html
My friend had a Z-80 with 24Kb... Man, he was hot. It plugged in to the tv... The games used the ascii extended tileset for display...
Anyways. My parents didn't want to buy me the Texas Instrument 99/4i (i think that's the right name), so I became a programmer. Now, I have too many computers, from the ones I own, work with, and manage.
What happened to the PB 700? I busted the lcd when I dropped it. I still remember what it looked like, the crystals liquit all smeared in there... boo hoo...
This reminds me of a bumper sticker that I saw a lot in texas:
"Guns don't kill people, people with guns kill people."
I say this is eerily appropriate, as they try to take away the guns/bittorrent.
Not a 5 page article. An article on the web does not have pages, since the web does not have pages (you scroll down), What we do have is an article split in 5 sections to allow for more ads, more branding, more clicks.
Wired Marketing droid to potential advertisers: We got 5 million clicks yesterday--grumble under breath: one million people clicked 5 times-- and displayed 25 million ads --grumble under breath: 5 ads per click, times 5 sections.
Except he should have done that about a year ago when $1 was 1.2 Euro.
By the way, the dollar is not going to stay down for long (6 more months, then it's flipside again)
It's you euro holders who should be bying dollars, you're getting a great deal.
People in America barely understand the us economy. What makes you think europeans/asians understand it any better?
Yes. A strong dollar is what the US needs to import, and a weak dollar is what the US needs for exports. Also, it stems the flow of immigrants.
In any case, it won't last long, or high oil pices will crimp the us economy.
Because JSP is not supposed to be used for business logic, only for presentation. All JSPs are compiled to servlets prior to use.
PHP-> servlet translation, now, that would be something (not).
(By the way, I have a fat J2EE book in front of me, and that's what is says at the beginning of the JSP chapter.
Amen!
I use IE 5.01 from the original Win2k install (SPnone) with no security updates and:
A: Can't use the web worth shit.
B: Have lots of data for my upcoming book "How long does it take spyware to use 100% of my cpu 24x7" book.
Read my sig.
That's because all movies are the same price. Imagine three restaurants: A fast food chain, texas steakhouse, and sushi restaurant. Now, in all three, the meal is $9.99. Where do you go? Mmmm? Where the food is better (pick sushi or steak).
If Jack Nicholson, Robin Williams and Nichole Kidman in a "verysexy" scene movie was $60 and the third remake of "I was a nut" by 5 poorly paid actors was $4, then, some people would spring for the talent, and the masses would go fo the $4 movie.
But if enough went to the $60, they would be able to pay JN, RW and NK 20 mil each. And I guess you'd really have a killer movie.
It happens in DVD sales. Really good movies with good actors never dip below the $20 mark. the crappy stuff falls to 7.99.
The movie theatres are at fault here. They should demand-price the movies.
Actually, it's realively easy to figure out who the best managers are: Their companies do well, and their peers want to be like them.
Also, they don't operate in a vacuum. True leaders bring other people up with them, and they're identified easily enough.
There's a book I'd pay money for in there.
Or jedit.
In this case you have to say "burst into flames."
They could ask you first.
If my parents were heart broken that I died in Iraq, reading my email is not going to make things any easier for them.
Finally, as I took my last dying breath, the last thing I would tell the medic would be: Rasspppp ohh i can see the light, tell my parents my password is... arrhgg, the pain...
eheh, before you get all excited, read my sig.
Exactly.
That's why, ultimately, you cannot rely on that book to give you the "optimum" solution for your business. You will get IBM's optimum solution for your business. If the book was really altruistic, and not carry the hidden agenday, then it would be more useful.
The hidden agenda is that it would help IBM sell more products, peripheral products.
I'm not saying this is bad, but I think it needs to be explained in the book.
I agree with everything you said. And someone else did point out that the author had mentioned it.
[Dream mode enabled--relatively off-topic]
What I would really like is spreadsheet grids in a distributed computing envirnment, out on the net, with limitless bounds, and all the excel functions, supplemented by real programming on specific functions.
To some extent, web services do provide some of this.
[/deam mode tuned down (it's never really off)]
What you point to, however, is that complex spreadsheet functionality should be moved to a better platform/environment.
Any suggestions?