I can't wait for the first lawsuit involving a teacher fired for teaching kids about gay sex in his sex-ed class, or the first atheist teacher who catches even a sideways glance for teaching about evolution openly in any way he/she wants to.
When I went to school in Georgia many years ago, biology teachers would have killed for a law like this. Not so they could preach about Jesus riding a dinosaur, mind you, but so they could teach *evolution* openly with absolutely no fear of retaliation for it.
Try firing Scopes now, you bible-thumping fucktards.
No, the thing the really perplexes me about the article (putting aside the issue of the bias of authors who have a personal financial interest in increased funding), is the fact that they seem to simultaneously be arguing that they're making progress on fusion, but that fusion can't make progress without increased funding. Well fellas, which is it?
Sad that the first response to a very good science article (kudos, slashdot!) is a money-worshiping luddite. Which oil company do you work for, anyway?
It's much sadder than any skepticism of an article written by those with a vested financial interest in increasing funding for their own program is met with the counter-charge of "Well then you must have some vested financial interest in being skeptical."
Shouldn't a request for a huge increase in funding always be met with a degree of skepticism, particularly in a field that has been VERY long on promises and VERY short on delivering them for so many decades now?
Or, another way, $250 for each person's *descendent* to pay someday--since the average U.S. citizen isn't even paying for what his government *currently* spends, much less any additional investments.
Wow. You have a six digit UID and haven't realized in all those years that subscribers get to see stories in advance. Quite amazing. And there was absolutely no sarcam in my post. Nope. No sarcasm at all.
We've made improvements. But yes, it's still 50 years off as always. Give us more money. Here is a chart showing why you need to give us *A LOT* more money.
Did we mention that you should give us more money? I mean, this isn't a money pit--we swear. But we do need about $80 billion if you can spare it. $80 billion and we can probably have it done in about 20 years--maybe. We're totally good for it, man. Honest.
I once saw him buy a bottle of dishwashing liquid, drain all but a tiny bit into an empty bottle, and return it for a full refund. And if you don't want to feel sorry for the stores, how about you feel sorry for the rest of us whose prices go up to cover the pricks like this (it's not like the stores aren't going to pass it on to the honest customers, you know).
Oh god no, that was years ago. And I knew better than to let that cheap bastard screw me. He tried it a couple of times at first, and the second time I told him that if he tried it again he would be vacating our second-story apartment through the living room window (I was a bit more hot-headed in those days).
Considering the pay, firing TSA agents wouldn't do any good. With a starting pay band of $17,000-$25,000 a year, firing incompetents would only mean you would have to replace them with *untrained* incompetents. The TSA is run like a glorified fast-food restaurant, and it shows.
for example, the people who buy a giant TV before the big game and then return it on Monday.
I used to have a roommate that would pull shit like that all the time. He treated stores like his free rental services. It really pissed me off, not just because it was dishonest (and that was bad enough), but also because I always knew it would come back on the rest of us who DIDN'T do that--either with higher prices or stricter return policies. It sucks that the decent always end up paying the price for the pricks out there. But it seems almost a given that there are always bad apples looking to spoil the barrel for everyone.
BTW, my roomate's favorite target was Walmart. They had a very liberal return policy. But eventually they caught on to him. One day he went to return something and they called the manager out, who told him that this would not only be his last return, but also his last visit to the store. He then had the audacity to come back home bitching about how it was this grave injustice (as if I hadn't noticed him repeatedly scamming them). What a guy.
The 27" Trinitrons from around that time supported anamorphic enhancement DVD's (one of the few 4:3 TV's you could buy in the U.S. which supported that) and had much better tubes than any SDTV on the market. They were probably one of the few products Sony every produced that were a good deal. And they were way better than the Panasonics.
Too many in the FOSS community think the programmers are all you need to make decent software. So they take a "Who needs UI designers and technical writers?" approach that leaves the software produced sorely lacking in the kind of polish that people are willing to spend money for with commercial software.
Just a few years ago, I had a CompUSA and Circuit City too. Now Best Buy is pretty much it in my city. It's overpriced and the selection is a joke compared to CompUSA, but at least there is one local place I can still go if I absolutely need a new hard drive TODAY.
If you think that's bad, you should have tried walking into a Circuit City back in the day. It was like walking into the middle of "28 Days Later" wearing flashing strobe lights.
In my admittedly cynical experience with most wannabe young programmers, I've found that the vast majority only major in the field because they think it will make them money and provide steady work (or because they think *programming* video games is in any way analogous to *playing* them). But they have neither the heart nor mind for the field and so go one of two ways:
a) They drop out before they finish their degree (wasting *their* money), or b) They graduate but make for really shitty programers (wasting *their employer's* money)
Either way, go major in nursing if you just want money and a steady job.
Looking at every article and documentary on the late 70's and 80's computing scene these days, you would think that the only computers that existed were Apples and PC's out of Silicon Valley, and that everyone out there had $2,000 to spend on a new computer back when that was the price of a decent used car. But the most popular computer in the 80's wasn't a Mac, or a PC. Commodore was by far the most popular computer line of that era. And they made computers than didn't require a second mortgage for working-class people to buy. And they were EVERYWHERE (not just in the yuppie homes).
Not that you'll even find Commodore mentioned in The Pirates of Silicon Valley, or any other popular computing accounts about that time. You'd think everyone was going around back then just talking about IBM, Steve Jobs, and Bill Gates--when most people hadn't even *seen* a PC or Apple outside of a school or business.
We attempting to contact the CEO at the head office for comment, but discovered that company HQ was located in a small post office box in the Cayman Islands.
Until you men realize that the U.S. does not, and cannot, commit any war crimes--then you will be suitably punished. For those of you patriots who accept that all U.S. action is lawful, by virtue of it being U.S. action, then prosperity and salvation await. For all others, who would engage with the socialist press and outside agitators in conspiring to disparage this flawless nation, only purgatory and a jail cell await you.
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Yes, that's the *goal*. I think you missed to point of my post.
I can't wait for the first lawsuit involving a teacher fired for teaching kids about gay sex in his sex-ed class, or the first atheist teacher who catches even a sideways glance for teaching about evolution openly in any way he/she wants to.
When I went to school in Georgia many years ago, biology teachers would have killed for a law like this. Not so they could preach about Jesus riding a dinosaur, mind you, but so they could teach *evolution* openly with absolutely no fear of retaliation for it.
Try firing Scopes now, you bible-thumping fucktards.
No, the thing the really perplexes me about the article (putting aside the issue of the bias of authors who have a personal financial interest in increased funding), is the fact that they seem to simultaneously be arguing that they're making progress on fusion, but that fusion can't make progress without increased funding. Well fellas, which is it?
Sad that the first response to a very good science article (kudos, slashdot!) is a money-worshiping luddite. Which oil company do you work for, anyway?
It's much sadder than any skepticism of an article written by those with a vested financial interest in increasing funding for their own program is met with the counter-charge of "Well then you must have some vested financial interest in being skeptical."
Shouldn't a request for a huge increase in funding always be met with a degree of skepticism, particularly in a field that has been VERY long on promises and VERY short on delivering them for so many decades now?
$80 billion is a trivial cost if it could help solve the world's energy concerns.
Yes. But the VERY key word there is "if."
"If" as in "If this doesn't run way over-budget and end up costing way more than $80 billion"
"If" as in "If fusion doesn't turn out to be a dead-end money-pit"
"If" as in "If we wouldn't be wiser to invest in other forms of energy generation"
"If" as in "If these researchers are objective in their evaluation, and not just trying to solicit more funding for themselves and their own program."
Or, another way, $250 for each person's *descendent* to pay someday--since the average U.S. citizen isn't even paying for what his government *currently* spends, much less any additional investments.
Wow. You have a six digit UID and haven't realized in all those years that subscribers get to see stories in advance. Quite amazing. And there was absolutely no sarcam in my post. Nope. No sarcasm at all.
We've made improvements. But yes, it's still 50 years off as always. Give us more money. Here is a chart showing why you need to give us *A LOT* more money.
Did we mention that you should give us more money? I mean, this isn't a money pit--we swear. But we do need about $80 billion if you can spare it. $80 billion and we can probably have it done in about 20 years--maybe. We're totally good for it, man. Honest.
You haven't really said how bad he was about it
I once saw him buy a bottle of dishwashing liquid, drain all but a tiny bit into an empty bottle, and return it for a full refund. And if you don't want to feel sorry for the stores, how about you feel sorry for the rest of us whose prices go up to cover the pricks like this (it's not like the stores aren't going to pass it on to the honest customers, you know).
Are you guys still roommates?
Oh god no, that was years ago. And I knew better than to let that cheap bastard screw me. He tried it a couple of times at first, and the second time I told him that if he tried it again he would be vacating our second-story apartment through the living room window (I was a bit more hot-headed in those days).
Yeah, it's easy to fire people in Europe--if you're in Greece and Germany *makes* you.
Considering the pay, firing TSA agents wouldn't do any good. With a starting pay band of $17,000-$25,000 a year, firing incompetents would only mean you would have to replace them with *untrained* incompetents. The TSA is run like a glorified fast-food restaurant, and it shows.
for example, the people who buy a giant TV before the big game and then return it on Monday.
I used to have a roommate that would pull shit like that all the time. He treated stores like his free rental services. It really pissed me off, not just because it was dishonest (and that was bad enough), but also because I always knew it would come back on the rest of us who DIDN'T do that--either with higher prices or stricter return policies. It sucks that the decent always end up paying the price for the pricks out there. But it seems almost a given that there are always bad apples looking to spoil the barrel for everyone.
BTW, my roomate's favorite target was Walmart. They had a very liberal return policy. But eventually they caught on to him. One day he went to return something and they called the manager out, who told him that this would not only be his last return, but also his last visit to the store. He then had the audacity to come back home bitching about how it was this grave injustice (as if I hadn't noticed him repeatedly scamming them). What a guy.
The 27" Trinitrons from around that time supported anamorphic enhancement DVD's (one of the few 4:3 TV's you could buy in the U.S. which supported that) and had much better tubes than any SDTV on the market. They were probably one of the few products Sony every produced that were a good deal. And they were way better than the Panasonics.
Why would they communicate with a supposed security researcher who doesn't even know that?
Too many in the FOSS community think the programmers are all you need to make decent software. So they take a "Who needs UI designers and technical writers?" approach that leaves the software produced sorely lacking in the kind of polish that people are willing to spend money for with commercial software.
Doesn't do me much good if I can't use it on my cable system without a jerry-rigged IR blaster/multiple tuner setup.
Just a few years ago, I had a CompUSA and Circuit City too. Now Best Buy is pretty much it in my city. It's overpriced and the selection is a joke compared to CompUSA, but at least there is one local place I can still go if I absolutely need a new hard drive TODAY.
Their sales clerks are trained to be pushy.
If you think that's bad, you should have tried walking into a Circuit City back in the day. It was like walking into the middle of "28 Days Later" wearing flashing strobe lights.
In my admittedly cynical experience with most wannabe young programmers, I've found that the vast majority only major in the field because they think it will make them money and provide steady work (or because they think *programming* video games is in any way analogous to *playing* them). But they have neither the heart nor mind for the field and so go one of two ways:
a) They drop out before they finish their degree (wasting *their* money), or
b) They graduate but make for really shitty programers (wasting *their employer's* money)
Either way, go major in nursing if you just want money and a steady job.
Don't worry, someone in India is not only learning it better, but willing to work for cheaper.
Shop smart. Shop S-mart.
Looking at every article and documentary on the late 70's and 80's computing scene these days, you would think that the only computers that existed were Apples and PC's out of Silicon Valley, and that everyone out there had $2,000 to spend on a new computer back when that was the price of a decent used car. But the most popular computer in the 80's wasn't a Mac, or a PC. Commodore was by far the most popular computer line of that era. And they made computers than didn't require a second mortgage for working-class people to buy. And they were EVERYWHERE (not just in the yuppie homes).
Not that you'll even find Commodore mentioned in The Pirates of Silicon Valley, or any other popular computing accounts about that time. You'd think everyone was going around back then just talking about IBM, Steve Jobs, and Bill Gates--when most people hadn't even *seen* a PC or Apple outside of a school or business.
We attempting to contact the CEO at the head office for comment, but discovered that company HQ was located in a small post office box in the Cayman Islands.
Until you men realize that the U.S. does not, and cannot, commit any war crimes--then you will be suitably punished. For those of you patriots who accept that all U.S. action is lawful, by virtue of it being U.S. action, then prosperity and salvation await. For all others, who would engage with the socialist press and outside agitators in conspiring to disparage this flawless nation, only purgatory and a jail cell await you.