I would like to know why this has been tagged as being about "Australia" and not my home country, "Autralia". Stupid Americans! I suppose you think Autria is the same country, too!
We have the same problem in Fance. Just because our capital is Pais they assume we are just north of Spain and none of our keyboards have "R"s.
In truth how many women do you know interested in IT? I've known quite a few so they are out there but the ugly truth is the percentage of men to women that show an interest in IT is 10 men for every woman. Just a wild guess but not far off. It's not women being shut out half as much as not that many women pursuing it. It's not like there are large numbers out there unemployed that can't find work. Maybe it's not being encouraged at a young age or women are less inclined but there are simply fewer women interested in pursuing IT careers. I come out of special effects and the same percentages applied. Few shops hesitated to hire women and most would seek them out. Women with any talent found it far easier to find work than men. How many young women did you know that built models or played with stop motion animation? I know lots of men but very few women. Unless young women become more interested in IT don't expect the numbers to change.
There should be a quota! I'm tired of having to flirt with all the gay guys in IT. I needs me some women!
You didn't know? It's a conspiracy by gay IT guys to keep women out so you have to flirt with them. Why else do you think so many IT HR people are gay men? It's to keep out the competition.
That's a lot of words that don't change the fact that virtually every eBook you could ever want to buy costs more now than it did before Apple entered the market, which is the actual problem that the DOJ case intended to address.
Here's a thought, rebel against the major publishers charging $10 for the same thing you get in a printed book and support the indies that are charging $1 to $3 a book. Why isn't everything a $1. Don't blame the authors or Apple blame Amazon. I can release a book on Apple and sell it for a $1 or even give it away. With Amazon anything over $9.99 or below $2.99 gets soaked for twice the seller cut so the book's creator gets hit hard. It's a way of price fixing by punishing the creator for not using their pricing model. Apple has no such rules. Just don't lump the authors in with the greedy publishers. Most of the authors are happy with getting 70% of either $0.99 or $2.99. I'm sure Apple is guilty of conspiring with certain publishing houses. Between the two Amazon is far more guilty still of price fixing. I have to cut Apple some slack since they'll let me set my price and they will even distribute free books. The only downside is unless you are set up as a vendor with Apple it costs around $220 to give a book away since I have to go through a third party.
There's a cool iPad app for this called basically Free Books. I spent an entire evening downloading classics. I got everything from Burroughs and Wells to Dickens and Twain. It's literally hundreds and hundreds of books and some like Lord Dunsay are nearly impossible to find. I could spend many years reading them all. That's fine for an old timer like me that grew up on the classics but it's still no solution for Potter and Twilight fans.
If you want to bring them to their knees accidentally loose some F-22s over Iran. If they tried to reverse engineer then deploy them it'd bankrupt the country. Even better yet would be a 30 year old Osprey prototype. The point is we're the only country that spends enough on their military to maintain such cutting edge aircraft. They can mimic 40 year old aircraft but the modern ones are too expensive to build and are drastically more expensive to maintain. It's not just that all they have access to is 40 year old aircraft it's that they were far more practical than modern aircraft. Look at the A-10s they are phasing out. They were wildly successful and the basic technology wasn't all that different than was used in the 50s. The joke is the technology has both gotten so good and so delicate as in the breakdown rate that far more planes are lost due to mechanical failure than enemy gunfire.
The German nuclear industry was subsidized by at least 80 billion EUR from 1956 to 2007 (and 3.7 billion in 2006 alone) based on extremely conservative estimates, but likely much more. A study commisioned by Greenpeace arrived at a number of 203.7 billion from 1950 to 2010. According to WP at least, http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernenergie#Deutschland
Care to add up the numbers we've spent on the military during that same time frame as in percentage of the budget compared to Germany? If we spent the same percentage on the military as Germany and took the savings and spent it on alternative energy we'd have such an energy glut we'd be powering Canada and Mexico as well and trying to figure out how to export electricity to Europe. Fiscal will is all that has held us back. Germany has it we don't.
How can you eat meat in good conscience and I don't mean vegetarianism. Most animals are raised in conditions worse than concentration camps. Do you have a choice? Even "free range" can mean a somewhat larger cage as in one they can turn around in. I remember when Organic vegetables first hit the factory farms were asking how much pesticide can they use and still call it organic. The point is we aren't allowed to choose. We can't all live in caves, there aren't enough caves. Sitting in your living room tonight just try to point to something you bought in the last 5 years that didn't at least in part come from Southeast Asia. How do you single out electronics? Yes the level of toxic chemicals used and the amount of energy used for every pound of electronics is huge, even the water usage is massive. Something like an iPad would take hundreds of gallons of water used in the factory for things like cleaning parts. Keep up the pressure for better conditions, even with food conditions have improved on some farms due to pressure. Simply doing a one person embargo will have zero affect and you'd be living in a fool's paradise because you'd still be surrounded with items nearly as bad. Where do you think blue jeans come from? Your food is picked by people making less than minimum wage and some kid in India sewed up your jeans. It's the world we live in. Ultimately as bad as the jobs are they still feed their families with them so the ones harmed by not buying the product are the very ones you think you are helping.
Slashdot seems full of anti-MS shills who are stuck in 1999.
I don't know if it's amusing or just pathetic.
I'll go with amusing. The whole point is just how much licensed intellectual property does a software company have to protect? They aren't exactly publishing lines of code in the articles. They don't even come up with clever names for products. We're talking Word, Office, Windows. What are all these people posting that requires take down notices? FYI there has always been far more people defending Microsoft on Slashdot than attack it. I'm a heretic with no real preference. Everyone attacks authors and bands for making money off old work so why not Microsoft? The last new product they released that was modestly successful was the Xbox. The bulk of their income comes from milking Windows and Office. They've sucked so hard on those cow's teats that they have calluses and the cow is practically inside out. If your stance is that you aren't bias then why are you defending them? What makes them less evil than the rest of the blood suckers? Bill Gates was once the richest man in the world largely due to running the biggest monopoly in computers. Not to mention all those nasty bits of code from other companies that kept finding it's way into Windows. I'm not attacking Microsoft I'm telling you to pry your eyes open and stop worshipping Microsoft. If you want to be noble rally around Linux. When's the last time that group issued a take down notice?
Answer: Yes. The sun will continue to gradually shrink until it runs out of H to burn.
Actually the opposite is true. Our sun is doomed to end up a red giant and eventually the Earth will be eaten by the sun. It's a middle aged star so there are billions of years to go.
I think to get the most accurate measurement, we need to send a manned mission to the sun and do it the old fashioned way, with a tape measure.
Of course, to keep from burning up, they will have to go at night.
A waste of time and money. The eclipse proved that the sun is only slightly larger than the moon. Now you just have to use a tape measure to get an accurate size for the moon. Too bad the astronauts didn't think to take one.
In many ways she is SETI and she is definitely the soul of SETI. She isn't throwing in the towel but it still feels that way. It was sad Sagan didn't live to see first contact but to potentially stop looking during Miss Tarter's life makes me feel like it is truly hopeless. The science is there but the will as a society isn't. SETI could be funded for a 100 years for 1/10th of one percent of what we just spent banging our dicks on the table in Iraq and Afghanistan but it'll never happen. Having her retire so she can devote a 100% of her time to look for funding is a crime against science and a serious waste of creative talent. The movie Contact made an excellent point. Hollywood lately is spending more each year making aliens attack Earth films than SETI has spent in it's entire history. EACH YEAR! Most people think there has been a serious effort and they found nothing. What has been done to date is the equivalent of looking under one rock in a dry valley in Antarctica and declaring there is no life on Earth.
"we should leave more things up to the states to decide"
I always find the Republican stance that states should have most of the power amusing. It's preCivil War. It's literally the system we had for roughly the first 100 years and it was in large part responsible for the Civil War. Slavery was never the cause of the war it was the chaos caused by every state functioning as separate countries. We still have remnants of that in that something that is perfectly legal in one state is a felony in the next. Do we really need to go back to a system where states all but had to sign treaties? Free speech is critical BECAUSE it's dangerous. Governments that feel too secure in their power rarely concern themselves with what's good for the average person.
Zombies only in that they could cause a massive famine that drives some people to cannibalism. And no it's not faux science it's the likely outcome of a monoculture system that depends on a severely limited gene pool. I've seen first hand some of the mutated crops. I grew up around corn production and I never in my life saw mutations like they are getting now. The weirdest was several ears of corn growing out of the ground, no stalk or leaves just ears of corn, remember I didn't see photos I was there looking at corn in a field. It's cause both by inbreeding and they have found the spliced genes tend to end up in the wrong place in the sequence at times. The genes aren't natural as in the result of millions of years of evolution so they aren't stable. The engineered breeds don't have the same defenses that native varieties and heirlooms have so they don't have the ability to adapt to new diseases and pests. The odds are it's just a matter of time before there's a failed crop related to GMO. It's happened in the recent past due to poor practices or random chance so it will happen again only this time it could dwarf the other crop failures. Monstano's greed may kill millions and in the near future. Since many third world countries are now depending on the seeds they could end up killing more people than WW II, all in the name of profits.
"They created life that cannot reproduce, so that farmers have to come to them each year to buy new seeds."
Actually they didn't the Agriculture department and two private companies did. Monsanto bought the two private companies in 2005 acquiring the rights but they didn't create the genes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_use_restriction_technology
Apparently no one learned anything from the last tech bubble. A tech stock with a debatable potential for further growth has an IPO and tanks. And people are surprised? Most companies of that value have either tangible products or services with a long track record. Facebook arguably presents cool as being a product. You might as well have valued a company that makes bell bottom jeans in the mid 70s as a multibillion dollar company. It's already showing it's age and in 5 or 10 years will be where Myspace is today. One day it may be the first 100 billion dollar company to end up as a penny stock. If the true value is under $10 it's more than halfway there.
It puts extra pressure on the remaining 43% to cover development costs. I purchased every piece of commercial software I use. I do graphics and have probably spent 25K to 30K just in the last few years on software. Am I rich? Far from, more like dead broke, I simply spend most of my cash on software and hardware and rarely spend money on anything else. It's wildly unfair that some one else can have the same software and not spend a dime. Why not just pirate? Some one has to pay for the development of new software. Other than maybe Photoshop most of my software needs more features so I hope they keep developing. Everyone can call people like me stupid or a troll but we are the ones paying to provide the software that others pirate. There are open source options and I even use a few. I overall like Open Office more than Microsoft products because it's easier to use and has all the features I need. I bought my first copy on Word in the late 80s but I abandoned it in the late 90s because every time I slipped and hit the wrong key it reformatted the document and the computers of the time were too slow and I always managed to type more before it reformatted making it impossible to undo. After I discovered Open Office I never went back. There are open source options for most things it's just the commercial software is generally better so people generally don't bother with the open source they just pirate. I have to point out where will we be when the 43% throw in the towel? The companies aren't government funded so they'll have little choice but to throw in the towel. Ultimately the problem would be solved if commercial software disappeared since there would be nothing left to pirate.
Option 1 Ratings fall due to piracy so HBO cancels Game of Thrones. Fans actually have the potential to kill a show in this case. HBO is hypersensitive to ratings. My favorite show was Carnivale and inspite of it making money the ratings fell and they were facing larger budgets so they canceled it after the second season with I believe four more years left in the run. If the ratings fall off on Game of Thrones HBO will kill it in a heartbeat in favor more cheap to produce comedies. Notice how few shows like Game of Thrones are on the air and how many dumb comedies? You can produce a comedy for a quarter of the money so if it gets half the ratings they figure they come out ahead. Sure I'd love to have another option than having HBO for seeing the show but my subscription is helping fund it and they aren't likely change their distribution method.
Insurance companies would love to get their hands on this data. Got the genetic tendency for a form of cancer it doesn't matter if you never develop it your rates will go up or better yet you get canceled without notice.
Welcome to the 21st century. Annoy China and you'll all be riding horses. It's ironic enough that your national car companies are owned by a former colony. How far the empire has fallen.
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I would like to know why this has been tagged as being about "Australia" and not my home country, "Autralia". Stupid Americans! I suppose you think Autria is the same country, too!
We have the same problem in Fance. Just because our capital is Pais they assume we are just north of Spain and none of our keyboards have "R"s.
Apparently the robot is insisting on proof that the radiation won't make him sterile.
In truth how many women do you know interested in IT? I've known quite a few so they are out there but the ugly truth is the percentage of men to women that show an interest in IT is 10 men for every woman. Just a wild guess but not far off. It's not women being shut out half as much as not that many women pursuing it. It's not like there are large numbers out there unemployed that can't find work. Maybe it's not being encouraged at a young age or women are less inclined but there are simply fewer women interested in pursuing IT careers. I come out of special effects and the same percentages applied. Few shops hesitated to hire women and most would seek them out. Women with any talent found it far easier to find work than men. How many young women did you know that built models or played with stop motion animation? I know lots of men but very few women. Unless young women become more interested in IT don't expect the numbers to change.
There should be a quota! I'm tired of having to flirt with all the gay guys in IT. I needs me some women!
You didn't know? It's a conspiracy by gay IT guys to keep women out so you have to flirt with them. Why else do you think so many IT HR people are gay men? It's to keep out the competition.
That's a lot of words that don't change the fact that virtually every eBook you could ever want to buy costs more now than it did before Apple entered the market, which is the actual problem that the DOJ case intended to address.
Here's a thought, rebel against the major publishers charging $10 for the same thing you get in a printed book and support the indies that are charging $1 to $3 a book. Why isn't everything a $1. Don't blame the authors or Apple blame Amazon. I can release a book on Apple and sell it for a $1 or even give it away. With Amazon anything over $9.99 or below $2.99 gets soaked for twice the seller cut so the book's creator gets hit hard. It's a way of price fixing by punishing the creator for not using their pricing model. Apple has no such rules. Just don't lump the authors in with the greedy publishers. Most of the authors are happy with getting 70% of either $0.99 or $2.99. I'm sure Apple is guilty of conspiring with certain publishing houses. Between the two Amazon is far more guilty still of price fixing. I have to cut Apple some slack since they'll let me set my price and they will even distribute free books. The only downside is unless you are set up as a vendor with Apple it costs around $220 to give a book away since I have to go through a third party.
There's a cool iPad app for this called basically Free Books. I spent an entire evening downloading classics. I got everything from Burroughs and Wells to Dickens and Twain. It's literally hundreds and hundreds of books and some like Lord Dunsay are nearly impossible to find. I could spend many years reading them all. That's fine for an old timer like me that grew up on the classics but it's still no solution for Potter and Twilight fans.
If you want to bring them to their knees accidentally loose some F-22s over Iran. If they tried to reverse engineer then deploy them it'd bankrupt the country. Even better yet would be a 30 year old Osprey prototype. The point is we're the only country that spends enough on their military to maintain such cutting edge aircraft. They can mimic 40 year old aircraft but the modern ones are too expensive to build and are drastically more expensive to maintain. It's not just that all they have access to is 40 year old aircraft it's that they were far more practical than modern aircraft. Look at the A-10s they are phasing out. They were wildly successful and the basic technology wasn't all that different than was used in the 50s. The joke is the technology has both gotten so good and so delicate as in the breakdown rate that far more planes are lost due to mechanical failure than enemy gunfire.
The German nuclear industry was subsidized by at least 80 billion EUR from 1956 to 2007 (and 3.7 billion in 2006 alone) based on extremely conservative estimates, but likely much more. A study commisioned by Greenpeace arrived at a number of 203.7 billion from 1950 to 2010. According to WP at least, http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernenergie#Deutschland
Care to add up the numbers we've spent on the military during that same time frame as in percentage of the budget compared to Germany? If we spent the same percentage on the military as Germany and took the savings and spent it on alternative energy we'd have such an energy glut we'd be powering Canada and Mexico as well and trying to figure out how to export electricity to Europe. Fiscal will is all that has held us back. Germany has it we don't.
How can you eat meat in good conscience and I don't mean vegetarianism. Most animals are raised in conditions worse than concentration camps. Do you have a choice? Even "free range" can mean a somewhat larger cage as in one they can turn around in. I remember when Organic vegetables first hit the factory farms were asking how much pesticide can they use and still call it organic. The point is we aren't allowed to choose. We can't all live in caves, there aren't enough caves. Sitting in your living room tonight just try to point to something you bought in the last 5 years that didn't at least in part come from Southeast Asia. How do you single out electronics? Yes the level of toxic chemicals used and the amount of energy used for every pound of electronics is huge, even the water usage is massive. Something like an iPad would take hundreds of gallons of water used in the factory for things like cleaning parts. Keep up the pressure for better conditions, even with food conditions have improved on some farms due to pressure. Simply doing a one person embargo will have zero affect and you'd be living in a fool's paradise because you'd still be surrounded with items nearly as bad. Where do you think blue jeans come from? Your food is picked by people making less than minimum wage and some kid in India sewed up your jeans. It's the world we live in. Ultimately as bad as the jobs are they still feed their families with them so the ones harmed by not buying the product are the very ones you think you are helping.
Maybe AOL can stay relevant by being a start-up hotel?
Call me spoiled but I don't think I could handle a dial up hotel.
Slashdot seems full of anti-MS shills who are stuck in 1999.
I don't know if it's amusing or just pathetic.
I'll go with amusing. The whole point is just how much licensed intellectual property does a software company have to protect? They aren't exactly publishing lines of code in the articles. They don't even come up with clever names for products. We're talking Word, Office, Windows. What are all these people posting that requires take down notices? FYI there has always been far more people defending Microsoft on Slashdot than attack it. I'm a heretic with no real preference. Everyone attacks authors and bands for making money off old work so why not Microsoft? The last new product they released that was modestly successful was the Xbox. The bulk of their income comes from milking Windows and Office. They've sucked so hard on those cow's teats that they have calluses and the cow is practically inside out. If your stance is that you aren't bias then why are you defending them? What makes them less evil than the rest of the blood suckers? Bill Gates was once the richest man in the world largely due to running the biggest monopoly in computers. Not to mention all those nasty bits of code from other companies that kept finding it's way into Windows. I'm not attacking Microsoft I'm telling you to pry your eyes open and stop worshipping Microsoft. If you want to be noble rally around Linux. When's the last time that group issued a take down notice?
Strange that MS doesn't remove from Bing the same links it asks Google to take out.
What are you implying? Next thing you'll claim Fox News only attacks liberals? You'd think everyone had an agenda.
Who knew they were so protective of Bob and Clippy?
Answer: Yes. The sun will continue to gradually shrink until it runs out of H to burn.
Actually the opposite is true. Our sun is doomed to end up a red giant and eventually the Earth will be eaten by the sun. It's a middle aged star so there are billions of years to go.
I think to get the most accurate measurement, we need to send a manned mission to the sun and do it the old fashioned way, with a tape measure.
Of course, to keep from burning up, they will have to go at night.
A waste of time and money. The eclipse proved that the sun is only slightly larger than the moon. Now you just have to use a tape measure to get an accurate size for the moon. Too bad the astronauts didn't think to take one.
Is there anyway to skip the content and just watch commercials?
In many ways she is SETI and she is definitely the soul of SETI. She isn't throwing in the towel but it still feels that way. It was sad Sagan didn't live to see first contact but to potentially stop looking during Miss Tarter's life makes me feel like it is truly hopeless. The science is there but the will as a society isn't. SETI could be funded for a 100 years for 1/10th of one percent of what we just spent banging our dicks on the table in Iraq and Afghanistan but it'll never happen. Having her retire so she can devote a 100% of her time to look for funding is a crime against science and a serious waste of creative talent. The movie Contact made an excellent point. Hollywood lately is spending more each year making aliens attack Earth films than SETI has spent in it's entire history. EACH YEAR! Most people think there has been a serious effort and they found nothing. What has been done to date is the equivalent of looking under one rock in a dry valley in Antarctica and declaring there is no life on Earth.
"we should leave more things up to the states to decide" I always find the Republican stance that states should have most of the power amusing. It's preCivil War. It's literally the system we had for roughly the first 100 years and it was in large part responsible for the Civil War. Slavery was never the cause of the war it was the chaos caused by every state functioning as separate countries. We still have remnants of that in that something that is perfectly legal in one state is a felony in the next. Do we really need to go back to a system where states all but had to sign treaties? Free speech is critical BECAUSE it's dangerous. Governments that feel too secure in their power rarely concern themselves with what's good for the average person.
Zombies only in that they could cause a massive famine that drives some people to cannibalism. And no it's not faux science it's the likely outcome of a monoculture system that depends on a severely limited gene pool. I've seen first hand some of the mutated crops. I grew up around corn production and I never in my life saw mutations like they are getting now. The weirdest was several ears of corn growing out of the ground, no stalk or leaves just ears of corn, remember I didn't see photos I was there looking at corn in a field. It's cause both by inbreeding and they have found the spliced genes tend to end up in the wrong place in the sequence at times. The genes aren't natural as in the result of millions of years of evolution so they aren't stable. The engineered breeds don't have the same defenses that native varieties and heirlooms have so they don't have the ability to adapt to new diseases and pests. The odds are it's just a matter of time before there's a failed crop related to GMO. It's happened in the recent past due to poor practices or random chance so it will happen again only this time it could dwarf the other crop failures. Monstano's greed may kill millions and in the near future. Since many third world countries are now depending on the seeds they could end up killing more people than WW II, all in the name of profits.
"They created life that cannot reproduce, so that farmers have to come to them each year to buy new seeds." Actually they didn't the Agriculture department and two private companies did. Monsanto bought the two private companies in 2005 acquiring the rights but they didn't create the genes. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_use_restriction_technology
Apparently no one learned anything from the last tech bubble. A tech stock with a debatable potential for further growth has an IPO and tanks. And people are surprised? Most companies of that value have either tangible products or services with a long track record. Facebook arguably presents cool as being a product. You might as well have valued a company that makes bell bottom jeans in the mid 70s as a multibillion dollar company. It's already showing it's age and in 5 or 10 years will be where Myspace is today. One day it may be the first 100 billion dollar company to end up as a penny stock. If the true value is under $10 it's more than halfway there.
It puts extra pressure on the remaining 43% to cover development costs. I purchased every piece of commercial software I use. I do graphics and have probably spent 25K to 30K just in the last few years on software. Am I rich? Far from, more like dead broke, I simply spend most of my cash on software and hardware and rarely spend money on anything else. It's wildly unfair that some one else can have the same software and not spend a dime. Why not just pirate? Some one has to pay for the development of new software. Other than maybe Photoshop most of my software needs more features so I hope they keep developing. Everyone can call people like me stupid or a troll but we are the ones paying to provide the software that others pirate. There are open source options and I even use a few. I overall like Open Office more than Microsoft products because it's easier to use and has all the features I need. I bought my first copy on Word in the late 80s but I abandoned it in the late 90s because every time I slipped and hit the wrong key it reformatted the document and the computers of the time were too slow and I always managed to type more before it reformatted making it impossible to undo. After I discovered Open Office I never went back. There are open source options for most things it's just the commercial software is generally better so people generally don't bother with the open source they just pirate. I have to point out where will we be when the 43% throw in the towel? The companies aren't government funded so they'll have little choice but to throw in the towel. Ultimately the problem would be solved if commercial software disappeared since there would be nothing left to pirate.
Option 1 Ratings fall due to piracy so HBO cancels Game of Thrones. Fans actually have the potential to kill a show in this case. HBO is hypersensitive to ratings. My favorite show was Carnivale and inspite of it making money the ratings fell and they were facing larger budgets so they canceled it after the second season with I believe four more years left in the run. If the ratings fall off on Game of Thrones HBO will kill it in a heartbeat in favor more cheap to produce comedies. Notice how few shows like Game of Thrones are on the air and how many dumb comedies? You can produce a comedy for a quarter of the money so if it gets half the ratings they figure they come out ahead. Sure I'd love to have another option than having HBO for seeing the show but my subscription is helping fund it and they aren't likely change their distribution method.
Insurance companies would love to get their hands on this data. Got the genetic tendency for a form of cancer it doesn't matter if you never develop it your rates will go up or better yet you get canceled without notice.
Welcome to the 21st century. Annoy China and you'll all be riding horses. It's ironic enough that your national car companies are owned by a former colony. How far the empire has fallen.