It is kind of scary, but I was thinking we could have them do real work somehow while we're waiting for them to get up to size. Why waste those watts? Then we wouldn't have to have those nasty hog manufacturing plants and the lovely cattle yards that project stink for miles and pollute the environment.
Wow, there are so many more options than when I began a little more than a century ago. Back then unless you had access to high end hardware, there was basic and machine/assembly language. I was so stoked when I finally got the Assembler cartridge. I lived in a small rural town so I had to scour magazines and the book store on trips to The Big City with an occasional nudge from an older brother who was in college. You kids nowadays don't realize how easy you have it:). Which one? Whatever gets them excited.
I'm a liberal and I support the right to self defense through methods including guns. I also support choice for women. Gun control is ineffective. The fact that *some* people will have guns is a public good. Criminals will know that they are effectively playing Russian Roulette if some of their potential victims are armed and they won't know which ones.
I don't see too much of a problem with offshore platforms from an environmental standpoint, as long as the operation is well run. It's not like they're scraping the bottom with nets (evil) and they're like artificial reefs too.
While I believe this woman is reprehensible, I'd be okay if this were thrown out on appeal. I'm sure Mrs. Drew's gotten her ass whuppin' by now. Plus, I doubt anyone would move into their house even if they could sell it in this market. They're screwed. I wonder what would have happened if she had walked over to their house and handed the girl a rope?
Steve Jobs is the wrong example. Steve Wozniak is the real counterpart to Gates and Joy, but Gladwell gives Jobs the credit. Jobs was the one who won by Machiavellian tactics. I guess since Woz was born in '50 he was too old.
Wow, the Commonwealth nations are more restrictive than the old USA. No guns, genuine Orwellian monitoring and censorship, the whole shot. Nope, not going there.
I guess there are a lot of people who will groan, but I actually really like Rhapsody. I've never been a big purchaser of music. I was strongly discouraged from doing that when I grew up so I got pretty accustomed to listening to the radio. And I liked it that way:). I also tend to buy a CD and listen to it once whereafter it gets put away in a box. Even for top notch "classics". With pay-to-play I get to listen to whatever floats my boat on that day without cluttering up my house and cars with rarely listened to music. This also allows me to cheaply experiment with stuff I wouldn't otherwise listen to. I don't get unknown garage bands, but that's not what I'm into anyway. I suspect if I wanted to search for them I'd find them with Google. This isn't like paying for the air I breath. If it gets too expensive, well, I like silence too.
Actually, that's not too bad. Use the daylight to generate electricity and sell it onto the grid at 20-30 cents/kwh. Then buy it back at night at 10 cents/kwh to recharge your car.
That was my observation when I looked at Dell's web site several months ago. The linux.dell.com offerings were inferior and more expensive, at least for laptops. Probably why Dell hasn't gotten many takers. And no, I'm not an MS fanboy. I've been a continuous Linux user for ~14 years.
That also conveniently ignores the fact that the Linux offerings are more expensive and older technology. When I went to buy a new Dell I did the math and ended up just buying a Windows machine and blowing away the Windows install and putting SuSE on it.
I had to buy a new machine a couple of weeks ago with Vista on it, and it's mostly annoyed me ever since, even more than XP. I've had my unused XP Pro install CD (from a machine converted to Linux) sitting by my computer. This clinches it. I'd do Linux, but I have three Linux machines and need at least one Windows machine to run some things on it.
I'm a white male married to a Chinese woman and I don't ever hear flack about it. I'm in California, so it's not that big of a deal out here. As far as I can tell, her immediate family pretty much accepts me. However, there are just as many dumb Chinese hicks as there are dumb American ones. Probably more considering how long the country was locked up and how the culture oozes with demands of conformity. So, I think she might hear about it sometimes. She would sometimes say that there are Chinese men who would take offense at our relationship because the Chinese women are their property. The only recommendation I have is to be very careful about cross cultural relationships. Many developing countries are still very socially conservative and there are cultural differences that as an "enlightened" and "open minded" citizen of a developed nation you can't even comprehend. Imagine going back to '50s Mississippi and being on the receiving end. As an example, for the first several years of our marriage whenever I asked my six figure income wife for a dollar she would howl that I'm a "rich American". I have never seen mixed relationships being put on par with pedophilia.
I am also a resident of San Jose, in particular Saratoga - close to the Santa Cruz Mountains and the very dark Pacific on the other side of them. My neighborhood has decided to forgo street lamps, thank God. So, the visibility is still not too bad at night for it being in the city. I grew up 250 miles north of Detroit - one of the darkest areas of the country. Having grown up in the country, the lack of street lights makes it easier for me to sleep at night. I have a motion sensitive porch light and one of the benefits I've figured out for it is that it'll pretty much tell me if someone comes onto the property at night. I may have to join the IDA because this is one of my concerns too... BTW, If you've ever been to the island of Hawaii, that's also a really good place to see the night sky.
Yup, for Christ's sake people. Do you not want ANY commercial software for Linux? I'm a user but not an investor or employee of VMWare. However, I think it's a great product.
Not much more to say than that. I have trouble seeing how having Asia get richer is bad for the first world. It's called creating wealth, so no it's not a zero sum game. Keep your skills updated and work hard because now you have to compete with that many more people, whether you like it or not. Yes, I'm an American.
I converted to SuSE after getting tired of Redhat/Fedora bugs a few years ago, and by and large I'm pretty happy. While there's still some of this type of thing to worry about, it's a much reduced problem. I think Linux is about 90% to the ease of use of Windows. I have no problem paying for my Linux installs. While when I began with Linux 13 or so years ago I was pretty broke and curious, now I'm more interested in free as in freedom rather than free as in beer. I'm still a little frustrated that I can't get regular automated updates of things like Firefox and Thunderbird. Strangely enough, it's my XP computer that refuses to hibernate/thaw properly. At my previous employer I had a Dell that I decided I wanted XP Pro on instead of XP Home. I never did get the sound card to work on it again after that "upgrade".
Actually there are some places where fishing rights are deeded and limited. It is my understanding that it has been successful. The owner of the fishing right can sell it or leave it to his heirs. If you expect your personal or children's future to directly depend on the viability of this resource, wouldn't you have a vested interest in keeping it that way? I can't quite remember, but I believe this was in Natural Capitalism (http://www.natcap.org/).
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Yeah, careful, they'll probably make him a manager.
No, but some operators may require changes to wetware and hardware, including ocular augmentation devices.
You can do the same thing yourself by *looking* ahead.
It is kind of scary, but I was thinking we could have them do real work somehow while we're waiting for them to get up to size. Why waste those watts?
Then we wouldn't have to have those nasty hog manufacturing plants and the lovely cattle yards that project stink for miles and pollute the environment.
Uh, yeah, I mean "quarter century" :).
Wow, there are so many more options than when I began a little more than a century ago. :).
Back then unless you had access to high end hardware, there was basic and machine/assembly language. I was so stoked when I finally got the Assembler cartridge.
I lived in a small rural town so I had to scour magazines and the book store on trips to The Big City with an occasional nudge from an older brother who was in college.
You kids nowadays don't realize how easy you have it
Which one? Whatever gets them excited.
I'm a liberal and I support the right to self defense through methods including guns. I also support choice for women. Gun control is ineffective. The fact that *some* people will have guns is a public good. Criminals will know that they are effectively playing Russian Roulette if some of their potential victims are armed and they won't know which ones.
I don't see too much of a problem with offshore platforms from an environmental standpoint, as long as the operation is well run.
It's not like they're scraping the bottom with nets (evil) and they're like artificial reefs too.
'Nuff said.
While I believe this woman is reprehensible, I'd be okay if this were thrown out on appeal.
I'm sure Mrs. Drew's gotten her ass whuppin' by now.
Plus, I doubt anyone would move into their house even if they could sell it in this market.
They're screwed.
I wonder what would have happened if she had walked over to their house and handed the girl a rope?
Steve Jobs is the wrong example. Steve Wozniak is the real counterpart to Gates and Joy, but Gladwell gives Jobs the credit. Jobs was the one who won by Machiavellian tactics.
I guess since Woz was born in '50 he was too old.
Wow, the Commonwealth nations are more restrictive than the old USA. No guns, genuine Orwellian monitoring and censorship, the whole shot.
Nope, not going there.
I just moved my ssh server to a random port. No more brute force ssh attacks.
I guess there are a lot of people who will groan, but I actually really like Rhapsody. I've never been a big purchaser of music. I was strongly discouraged from doing that when I grew up so I got pretty accustomed to listening to the radio. And I liked it that way :).
I also tend to buy a CD and listen to it once whereafter it gets put away in a box. Even for top notch "classics". With pay-to-play I get to listen to whatever floats my boat on that day without cluttering up my house and cars with rarely listened to music.
This also allows me to cheaply experiment with stuff I wouldn't otherwise listen to. I don't get unknown garage bands, but that's not what I'm into anyway. I suspect if I wanted to search for them I'd find them with Google.
This isn't like paying for the air I breath. If it gets too expensive, well, I like silence too.
Actually, that's not too bad. Use the daylight to generate electricity and sell it onto the grid at 20-30 cents/kwh. Then buy it back at night at 10 cents/kwh to recharge your car.
That was my observation when I looked at Dell's web site several months ago. The linux.dell.com offerings were inferior and more expensive, at least for laptops. Probably why Dell hasn't gotten many takers.
And no, I'm not an MS fanboy. I've been a continuous Linux user for ~14 years.
That also conveniently ignores the fact that the Linux offerings are more expensive and older technology. When I went to buy a new Dell I did the math and ended up just buying a Windows machine and blowing away the Windows install and putting SuSE on it.
I had to buy a new machine a couple of weeks ago with Vista on it, and it's mostly annoyed me ever since, even more than XP.
I've had my unused XP Pro install CD (from a machine converted to Linux) sitting by my computer. This clinches it.
I'd do Linux, but I have three Linux machines and need at least one Windows machine to run some things on it.
I'm a white male married to a Chinese woman and I don't ever hear flack about it. I'm in California, so it's not that big of a deal out here.
As far as I can tell, her immediate family pretty much accepts me.
However, there are just as many dumb Chinese hicks as there are dumb American ones. Probably more considering how long the country was locked up and how the culture oozes with demands of conformity. So, I think she might hear about it sometimes.
She would sometimes say that there are Chinese men who would take offense at our relationship because the Chinese women are their property.
The only recommendation I have is to be very careful about cross cultural relationships. Many developing countries are still very socially conservative and there are cultural differences that as an "enlightened" and "open minded" citizen of a developed nation you can't even comprehend. Imagine going back to '50s Mississippi and being on the receiving end.
As an example, for the first several years of our marriage whenever I asked my six figure income wife for a dollar she would howl that I'm a "rich American".
I have never seen mixed relationships being put on par with pedophilia.
I am also a resident of San Jose, in particular Saratoga - close to the Santa Cruz Mountains and the very dark Pacific on the other side of them. My neighborhood has decided to forgo street lamps, thank God. So, the visibility is still not too bad at night for it being in the city. I grew up 250 miles north of Detroit - one of the darkest areas of the country. Having grown up in the country, the lack of street lights makes it easier for me to sleep at night. I have a motion sensitive porch light and one of the benefits I've figured out for it is that it'll pretty much tell me if someone comes onto the property at night.
I may have to join the IDA because this is one of my concerns too...
BTW, If you've ever been to the island of Hawaii, that's also a really good place to see the night sky.
Yup, for Christ's sake people. Do you not want ANY commercial software for Linux?
I'm a user but not an investor or employee of VMWare. However, I think it's a great product.
Not much more to say than that. I have trouble seeing how having Asia get richer is bad for the first world. It's called creating wealth, so no it's not a zero sum game. Keep your skills updated and work hard because now you have to compete with that many more people, whether you like it or not. Yes, I'm an American.
I converted to SuSE after getting tired of Redhat/Fedora bugs a few years ago, and by and large I'm pretty happy. While there's still some of this type of thing to worry about, it's a much reduced problem. I think Linux is about 90% to the ease of use of Windows. I have no problem paying for my Linux installs. While when I began with Linux 13 or so years ago I was pretty broke and curious, now I'm more interested in free as in freedom rather than free as in beer. I'm still a little frustrated that I can't get regular automated updates of things like Firefox and Thunderbird. Strangely enough, it's my XP computer that refuses to hibernate/thaw properly.
At my previous employer I had a Dell that I decided I wanted XP Pro on instead of XP Home. I never did get the sound card to work on it again after that "upgrade".
Actually, some Indian outsourcing companies are already hiring workers in America.
Actually there are some places where fishing rights are deeded and limited. It is my understanding that it has been successful. The owner of the fishing right can sell it or leave it to his heirs. If you expect your personal or children's future to directly depend on the viability of this resource, wouldn't you have a vested interest in keeping it that way?
I can't quite remember, but I believe this was in Natural Capitalism (http://www.natcap.org/).