No it isn't divine right but the right of doing it first. The US did build the Internet and most of the tech that it runs on. "Thanks CERN for that http thing BTW".
So now the EU wants the US give up control. Okay what are you going to give us in return? Respect? I doubt that. Less scorn? Sure.... I have to say that I see no good reason for the US to give up control of ICANN any more than I see a good reason for France to give up control of the FAI. I doubt that it will improve any service on the internet, increase cost, and potently aid censor ship. There are a lot of countries in the UN that do not value free speech at all.
You are correct about the time travel. That does come from the Tesla kook sources and not the him. And using the term loon is a bit unkind. Mentally ill is the correct term. I still feel that it is a real shame that so much of his brilliant work has has been over shadowed by the fantasy of his fans. His work on the AC power system should be enough to make him the equal of Bell and Edison but the fantasy of his fans and his own mental illness really have made it too easy to marginalize his memory. Maybe he is better off than Sir Frank Whittle. Very few people know who he was but his little invention and work sure did change the world.
I suggest you read more about his latter life. He was a loon. Actually I know a lot about his projects. My favorite is the Telsla turbine. It is a terrible turbine for air. It makes a great pump for solid-fluid mixtures but as a turbine it is no where near what more traditional turbines can do. His power transmission also just doesn't work. His work on AC power transmission and his AC electric motor. Brilliant. Time travel, death beams, free power... Loonie. It is a shame that so many of his fans do him a disservice by pushing his fantasy achievements. They are as loonie as was in his later life. His decline into mental illness should be forgotten and his real achivments should be remembered.
Umm. He was a loon and we do know how his projects worked and didn't. They where all interesting but as with many brilliant but crazy people most where not practical and none of them are past our understanding today. His lab is still there as are the foundations of the tower. Simple answer declare it a historical site and it becomes just about impossible to destroy no matter who owns it.
"When someone can go to the same church for years without making progress towards losing those negative tendencies and replacing them with an overcoming love for humanity, then there is something wrong with that church. Something critical is missing. Note, I said making progress; I did not say "perfect absolute mastery". I would compare it to someone who attends a programming class for four years and after those four years, is still incapable of writing a "Hello World" program in the language of their choice. It indicates something is very wrong with the class. " In a school you would be kicked out of the class long before that time. A church will keep let you trying well most of them. If you don't want to go to a church and or don't believe in what they teach that is one thing. But again you are making a judgment as to that persons progress. Do you really know where that person started? Do you really know where that person is? How do you know what progress they made unless you are that person. I find the obsession with all these other people to be the part I don't get. You even speak about what a Taoist would say but yet you still judge the value of a churches teaching from the most superficial and external signs possible. If you have no desire to go to a church that is fine and dandy. Each person has to find their own way to the truth. I personally believe that almost nobody every figures out even the majority of the truth in their life time. But I would say that you should do a little check on that judging other people thing.
Twitter really isn't as useless as most people think. At first I really thought it was but not really if you follow the right people. jodrellbank, NASA, and Google are all very interesting.
I love how you say they can not be judgmental and must be understanding of others faults and they say that you will not go to a church unless all the members meet your requirements.
The failings of the other people in the church shouldn't matter to you. People will tend to cluster a bit around people they get along well with. They will tend to be make mistakes. Church isn't a home for the perfect it is a halfway house for the imperfect. It doesn't matter if it is a Christian church or a Buddhist temple. Heck you will even see the same failings you mentioned at a Linux Users Group or Slashdot.
Or you could be like me and have 8 differn't ISO that you run in VMWare just to keep up with what they are doing. Heck I don't even know where you would count me. I run Linux and Windows on my desktop. If your a Windows Fan I guess you count me as a Windows user if your a Linux fan I am a Linux user.
This is the single silliest rant I think I have ever heard. Microsoft is paying the least amount of taxes that it legally can. They are breaking no law. Ireland offers it as a way make money. Ireland has a small population and we pretty dang poor before it started doing this. In the 80s there where ghost towns in Ireland because so many people where leaving the country to find work. You see this as being evil but in many ways this is a mutually beneficial situation. Ireland gets jobs and income and the companies make more money.
The downside is that other countries loose tax revenue. The other countries could set up the same system as Ireland if they want. They could try and get the EU to pass laws to prevent it. Or they could just not buy Microsoft or other companies products that use that tax haven. But blaming Microsoft is sort of like blaming somebody for buying a motherboard on NewEgg when it is on sale and has free shipping. It is the best bang for the buck.
Okay I stand corrected on how wet the area is. I always imagine the SF area as kind of damp and not very hot but then I have never been there. Thanks for the info.
Why blame Ballmer and Microsoft? Ireland offers these companies a way to pay less in tax. You really expect them to not take it? Ireland sees it as a way to increase their income so they do it. If you want to blame anybody then blame Ireland and or the EU in general. Hey I am not a fan of Microsoft but in this case the blame seems really misplaces. Of course you could just stop buying Windows. You have Linux, BSD, and even Solaris now to choose from and build a local software industry around or you can keep buying Windows and pumping money out of your country. Windows is probably the path of least resistance... Kind of like going through Ireland for software sales.
Your right in large part about Regan. I wasn't a fan but Clinton did nothing to make much of anything better. Bush Jr. also didn't do much to help the Economy. The problem is politicos have no real motivation to stop bubbles like the Dotcom our housing market. Think about it... People are making too much money with too little effort, we have got to slow this down! Yea that works. Every politician just hopes that they will be out office before the bubble bursts. Calvin Coolidge tied to get people to not inflate the bubble but failed and was called a sour puss for wanting to ruin all the fun. Frankly I liked Bush Sr before we became the VP and wish we could have had a president with the ability of Nixon and the morals of Carter.
rock and or dirt hold in too much heat and can cause erosion. Also isn't Mountain View in a wet area of California? I wouldn't think that it would be too much of a fire hazard. But then they could use cisterns and catch the run off from the roof and use that to water the area as well. Hey it isn't easy being green. Simple truth is that best way to be green in most of California is to leave! There is too much population for the available water, The LA basin holds in the pollution making for terrible air quality. Lots of places in the US with a lot more water and a much lower population density. Might I suggest the Great Lakes area or upper state NY?
That IMHO is a bad choice on Amazons part. eReaders will come down in cost but SmartPhones really are every where. I do have the New York Times on my iPod Touch already. I still feel that newspapers are a better match to a smart phone than an eReader if for no other reason than cost. I might add Stanza to my iPod but getting my Kindle books on my Touch is useful for me.
I got a Kindle and an iPod Touch for Christmas from my wife. I loved the kindle but it is just a little big to carry around. When Amazon came out with the Kindle reader for the the iPhone/iPod Touch I tried it out. Guess what it is wonderful. I always have my iPod Touch in my pocket. I use it it to read a lot more than I do my Kindle. At home I may use my Kindle but the Touch is just too handy. It is the next gen of smart phones that you need to put news papers on. AT&T no has the Nokia E71x smart phone for only $99. Even "feature" phones are getting pretty dang smart these days. Soon everybody will have a Palm WebOS, iPhone, Blackberry, Android, S60, or for those poor souls Windows Mobile device. The question still will be how will they make money? Will people be willing to pay or will ads work?
I do agree. The 4770 will be under a hundred pretty quickly. It just came out after all. Right now for about $10 more than you 4830 you can get a card that is as fast or a little faster according to the benchmarks, uses less power, and produces less heat. Sounds a pretty good deal to me even now.
From the 4830 uses 30 watts more power and runs 20 degrees hotter. It is a very good card for the money but it isn't much faster than 4770 and the 4770 is no so will only come down in price. Both are good choices but I think the 4770 has more value than you are giving it.
ewwww... Access does anybody really use that? I would think VB is more of an issue than Access. I hope that they at least just use Access as the front end and user a real database for the actual database.
Yea sure that will work... Really Windows games are already decreasing in number. My not buying will make no impact. They want to sell to me and most don't care about what OS I run. Right now it is most profitable and easiest to write games on Windows. We need to make it easier to buy games on Linux. I would buy a Linux version of L4D right now.
Dude iTunes isn't a Windows specific app! And Dude I am pretty sure TurboTax started on the Mac Just like Excel did. And dude I am not into the blame game. It is very hard to sell software for Linux for a number of reasons. The FOSS zealot camp think that is a good thing. Truth is they could be solved but have not been. Wine? Yea it kinda sorta maybe works for somethings. It is great if you know what you are doing and have reasonable expectations. The companies don't release for Linux because it is extremely hard to market and sell in the Linux market. The Linux desktop would be more popular with some of these programs available for it. I will let you play the silly blame game I am just pointing out the problem. My solution is a software store like iPhone app store or the Google android app store for Linux. FOSS is often my solution of choice but FOSS doesn't always produce the best apps and I would like the freedom to choose between FOSS and traditional apps. Just like we can under Windows. A Windows machine can have Gimp, Firefox, and Quickbooks. If we get to the same level in Linux then we ca really move forward.
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Yea it would be like if you became part of the world air way system and build airports and all your pilots and ATC people had to speak English!
No it isn't divine right but the right of doing it first. The US did build the Internet and most of the tech that it runs on. "Thanks CERN for that http thing BTW".
So now the EU wants the US give up control. Okay what are you going to give us in return? Respect? I doubt that. Less scorn? Sure....
I have to say that I see no good reason for the US to give up control of ICANN any more than I see a good reason for France to give up control of the FAI.
I doubt that it will improve any service on the internet, increase cost, and potently aid censor ship. There are a lot of countries in the UN that do not value free speech at all.
You are correct about the time travel. That does come from the Tesla kook sources and not the him. And using the term loon is a bit unkind. Mentally ill is the correct term. I still feel that it is a real shame that so much of his brilliant work has has been over shadowed by the fantasy of his fans. His work on the AC power system should be enough to make him the equal of Bell and Edison but the fantasy of his fans and his own mental illness really have made it too easy to marginalize his memory.
Maybe he is better off than Sir Frank Whittle. Very few people know who he was but his little invention and work sure did change the world.
I suggest you read more about his latter life. He was a loon. Actually I know a lot about his projects. My favorite is the Telsla turbine. It is a terrible turbine for air. It makes a great pump for solid-fluid mixtures but as a turbine it is no where near what more traditional turbines can do.
His power transmission also just doesn't work. His work on AC power transmission and his AC electric motor. Brilliant.
Time travel, death beams, free power... Loonie.
It is a shame that so many of his fans do him a disservice by pushing his fantasy achievements.
They are as loonie as was in his later life. His decline into mental illness should be forgotten and his real achivments should be remembered.
It couldn't and your not missing a thing.
Umm. He was a loon and we do know how his projects worked and didn't.
They where all interesting but as with many brilliant but crazy people most where not practical and none of them are past our understanding today.
His lab is still there as are the foundations of the tower. Simple answer declare it a historical site and it becomes just about impossible to destroy no matter who owns it.
"When someone can go to the same church for years without making progress towards losing those negative tendencies and replacing them with an overcoming love for humanity, then there is something wrong with that church. Something critical is missing. Note, I said making progress; I did not say "perfect absolute mastery". I would compare it to someone who attends a programming class for four years and after those four years, is still incapable of writing a "Hello World" program in the language of their choice. It indicates something is very wrong with the class. "
In a school you would be kicked out of the class long before that time. A church will keep let you trying well most of them.
If you don't want to go to a church and or don't believe in what they teach that is one thing. But again you are making a judgment as to that persons progress. Do you really know where that person started? Do you really know where that person is? How do you know what progress they made unless you are that person.
I find the obsession with all these other people to be the part I don't get. You even speak about what a Taoist would say but yet you still judge the value of a churches teaching from the most superficial and external signs possible.
If you have no desire to go to a church that is fine and dandy. Each person has to find their own way to the truth. I personally believe that almost nobody every figures out even the majority of the truth in their life time.
But I would say that you should do a little check on that judging other people thing.
Twitter really isn't as useless as most people think. At first I really thought it was but not really if you follow the right people.
jodrellbank, NASA, and Google are all very interesting.
I love how you say they can not be judgmental and must be understanding of others faults and they say that you will not go to a church unless all the members meet your requirements.
The failings of the other people in the church shouldn't matter to you. People will tend to cluster a bit around people they get along well with. They will tend to be make mistakes. Church isn't a home for the perfect it is a halfway house for the imperfect.
It doesn't matter if it is a Christian church or a Buddhist temple.
Heck you will even see the same failings you mentioned at a Linux Users Group or Slashdot.
Fill an old coal mine with sawdust then. Probably a cheaper way to sequester Carbon than making Biogas and making carbon black from it.
But to do this with bio gas would be dumb.
Biogas is carbon neutral and removing the carbon decreases the energy content of the gas by a good amount.
Or you could be like me and have 8 differn't ISO that you run in VMWare just to keep up with what they are doing.
Heck I don't even know where you would count me. I run Linux and Windows on my desktop. If your a Windows Fan I guess you count me as a Windows user if your a Linux fan I am a Linux user.
This is the single silliest rant I think I have ever heard.
Microsoft is paying the least amount of taxes that it legally can. They are breaking no law.
Ireland offers it as a way make money. Ireland has a small population and we pretty dang poor before it started doing this. In the 80s there where ghost towns in Ireland because so many people where leaving the country to find work.
You see this as being evil but in many ways this is a mutually beneficial situation. Ireland gets jobs and income and the companies make more money.
The downside is that other countries loose tax revenue. The other countries could set up the same system as Ireland if they want. They could try and get the EU to pass laws to prevent it. Or they could just not buy Microsoft or other companies products that use that tax haven.
But blaming Microsoft is sort of like blaming somebody for buying a motherboard on NewEgg when it is on sale and has free shipping. It is the best bang for the buck.
Okay I stand corrected on how wet the area is. I always imagine the SF area as kind of damp and not very hot but then I have never been there. Thanks for the info.
Why blame Ballmer and Microsoft?
Ireland offers these companies a way to pay less in tax. You really expect them to not take it?
Ireland sees it as a way to increase their income so they do it. If you want to blame anybody then blame Ireland and or the EU in general.
Hey I am not a fan of Microsoft but in this case the blame seems really misplaces.
Of course you could just stop buying Windows.
You have Linux, BSD, and even Solaris now to choose from and build a local software industry around or you can keep buying Windows and pumping money out of your country. Windows is probably the path of least resistance... Kind of like going through Ireland for software sales.
Your right in large part about Regan. I wasn't a fan but Clinton did nothing to make much of anything better. Bush Jr. also didn't do much to help the Economy.
The problem is politicos have no real motivation to stop bubbles like the Dotcom our housing market. Think about it... People are making too much money with too little effort, we have got to slow this down!
Yea that works. Every politician just hopes that they will be out office before the bubble bursts. Calvin Coolidge tied to get people to not inflate the bubble but failed and was called a sour puss for wanting to ruin all the fun.
Frankly I liked Bush Sr before we became the VP and wish we could have had a president with the ability of Nixon and the morals of Carter.
rock and or dirt hold in too much heat and can cause erosion. Also isn't Mountain View in a wet area of California?
I wouldn't think that it would be too much of a fire hazard. But then they could use cisterns and catch the run off from the roof and use that to water the area as well. Hey it isn't easy being green. Simple truth is that best way to be green in most of California is to leave! There is too much population for the available water, The LA basin holds in the pollution making for terrible air quality.
Lots of places in the US with a lot more water and a much lower population density. Might I suggest the Great Lakes area or upper state NY?
Methane is a much stronger green house gas than CO2.
On the plus side they will also "fertilize" the grass at the same time.
The real "green" thing to do is get rid of the grass and use native plants and grasses for the landscape. That would also cut down on water use.
That IMHO is a bad choice on Amazons part.
eReaders will come down in cost but SmartPhones really are every where. I do have the New York Times on my iPod Touch already. I still feel that newspapers are a better match to a smart phone than an eReader if for no other reason than cost. I might add Stanza to my iPod but getting my Kindle books on my Touch is useful for me.
I got a Kindle and an iPod Touch for Christmas from my wife. I loved the kindle but it is just a little big to carry around. When Amazon came out with the Kindle reader for the the iPhone/iPod Touch I tried it out. Guess what it is wonderful. I always have my iPod Touch in my pocket. I use it it to read a lot more than I do my Kindle. At home I may use my Kindle but the Touch is just too handy.
It is the next gen of smart phones that you need to put news papers on. AT&T no has the Nokia E71x smart phone for only $99. Even "feature" phones are getting pretty dang smart these days. Soon everybody will have a Palm WebOS, iPhone, Blackberry, Android, S60, or for those poor souls Windows Mobile device. The question still will be how will they make money? Will people be willing to pay or will ads work?
I do agree. The 4770 will be under a hundred pretty quickly. It just came out after all. Right now for about $10 more than you 4830 you can get a card that is as fast or a little faster according to the benchmarks, uses less power, and produces less heat.
Sounds a pretty good deal to me even now.
From the 4830 uses 30 watts more power and runs 20 degrees hotter. It is a very good card for the money but it isn't much faster than 4770 and the 4770 is no so will only come down in price. Both are good choices but I think the 4770 has more value than you are giving it.
ewwww... Access does anybody really use that? I would think VB is more of an issue than Access. I hope that they at least just use Access as the front end and user a real database for the actual database.
Yea sure that will work...
Really Windows games are already decreasing in number. My not buying will make no impact. They want to sell to me and most don't care about what OS I run.
Right now it is most profitable and easiest to write games on Windows. We need to make it easier to buy games on Linux. I would buy a Linux version of L4D right now.
Dude iTunes isn't a Windows specific app!
And Dude I am pretty sure TurboTax started on the Mac Just like Excel did. And dude I am not into the blame game.
It is very hard to sell software for Linux for a number of reasons. The FOSS zealot camp think that is a good thing.
Truth is they could be solved but have not been.
Wine? Yea it kinda sorta maybe works for somethings. It is great if you know what you are doing and have reasonable expectations.
The companies don't release for Linux because it is extremely hard to market and sell in the Linux market. The Linux desktop would be more popular with some of these programs available for it.
I will let you play the silly blame game I am just pointing out the problem. My solution is a software store like iPhone app store or the Google android app store for Linux. FOSS is often my solution of choice but FOSS doesn't always produce the best apps and I would like the freedom to choose between FOSS and traditional apps. Just like we can under Windows. A Windows machine can have Gimp, Firefox, and Quickbooks.
If we get to the same level in Linux then we ca really move forward.