But the people protesting the launch of space probes that use RTGs and frankly anti-nuclear protesters in general do affect the lives of sane people. Hey I have no problem with saying that those people that got freaked where foolish. They just where not criminal. AirTran on the other hand are just extremely stupid and bigoted in this case. Those people where cleared by the FBI and they still wouldn't let the fly! There is no possible excuse for that, none at all. Frankly the last thing I would worry about is a group of Muslims in ethically specific dress. If you where going to do a terrorist attack I would suspect that they would be dressed as western as possible and would be talking about the up coming college bowl games or going to Disney World. I mean if you where to highjack a plane would you do anything that made you stick out? Or say anything at all about the plane short how bad the food is if you got any or how you wish they would bring back pretty flight attendants. But yes the passengers I would let pass as simple fear. Heck some people are terrified to just be on a plane. People that are already scared can act in ways that normally wouldn't. But AirTran... I hope they get the snot sued out of them.
I think Click and run failed because it didn't have a big enough customer base. I am all for Android on netbooks just for the reason you mentioned. I just got an iPod touch. It is a good player but the ease of getting stuff through iTunes is great. At this point I am wondering when Apple is going to put Mac Apps on ITunes as well.
Your idea about Dalvik going head to head with silverlight and flash is interesting. JavaFX is supposed to do that as well. Me I always thought that if you combined Squeak with VorbisOGG for music, Speex for voice, and maybe Diac for video you could have a really good replacment for Flash/Silverlight. The problem is now and will be for a long time authoring tools. Nobody in the FOSS comunity seems to want to put in the time to build those. The exceptions are GIMP and Blender but they are big exceptions.
Because if you are going to start tossing scared stupid people into jail then first start with the people that protest every time NASA sends up an RTG. Or those that think that the government is covering up UFOs. The simple truth is that everybody in their life is going to be scared for no good reason at sometime. The criminally stupid people was AirTran and yes they are going to get busted.
I wish that the world could work that way but it doesn't. For one thing being scared and stupid isn't a crime. And yes if you report anybody acting in a way that you feel is criminal the police are OBLIGATED to investigate. That is what the FBI did and cleared them. Only the Airline is really at fault. The passenger heard something that they found questionable. Yea they over reacted but that was an honest mistake or at least I would give them the benefit of the doubt. The FBI cleared the family. So they did their job. The Airline would not let them back on the flight or any other flight AFTER the FBI cleared them. That I feel is criminal.
Actually you would probably find the FBI judgment has over all been really good. True story. I have a sister that is a total nut case. She sent some really nasty conspiracy theory emails to some high government officials. She got a visit from DHS and the FBI. They realized she was a harmless nut case and left her alone.
I have to agree. I have no problem with them being taken off the plane and being interviewed. If anybody on a plane makes a claim that a group of people are acting auspicious then they have very little choice. But the refusal to rebook them after the FBI cleared them? Heck they should have gotten them out on the next flight with applogies all around. And that would be the minimum. I don't think AirTran has first class but if they did then a free upgrade would have also been in order at least.
On a good note the FBI even tried to get them back on the plane when they found out it was just silliness. A combination of a few silly passengers, dumb rent a cops, and a REALLY STUPID AIRLINE.
There where blogs so they where mostly text. Text is really small. 16GB flash drivers are getting cheap now. Put two flash drives on the server and do a nightly on one and weekly on the other. I think the problem here was that the computer was probably at a COLO facility. No easy way to get to the server everyday for a back up. They might have had to do backups across the internet using a Cable Modem or DSL. Just not a great way to work.
I tend to agree. Quicken, QuickBooks, and TurboTax would help a lot more. Quicken online helps but I think a lot of people would rather have their accounting software local. A bunch of simple games would really help. PopCap would be a big win for Linux:)
No it really isn't unfortunate this happened. It was going to happen sooner or later. The bad thing is that it didn't happen when there was less data to loose.
What where they thinking?
Maybe this is an example where FOSS just work. Instead of FOSS games what they need to think about are games that run under Linux. I still think what Linux needs is an iTunes/iTunes Store like system. Think of it as synaptic with a good interface and an option to pay for software. Let people write games and other software and publish in the store for free or for pay. I have a lot of free as in beer apps on my Touch. There is room under the sun for both Frozen Bubble and Popcap games.
Okay I do think that they do everything they can to get you back on line. Too bad they do very little to keep you online. I live in South Florida. There are still poles that really need to be replaced not far from my house. Many poles down here snapped because they where old and needed to be replaced a long time ago.
My hats off to the hard working people out there on the front line. But the bean counters SUCK.
It is slashdot what else would you expect. Funny thing is that I was thinking about getting a Zune. I have heard that it's software is better than Itunes. It is a real shame that they blew this one so badly. Microsoft because it is the biggest software developer on the planet really has no excuse. My wife got me an iPod Touch for Christmas since I can use it for development as well as playing music and video.
Actually no they didn't Older ICBMs like the Atlas, R-7 "I think", and Titan had to throw really big and heavy warheads. They all could put a lighter satellite into orbit. Modern US missiles have less throw weight but even then a Peacekeeper or Trident could reach orbit with a light enough load.
No more pork than the National Endowment for the Arts is. One the argument for direct spending vs say the space program is kind of silly. In engineering requirements drive progress. Space exploration along with with military programs tend to push the requirements farther than research in isolation ever would.
As far as your system of ethics goes. I believe that the value of the Space Program as a source of inspiration and the value of the developments from it far out weigh the costs. Your system seems to be that anything that you personally don't value is valueless.
"Chernobyl is unlikely to occur in the West," No it is IMPOSSIBLE. TMI killed nobody. it damaged the reactor but the best estimate of added cancers from the released radiation was.5 deaths. That has been no statistic spike in cancer deaths from that area to this day. Russia has a lot of great scientists and engineers. They just got over ridden by political leaders all too often in the past.
Wind and solar are not now practical. They are a supplement and I am all for using them but if you want to cut carbon today, cut oil use today, you better start building reactors today.
Thank you. I am so sick of people using Chernobyl to dam Nuclear power in the US and other western nations. I sure don't have a degree in nuclear engineering but the to be honest the difference between a light water reactor and the RBMK-1000 is pretty easy to see.
Okay I use Linux and I really do like FOSS but are you nuts? "NVidia and Intel will follow with their own release announcements within weeks, or watch their proprietary crap die." To be honest 99.99% of the people that use computers don't care if the driver is FOSS or not. The majority of these card are used on Windows boxes so FOSS doesn't matter to them. Then you have the majority of Linux users that just want drivers to work. All they will care about is if there cards work out of the box. Which will be a good thing but as long as they can click and install a driver that works they will also not care that much.
Hydrogen is a PAIN. Hydrogen embrittlement makes storage and transportation a problem as does it's low density. If you are going to make hydrogen you might as well take the next step and convert it to NH4 and use it for fertilizer or CH4 and use it for fuel. NH4 will also work as a fuel if you want. Both would work in a fuel cell or a gas turbine.
Of course Nuclear doesn't have these problems and if they would allow fuel reprocessing the storage problem would go away as well. As to safty modern western reactors have a great record. And any one that brings up the C word is just spreading FUD since it that disaster would never have been allowed to have been built in the US.
Actually it is pretty old school. Old mainframes had a UPS/surge suppressor that was just about as good as it gets. They used an electric motor hooked to the mains, the motor spun a flywheel that was spun a generator that powered the computer. There was also a clutch to a an IC motor. When the power failed the clutch engaged the motor and started it up.
I tend to build my own and I use Linux not BSD. I would look at at a 780G board. I have had good luck with Asus. The good news is that work on the GPL ATI drivers is comming right along. Hopefully that will help BSD as well
You can get a good AM2+ motherboard for under $100. DDR2 is cheap, and the price point for these CPUS is looking pretty good. I doubt that they will beat an I7 but they may offer a great bang for the buck. Even before these came out AMD offered the best value in the good enough category. You would be hard pressed to find a better value than one of the BE X2s on a 780G motherboard for an average user.
I noticed that they didn't say a thing about GMail. I wonder if they are paying Microsoft and Yahoo something to keep the hounds at bay. Google has too much money right now to be messed with and too much riding on Net Neutrality to be paid off so I guess they will not be blocked. besides what if Google blocked Fairpoint users from Google search and YouTube until fairpoint unblocked gmail?
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But the people protesting the launch of space probes that use RTGs and frankly anti-nuclear protesters in general do affect the lives of sane people. Hey I have no problem with saying that those people that got freaked where foolish. They just where not criminal.
AirTran on the other hand are just extremely stupid and bigoted in this case. Those people where cleared by the FBI and they still wouldn't let the fly! There is no possible excuse for that, none at all.
Frankly the last thing I would worry about is a group of Muslims in ethically specific dress. If you where going to do a terrorist attack I would suspect that they would be dressed as western as possible and would be talking about the up coming college bowl games or going to Disney World.
I mean if you where to highjack a plane would you do anything that made you stick out? Or say anything at all about the plane short how bad the food is if you got any or how you wish they would bring back pretty flight attendants.
But yes the passengers I would let pass as simple fear. Heck some people are terrified to just be on a plane. People that are already scared can act in ways that normally wouldn't. But AirTran... I hope they get the snot sued out of them.
I think Click and run failed because it didn't have a big enough customer base. I am all for Android on netbooks just for the reason you mentioned. I just got an iPod touch. It is a good player but the ease of getting stuff through iTunes is great. At this point I am wondering when Apple is going to put Mac Apps on ITunes as well.
Your idea about Dalvik going head to head with silverlight and flash is interesting. JavaFX is supposed to do that as well. Me I always thought that if you combined Squeak with VorbisOGG for music, Speex for voice, and maybe Diac for video you could have a really good replacment for Flash/Silverlight.
The problem is now and will be for a long time authoring tools. Nobody in the FOSS comunity seems to want to put in the time to build those. The exceptions are GIMP and Blender but they are big exceptions.
Because if you are going to start tossing scared stupid people into jail then first start with the people that protest every time NASA sends up an RTG. Or those that think that the government is covering up UFOs.
The simple truth is that everybody in their life is going to be scared for no good reason at sometime. The criminally stupid people was AirTran and yes they are going to get busted.
I wish that the world could work that way but it doesn't.
For one thing being scared and stupid isn't a crime.
And yes if you report anybody acting in a way that you feel is criminal the police are OBLIGATED to investigate.
That is what the FBI did and cleared them.
Only the Airline is really at fault. The passenger heard something that they found questionable. Yea they over reacted but that was an honest mistake or at least I would give them the benefit of the doubt. The FBI cleared the family. So they did their job.
The Airline would not let them back on the flight or any other flight AFTER the FBI cleared them. That I feel is criminal.
Actually you would probably find the FBI judgment has over all been really good.
True story. I have a sister that is a total nut case. She sent some really nasty conspiracy theory emails to some high government officials.
She got a visit from DHS and the FBI.
They realized she was a harmless nut case and left her alone.
I have to agree.
I have no problem with them being taken off the plane and being interviewed. If anybody on a plane makes a claim that a group of people are acting auspicious then they have very little choice.
But the refusal to rebook them after the FBI cleared them? Heck they should have gotten them out on the next flight with applogies all around. And that would be the minimum. I don't think AirTran has first class but if they did then a free upgrade would have also been in order at least.
On a good note the FBI even tried to get them back on the plane when they found out it was just silliness.
A combination of a few silly passengers, dumb rent a cops, and a REALLY STUPID AIRLINE.
There where blogs so they where mostly text. Text is really small. 16GB flash drivers are getting cheap now. Put two flash drives on the server and do a nightly on one and weekly on the other.
I think the problem here was that the computer was probably at a COLO facility. No easy way to get to the server everyday for a back up. They might have had to do backups across the internet using a Cable Modem or DSL.
Just not a great way to work.
I tend to agree. Quicken, QuickBooks, and TurboTax would help a lot more. :)
Quicken online helps but I think a lot of people would rather have their accounting software local.
A bunch of simple games would really help. PopCap would be a big win for Linux
No it really isn't unfortunate this happened. It was going to happen sooner or later. The bad thing is that it didn't happen when there was less data to loose.
What where they thinking?
Maybe this is an example where FOSS just work. Instead of FOSS games what they need to think about are games that run under Linux.
I still think what Linux needs is an iTunes/iTunes Store like system.
Think of it as synaptic with a good interface and an option to pay for software.
Let people write games and other software and publish in the store for free or for pay. I have a lot of free as in beer apps on my Touch.
There is room under the sun for both Frozen Bubble and Popcap games.
That is very reasonable actually. Are you sure you work for a cable company. Well reasonable if it isn't $3 that is.
Okay I do think that they do everything they can to get you back on line.
Too bad they do very little to keep you online.
I live in South Florida. There are still poles that really need to be replaced not far from my house.
Many poles down here snapped because they where old and needed to be replaced a long time ago.
My hats off to the hard working people out there on the front line.
But the bean counters SUCK.
Solar in the North East in winter........
Ever notice that HomePower magazine has a lot of adds for generators.
It is slashdot what else would you expect.
Funny thing is that I was thinking about getting a Zune. I have heard that it's software is better than Itunes.
It is a real shame that they blew this one so badly. Microsoft because it is the biggest software developer on the planet really has no excuse.
My wife got me an iPod Touch for Christmas since I can use it for development as well as playing music and video.
Actually no they didn't
Older ICBMs like the Atlas, R-7 "I think", and Titan had to throw really big and heavy warheads. They all could put a lighter satellite into orbit.
Modern US missiles have less throw weight but even then a Peacekeeper or Trident could reach orbit with a light enough load.
No more pork than the National Endowment for the Arts is.
One the argument for direct spending vs say the space program is kind of silly. In engineering requirements drive progress. Space exploration along with with military programs tend to push the requirements farther than research in isolation ever would.
As far as your system of ethics goes. I believe that the value of the Space Program as a source of inspiration and the value of the developments from it far out weigh the costs. Your system seems to be that anything that you personally don't value is valueless.
"Chernobyl is unlikely to occur in the West," .5 deaths.
No it is IMPOSSIBLE.
TMI killed nobody. it damaged the reactor but the best estimate of added cancers from the released radiation was
That has been no statistic spike in cancer deaths from that area to this day.
Russia has a lot of great scientists and engineers. They just got over ridden by political leaders all too often in the past.
Wind and solar are not now practical. They are a supplement and I am all for using them but if you want to cut carbon today, cut oil use today, you better start building reactors today.
Thank you. I am so sick of people using Chernobyl to dam Nuclear power in the US and other western nations.
I sure don't have a degree in nuclear engineering but the to be honest the difference between a light water reactor and the RBMK-1000 is pretty easy to see.
Okay I use Linux and I really do like FOSS but are you nuts?
"NVidia and Intel will follow with their own release announcements within weeks, or watch their proprietary crap die."
To be honest 99.99% of the people that use computers don't care if the driver is FOSS or not. The majority of these card are used on Windows boxes so FOSS doesn't matter to them.
Then you have the majority of Linux users that just want drivers to work. All they will care about is if there cards work out of the box. Which will be a good thing but as long as they can click and install a driver that works they will also not care that much.
Hydrogen is a PAIN.
Hydrogen embrittlement makes storage and transportation a problem as does it's low density.
If you are going to make hydrogen you might as well take the next step and convert it to NH4 and use it for fertilizer or CH4 and use it for fuel. NH4 will also work as a fuel if you want. Both would work in a fuel cell or a gas turbine.
Of course Nuclear doesn't have these problems and if they would allow fuel reprocessing the storage problem would go away as well. As to safty modern western reactors have a great record. And any one that brings up the C word is just spreading FUD since it that disaster would never have been allowed to have been built in the US.
Actually it is pretty old school. Old mainframes had a UPS/surge suppressor that was just about as good as it gets.
They used an electric motor hooked to the mains, the motor spun a flywheel that was spun a generator that powered the computer.
There was also a clutch to a an IC motor. When the power failed the clutch engaged the motor and started it up.
I tend to build my own and I use Linux not BSD. I would look at at a 780G board. I have had good luck with Asus.
The good news is that work on the GPL ATI drivers is comming right along. Hopefully that will help BSD as well
You can get a good AM2+ motherboard for under $100. DDR2 is cheap, and the price point for these CPUS is looking pretty good.
I doubt that they will beat an I7 but they may offer a great bang for the buck. Even before these came out AMD offered the best value in the good enough category.
You would be hard pressed to find a better value than one of the BE X2s on a 780G motherboard for an average user.
I noticed that they didn't say a thing about GMail.
I wonder if they are paying Microsoft and Yahoo something to keep the hounds at bay.
Google has too much money right now to be messed with and too much riding on Net Neutrality to be paid off so I guess they will not be blocked. besides what if Google blocked Fairpoint users from Google search and YouTube until fairpoint unblocked gmail?