Then...(just to finish your timeline)....the bean counters will want to impress the stockholders, and home in on that lost 10%. Various sorts of pressure and lawsuits will be brought against the likes of Norton and Microsoft. Developers will be forced to write against standard libraries using best practice guidelines (in order to bolster the lawsuits).
Eventually, we'll get to the point of the public expecting software to work out of the box, as it should.
And I can return a shirt if my wife decides that it is the wrong color, so I don't see where this thread is going. If the product is not useful to me, I'm allowed to return it in any other context. I don't have to provide a reason. "I don't want it" will be reason enough for all the returns on Dec 26.
Why should a game that won't even run on the recipient's computer be any different?
Supervolcanoes can occur when magma in the Earth rises into the crust from a hotspot but is unable to break through the crust
I think that is the crux of the solution right there. You don't need or even want to concern yourself with the whole area of molten rock that is under Yellowstone. You want to tap into and bleed off energy from the hotspots. Do this using lateral drilling with liquid cooled drillbits. Once you hit molten stuff, you will basically be creating a pipe of hardened magma as you progress through the center of the hotspot. If the surrounding heat threatens to overpower your cooling system, just stop the progression of the drill until the cooling system can make the pipe walls thicker.
The removed heat can be used to drive turbines to create electricity.
don't conflate energy and power. Find a way to turn a profit from harnessing the energy there, and the potential bomb will be effectively diffused within a few years.
It amazes me that we think as a people that our lives on this planet are somehow more significant than other life forms.
I'm not that concerned about "our lives on this planet". I'm concerned about MY life on this planet. In fact, I am VERY concerned about MY life on this planet. It is one of my greatest concerns, everything else being in a very far second. Most of the people I've talked with feel the same way.
We all do agree, though, that your selflessness is very touching.
We don't have technology to impact a volcano, a large pimple on the face of the Earth, but we have enough power to impact the climate of the ENTIRE Earth. So much power in fact, that world leaders are meeting at this moment to decide how they must control all of us in order to prevent the imminent doom arising from our impact.
I think you're right, except where you're wrong. We have the ability to impact the workings of the volcano. May not have the political will, as a nation, but we have the ability to impact it at a net profit.
Force a capped doubled pipe into the ground. The pipe is smaller pipe inside a larger one. You pump liquid sodium, or some other coolant into the inner pipe. The hot liquid,pressurized steam, or other coolant returns through the outer.
The system is never "unplugged" and the cap is constantly getting thicker as more and more is cooled. One massive headhouse would use lateral drilling to tap the system from outside the park. Just like is done with oil drilling.
Bullshit. Insurance is gambling. You pay someone to accept your liability, because the pot has become to rich for your tastes.
Who pays if you get sick? INVESTORS. Those people that bought stock in the insurance company.
Proof? Play this mind game with me. I open the doors to Slashdot Insurance tomorrow, and you come in as the first customer and purchase a $800/month policy. The economy is down, and I won't be selling any more policies for the rest of the year.
On Christmas day, you are diagnosed with brain cancer. Under the terms of the policy, I am liable for your brain cancer treatment. I've only had $800 of income. Where will I get the money to pay for your treatment?
Insurance works when someone makes a study of a certain activity and determines that there is a certain probability of things going to hell in a handbasket. You decide that you can't bear the financial liability, so you pay the insurance company a fee which is much smaller than the liability would be. Your fee is not based on what other people are paying. Your fee is based on the potential liability, multiplied by the possibility that the liability will come payable. For health insurance, the company and customer may decide to limit the liability by specifying a limit to how much money will be paid out or what procedures will be covered. This keeps the customer's fee lower. Unlimited liability computes to an unlimited fee.
The worst thing about the "health-care debate" in the US is the absolute atrocious mangling of the truth that the has been employed by those seeking to increase their power base.
They're going to apply GM methodologies to trees just like food, because it is very profitable.
The paper and lumber industry wants fast growing trees of uniform dimension, with blemishes from blight or sickness. GM methodologies deliver that. The trees become much easier to factory harvest. The trees all reach maturity at the same time. The mill gets set up to chop up everything to the same dimensions. The experts that determine how a particular log will be cut to get the most value from it are no longer needed.
There is just to much money left on the table when trying to log old growth forest.
'If You Have Something You Don't Want Anyone To Know, Maybe You Shouldn't Be Doing It'.
I think the CEO said that wrong in this case. What it should be is: 'If You Have Something You Don't Want Anyone To Know, Maybe You Shouldn't Be Posting It On A Public Social Networking Site'
I mean, dang, if you're in the federal witness protection program, why are you posting your picture on Facebook? By requiring the picture and address to be public information, maybe Facebook is saying, "We only want our social networking site to be targetted to people that want to network socially."
Again, if you are THAT concerned about your privacy, WHY are you giving our your 'private' information to people you don't know?
The problem is that the second always disintegrates into the first, eventually. Of course, at some point the people rise up, throw off their overlords and for a brief period we have a situation where people are free and well off. But then, small groups begin to vie for power, and the people that just want to be left alone ignore them. We progress to the second stage, which leads to the first stage, which exists until the people rise up....
We voted for Obama because we no longer wanted our President to escalate an unnecessary war.
Naah! People voted for Obama because he was black and "intelligent". I put that in quotes, because he was constantly saying stupid things like how he would unilaterally go into Pakistan, or the whole lipstick on a pig thing. If he didn't mean it to be a nasty insult, he should have known that it would be received that way. He was either naive or mean. You choose. Either is stupid.
The truth is that the media avoided any hard questioning of the neophyte, because the cadre from the 60's that now runs major media is still suffering from white guilt. For those not from America, that is a cultural phenomena whereby well-off white Americans constantly forgive and even bow to ridiculous behavior from black Americans because of "past injustices." Much like a hen pecked husband.
For the record, I'm not white or black, and I've always found the spectacle quite hilarious when it isn't disgusting. The result is the foolishness that we now have seated as a president.
Take look at the US Constitution, you dimwit. Out of the three, defense, education, and healthcare, there is exactly ONE that the US Federal government is responsible for.
Just because you want something doesn't make it a federal responsibility.
Just checked my 401K. Fidelities website requires applets for certain functions. Someone cares about applets.
So, the map of the conversation is now: -The language works every. -No it doesn't. Here is a proof of concept that you can try yourself. -No one cares about that part of the language.
Java held out the promise of write it once run it anywhere, but that promise has yet to be fulfilled as there are still differences from platform to platform that make developing in it a chore rather then enjoyable work.
If you use pure java code the cross platform stuff just works. Period.
Umm...no.
Write an applet with a keyboard listener that will play a sound clip when the spacebar is pressed. Put a button and a text area on there. Make the button play the sound for good measure.
Load the applet in firefox on windows. Hit the spacebar, hear the sound. Load the applet in firefox on Linux. Hit the spacebar, hear the sound.
Now put the cursor in the address bar.
On Windows, push the button, hear the sound. Press the spacebar, hear the sound.
On Linux, push the button, hear the sound. Press the spacebar,..... oops! No sound. The problem was reported to Sun two years ago.
I like Java. I like Java a LOT. But by no stretch of the imagination does it "just work."
Like the applet not being able to regain keyboard focus in a browser running on Linux. That is, you click away to another window or something else in the browser, and then you click back on the applet. Unless you click in a text box, your key listener won't respond to input.
Yeah, I found out this one is a couple years old, as I've been trying to get my software to work.
That's an astonishingly ignorant analysis of science. You've completely missed that point that published results can be reviewed and replicated by thousands of researchers from any research group, in any country, at any time.
Not if the data to reproduce that research is not obtainable. Not if the methods that produce the results are not known.
The scientist in question hid, then eventually destroyed data. They kept their "models" hidden for years.
Luckily, as you say, now that their data a models are becoming public and peer review becomes possible, the wheels of science starts to grind and we discover that these so-called scientist were just frauds. And as the original poster stated, it is no surprise that some fraudsters have infiltrated the ranks of legitimate scientist.
On the other hand we have the most evil people on earth, from the fat Exxon types raking in dozens of billions of dollars of revenue, or the mountain top removal coal mining asswipes raping the WV landscape
And you sit there, munching your Doritoes (made from corn made possible by farm equipment powered by diesel fuel processed by Exxon) which came into town on a truck (powered by diesel fuel powered by Exxon), as you type at your computer (powered with electricity generated using the heat from the coal from those WV mountaintops), saying that you trust the ones who have been proven to be liars above those that are trying to hold an honest job.
Obviously, you're completely clueless and in desparate need of help. Don't worry, Obama and Pelosi are here to make sure everything works out perfectly in your life. Until they get the world perfectly ordered for you, so that you don't have to worry about feeding or dressing yourself or tending to your own health, just keep in mind that if the old guy offers you candy, don't get in the back of his van.
And now, it appears that GOOFUS gets caught cherry picking data to support the conclusion that he has already come to. But, I guess that falls under not having PR skills.
That's because they are normal people that see Copenhagen as nothing more than a power grab by international bodies. If there is no AGW, there is no need for world homogenizing global treaties to come out of Copenhagen, is there?
People are rising up and making noise, because they are tired of the smug blowhards looking down their noses when some "ignoramus" dares question the veracity of the aloof chosen ones and their "consensus".
Nope. I'm saying that if you're going to pay for a finished product, get a finished product.
Please read the original post. The original post says that OSX and Windows releases are more professional (a debatable point, but we'll let it slide for arguments sake). My point is, "You damn straight!!" If I'm going to pay the sort of money they're asking, it better be a professional product.
If I buy a $1000(US) used car, I can expect it to have a couple dings. If I buy a $250(US) used car, I can expect it to have bald tires. If someone GIVES me a car, I can expect to to have $50(US) of scrap metal. If someone GIVES me a new car, how do I complain that one of the seats are missing?
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Then...(just to finish your timeline)....the bean counters will want to impress the stockholders, and home in on that lost 10%. Various sorts of pressure and lawsuits will be brought against the likes of Norton and Microsoft. Developers will be forced to write against standard libraries using best practice guidelines (in order to bolster the lawsuits).
Eventually, we'll get to the point of the public expecting software to work out of the box, as it should.
And I can return a shirt if my wife decides that it is the wrong color, so I don't see where this thread is going. If the product is not useful to me, I'm allowed to return it in any other context. I don't have to provide a reason. "I don't want it" will be reason enough for all the returns on Dec 26.
Why should a game that won't even run on the recipient's computer be any different?
Supervolcanoes can occur when magma in the Earth rises into the crust from a hotspot but is unable to break through the crust
I think that is the crux of the solution right there. You don't need or even want to concern yourself with the whole area of molten rock that is under Yellowstone. You want to tap into and bleed off energy from the hotspots. Do this using lateral drilling with liquid cooled drillbits. Once you hit molten stuff, you will basically be creating a pipe of hardened magma as you progress through the center of the hotspot. If the surrounding heat threatens to overpower your cooling system, just stop the progression of the drill until the cooling system can make the pipe walls thicker.
The removed heat can be used to drive turbines to create electricity.
don't conflate energy and power. Find a way to turn a profit from harnessing the energy there, and the potential bomb will be effectively diffused within a few years.
It amazes me that we think as a people that our lives on this planet are somehow more significant than other life forms.
I'm not that concerned about "our lives on this planet". I'm concerned about MY life on this planet. In fact, I am VERY concerned about MY life on this planet. It is one of my greatest concerns, everything else being in a very far second. Most of the people I've talked with feel the same way.
We all do agree, though, that your selflessness is very touching.
We don't have technology to impact a volcano, a large pimple on the face of the Earth, but we have enough power to impact the climate of the ENTIRE Earth. So much power in fact, that world leaders are meeting at this moment to decide how they must control all of us in order to prevent the imminent doom arising from our impact.
I think you're right, except where you're wrong. We have the ability to impact the workings of the volcano. May not have the political will, as a nation, but we have the ability to impact it at a net profit.
So, don't drill a hole, drill a plug.
Force a capped doubled pipe into the ground. The pipe is smaller pipe inside a larger one. You pump liquid sodium, or some other coolant into the inner pipe. The hot liquid,pressurized steam, or other coolant returns through the outer.
The system is never "unplugged" and the cap is constantly getting thicker as more and more is cooled. One massive headhouse would use lateral drilling to tap the system from outside the park. Just like is done with oil drilling.
Insurance is cost sharing.
Bullshit. Insurance is gambling. You pay someone to accept your liability, because the pot has become to rich for your tastes.
Who pays if you get sick? INVESTORS. Those people that bought stock in the insurance company.
Proof? Play this mind game with me. I open the doors to Slashdot Insurance tomorrow, and you come in as the first customer and purchase a $800/month policy. The economy is down, and I won't be selling any more policies for the rest of the year.
On Christmas day, you are diagnosed with brain cancer. Under the terms of the policy, I am liable for your brain cancer treatment. I've only had $800 of income. Where will I get the money to pay for your treatment?
No. That's how socialism works.
Insurance works when someone makes a study of a certain activity and determines that there is a certain probability of things going to hell in a handbasket. You decide that you can't bear the financial liability, so you pay the insurance company a fee which is much smaller than the liability would be. Your fee is not based on what other people are paying. Your fee is based on the potential liability, multiplied by the possibility that the liability will come payable. For health insurance, the company and customer may decide to limit the liability by specifying a limit to how much money will be paid out or what procedures will be covered. This keeps the customer's fee lower. Unlimited liability computes to an unlimited fee.
The worst thing about the "health-care debate" in the US is the absolute atrocious mangling of the truth that the has been employed by those seeking to increase their power base.
Never went flying in a small plane have you?
Your suburbs are an insignificant pimple on the face of the Earth.
They are darned ugly from the air, though.
They're going to apply GM methodologies to trees just like food, because it is very profitable.
The paper and lumber industry wants fast growing trees of uniform dimension, with blemishes from blight or sickness. GM methodologies deliver that. The trees become much easier to factory harvest. The trees all reach maturity at the same time. The mill gets set up to chop up everything to the same dimensions. The experts that determine how a particular log will be cut to get the most value from it are no longer needed.
There is just to much money left on the table when trying to log old growth forest.
'If You Have Something You Don't Want Anyone To Know, Maybe You Shouldn't Be Doing It'.
I think the CEO said that wrong in this case. What it should be is: 'If You Have Something You Don't Want Anyone To Know, Maybe You Shouldn't Be Posting It On A Public Social Networking Site'
I mean, dang, if you're in the federal witness protection program, why are you posting your picture on Facebook? By requiring the picture and address to be public information, maybe Facebook is saying, "We only want our social networking site to be targetted to people that want to network socially."
Again, if you are THAT concerned about your privacy, WHY are you giving our your 'private' information to people you don't know?
The problem is that the second always disintegrates into the first, eventually. Of course, at some point the people rise up, throw off their overlords and for a brief period we have a situation where people are free and well off. But then, small groups begin to vie for power, and the people that just want to be left alone ignore them. We progress to the second stage, which leads to the first stage, which exists until the people rise up....
We voted for Obama because we no longer wanted our President to escalate an unnecessary war.
Naah! People voted for Obama because he was black and "intelligent". I put that in quotes, because he was constantly saying stupid things like how he would unilaterally go into Pakistan, or the whole lipstick on a pig thing. If he didn't mean it to be a nasty insult, he should have known that it would be received that way. He was either naive or mean. You choose. Either is stupid.
The truth is that the media avoided any hard questioning of the neophyte, because the cadre from the 60's that now runs major media is still suffering from white guilt. For those not from America, that is a cultural phenomena whereby well-off white Americans constantly forgive and even bow to ridiculous behavior from black Americans because of "past injustices." Much like a hen pecked husband.
For the record, I'm not white or black, and I've always found the spectacle quite hilarious when it isn't disgusting. The result is the foolishness that we now have seated as a president.
Take look at the US Constitution, you dimwit. Out of the three, defense, education, and healthcare, there is exactly ONE that the US Federal government is responsible for.
Just because you want something doesn't make it a federal responsibility.
If movies underwent a similar downgrade in quality,
If? What "if"? Movies nowadays are the lowest quality crap I've ever seen.
And that is the real reason that movie sales are down as much as music sales. The degradation in quality.
Hence the verification that the sound is working before clicking away. It's a little trick that professional call "verification of test setup."
Just checked my 401K. Fidelities website requires applets for certain functions. Someone cares about applets.
So, the map of the conversation is now:
-The language works every.
-No it doesn't. Here is a proof of concept that you can try yourself.
-No one cares about that part of the language.
Java held out the promise of write it once run it anywhere, but that promise has yet to be fulfilled as there are still differences from platform to platform that make developing in it a chore rather then enjoyable work.
If you use pure java code the cross platform stuff just works. Period.
Umm...no.
Write an applet with a keyboard listener that will play a sound clip when the spacebar is pressed. Put a button and a text area on there. Make the button play the sound for good measure.
Load the applet in firefox on windows. Hit the spacebar, hear the sound. Load the applet in firefox on Linux. Hit the spacebar, hear the sound.
Now put the cursor in the address bar.
On Windows, push the button, hear the sound. Press the spacebar, hear the sound.
On Linux, push the button, hear the sound. Press the spacebar, ..... oops! No sound. The problem was reported to Sun two years ago.
I like Java. I like Java a LOT. But by no stretch of the imagination does it "just work."
Like the applet not being able to regain keyboard focus in a browser running on Linux. That is, you click away to another window or something else in the browser, and then you click back on the applet. Unless you click in a text box, your key listener won't respond to input.
Yeah, I found out this one is a couple years old, as I've been trying to get my software to work.
That's an astonishingly ignorant analysis of science. You've completely missed that point that published results can be reviewed and replicated by thousands of researchers from any research group, in any country, at any time.
Not if the data to reproduce that research is not obtainable.
Not if the methods that produce the results are not known.
The scientist in question hid, then eventually destroyed data. They kept their "models" hidden for years.
Luckily, as you say, now that their data a models are becoming public and peer review becomes possible, the wheels of science starts to grind and we discover that these so-called scientist were just frauds. And as the original poster stated, it is no surprise that some fraudsters have infiltrated the ranks of legitimate scientist.
On the other hand we have the most evil people on earth, from the fat Exxon types raking in dozens of billions of dollars of revenue, or the mountain top removal coal mining asswipes raping the WV landscape
And you sit there, munching your Doritoes (made from corn made possible by farm equipment powered by diesel fuel processed by Exxon) which came into town on a truck (powered by diesel fuel powered by Exxon), as you type at your computer (powered with electricity generated using the heat from the coal from those WV mountaintops), saying that you trust the ones who have been proven to be liars above those that are trying to hold an honest job.
Obviously, you're completely clueless and in desparate need of help. Don't worry, Obama and Pelosi are here to make sure everything works out perfectly in your life. Until they get the world perfectly ordered for you, so that you don't have to worry about feeding or dressing yourself or tending to your own health, just keep in mind that if the old guy offers you candy, don't get in the back of his van.
And now, it appears that GOOFUS gets caught cherry picking data to support the conclusion that he has already come to. But, I guess that falls under not having PR skills.
That's because they are normal people that see Copenhagen as nothing more than a power grab by international bodies. If there is no AGW, there is no need for world homogenizing global treaties to come out of Copenhagen, is there?
People are rising up and making noise, because they are tired of the smug blowhards looking down their noses when some "ignoramus" dares question the veracity of the aloof chosen ones and their "consensus".
Nope. I'm saying that if you're going to pay for a finished product, get a finished product.
Please read the original post. The original post says that OSX and Windows releases are more professional (a debatable point, but we'll let it slide for arguments sake). My point is, "You damn straight!!" If I'm going to pay the sort of money they're asking, it better be a professional product.
If I buy a $1000(US) used car, I can expect it to have a couple dings. If I buy a $250(US) used car, I can expect it to have bald tires. If someone GIVES me a car, I can expect to to have $50(US) of scrap metal. If someone GIVES me a new car, how do I complain that one of the seats are missing?