if your argument is that standard 35mm cameras don't have good enough optics, there is someone with a 'cheap' 100 megapixel camera http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/100mp.htm based on a 35mm film camera and a high resolution negative scanner.
i don't think a plastic protected optic enclosure requires not using decent quality optics allowing decent megapixels. the thin form factor of phones might put some restriction, as i recall even fixed lens 35mm cameras were pretty deep. but that gives you at least 100 megapixels, i was asking for 3-4.
i know phone cameras are kind of an 'after thought' but people bring their phones everywhere! who brings a digital SLR with a bag full of lenses depending on if you want mega zoom or normal point and shoot?
there are times you get really nice pictures or video clips with a phone built in camera that you'd never get with a digital camera because you didn't have it with you, or even if you carried it around everywhere the batteries died on you without you knowing it...
that's why i'd like to see phone cameras get up to the 3-4 megapixel range and support micro SD slots. there are a few phones with micro SD slots, and on the internet a 1GB micro SD card with a standard sd slot converter runs around $7-10 shipped.
when i get my next digital camera i'm getting a sd micro card (2gb) for it, because i assume that the smaller electronics use less power. that is usually the case, and the only way i'll know they're using the smaller die chips is if they're physically restricted to them.
my current phone only has a 'VGA' resolution camera, but i did get the usb cable for both charging and removing the pictures. my old camera broke, and i was having battery problems with it anyways, so for a while my only camera that works fine is my phones.
i think the problem is more complex than just that.
i've gone HDTV shopping with 2 or 3 people in the past year or so, the nice thing about the stores is that you get to see side by side the same video stream... not one of the people i took shopping could tell the the diference in quality between a 720p set and a set capable of full 1080p some of these stores will let you bring in purchased blu-ray at 1080p to try and tell the difference, but people STILL can't tell the difference. it's really really hard to tell the difference between 720p and 1080p and some of these places even just run stuff from a upcoverting dvd player, which isn't even at 720p but rather at best is at 480p
the visual quality difference between 480p and 1080p seems like it should be visible, easy to distinguish... but it's still kind of hard, i've watched normal broadcast TV on a high def TV and you can tell the difference, but if you're just sitting there watching you don't go "gee if only this was in high def" and keep in mind, only high end PCs, certain consoles, and blu-ray movies are capable of supporting 1080p and only a small (but growing) set of displays are truly 1080p capable
the difference between 480i and 480p is much more noticeable than the successive differences between 720p and 1080p.
[sarcasm] oh, and the number of people losing their homes to a mortgage mess couldn't possibly have anything to do with people not spending money on new fancy tvs and and new fancy movie players... or a 7% unemployment rate in California. nah people who just lost their jobs couldn't impact the number of people going out and buying movies, and $4 a gallon gas? when for decades the price of gas was always around $1.50 tops except a few short spikes... nah $4 a gallon gas couldn't be hurting people's movie watching budgets. [/sarcasm]
the music industry was still highly reliant upon tubes to this date, there are still suppliers of tubes for use in the music industry, even though CDs are all digital. some artists insist that the use of tubes changes the way audio sounds before it's sampled by the digitizer... and of course, there are those who still release music on vinyl.
"Outlook Web Access, which comes in "functional version for IE" and "crap version for dirty smelly hippyware browsers""
you might want to try a web browser that can spoof it's user agent and use the IE7 UA, like oh say, opera, there is also a plugin for firefox called User Agent Switcher, but i haven't used it and can't confirm it's malware free.
i'm a bit paranoid about malware, there is a caveat of changing your user agent, and that is that silverlight kills firefox 3. but if microsoft exchange creates web mail that uses silverlight, then you just have to go back to an IE 6 user agent, and it should fall back since ie 6 doesn't support silverlight.
notice how low japan is on the list, while china is up high? perhaps the Japanese are superior at correctly closing out popups that install malware, while americans 'just click ok' and give hackers the platform to launch attacks from.
how windows was designed has little bearing on how say, linux or mac OSX were designed.
I've yet to see more than one popup from ubuntu, yeah there is a little tray icon when there are updates, but the only popup? when i insert a blank DVD, and the windows has the same popup, only it also has a popup for a data written dvd, which ubuntu just mounts and only does a popup when it can't automatically mount the file system.
even in a world where every program is open source, there will still be jobs for programmers.
major stock exchanges need many many programmers because traders always want the system to get faster... this means there will be jobs for programmers there. you can take just about any major company and find that even if they were using all open source code in house, they'd still need programmers on staff for security reasons.
programming jobs aren't going away in a open source world, however there does come a point where open source code has gone critical mass, and where all the possible features supported by all hardware then on the market is met. then what work besides maintaining large complex computer systems is there for programmers? well the main problem here is that hardware keeps changing new capabilities keep coming along. as long as that keeps happening there will always be new code to develop for the newest hardware and the newest capabilities.
if at some point hardware ceases to change there could come along a point where less programmers are needed to maintain the code base than were needed to develop it. in the current world, because of changing hardware and stuff there are always new jobs being created, if for some reason that stopped there would be less work for programmers, and this includes proprietary source code workers as well as open source.
but i wouldn't fret about there not being enough programming jobs, with america in the middle of a recession and the new standard price of oil is over $100 a barrel slowing the global economy there are a lot of other reasons why programmers could be losing jobs, that have nothing to do with open source software.
well, you see, here's the kicker, modern chemistry has gotten cheaper. farmers spray their crops to kill insects and fugal spores, a popular food of insects. this runs off into the fresh water stream, making that water have less fugal matter and fewer insects, furthermore many municipal governments spray for insects that carry dangerous disease like mosquitoes. this causes fewer insects to be born, not just mosquitoes and as a result bats, and some birds which are not sprayed for, get to eat their fill on a smaller and smaller crop of insects. also, modern cities have little or no green space, and most of that is sprayed, and there are few places where standing water can stand, since it's designed to flow away from the city to stop floods. and what little standing water is very close to asphalt which is loaded with deadly petrochemicals that kill just about anything trying to breed in the standing water.
so yes, there are less bugs. when my parents were little anyone who drove at night time had to clean windshields every few miles, from all the moths and bugs they ran into. now drivers cuss if they run into a buggy area and fill their windshield with dead bugs.
oh yeah, and as for bees/hornets etc... pollution has damaged their sense of smell, making them unable to smell for miles the way they used to, which has actually gotten so bad that there was a problem finding enough honey bees for agricultural pollination usage not too long back, or at least a scare, if not an actual shortage.
i live in a small city, and the level of bugs here is minuscule compared to a small country town with a lot of swamps near by. they spray here, but out there they didn't spray for bugs it makes a huge difference, for instance i had a small gap in my AC foam that i didn't notice for 2 months, when i was in the small town, i noticed the very first night when my AC (wasn't using AC foam them) wasn't solid enough to block the bugs.
"The two-party system was how our Republic was founded."
you're a bit historically challenged there. yes it's true there were 'two major national parties' but the fact is one of them was a coalition of about 5 political parties that each had regional party names, to a certain respect the 'democrat' and 'republican' parties are still coalitions of smaller state based parties. as a matter of fact in Minnesota they still call their party the 'democrat farm and labor party' DFL and they're a part of the modern coalition of the 'democrat' party.
libertarians who are out there and in numbers who dislike the coalition process have very good reasons for disliking the coalitions, because trying to keep that many independent organizations to support the same basic party planks is all but a joke. anyways the point being in the old days when only land owing white men had suffrage, there were still more than 2 political parties, but for the sake of winning presidential races small state based parties formed coalitions using names like the 'federalists' and the democratic-republican party' over the ages the names of the national coalitions changed, as did their policies and beliefs... there could easily come a day when the 'libertarian' party reaches the critical mass needed to replace the 'democrat' party and we wind up having a 'libertarian' and a 'republican' coalition instead of the republican and democrats...
so the illusion of their being a 2 party system in the US is really just that, we really have a coalition of two groups that each have 50 state sized political parties, while the constitution party the green party and the libertarian parties are outside attempts to erode the power bases of the existing republican and democrat power bases because some people just can't stand the types of compromises politicians make the be 'part of a coalition'
if the 'green' party became large enough to replace the democrat coalition, it would still wind up being a coalition of 50 state parties, each state has it's own society it's own politicians and it's own interests and types of corruption. the broken part of the system is that you'll never get a 1 size fits all solution to the problems of the day. oh yeah, that and every major politician in Washington DC is pro big government, no matter what they say to the contrary. All you have to do is go back and look at the budget deficits that the major political parties voted to create, bill clinton was marginally an outsider who was supposed to loose to bush, and he's the only guy who turned around the budgets by repeatedly shutting down the government. this is why big money used every trick in the book to get obamam in there against Hillary Clinton. they trust obama but Hillary might have learned something from her husband.
there are rich and wealthy who make their living off buying US treasury bonds, and for there to be enough US treasury bonds for their wealth to keep growing, the US debt has to keep growing. this is the disconnect between the uninformed electorate and the corruption at the highest levels of the government.
9/11 wasn't a 'failure' of American security, it was a planed national crisis to start a trillion dollar war so the rich could avoid having to buy junk bonds, and could keep playing it safe in high grade us government bonds. If the average American actually pieced together the truth, they would probably in mass vote for politicians who didn't even run TV ads and instead used free internet message board systems to communicate their goals and ideals, and
"In his project, "A Highly-Efficient 3-Dimensional Nanotube Solar Cell for Visible and UV Light," William invented a novel solar panel that enables light absorption from visible to ultraviolet light. He designed carbon nanotubes to overcome the barriers of electron movement, doubling the light-electricity conversion efficiency. William also developed a model for solar towers and a computer program to simulate and optimize the tower parameters. His optimized design provides 500 times more light absorption than commercially-available solar cells and nine times more than the cutting-edge, three- dimensional solar cell."
double the efficiency of current cells that means 30-40% efficient cells and then, in a SOLAR TOWER with millions(or at least thousands) of slightly curved mirrors concentrating the solar power that is were we get the five hundred times, 9 times figure. there is a big difference between a giant tower surrounded by sun tracking mirrors, and a single solar cell on the top of your roof, and yeah its easy to get 500 times as much energy by concentrating thousands of times the energy in a single point.
oh and just so you realize, he just designed and tested computer models. there is no real silicon nanotubes or whatever being built and tested to confirm the gains, it's all based on data fed into a computer and modeled... of course, one would think the judges of the contest he took second place in would be able to tell something that is ludicrous from something that the computer at least says is right.
"A comic doesnt just get a TV show. A comic's half our of material is reviewed by a producer, perhaps from the tonight show, or a network show. If the comedian doesnt have enough material, the producers generally say "i like what you're doing, your style, character... your jokes but you need a good solid hour. When you get a good solid hour... We might have a spot for you on the tonight show""
see, the thing is i think the whole point of the commercials is that jerry Seinfeld is playing a massive multi million dollar joke on Microsoft. the joke is, his commercials were just to point out what a company that is run 'by committee' can green light because they don't know the difference between 'funny' and 'rotflol wtf bbq'.
yeah the joke was on microsoft. they're not laughing and they're pulling the ads. but at least we can still see them on youtube. i wonder if the rest of the run of commercials got shot, and how long it will take to get them on you tube, since the campaign got canceled.
members of anonymous had access to her e-mail account, i can imagine what they might do with her e-mail address, sending fake e-mails to everyone they can think of to cause panic and chaos. ironically included in the wikileaks was a screen shot of an e-mail telling palin her new password to her yahoo e-mail account.
i have a feeling that yahoo mail security has a serious hole a mile wide in it that somebody in anonymous knows about. I also have a feeling that the password change didn't last long, and now who knows what the password to palin's yahoo mail account is anymore.
"The problem I find is usually one of language. For example, in the question above I figured out the business person wasn't being ignorant of the need for an account number. They simply wanted to *scan* it, not *enter* it. To us IT people, there's absolutely no difference how the number gets into the system, but to them that difference seemed so great they had to point it out that they never wanted to *enter* it again."
I think somebody needs to get a few cue cats and some software to print account numbers as bar codes.
it's not impossible or even technically hard to use a bar code reader as a standard input, and then standardize your internal documents so they all have bar codes, as a matter of fact, the US disability system now is entirely dependent on bar codes for scanning in and adding new information about case files.
they wanted to streamline things and make them faster, technology has made things a little faster thanks to barcode technology pioneered by retail shopping outlets.
Re:You could at least explain what you mean
on
Tech Vs. Business?
·
· Score: 1
i think the point of blocking you tube is that people being paid to do work shouldn't be watching video clips posted by worthless kids with nothing better to do that to take their parent's video camera and film and upload the stupidest garbage they can think of.
sadly there are quite a few people who make their living by BSing their boss into thinking they do something horribly important, when they're really doing nothing. human beings really aren't all that intelligent. snopes shows just how easily humans are duped into believing crazy whacked out garbage. it's kind of sad really. but the typical person thinks about what matters to them, like their job, their relatives, whatever hobbies they have. and here we have an information revolution going on where information that was once the exclusive domain of high paid scientist is available for anyone to read. there are tremendous resources of information out there about any topic you could imagine. but ultimately it isn't making voters more informed on issues, because they just aren't interested in getting as much accurate unbiased unfiltered information as they would need to really understand some really complex situations, because they'd rather vote on if someone is going to give them tax cuts or not.
I think part of that 'works like magic' mystique is due to how reliable the electric grid, water and sewer pipelines and telephone and data networks have been. it's more profitable for the utilities if the system never fails, or as close to never as is possible. companies probably don't understand why they need an IT department at all, they don't understand why all the utility they need can't just come from an outside company. after all if a company is going to smelt aluminum they don't go around building an atomic power plant to run their smelters, they find a cheap source of electricity preferably reachable by major shipping lanes, and let the utility company worry about where the power comes from.
computers are still relatively new, and eventually you won't need a whole staff of IT gurus to keep a network up and running, when a basic desktop computer can get rid of every moving part, there is less to replace and maintain, thus less IT workers needed... large websites and databases will get easier to manage, eventually, the only thing that won't go away is the need for real security. because hacking is getting more and more economically promising in many places in Africa and former eastern block nations. so security is where real IT growth is, computers will get more reliable and software easier to manage, but hackers are getting smarter and more skilled every single year.
Hate to break it to you, but if you check the post I made to OP, you'll see a definition that clearly applies to illegal drug users.
Now, do you really want to argue definitions when everry definition of "crook" would have to be inapplicable to illegal drug users for you to be right, while I only need one (which I've already found) to be right?
Don't argue definitions (especially of slang and vernacular) it just makes you just sound like a tool (and yes, I'm including myself in that right now)."
but, everyone knows a crook is a sheapards staff with a curve on one end.
the entire definition of crook, is that when applied to a human is someone 'not taking the straight and narrow' but rather following a crooked path through life, hense crook. this doesn't neccisarially speak against someone using 'illegal drugs', unless the straight and narrow is defined as making it through life without any drugs at all, which is hardly the case, most people get their drugs from legal sources or doctors, the drug user has simply chosen to use drugs that aren't acceptable in america, which quite often are legal in many many other countries. if you're saying they're following a crooked path in life simply on the basis of 'ameria' having gloriously wonderful laws that only promote a 'straight and narrow life' you're already in deep water, because america has countless reactionary laws that have nothing to do with living a straight and narrow life.
just for one is the minnesota law requiring CO detectors in every bedroom and on every floor of every residential buiulding because 1 3 year old girl died because of a hole in the wall of their appartment through which copious amounts of CO gas were venting into a computer room.
yeah 1 3 year old dies, we need a law to prevent it from ever happening again. remember the girl who got her small intesitne dragged out of her bottom from a missing cover in a kiddie pool? that was minnesota too, and there is a law that forced the closure of virtually every kiddie pool in the state even those not missing covers. yup a child dies so we need a law against what killed them! OMG think of the children!
robotic mining is cheaper in 1/6th G, since you can use weaker propulsion systems. with an atomic reactor to power the robots, they can mine all the titanium needed to build more mining robots until we can finally built giant space habitats and then build the giant robots to invade the earth er... ahem.
not all firewalls are made of the same stuff. especially consumer grade firewalls, and any unmanaged firewalls. if ports inbound can be opened by spoofing a 'return' packet (full open firewall) then hackers can get inside it.
but yeah, there are reasons to put systems on the internet, and there are reasons to not skimp on it, and get admins who have a clue about security and what hackers can really do.
as for banking networks, they kind of evolved before the internet evolved, so it's possible that banks ATMs aren't on the internet. it's pretty easy for an atm to do everything over a telephone/modem and even come credit card point of sale units were using telephone networks. and a lot of medical equipment to this day uses telephone networks. for instance, if you have a routine scan of your brain waves, chances are it's going over modem to a place in Tennessee to be evaluated, and not over the internet.
Slashdot Mirror
I didn't ask for 22 megapixels just 3 or 4 http://www.slrtoday.com/articles/47/1/Photokina-Hasselblads-22-Megapixel-H3D-dSLR/Page1.html
if your argument is that standard 35mm cameras don't have good enough optics, there is someone with a 'cheap' 100 megapixel camera http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/100mp.htm based on a 35mm film camera and a high resolution negative scanner.
i don't think a plastic protected optic enclosure requires not using decent quality optics allowing decent megapixels. the thin form factor of phones might put some restriction, as i recall even fixed lens 35mm cameras were pretty deep. but that gives you at least 100 megapixels, i was asking for 3-4.
i know phone cameras are kind of an 'after thought' but people bring their phones everywhere! who brings a digital SLR with a bag full of lenses depending on if you want mega zoom or normal point and shoot?
there are times you get really nice pictures or video clips with a phone built in camera that you'd never get with a digital camera because you didn't have it with you, or even if you carried it around everywhere the batteries died on you without you knowing it...
that's why i'd like to see phone cameras get up to the 3-4 megapixel range and support micro SD slots. there are a few phones with micro SD slots, and on the internet a 1GB micro SD card with a standard sd slot converter runs around $7-10 shipped.
when i get my next digital camera i'm getting a sd micro card (2gb) for it, because i assume that the smaller electronics use less power. that is usually the case, and the only way i'll know they're using the smaller die chips is if they're physically restricted to them.
my current phone only has a 'VGA' resolution camera, but i did get the usb cable for both charging and removing the pictures. my old camera broke, and i was having battery problems with it anyways, so for a while my only camera that works fine is my phones.
i think the problem is more complex than just that.
i've gone HDTV shopping with 2 or 3 people in the past year or so, the nice thing about the stores is that you get to see side by side the same video stream... not one of the people i took shopping could tell the the diference in quality between a 720p set and a set capable of full 1080p some of these stores will let you bring in purchased blu-ray at 1080p to try and tell the difference, but people STILL can't tell the difference. it's really really hard to tell the difference between 720p and 1080p and some of these places even just run stuff from a upcoverting dvd player, which isn't even at 720p but rather at best is at 480p
the visual quality difference between 480p and 1080p seems like it should be visible, easy to distinguish... but it's still kind of hard, i've watched normal broadcast TV on a high def TV and you can tell the difference, but if you're just sitting there watching you don't go "gee if only this was in high def" and keep in mind, only high end PCs, certain consoles, and blu-ray movies are capable of supporting 1080p and only a small (but growing) set of displays are truly 1080p capable
the difference between 480i and 480p is much more noticeable than the successive differences between 720p and 1080p.
[sarcasm]
oh, and the number of people losing their homes to a mortgage mess couldn't possibly have anything to do with people not spending money on new fancy tvs and and new fancy movie players... or a 7% unemployment rate in California. nah people who just lost their jobs couldn't impact the number of people going out and buying movies,
and $4 a gallon gas? when for decades the price of gas was always around $1.50 tops except a few short spikes... nah $4 a gallon gas couldn't be hurting people's movie watching budgets.
[/sarcasm]
the music industry was still highly reliant upon tubes to this date, there are still suppliers of tubes for use in the music industry, even though CDs are all digital. some artists insist that the use of tubes changes the way audio sounds before it's sampled by the digitizer... and of course, there are those who still release music on vinyl.
"Outlook Web Access, which comes in "functional version for IE" and "crap version for dirty smelly hippyware browsers""
you might want to try a web browser that can spoof it's user agent and use the IE7 UA, like oh say, opera, there is also a plugin for firefox called User Agent Switcher, but i haven't used it and can't confirm it's malware free.
i'm a bit paranoid about malware, there is a caveat of changing your user agent, and that is that silverlight kills firefox 3. but if microsoft exchange creates web mail that uses silverlight, then you just have to go back to an IE 6 user agent, and it should fall back since ie 6 doesn't support silverlight.
i think the bad summary http://entertainment.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/09/23/2052200 here about users just automatically clicking 'ok' to get rid of popups... might have something to do with 'where' attacks come from.
notice how low japan is on the list, while china is up high? perhaps the Japanese are superior at correctly closing out popups that install malware, while americans 'just click ok' and give hackers the platform to launch attacks from.
you do realize that the 'idiots' in question are the people who brought us
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIjNJZpRtj8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNOohFst9Lc
and vista, with More popups Plus +++ for 'security!'
how windows was designed has little bearing on how say, linux or mac OSX were designed.
I've yet to see more than one popup from ubuntu, yeah there is a little tray icon when there are updates, but the only popup? when i insert a blank DVD, and the windows has the same popup, only it also has a popup for a data written dvd, which ubuntu just mounts and only does a popup when it can't automatically mount the file system.
even in a world where every program is open source, there will still be jobs for programmers.
major stock exchanges need many many programmers because traders always want the system to get faster... this means there will be jobs for programmers there. you can take just about any major company and find that even if they were using all open source code in house, they'd still need programmers on staff for security reasons.
programming jobs aren't going away in a open source world, however there does come a point where open source code has gone critical mass, and where all the possible features supported by all hardware then on the market is met. then what work besides maintaining large complex computer systems is there for programmers? well the main problem here is that hardware keeps changing new capabilities keep coming along. as long as that keeps happening there will always be new code to develop for the newest hardware and the newest capabilities.
if at some point hardware ceases to change there could come along a point where less programmers are needed to maintain the code base than were needed to develop it. in the current world, because of changing hardware and stuff there are always new jobs being created, if for some reason that stopped there would be less work for programmers, and this includes proprietary source code workers as well as open source.
but i wouldn't fret about there not being enough programming jobs, with america in the middle of a recession and the new standard price of oil is over $100 a barrel slowing the global economy there are a lot of other reasons why programmers could be losing jobs, that have nothing to do with open source software.
well, you see, here's the kicker, modern chemistry has gotten cheaper. farmers spray their crops to kill insects and fugal spores, a popular food of insects. this runs off into the fresh water stream, making that water have less fugal matter and fewer insects, furthermore many municipal governments spray for insects that carry dangerous disease like mosquitoes. this causes fewer insects to be born, not just mosquitoes and as a result bats, and some birds which are not sprayed for, get to eat their fill on a smaller and smaller crop of insects. also, modern cities have little or no green space, and most of that is sprayed, and there are few places where standing water can stand, since it's designed to flow away from the city to stop floods. and what little standing water is very close to asphalt which is loaded with deadly petrochemicals that kill just about anything trying to breed in the standing water.
so yes, there are less bugs. when my parents were little anyone who drove at night time had to clean windshields every few miles, from all the moths and bugs they ran into. now drivers cuss if they run into a buggy area and fill their windshield with dead bugs.
oh yeah, and as for bees/hornets etc... pollution has damaged their sense of smell, making them unable to smell for miles the way they used to, which has actually gotten so bad that there was a problem finding enough honey bees for agricultural pollination usage not too long back, or at least a scare, if not an actual shortage.
i live in a small city, and the level of bugs here is minuscule compared to a small country town with a lot of swamps near by. they spray here, but out there they didn't spray for bugs it makes a huge difference, for instance i had a small gap in my AC foam that i didn't notice for 2 months, when i was in the small town, i noticed the very first night when my AC (wasn't using AC foam them) wasn't solid enough to block the bugs.
personally i like damn small linux myself. it boots pretty quick for a gui without messing around...
"The two-party system was how our Republic was founded."
you're a bit historically challenged there. yes it's true there were 'two major national parties' but the fact is one of them was a coalition of about 5 political parties that each had regional party names, to a certain respect the 'democrat' and 'republican' parties are still coalitions of smaller state based parties. as a matter of fact in Minnesota they still call their party the 'democrat farm and labor party' DFL and they're a part of the modern coalition of the 'democrat' party.
and to demonstrate my point that it is a coalition, http://www.freeople.com/blog/brady-wright-reports-rnc-minneapolis-suggests-next-steps-r3publicans/1410 the RNC silence ron paul supporters at the RNC because ron paul was supported by a state political party that didn't vote for mccain, despite being part of the RNC. it is a coalition, a 2 coalition system.
libertarians who are out there and in numbers who dislike the coalition process have very good reasons for disliking the coalitions, because trying to keep that many independent organizations to support the same basic party planks is all but a joke. anyways the point being in the old days when only land owing white men had suffrage, there were still more than 2 political parties, but for the sake of winning presidential races small state based parties formed coalitions using names like the 'federalists' and the democratic-republican party' over the ages the names of the national coalitions changed, as did their policies and beliefs... there could easily come a day when the 'libertarian' party reaches the critical mass needed to replace the 'democrat' party and we wind up having a 'libertarian' and a 'republican' coalition instead of the republican and democrats...
so the illusion of their being a 2 party system in the US is really just that, we really have a coalition of two groups that each have 50 state sized political parties, while the constitution party the green party and the libertarian parties are outside attempts to erode the power bases of the existing republican and democrat power bases because some people just can't stand the types of compromises politicians make the be 'part of a coalition'
if the 'green' party became large enough to replace the democrat coalition, it would still wind up being a coalition of 50 state parties, each state has it's own society it's own politicians and it's own interests and types of corruption. the broken part of the system is that you'll never get a 1 size fits all solution to the problems of the day. oh yeah, that and every major politician in Washington DC is pro big government, no matter what they say to the contrary. All you have to do is go back and look at the budget deficits that the major political parties voted to create, bill clinton was marginally an outsider who was supposed to loose to bush, and he's the only guy who turned around the budgets by repeatedly shutting down the government. this is why big money used every trick in the book to get obamam in there against Hillary Clinton. they trust obama but Hillary might have learned something from her husband.
there are rich and wealthy who make their living off buying US treasury bonds, and for there to be enough US treasury bonds for their wealth to keep growing, the US debt has to keep growing. this is the disconnect between the uninformed electorate and the corruption at the highest levels of the government.
9/11 wasn't a 'failure' of American security, it was a planed national crisis to start a trillion dollar war so the rich could avoid having to buy junk bonds, and could keep playing it safe in high grade us government bonds. If the average American actually pieced together the truth, they would probably in mass vote for politicians who didn't even run TV ads and instead used free internet message board systems to communicate their goals and ideals, and
arr you must be new here.
the entire point of yahoo games section especially 'pool' be old pirates looking for young wenches.
Actually, it helps if you get the original pdf and take the quote in context. http://presskit.ditd.org/2008_Davidson_Fellows_Press_Kit/2008_DF_William_Yuan.pdf
"In his project, "A Highly-Efficient 3-Dimensional Nanotube Solar Cell for Visible and UV
Light," William invented a novel solar panel that enables light absorption from visible to
ultraviolet light. He designed carbon nanotubes to overcome the barriers of electron
movement, doubling the light-electricity conversion efficiency. William also developed a
model for solar towers and a computer program to simulate and optimize the tower
parameters. His optimized design provides 500 times more light absorption than
commercially-available solar cells and nine times more than the cutting-edge, three-
dimensional solar cell."
double the efficiency of current cells that means 30-40% efficient cells and then, in a SOLAR TOWER with millions(or at least thousands) of slightly curved mirrors concentrating the solar power that is were we get the five hundred times, 9 times figure. there is a big difference between a giant tower surrounded by sun tracking mirrors, and a single solar cell on the top of your roof, and yeah its easy to get 500 times as much energy by concentrating thousands of times the energy in a single point.
oh and just so you realize, he just designed and tested computer models. there is no real silicon nanotubes or whatever being built and tested to confirm the gains, it's all based on data fed into a computer and modeled... of course, one would think the judges of the contest he took second place in would be able to tell something that is ludicrous from something that the computer at least says is right.
"A comic doesnt just get a TV show. A comic's half our of material is reviewed by a producer, perhaps from the tonight show, or a network show. If the comedian doesnt have enough material, the producers generally say "i like what you're doing, your style, character... your jokes but you need a good solid hour. When you get a good solid hour... We might have a spot for you on the tonight show""
see, the thing is i think the whole point of the commercials is that jerry Seinfeld is playing a massive multi million dollar joke on Microsoft. the joke is, his commercials were just to point out what a company that is run 'by committee' can green light because they don't know the difference between 'funny' and 'rotflol wtf bbq'.
yeah the joke was on microsoft. they're not laughing and they're pulling the ads. but at least we can still see them on youtube. i wonder if the rest of the run of commercials got shot, and how long it will take to get them on you tube, since the campaign got canceled.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uz6amk3P-hY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBWPf1BWtkw
"Some of them probably don't even have much body hair."
but only because they use the hair to mop up oil spills. http://www.treehugger.com/files/2007/11/hair_and_shrooms.php
members of anonymous had access to her e-mail account, i can imagine what they might do with her e-mail address, sending fake e-mails to everyone they can think of to cause panic and chaos. ironically included in the wikileaks was a screen shot of an e-mail telling palin her new password to her yahoo e-mail account.
i have a feeling that yahoo mail security has a serious hole a mile wide in it that somebody in anonymous knows about. I also have a feeling that the password change didn't last long, and now who knows what the password to palin's yahoo mail account is anymore.
"The problem I find is usually one of language. For example, in the question above I figured out the business person wasn't being ignorant of the need for an account number. They simply wanted to *scan* it, not *enter* it. To us IT people, there's absolutely no difference how the number gets into the system, but to them that difference seemed so great they had to point it out that they never wanted to *enter* it again."
I think somebody needs to get a few cue cats and some software to print account numbers as bar codes.
it's not impossible or even technically hard to use a bar code reader as a standard input, and then standardize your internal documents so they all have bar codes, as a matter of fact, the US disability system now is entirely dependent on bar codes for scanning in and adding new information about case files.
they wanted to streamline things and make them faster, technology has made things a little faster thanks to barcode technology pioneered by retail shopping outlets.
i think the point of blocking you tube is that people being paid to do work shouldn't be watching video clips posted by worthless kids with nothing better to do that to take their parent's video camera and film and upload the stupidest garbage they can think of.
sadly there are quite a few people who make their living by BSing their boss into thinking they do something horribly important, when they're really doing nothing. human beings really aren't all that intelligent. snopes shows just how easily humans are duped into believing crazy whacked out garbage. it's kind of sad really. but the typical person thinks about what matters to them, like their job, their relatives, whatever hobbies they have. and here we have an information revolution going on where information that was once the exclusive domain of high paid scientist is available for anyone to read. there are tremendous resources of information out there about any topic you could imagine. but ultimately it isn't making voters more informed on issues, because they just aren't interested in getting as much accurate unbiased unfiltered information as they would need to really understand some really complex situations, because they'd rather vote on if someone is going to give them tax cuts or not.
I think part of that 'works like magic' mystique is due to how reliable the electric grid, water and sewer pipelines and telephone and data networks have been. it's more profitable for the utilities if the system never fails, or as close to never as is possible. companies probably don't understand why they need an IT department at all, they don't understand why all the utility they need can't just come from an outside company. after all if a company is going to smelt aluminum they don't go around building an atomic power plant to run their smelters, they find a cheap source of electricity preferably reachable by major shipping lanes, and let the utility company worry about where the power comes from.
computers are still relatively new, and eventually you won't need a whole staff of IT gurus to keep a network up and running, when a basic desktop computer can get rid of every moving part, there is less to replace and maintain, thus less IT workers needed... large websites and databases will get easier to manage, eventually, the only thing that won't go away is the need for real security. because hacking is getting more and more economically promising in many places in Africa and former eastern block nations. so security is where real IT growth is, computers will get more reliable and software easier to manage, but hackers are getting smarter and more skilled every single year.
Hate to break it to you, but if you check the post I made to OP, you'll see a definition that clearly applies to illegal drug users.
Now, do you really want to argue definitions when everry definition of "crook" would have to be inapplicable to illegal drug users for you to be right, while I only need one (which I've already found) to be right?
Don't argue definitions (especially of slang and vernacular) it just makes you just sound like a tool (and yes, I'm including myself in that right now)."
but, everyone knows a crook is a sheapards staff with a curve on one end.
the entire definition of crook, is that when applied to a human is someone 'not taking the straight and narrow' but rather following a crooked path through life, hense crook. this doesn't neccisarially speak against someone using 'illegal drugs', unless the straight and narrow is defined as making it through life without any drugs at all, which is hardly the case, most people get their drugs from legal sources or doctors, the drug user has simply chosen to use drugs that aren't acceptable in america, which quite often are legal in many many other countries. if you're saying they're following a crooked path in life simply on the basis of 'ameria' having gloriously wonderful laws that only promote a 'straight and narrow life' you're already in deep water, because america has countless reactionary laws that have nothing to do with living a straight and narrow life.
just for one is the minnesota law requiring CO detectors in every bedroom and on every floor of every residential buiulding because 1 3 year old girl died because of a hole in the wall of their appartment through which copious amounts of CO gas were venting into a computer room.
yeah 1 3 year old dies, we need a law to prevent it from ever happening again. remember the girl who got her small intesitne dragged out of her bottom from a missing cover in a kiddie pool? that was minnesota too, and there is a law that forced the closure of virtually every kiddie pool in the state even those not missing covers. yup a child dies so we need a law against what killed them! OMG think of the children!
robotic mining is cheaper in 1/6th G, since you can use weaker propulsion systems. with an atomic reactor to power the robots, they can mine all the titanium needed to build more mining robots until we can finally built giant space habitats and then build the giant robots to invade the earth er... ahem.
that stuff used to be in hardware, try scanning and printing a dollar bill in ubuntu, with supported hardware.
better yet, try building a home made iphone scanner http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/09/turn-your-phone-into-a-scanner.php then transfer pic to an ubuntu machine with a supported printer, and try printing.
http://www.oilrig-photos.com/picture/number172.asp
the caption, read the caption. it does have a helipad, so apparently there are times when it's manned, but not all the time.
as to salvage rights, it's not a boat.
Or Churros, don't forget the churros.
Delicious.
not all firewalls are made of the same stuff. especially consumer grade firewalls, and any unmanaged firewalls. if ports inbound can be opened by spoofing a 'return' packet (full open firewall) then hackers can get inside it.
but yeah, there are reasons to put systems on the internet, and there are reasons to not skimp on it, and get admins who have a clue about security and what hackers can really do.
as for banking networks, they kind of evolved before the internet evolved, so it's possible that banks ATMs aren't on the internet. it's pretty easy for an atm to do everything over a telephone/modem and even come credit card point of sale units were using telephone networks. and a lot of medical equipment to this day uses telephone networks. for instance, if you have a routine scan of your brain waves, chances are it's going over modem to a place in Tennessee to be evaluated, and not over the internet.