It is a persistant and unfortuneate myth that only people who have nothing to lose will fight. Most people who work effectively at overthrowing any given government ARE middle class, educated, etc. The peasants provide foot soldiers later when full scale fighting breaks out. The history of China provides a good example.
But before full scale fighting breaks out, you need people who actually have power to start the war. Look at the Islamist who really cause problems: they are well educated people from middle class backrounds.
But they _are_ spending billions on fundamental research. What do you think the "20% of your time on personal projects" is?
They get to do fundamental research much more cheaply than places like Bell Labs do. This is partly because you're projects could go on for years and never get cancelled. And you get a massive amount of computing resources at your disposal.
I hate to break it to you but they did address this, the commander said that Galactica would be fine but the OTHER SHIPS would not. The other ships, not all of them outfitted for long, unsupplied space voyages do not have the same capabilities that Galactica has. This means they need more water and fretting about it is is a legitimate source of drama.
Here's the deal, there is NO place that sensitive data can be protected from the truely determined. Sure, you keep your password in your head, someone could get it out of you. They wouldn't even really have to torture you, it just takes time.
Have you thought about going public? You could sell your stocks on the bulletin board (nasdaq) and if you issue 2 million shares with 40% of the company equity and they sold for.05 each (not out of the question) you'd gross $100,000 AND have inventory stock to play with for collateral. I'm not sure how the underwriting stuff goes, but the judicious use of company equity is something that few people think about.
This has been studied at length. the Mars direct people even built a machine to do it.
The paper, called:
Mars In-Situ Resource Utilization Based on the Reverse Water Gas Shift: Experiments and Mission Applications
can be found at: http://www.nw.net/mars/
And you're right, the density does suck. Another problem with this truck is wrapped up in the same reason trees don't run down antelopes. The sun is a great power source, but it's just not enough for some applications.
I think this guy is going to get lambasted for saying things that are true. This is what people who don't subscribe to the SlashDotGroupThink (USPattent #43483598) have been saying for some time now: Software needs to get better.
Historically, the way to make things that people make better is to make them using methodologies derived from manufacturing. why is software not subject to the same rules?
sorry folks, it's 1840 again, and this "Steam Engine" is going away.
The up side is that you don't have to convince programmers that this is true, just outsorce them until it's true.
Yes. Emacs (gnu and xemacs) booth have support for footnote-mode (M-x footnote-mode), if you do this in Text mode (with adaptive filling) and you have many word-processor-esq features.
This has got to be one of the best ideas I've seen todate. The normal budget of a high-flying reality TV show isn't high enough to meet the costs, but a national lottery, with instant tickets for different programs are just the market solutions that the current administration should look at. Think of it this way, you pay out 10% of intake, with another 10% going to program administration (no marketing, lotto doesn't need much marketing). That leaves 80 cents on the dollar going to the program that each ticket represents.
People would be able to play the lottery and not feel stupid AND since you would know exactly how much you took in, you'd know which programs were more interesting to the public.
Gibson Wrote a short story called Red Star, Winter Orbit, where at the end, people used near-leo ballons to launch sounding rockets to achieve higher orbits. Sounds like this company might be able to do something similar for cheap.
This actually works for the first few rounds. The problem is, let's say you have 100 employees. You probably have 10% of them that you could fire and be better off. So the first year you do that. You hire 10 more people to replace them. Now you've got +1 fireable person and +9 better than that. repeat. Pretty soon, you get to the point where you've burned off the dead wood and are now burning your future forest. Otherwise, you are saying that people's performance automatically degrades and/or the HR department can't hire for sh*t (both of which may be true).
Anyway, I realize the parent might be joking, but seriously, these forced ranking things are only going to get more popular if for no other reason than lawsuit avoidance. You can't sue for a bad review if the hiring manager must give a certain percentage of "bad" reviews.
Reasonable for whom? You write this as though the reason for the mandrake club was to get as many people as possible to sign up. The club membership is about supporting mandrake the company and mandrake the distro. If they lowered the price too much they'd get flooded with people who are only joining to get early access. People seem to forget that a community of people who do not participate is NOT a community.
Early access is not the only goal, since they seem to be using the club releases as advanced betas and rely upon club members to participate in the Great Bug Hunt rather than just get early access cause they're so l33t.
Now, I don't work for Mandrake, but I think they've struck the right balance.
Some things are more important than lots of people. Sometimes the sacrifice of individuals is required so that the whole may live. You may think that duty, honor and sacrifice are words but they are much more than that.
The reason that this idea (that sacrifice is sometimes needed) can be abused by the small minded and the power hungry lies in it's truth, not its falsehood.
That being said, I would sign myself up and my wife would sign up for this mission too.
You could ask them how much it would cost to get service with no cap. If you can't afford the service with no cap, then comply with the agreement that you have made with your provider.
I know it's unpopular with the SlashdotGroupThink, but read the agreements you make and DON'T make them if they're bad. If you do make agreements that are leagally binding, then prepare to have your service cut.
My point is that we already have the structure of a micropayment system already extant in the credit card processing system. It would take some work to make it functional for wide-spectrum micropayments but it's less work to alter than to create-from-scratch.
not only is it less work, but the companies like AMEX have a _LOT_ of experience dealing with the issues merchants have. And the bottom line is that merchants are the key. Payment systems are a real supply-siders dream argument.
What I don't understand is how these companies can even exist? The credit card industry (in the US anyway) has been building itself up for years and years.
What I'm trying to ask is a two part question
1) These services are going to have to go through the same growth problems all new financial services go through. Not all new financial servers are viable economically, and it's possible that micropayments are not viable.
2) Why doesn't AMEX or Visa offer some sort of micropayment system? They've already got the basics for one right now: it's pervasive, easy to use, familer, and cost effective for many transactions. You just add an aggregator account for micropayments along with a dab of crypto and there you go: instant micropayments.[1]
-jbs
[1] the aggregator account would work like a till. Each micropayment get's tagged and signed by the payee's pubkey. At the end of the month, everybody get's paid and billed, just like they do now. The user can manage their micropayment wallet by adding/removing cash/credit (that way you can't just rob someone blind). The merchent get's the % taken out of the total of the aggregated account for processing fees. You could even use this on vending machines, cardswipe+pin and the charges get aggregated daily instead of monthly (all cryptocash emptied from this machine daily).
I've used python and Numeric and coworkers of mine have used them in real physics type stuff and it is great (I think Fermi lab uses Numeric a great deal).
I'm surprised you also haven't mentioned R. It's a stats package (gpl'd) modled after S. http://www.r-project.org and it is very powerful with a great community behind it. It's an amazingly powerful tool for analysis.
Abrasive (or non-abrasive depending on the
material you're trying to cut) water jet would
do what you want quite well. These are not cheap systems either, though. check out http://www.usjetting.com or http://www.woma.de for systems (I've not purchased from them nor am I affiliated with them).
There are also very thin
abrasive cutting blades that might do what you want. The problem with water jet cutting is the water, which for some applications produces unacceptable contamination (not all materials like water). Abrasive cutting blades are easy to replace and have good cutting life on softer materials. Check out http://www.dynacut.com
Using cut wires is probably the cheapest solution
provided that you have the capability to produce
those. If you're using hot wire cutting, it might
not be worth it depending on the material your
trying to cut.
Lastly and out on a limb, if
the plastic is conductive (or if you wanted to try your hand at fabricating a microwave torch instead... all the one's I've used are DC but I've seen specs for microwave torches for chemical applications) you could try using a plasma torch on it. You can get a.01" kerf on
a good one (for cutting 1/4" plate steel) and
they are a dream to cut with -- as good as a laser
with the convienence of a torch.
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It is a persistant and unfortuneate myth that only people who have nothing to lose will fight. Most people who work effectively at overthrowing any given government ARE middle class, educated, etc. The peasants provide foot soldiers later when full scale fighting breaks out. The history of China provides a good example.
But before full scale fighting breaks out, you need people who actually have power to start the war. Look at the Islamist who really cause problems: they are well educated people from middle class backrounds.
But they _are_ spending billions on fundamental research. What do you think the "20% of your time on personal projects" is?
They get to do fundamental research much more cheaply than places like Bell Labs do. This is partly because you're projects could go on for years and never get cancelled. And you get a massive amount of computing resources at your disposal.
I hate to break it to you but they did address this, the commander said that Galactica would be fine but the OTHER SHIPS would not. The other ships, not all of them outfitted for long, unsupplied space voyages do not have the same capabilities that Galactica has. This means they need more water and fretting about it is is a legitimate source of drama.
Here's the deal, there is NO place that sensitive data can be protected from the truely determined. Sure, you keep your password in your head, someone could get it out of you. They wouldn't even really have to torture you, it just takes time.
Have you thought about going public? You could sell .05 each (not out of the question) you'd gross $100,000 AND have inventory stock to play with for collateral. I'm not sure how the underwriting stuff goes, but the judicious use of company equity is something that few people think about.
your stocks on the bulletin board (nasdaq) and if you issue 2 million shares with 40% of the company equity and they sold for
Maybe the pinks sheets are for you!
This has been studied at length. the Mars direct people even built a machine to do it.
The paper, called:
Mars In-Situ Resource Utilization Based on the Reverse Water Gas Shift: Experiments and Mission Applications
can be found at: http://www.nw.net/mars/
And you're right, the density does suck. Another problem with this truck is wrapped up in the same reason trees don't run down antelopes. The sun is a great power source, but it's just not enough for some applications.
I think this guy is going to get lambasted for saying things that are true. This is what people who don't subscribe to the SlashDotGroupThink (USPattent #43483598) have been saying for some time now: Software needs to get better.
Historically, the way to make things that people make better is to make them using methodologies derived from manufacturing. why is software not subject to the same rules?
sorry folks, it's 1840 again, and this "Steam Engine" is going away.
The up side is that you don't have to convince programmers that this is true, just outsorce them until it's true.
cfengine (http://www.cfengine.org) is
the best automation tool for unix and unix-like
environments. Hands down.
It's a little hard to configure sometimes, but
worth the effort.
Yes. Emacs (gnu and xemacs) booth have support for
footnote-mode (M-x footnote-mode), if you do this
in Text mode (with adaptive filling) and you
have many word-processor-esq features.
This has got to be one of the best ideas I've seen todate. The normal budget of a high-flying reality TV show isn't high enough to meet the costs, but a
national lottery, with instant tickets for different programs are just the market solutions that the current administration should look at. Think of it this way, you pay out 10% of intake, with another 10% going to program administration (no marketing, lotto doesn't need much marketing). That leaves 80
cents on the dollar going to the program that each ticket represents.
People would be able to play the lottery and not
feel stupid AND since you would know exactly how much you took in, you'd know which programs were more interesting to the public.
Gibson Wrote a short story called Red Star, Winter Orbit, where at the end, people used near-leo ballons to launch sounding rockets to achieve higher orbits. Sounds like this company might be able to do something similar for cheap.
They forget to mention that if you are accused of breaking the law you can use the black-box to prove you weren't.
It's just an instrument measuring the state of the car. People don't call Odometers a "privacy issue".
This actually works for the first few rounds. The problem is, let's say you have 100 employees. You probably have 10% of them that you could fire and be better off. So the first year you do that. You hire 10 more people to replace them. Now you've got
+1 fireable person and +9 better than that. repeat.
Pretty soon, you get to the point where you've burned off the dead wood and are now burning your future forest. Otherwise, you are saying that people's performance automatically degrades and/or the HR department can't hire for sh*t (both of which may be true).
Anyway, I realize the parent might be joking, but seriously, these forced ranking things are only going to get more popular if for no other reason than lawsuit avoidance. You can't sue for a bad review if the hiring manager must give a certain percentage of "bad" reviews.
Reasonable for whom? You write this as though the reason for the mandrake club was to get as many people as possible to sign up. The club membership is about supporting mandrake the company and mandrake the distro. If they lowered the price too much they'd get flooded with people who are only joining to get early access. People seem to forget that a community of people who do not participate is NOT a community.
Early access is not the only goal, since they seem to be using the club releases as advanced betas and rely upon club members to participate in the Great Bug Hunt rather than just get early access cause they're so l33t.
Now, I don't work for Mandrake, but I think they've
struck the right balance.
Some things are more important than lots of people. Sometimes the sacrifice of individuals is required so that the whole may live. You may think that duty, honor and sacrifice are words but they are much more than that.
The reason that this idea (that sacrifice is sometimes needed) can be abused by the small minded and the power hungry lies in it's truth, not its falsehood.
That being said, I would sign myself up and my wife would sign up for this mission too.
-jbs
You could ask them how much it would cost to get
service with no cap. If you can't afford the service with no cap, then comply with the agreement that you have made with your provider.
I know it's unpopular with the SlashdotGroupThink, but read the agreements you make and DON'T make them if they're bad. If you do make agreements that are leagally binding, then prepare to have your service cut.
My point is that we already have the structure of a micropayment system already extant in the credit card processing system. It would take some work to make it functional for wide-spectrum micropayments but it's less work to alter than to create-from-scratch.
not only is it less work, but the companies like AMEX have a _LOT_ of experience dealing with the issues merchants have. And the bottom line is that merchants are the key. Payment systems are a real supply-siders dream argument.
-just another kognate in the machine
What I don't understand is how these companies can even exist? The credit card industry (in the US anyway) has been building itself up for years and years.
What I'm trying to ask is a two part question
1) These services are going to have to go through the same growth problems all new financial services go through. Not all new financial servers are viable economically, and it's possible that micropayments are not viable.
2) Why doesn't AMEX or Visa offer some sort of micropayment system? They've already got the basics for one right now: it's pervasive, easy to use, familer, and cost effective for many transactions. You just add an aggregator account for micropayments along with a dab of crypto and there you go: instant micropayments.[1]
-jbs
[1] the aggregator account would work like a till. Each micropayment get's tagged and signed by the payee's pubkey. At the end of the month, everybody get's paid and billed, just like they do now. The user can manage their micropayment wallet by adding/removing cash/credit (that way you can't just rob someone blind). The merchent get's the % taken out of the total of the aggregated account for processing fees. You could even use this on vending machines, cardswipe+pin and the charges get aggregated daily instead of monthly (all cryptocash emptied from this machine daily).
I've used python and Numeric and coworkers of mine have used them in real physics type stuff and it is great (I think Fermi lab uses Numeric a great deal).
I'm surprised you also haven't mentioned R. It's a stats
package (gpl'd) modled after S. http://www.r-project.org
and it is very powerful with a great community behind it. It's an amazingly powerful tool for analysis.
Abrasive (or non-abrasive depending on the material you're trying to cut) water jet would do what you want quite well. These are not cheap systems either, though. check out http://www.usjetting.com or http://www.woma.de for systems (I've not purchased from them nor am I affiliated with them).
There are also very thin abrasive cutting blades that might do what you want. The problem with water jet cutting is the water, which for some applications produces unacceptable contamination (not all materials like water). Abrasive cutting blades are easy to replace and have good cutting life on softer materials. Check out http://www.dynacut.com
Using cut wires is probably the cheapest solution provided that you have the capability to produce those. If you're using hot wire cutting, it might not be worth it depending on the material your trying to cut.
Lastly and out on a limb, if the plastic is conductive (or if you wanted to try your hand at fabricating a microwave torch instead... all the one's I've used are DC but I've seen specs for microwave torches for chemical applications) you could try using a plasma torch on it. You can get a .01" kerf on
a good one (for cutting 1/4" plate steel) and
they are a dream to cut with -- as good as a laser
with the convienence of a torch.