Like I really want anyone and their uncle to be running native code on my machine. We went to a sandbox model for a reason!
If this is active now, how do we shut it off?
I didn't know they had permission to land below 50 in 2004 - I thought the crew just decided to do it. And then, as I watched each of three of the four engines shutdown, I figured whoever made that decision might not be doing another flight. It seemed like a stroke of luck that they managed to get the engines restarted...
This really seems like something a couple twinotters should be sent out for...
Interesting idea. Is there a method for doing this right now? It seems like since file systems are static (except when actually being written to), that the file system couldn't enforce it...
0. First order thoughts: You might be able to do it with paper that undergoes a slow chemical reaction... Or any storage system (like one of the platters of the hard drive) that is designed to gracefully decompose over time...
1. Product idea: Or maybe a flash with a leaky(er) capacitor. Save an intermediate key to the flash. If you don't refresh the memory within a certain amount of time, the capacitor's charge degrades and become unreadable. You must refresh it frequently in order to keep from losing the key...
2. Hacker solution: take the battery out of your computer - the one that keeps the NVRAM refreshed. Replace it with a capacitor that will give you a few hours charge. Store an intermediate key in your NVRAM. If the power goes out, find a way to get it powered within a few hours or loose your password. If someone walks in and takes your computer, they only have a few hours before everything on it becomes useless.
A better solution might be to just create a level 20 server. Have the full game on there, including all the normal features. But no one on the server can get above level 20. Then, if someone decides to join, give them a free transfer to another server of their choice.
The only problem I could see is if the economy on the trial server is broken... transferring goods between servers would throw the economies out of whack if the incoming server's economy is broken... but I can't think of any reason why it would be...
I'm pretty certain they're going to okay warrant-less GPS tracking.
The SC picks cases where the facts fit nicely into the decision they want to give. Trying to sell 50 kg of cocaine is a pretty damning, though unrelated, fact. That strongly suggests they'll come down on the side of "law enforcement."
Not to mention the SC's recent rubber stamping of whatever the government wants to do to prosecute "bad guys."
It's going to be awhile yet before the supreme court's pendulum swings the other way...
This is a cute little love story where a boy bunny tries to woo the girl bunny he loves. There's one racy dance scene by the Pirate Bunny (who has a thing for the hero). But it's all cute and quite fun. I think the game mechanics are all understandable by a kid.
IceCube and Amanda (among many other experiments) have been running for many years collecting data on neutrino flux. Archeological digs have been dating many objects over the same period of time. With the sheer amount of data available, it seems like it should be straightforward (perhaps not easy) to answer this question.
The article lists a reason for mistrusting the data as "the researches didn't take the data themselves." That's often the case in science!
I do agree though, with great changes in physics comes great responsibility to collect a lot of data. Of course, everyone has the same data available to them... if you're pretty damn confident, then it makes sense to get the results out there so that you can get a lot more eyes looking at the data.
(I'll be over here in my corner trying other permutations of "with great ___ comes great ___." I'll report back soon.)
Here's an article on a bill immunizing the Bush Administration from prosecution for basically doing the same thing. Too bad HP can't call him up and ask to be included on the bill.
I'm no game theorist, but I definitely don't believe that this is a pareto optimality or any one of Nash's game systems. In those, the rules are known by the participants (or assumed, anyway). I don't really believe that the average person at the pump knows the rules to this particular game.
I agree with your categorization. Those are definitely characteristics that need to be considered in whichever fuel system to use.
But I'd like to see more cash values assigned to those categories. Economic, Environmental (encompassing Local), Personal, and Global (in terms of opportunity cost) seem like they can easily be assigned a not-very-arbitrary dollar value. National security seems harder to put a dollar value to and is extremely subjective (as is evaluating any risk equation).
If that was the price that people payed at the pump - no matter what they were pumping - then capitalism would do what it does best - optimize dollar cost. The ideal technology would float to the surface.
So why not roll all those costs into the cost we pay at the pump? Sure it'll be very hard to stomach, but if you rolled it in gradually and made other alternatives available, the entire system would reach a livable equilibrium.
The only problem I see is with your 2x - 10x cost calculation. The problem is that the price that we pay at the pump (and for the car when we buy it) doesn't roll in the total cost of the vehicle.
There's a cost that is not captured by that calculation, but it is very real.
It's the cost that it's going to take to clean up the pollutants left over after you burn the oil or coal or even hydrogen. In the first two cases, it's very expensive to scrub the atmosphere of CO2 and the other pollutants produced. Cleaning up batteries from hybrids is probably a little cheaper since it's actually contained already. Cleaning up the water produced from the hydrogen is pretty darn cheap - in fact I'd say our sewer systems are probably already capable of flushing a bit more water. (Of course, there's the cost of cleaning up the production of hydrogen - which hopefully won't be oil based.)
If you're going to use cost arguments, then consider ALL the costs. (Oh, and try to be a little less superior about it and you'll get a few more converts, MMMkay?)
I'm not sure... her song doesn't really indicate that she understands the meaning of the word "ironic." Those things she mentions in the song are unfortunate (mostly), but not ironic.
This sounds like one of the US FIRST competitions. Perhaps FIRST should pick up the project and end up giving a small pile of cash to the school that wins it...
I've recently eaten lots of things older than seven years. My favorite were the corn dogs from the early ninties. We also had gas station sandwiches from about that time period, but they kinda lost their flavor.
How? I'm wintering at the south pole right now. The items were just stored outside in a box, but "outside" has been at about -50 at the best of times for all these years. It's amazing what a little cold will do for you...
(BTW, it gets up to 0F about once a year and plunged to -110.7 this winter for a bit. The food was stored under the dome though, and in the dome it doesn't get as warm or as cold as it gets outside.)
One interesting thought, though. It makes sense that the paper ballots will be machine readable. So, who writes the software that reads the paper ballots during the recounts?
Sigh... I hope this gets passed and enacted upon before the 2006 elections. This was introduced by my state representative - that's cool.
No one seems to have mentioned the bill that is currently wending its way though California legislature. If it passes, there will be substantial incentives to putting solar power on your roof.
You might want to put yout 12K into an eco-friendly mutual fund for a year or so to see if that pans out, then invest it into solar panels.
Let's hear it for Arnie trying to appear a little green before the next election.
I'm not a vegetarian, but I also eat very little meat.
I don't care that you have to kill animals to eat meat, it isn't about that for me.
For me, it's about stupid humans. Cases in point:
1. It's stupid to feed a herbivorous animal meat or meat products, even if it makes them grow faster. They're still giving calves cow blood, they're still feeding cows meat. That's idiotic - no wonder we have prion diseases.
2. Your average pig farm produces more industrial waste than your average power plant. The farms aren't considered closed systems, so the world's systems around them have to deal with the byproducts of this super-dense agriculture. And yet, those systems that have to deal with the byproduct are basically considered valueless.
3. genetically engineered crops are fine, but monocultures are not. A single field, all cloned from the exact same stock, will also be susceptible to the exact same diseases. You don't loose one plant to the disease, you loose the entire fucking kit and caboodle.
To me, petri-dish grown meat just sounds like another variation on the theme. On the positive side, presumably this wouldn't take up very much space which would mean less land would need to be devoted to growing meat. Overall, that might help traditional farming practices.
That's kind of silly. If you sequestered your daughter away through her teenage years, keeping a tight lock and key on her, then yes, you should be worried about her cutting loose and setting up patterns in college that might be hard to break through the rest of the life.
On the other hand, if you let your daughter be herself and didn't just say "Don't do that," but actually took time to explain why - then you have nothing to worry about. She's an adult and will make adult decisions about the things she wants to do.
As for the iPod, hopefully loosing it teaches her something about how she needs to handle her personal property. I can't think of a big ticket item I had stolen because of my own negligence (which I'm not suggesting the poster's daughter was), but I'm certain there was something that gave me just enough paranoia to hang on to the rest of my belongings. I hope the poster didn't run out and replace it right away...
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Like I really want anyone and their uncle to be running native code on my machine. We went to a sandbox model for a reason! If this is active now, how do we shut it off?
I didn't know they had permission to land below 50 in 2004 - I thought the crew just decided to do it. And then, as I watched each of three of the four engines shutdown, I figured whoever made that decision might not be doing another flight. It seemed like a stroke of luck that they managed to get the engines restarted... This really seems like something a couple twinotters should be sent out for...
Earth needs more moons!
We should get some.
Interesting idea. Is there a method for doing this right now? It seems like since file systems are static (except when actually being written to), that the file system couldn't enforce it...
0. First order thoughts: You might be able to do it with paper that undergoes a slow chemical reaction... Or any storage system (like one of the platters of the hard drive) that is designed to gracefully decompose over time...
1. Product idea: Or maybe a flash with a leaky(er) capacitor. Save an intermediate key to the flash. If you don't refresh the memory within a certain amount of time, the capacitor's charge degrades and become unreadable. You must refresh it frequently in order to keep from losing the key...
2. Hacker solution: take the battery out of your computer - the one that keeps the NVRAM refreshed. Replace it with a capacitor that will give you a few hours charge. Store an intermediate key in your NVRAM. If the power goes out, find a way to get it powered within a few hours or loose your password. If someone walks in and takes your computer, they only have a few hours before everything on it becomes useless.
(these ideas dedicated to the public domain.)
A better solution might be to just create a level 20 server. Have the full game on there, including all the normal features. But no one on the server can get above level 20. Then, if someone decides to join, give them a free transfer to another server of their choice.
The only problem I could see is if the economy on the trial server is broken... transferring goods between servers would throw the economies out of whack if the incoming server's economy is broken... but I can't think of any reason why it would be...
I'm pretty certain they're going to okay warrant-less GPS tracking.
The SC picks cases where the facts fit nicely into the decision they want to give. Trying to sell 50 kg of cocaine is a pretty damning, though unrelated, fact. That strongly suggests they'll come down on the side of "law enforcement."
Not to mention the SC's recent rubber stamping of whatever the government wants to do to prosecute "bad guys."
It's going to be awhile yet before the supreme court's pendulum swings the other way...
That's like a Saturday Night Live sketch. Or maybe something Woody Allen or Mel Brooks would come up with.
This is a cute little love story where a boy bunny tries to woo the girl bunny he loves. There's one racy dance scene by the Pirate Bunny (who has a thing for the hero). But it's all cute and quite fun. I think the game mechanics are all understandable by a kid.
http://jayisgames.com/archives/2009/07/bunni_how_we_first_met.php
IceCube and Amanda (among many other experiments) have been running for many years collecting data on neutrino flux. Archeological digs have been dating many objects over the same period of time. With the sheer amount of data available, it seems like it should be straightforward (perhaps not easy) to answer this question.
The article lists a reason for mistrusting the data as "the researches didn't take the data themselves." That's often the case in science!
I do agree though, with great changes in physics comes great responsibility to collect a lot of data. Of course, everyone has the same data available to them... if you're pretty damn confident, then it makes sense to get the results out there so that you can get a lot more eyes looking at the data.
(I'll be over here in my corner trying other permutations of "with great ___ comes great ___." I'll report back soon.)
Put simply, in deference to you, Kent, it's like lazing a stick of dynamite.
Dice Wars!
http://www.gamedesign.jp/flash/dice/dice.html
I'll never buy and iphone game again. Screw the App Store.
Wow, what HP's doing sounds amazingly familiar.
Here's an article on a bill immunizing the Bush Administration from prosecution for basically doing the same thing. Too bad HP can't call him up and ask to be included on the bill.
BTW, here's another article, this one by the ACLU on exactly what the Cheney-Specter bill does.
Cash is King
I'm no game theorist, but I definitely don't believe that this is a pareto optimality or any one of Nash's game systems. In those, the rules are known by the participants (or assumed, anyway). I don't really believe that the average person at the pump knows the rules to this particular game.
I agree with your categorization. Those are definitely characteristics that need to be considered in whichever fuel system to use.
But I'd like to see more cash values assigned to those categories. Economic, Environmental (encompassing Local), Personal, and Global (in terms of opportunity cost) seem like they can easily be assigned a not-very-arbitrary dollar value. National security seems harder to put a dollar value to and is extremely subjective (as is evaluating any risk equation).
If that was the price that people payed at the pump - no matter what they were pumping - then capitalism would do what it does best - optimize dollar cost. The ideal technology would float to the surface.
So why not roll all those costs into the cost we pay at the pump? Sure it'll be very hard to stomach, but if you rolled it in gradually and made other alternatives available, the entire system would reach a livable equilibrium.
The only problem I see is with your 2x - 10x cost calculation. The problem is that the price that we pay at the pump (and for the car when we buy it) doesn't roll in the total cost of the vehicle.
There's a cost that is not captured by that calculation, but it is very real.
It's the cost that it's going to take to clean up the pollutants left over after you burn the oil or coal or even hydrogen. In the first two cases, it's very expensive to scrub the atmosphere of CO2 and the other pollutants produced. Cleaning up batteries from hybrids is probably a little cheaper since it's actually contained already. Cleaning up the water produced from the hydrogen is pretty darn cheap - in fact I'd say our sewer systems are probably already capable of flushing a bit more water. (Of course, there's the cost of cleaning up the production of hydrogen - which hopefully won't be oil based.)
If you're going to use cost arguments, then consider ALL the costs. (Oh, and try to be a little less superior about it and you'll get a few more converts, MMMkay?)
I'm not sure... her song doesn't really indicate that she understands the meaning of the word "ironic." Those things she mentions in the song are unfortunate (mostly), but not ironic.
I wonder if Slashdot is on the outside of the great firewall... Talk of Taiwan can't be appreciated by those that rule China...
This sounds like one of the US FIRST competitions. Perhaps FIRST should pick up the project and end up giving a small pile of cash to the school that wins it...
Satellite. about .75 seconds of latency - so few games, game kid. But surfing isn't too bad. It does tend to lead to a little ADD while surfing...
I've recently eaten lots of things older than seven years. My favorite were the corn dogs from the early ninties. We also had gas station sandwiches from about that time period, but they kinda lost their flavor.
How? I'm wintering at the south pole right now. The items were just stored outside in a box, but "outside" has been at about -50 at the best of times for all these years. It's amazing what a little cold will do for you...
(BTW, it gets up to 0F about once a year and plunged to -110.7 this winter for a bit. The food was stored under the dome though, and in the dome it doesn't get as warm or as cold as it gets outside.)
One interesting thought, though. It makes sense that the paper ballots will be machine readable. So, who writes the software that reads the paper ballots during the recounts?
Sigh... I hope this gets passed and enacted upon before the 2006 elections. This was introduced by my state representative - that's cool.
R
No one seems to have mentioned the bill that is currently wending its way though California legislature. If it passes, there will be substantial incentives to putting solar power on your roof.
You might want to put yout 12K into an eco-friendly mutual fund for a year or so to see if that pans out, then invest it into solar panels.
Let's hear it for Arnie trying to appear a little green before the next election.
To me, this kind of life-style makes sense. The problem is that most food in the world isn't grown this way.
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We are omnivores. Eating plants and animals is how we evolved and will always fit into our physical systems best.
The problem is the way you produce meat for the entire world population. It requires tremendous resources and factory farms to do it on that scale.
Rudy
I'm not a vegetarian, but I also eat very little meat.
I don't care that you have to kill animals to eat meat, it isn't about that for me.
For me, it's about stupid humans. Cases in point:
1. It's stupid to feed a herbivorous animal meat or meat products, even if it makes them grow faster. They're still giving calves cow blood, they're still feeding cows meat. That's idiotic - no wonder we have prion diseases.
2. Your average pig farm produces more industrial waste than your average power plant. The farms aren't considered closed systems, so the world's systems around them have to deal with the byproducts of this super-dense agriculture. And yet, those systems that have to deal with the byproduct are basically considered valueless.
3. genetically engineered crops are fine, but monocultures are not. A single field, all cloned from the exact same stock, will also be susceptible to the exact same diseases. You don't loose one plant to the disease, you loose the entire fucking kit and caboodle.
To me, petri-dish grown meat just sounds like another variation on the theme. On the positive side, presumably this wouldn't take up very much space which would mean less land would need to be devoted to growing meat. Overall, that might help traditional farming practices.
Rudy
I really like my Nokia 6820 for exactly that purpose. It has a flip out keyboard that is very thumbable and has good note entry software.
Someone mentioned the Nokia 9300, but that's a little too large for my tastes...
R
That's kind of silly. If you sequestered your daughter away through her teenage years, keeping a tight lock and key on her, then yes, you should be worried about her cutting loose and setting up patterns in college that might be hard to break through the rest of the life.
On the other hand, if you let your daughter be herself and didn't just say "Don't do that," but actually took time to explain why - then you have nothing to worry about. She's an adult and will make adult decisions about the things she wants to do.
As for the iPod, hopefully loosing it teaches her something about how she needs to handle her personal property. I can't think of a big ticket item I had stolen because of my own negligence (which I'm not suggesting the poster's daughter was), but I'm certain there was something that gave me just enough paranoia to hang on to the rest of my belongings. I hope the poster didn't run out and replace it right away...