> There are thermodynamic considerations that limit the amount of power we can consume on the earth's surface without raising temperatures.
Very large heatsinks installed on top of Mount Everest... you heard it here first!
Seriously when we are at the level of technology that we are generating so much energy it is raising the planet's temperature I'm sure we will figure out a way to dump excess heat into the ultimate heatsink: near zero degree kelvin outer space.
This is a common urban myth. Higher tax brackets only affect the portion of your income that is above the threshhold. You cannot end up 'losing money' by getting more money. Rule of thumb: More money is always a good thing.
> We used to have Groupwise, and pretty much every MS patch broke Groupwise
I think "Breaking Groupwise" is an MS patch all by itself. "CRITICAL UPDATE: SOME SYSTEMS HAVE GROUPWISE INSTALLED ON THEM. THIS PATCH WILL BREAK GROUPWISE."
> One day the sun is going to go super nova and everything on this planet is going to die > Humans [...] is (SIC) the one species that has the capacity to [...] to (SIC) spread the seed of life throughout the galaxy
Just in time to enjoy the heat-death or big-crunch that will kill all life in the universe anyway.
I use my cell phone as my main business number. It's a real pain when I change providers because I have to make sure everyone gets my new number. It ruins any advertising I've done with it.
So my solution was to get a 2nd line at my house with NO features at all except CALL FORWARD to my cell phone. I don't even have a phone plugged into it. I give out the phone number on the 2nd line. Now I can change cell providers easily and just change the number that gets forwarded to.
> And how is this different than the developers of OpenBSD, Apache, Samba and other developers? The network might be firewalled off, but they still use Outlook, which was how these machines where cracked.
Ummm maybe it's different because every example you gave FREELY DISTRIBUTES THEIR SOURCE CODE after they are done coding it?
> Do you propose making software developers do their work without access to the internet? From my experience the loss in productivity would be substantial. Or maybe make them run into a "clean room" whenever they want to look something up or send an email. Jeez, sounds a bit extreme to me.
No, how about giving your developers a second cheap email and web only desktop sitting right next to their development machine?
Hmmm millions of dollars of software compromised vs. $500 2nd computer?
Been there. Done that. Ended up with horrible code that didn't work and if by some miracle it did work, it didn't do what we wanted anyway. Reviews and changes were like pulling teeth. Communication was nearly impossible. We all seemed to be speaking the same language. We'd get lots of "yes yes we understand perfectly". But nothing we ever said seemed to make it into the code in any recognizable fashion.
I'll stick with paying U.S. rates, rather than pay 20%, lose the customer, never collect the money, and ruin my reputation. I'll never outsource overseas again.
> Now to figure out how to get real-time access to this mesh of sensors and create a really cool screensaver..."
Hey that's a really cool idea! With a few million dollars to roll out the sensors and some Uber-hacking to gain access to them we could do something like this! Wow...
Hey, while we are teaching little kids fun games about real life, let't teach them about starving Bosnians. The kids will pretend to be raising a family, they will make pretend clothes, and build a toy house. Then while they are pretending to eat dinner we will shell their house, burn their clothes, and tell them they have lost everything in a war!
Yay! This is great. Thanks RIAA. I have lots of ideas for educational games to teach kids about the real world. Next up: Corporate Greed, The Game!
Ok Smidge, let's show everyone how safe this is by simulating a Manatee strike. You will stick your head out, and have it struck by a 5-meter blade moving at 33 feet per second. Repeatedly.
Your problem is your methodology. It's well known that it is dangerous to write code on a live system! You need to write new code on a dead cat, then when you have tested it, roll it out on your live cats. In case the rollout causes problems, such as furballs, hissing, vomiting, biting, or claw attacks, you need to be prepared to back your changes out and restore to a known good condition. A spare cat wouldn't be a bad idea.
By the way, cfscript is for wimps. CFML rocks the rocking horse.
"Nobody likes playing the heavy and having to resort to litigation," said Cary Sherman, the RIAA's president. "But when your product is being regularly stolen, there comes a time when you have to take appropriate action. This 12 year old girl stole from us and we are going to make her bleed. When we are done, not only will she and her single mom be homeless and destitute, but music fans worldwide will be afraid to cross any line we draw."
> Organizing by color works better with CDs than books
Geez, do you have to count how many times you wash your hands? Do you make sure your right turns always equal your left turns?
Try this: Leave a big cardboard box on the floor. Dump all your CDs into it. When you want to listen to music, fish around and enjoy the surprise at what you find. Enjoy the extra free time you have now that you are not obsessively organizing your collection.
I have a TIVO with an extra large hard drive in it, and I use it as a library or jukebox of all my favorite movies and more importantly all of my kids favorite movies. Kids like to watch the same movies over and over (Shrek, Babe, etc) and it's great to have them all at your fingertips. TIVO grabbed them off of HBO or something (I don't even know what channels carry what anymore since I got TIVO).
My kids have managed to scratch the hell out of every DVD in the house. So far the TIVO movies have been undamagable.
> You probably have a lot of property that needs to be protected... > a poor man in the inner city should have to pay for your protection, he has no stake in society
You couldn't be more wrong. A poor man in the inner city is much more likely to be the victim of crime. The inner city needs, and has, much more police protection and crime prevention measures, and even these are still not enough to protect the inner city poor.
The poor man doesn't pay for my protection, I pay for his.
I know I am probably responding to a troll, but I'll bite: You claim I cannot know anything about you from your statements, yet proceed to characterize me as motivated by greed. Apparently you also know nothing about me.
By the way, it is not against the interest of society to foster achievement by protecting the rewards of such. In the 'Harrison Bergeron' society that you promote we end up with the bankrupt Soviet Union where average people can't get basic goods, and yet the rich are still rich.
Hey slacker, I'm one of the top 5% and I worked my ass off to get there. I already pay a lot more because a % of my income is a lot more than the same % of someone with lower income. So stop looking for handouts or "revenge" against success.
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> I, for one, will welcome our robot wife overlords...
Please explain how our robot wife overlords will be better than our current human wife overlords?
> There are thermodynamic considerations that limit the amount of power we can consume on the earth's surface without raising temperatures.
Very large heatsinks installed on top of Mount Everest... you heard it here first!
Seriously when we are at the level of technology that we are generating so much energy it is raising the planet's temperature I'm sure we will figure out a way to dump excess heat into the ultimate heatsink: near zero degree kelvin outer space.
> The machine's UMD media can hold up to two hours' of DVD-quality video or four hours 'standard' quality,
And that is oh-so-important on a 4.5" screen...
> bump people into the next tax bracket
This is a common urban myth.
Higher tax brackets only affect the portion of your income that is above the threshhold. You cannot end up 'losing money' by getting more money. Rule of thumb: More money is always a good thing.
> We used to have Groupwise, and pretty much every MS patch broke Groupwise
I think "Breaking Groupwise" is an MS patch all by itself.
"CRITICAL UPDATE: SOME SYSTEMS HAVE GROUPWISE INSTALLED ON THEM. THIS PATCH WILL BREAK GROUPWISE."
> One day the sun is going to go super nova and everything on this planet is going to die
> Humans [...] is (SIC) the one species that has the capacity to [...] to (SIC) spread the seed of life throughout the galaxy
Just in time to enjoy the heat-death or big-crunch that will kill all life in the universe anyway.
> and how much does THAT cost? $10 or so per month? That's a bit pricey.
I said it's for my main business number. If $10/month is pricey for a business you're in the wrong business.
I use my cell phone as my main business number. It's a real pain when I change providers because I have to make sure everyone gets my new number. It ruins any advertising I've done with it.
So my solution was to get a 2nd line at my house with NO features at all except CALL FORWARD to my cell phone. I don't even have a phone plugged into it. I give out the phone number on the 2nd line.
Now I can change cell providers easily and just change the number that gets forwarded to.
> And how is this different than the developers of OpenBSD, Apache, Samba and other developers? The network might be firewalled off, but they still use Outlook, which was how these machines where cracked.
Ummm maybe it's different because every example you gave FREELY DISTRIBUTES THEIR SOURCE CODE after they are done coding it?
> Do you propose making software developers do their work without access to the internet? From my experience the loss in productivity would be substantial. Or maybe make them run into a "clean room" whenever they want to look something up or send an email. Jeez, sounds a bit extreme to me.
No, how about giving your developers a second cheap email and web only desktop sitting right next to their development machine?
Hmmm millions of dollars of software compromised vs. $500 2nd computer?
> sub-contract it to india for 1/5
Been there. Done that.
Ended up with horrible code that didn't work and if by some miracle it did work, it didn't do what we wanted anyway.
Reviews and changes were like pulling teeth.
Communication was nearly impossible.
We all seemed to be speaking the same language. We'd get lots of "yes yes we understand perfectly". But nothing we ever said seemed to make it into the code in any recognizable fashion.
I'll stick with paying U.S. rates, rather than pay 20%, lose the customer, never collect the money, and ruin my reputation.
I'll never outsource overseas again.
> "Computer! What's the situation down on the planet?"
"How does it make you feel to ask what's the situation down on the planet?"
> Now to figure out how to get real-time access to this mesh of sensors and create a really cool screensaver..."
Hey that's a really cool idea! With a few million dollars to roll out the sensors and some Uber-hacking to gain access to them we could do something like this! Wow...
> ... $30 ... ... look around some dumpsters ...
>
If someone told me they'd pay me $30 to spend my day digging through trash dumpsters, I would say no.
Hey, while we are teaching little kids fun games about real life, let't teach them about starving Bosnians.
The kids will pretend to be raising a family, they will make pretend clothes, and build a toy house. Then while they are pretending to eat dinner we will shell their house, burn their clothes, and tell them they have lost everything in a war!
Yay! This is great. Thanks RIAA. I have lots of ideas for educational games to teach kids about the real world.
Next up: Corporate Greed, The Game!
> That's pretty slow. 30MPH actually.
Ok Smidge, let's show everyone how safe this is by simulating a Manatee strike. You will stick your head out, and have it struck by a 5-meter blade moving at 33 feet per second. Repeatedly.
Your problem is your methodology. It's well known that it is dangerous to write code on a live system! You need to write new code on a dead cat, then when you have tested it, roll it out on your live cats. In case the rollout causes problems, such as furballs, hissing, vomiting, biting, or claw attacks, you need to be prepared to back your changes out and restore to a known good condition. A spare cat wouldn't be a bad idea.
By the way, cfscript is for wimps. CFML rocks the rocking horse.
> Numbers are typed by pressing the four letter keys surrounding each numeral.
Umm... am I missing something obvious or is this incredibly stupid?
Why press FOUR keys to get a numeral instead of pressing THE NUMBER KEY ITSELF?!
"Nobody likes playing the heavy and having to resort to litigation," said Cary Sherman, the RIAA's president. "But when your product is being regularly stolen, there comes a time when you have to take appropriate action. This 12 year old girl stole from us and we are going to make her bleed. When we are done, not only will she and her single mom be homeless and destitute, but music fans worldwide will be afraid to cross any line we draw."
> Organizing by color works better with CDs than books
Geez, do you have to count how many times you wash your hands? Do you make sure your right turns always equal your left turns?
Try this:
Leave a big cardboard box on the floor. Dump all your CDs into it. When you want to listen to music, fish around and enjoy the surprise at what you find.
Enjoy the extra free time you have now that you are not obsessively organizing your collection.
In other news: Microsoft cures cancer!
Those greedy bastards! Evil, evil swine!
You know they just cured cancer for the publicity!
They should be sued. They should be broken up!
I have a TIVO with an extra large hard drive in it, and I use it as a library or jukebox of all my favorite movies and more importantly all of my kids favorite movies.
Kids like to watch the same movies over and over (Shrek, Babe, etc) and it's great to have them all at your fingertips.
TIVO grabbed them off of HBO or something (I don't even know what channels carry what anymore since I got TIVO).
My kids have managed to scratch the hell out of every DVD in the house. So far the TIVO movies have been undamagable.
> The company responsible, Aquada, suggest it's a good way to avoid congestion."
Only for the first ones...
And only for a short time...
> You probably have a lot of property that needs to be protected ...
> a poor man in the inner city should have to pay for your protection, he has no stake in society
You couldn't be more wrong. A poor man in the inner city is much more likely to be the victim of crime. The inner city needs, and has, much more police protection and crime prevention measures, and even these are still not enough to protect the inner city poor.
The poor man doesn't pay for my protection, I pay for his.
I know I am probably responding to a troll, but I'll bite: You claim I cannot know anything about you from your statements, yet proceed to characterize me as motivated by greed. Apparently you also know nothing about me.
By the way, it is not against the interest of society to foster achievement by protecting the rewards of such. In the 'Harrison Bergeron' society that you promote we end up with the bankrupt Soviet Union where average people can't get basic goods, and yet the rich are still rich.
> lets tax the top 5%
Hey slacker, I'm one of the top 5% and I worked my ass off to get there. I already pay a lot more because a % of my income is a lot more than the same % of someone with lower income.
So stop looking for handouts or "revenge" against success.
If you don't like it go start your own company.