Interestingly, in Dublin drinking from a standard Guinness pint glass at a number of pubs, I never saw the bubbles do anything but rise to form a terrific head. I've only seen the downward bubbles in the Guinness pint (which is a pretty standard size and shape) in the States.
I highly doubt it. In the US and Australia, beer tends to be served much colder than the standard 55 F, which would cause a greater temperature difference between the outside air and the beer, and a greater temperature difference in the glass, and cause a noticable flow.
ok, putting aside the need for a magnetic field for a moment, how about letting evolution take hold:
use a mirror to concentrate light to warm an area with water and melt it. Introduce our best microbes to said area, giving them a fair amount of nutrients from earth, but at a controlled rate. The microbes reproduce, and gradually mutate, some of these traveling to the edge of the life zone, and becoming pioneers on the mars surface: surviving with less water, etc. The life zone continues to grow, with the most hardy pioneers on the fringes and the microbe manifest destiny to cover mars begins.
The problem is, this could take a very long time. Chemical processes, including life, tend to move slower at lower temperatures. Those multi-hundred year old lichens in antarctica would seem like bamboo/kudzu by comparison.
The whole idea of software being a commodity is absurd. Intellectual property can't be a commodity. By defenition, intellectual property has no physical form, which is why there are so many laws protecting IP owners from those who would copy it ad-infinitum. A commodity is a thing that is physical, and one unit of it is interchangeable with another. There's probably better ways of expressing this, but maybe that will be my doctoral thesis or something.
1970s manufacturing was similar, but, this doesn't support the argument that outsourcing is good. since the 1970s, vast portions of the US have been reduced to poverty as the jobs left...the "rust belt"..rural new england...even sunny california have all had their livelyhoods destroyed by the export of manufacturing jobs. The places that prospered were the place swith industries that could not be exported: Silicon Valley..Route 128..new york city..los angeles jobs in technology, medecine, finance, media. Is the south, manufacturing survived due the lax laws on ecology and workers' rights. What did american consumer get as workers' lost so much? well, TVs can be bought for $29 new (but forget about having them repaired). Do you really need a new tv every year? more cheap plastic junk, except that in the past ten years it is now being made in China instead of Japan. The U.S. manufacturing economy gave birth to the service (repair) economy, where TV repair, auto repair, vacuum cleaner repair, maytag repairman, etc were fixtures of small town markets along with the retailers. Now, it's cheaper to buy a new tv than repair and old one, and so there are no more repair shops. Wal-Mart has destroyed the local retailers, so they're reduced in number as well. Soon, there will be one or two banks in the US, one or two major retailers (walmart and who?), and one or two major jobs (head of major corporation, sell-out academics and economists) and a system with less wealth distribution than royal france.
We have away our manufacturing jobs witht he promise that high-paying tech jobs would be the replacement, in a world economy that we would come out on top. We haven't. Let's not give away the programming jobs as well. And then, let's take back manufacturing. We
I am not an expert in any of these fields, but reviewing the basic facts...well I think it's just not plausible. No, I think that anyone who posits something so outrageous and fantastical needs to be able to back it up, and to have already consulted experts in the field and be able to answer the inevitable questions that come up. I don't see Safire as having done this. Looks like more hack reporting.
This is a bit late, but hey thanks for the great reply.
On the terms of robust-ness, there is als o the problem of avoiding the accusations of waste and abuse. There was much disgust over $300 hammers and $800 toilet seats and the like (I don't remember the figure, but you know what I mean), but was the idea addressed that these are not mass-marketed items, and in fact maybe they are unique, and that all the tooling, testing, and paperwork costs have to be counted in?
Quality costs money, it is true, but you never "get what you pay for" - you get what you negotiate. Dollars don't have minds to choose the better product, that is your job, as a buyer. And there's a good number of people that deserve to be fired from their jobs as consumers, for shoddy work.
Is the source code available? or at least parts of it? How about the hardware - rad-hard CPUs are useful, though satellites have been known to survive 30 years without and special treatment.
I'd just like to put a Direct Connect Hub in space...yeah!
Of all the jerks I have had the misfortune to come across, Simson is quite a creation. He is the most obnoxius, egotistical, self promoting, and rude person I have ever had the misfortune to share a podium with. I really wish people who stop letting him have access to the press.
>>servers are cheap these days. really. I've found >>p3-666 machines in the trash a few years back, and >>other people are finding nice rack mount servers >>with drives,etc. I can't afford much more than my >>rent, and yet I can come up with more server power >>when I need it, just by using a bunch of old P300s >>or whatever.
>One word: reliability.
No, that's not correct. My servers are reliable, as I imagine the servers of others here are. They are multiple, and running Linux. What you would be better off pointing to is scalability, or load tolerance. Static content is easily handled by linux server, and if it isn't with apache, I'll move to ther kernel web server. With dynamic contact it gets a little but more difficult. In both cases, the ability of the 'web artist' or 'web engineer' (I use the term loosely) come into play - an efficient application should be fine fore much more traffic than I estimate wikipedia gets, based upon how seldom I see it in search engine results.
Not saying that this application isn't valuable, I think it is -- however the $20k for a CPU is not reasonable in my estimation. If one were to combine the cost of hardware, bandwidth, and the salary of a part-time system administrator I could see the $20k figure being reasonable - but that is not what is indicated in this appeal = it is for hardware only. If this isn't only to line some pockets, why not ask for some donated server space? Certainly CVS can handle distributing the load. Or, even better, have some sort of P2P system handle the load -- and prove that you are technically adept.
Thanks for bringing up the $20k issue. I was wondering about the price as well, but then figured out that it's just a made up number. If he asks for $20k maybe he'll get $1k. But the idea bothers me.
servers are cheap these days. really. I've found p3-666 machines in the trash a few years back, and other people are finding nice rack mount servers with drives,etc. I can't afford much more than my rent, and yet I can come up with more server power when I need it, just by using a bunch of old P300s or whatever.
Don't read this book expecting facts. Slattala and quitner really failed on their fact checking. MOD pulled a great social engineering job with this one.
Royal Bank of Canada is very conspicuous and public. They hold a lot of people's accounts. I think it is tyme tyo start a protest/boycott of RBC until they change the way SCO does business. Hopefully by making McBridge a junior chambermaid apprentice.
Now, I want to tell you why you want to buy it. But it's kind of complicated. I only have a 15 second radio spot. Which of these messages do you suppose is more effective?
Widgets are designed to PDQ your YSZ using ASD technology licensed from ZX. They are sufficient for small to medium clients.
Here, you are selling the product.
2) Widgets are freakin' awesome, man. I don't need to tell you. There's all this technology in there but you'll never know anything about it except that you have more time and more room to breath when you use it. Here, you are selling the market
When it comes to marketing, there are several things that you try to do, depending on the market you are in and how you want to place your company. The fundamental reasons for this are sound, but the tactics used can seem so screwy as to make the whole concept of marketing seem like a scam.
Sell the market. -- Protect yourself from viruses! -- this is, telling people they need a type of product. generate consumer interest. This can be frighteningly covert, such as tobacco companies paying hollywood for each appearance of a star smoking, without and brand being suggested. Consume!
Sell the company. Consumers need to trust a merchant to some extent. This varies the further you step away from the low price commodity market. For instance, you may not care too much about the brand of gasoline you put in your car but you care much more about the industrial and merchant reputation of the vendor. People have a tendancy to let the herd instinct make a judgement on a company, when other people have bought from a vendor over time, they are thought to be safe -- No one ever got fired for buying IBM --. A rich, successful company can sell its products for more than an unknown one. Why does goodyear spend so much money on its blimps? To be seen, and more importantly as to be seen as rich over a long time, i.e. successful.
Sell the product - yea, this one -- typically this is the only thing that geeks think should exist in marketing. This generally only happens after the customer has been introduced via the previous mechanisms. But here is where things get interesting, in the tech market many large companies are failing at this because there is a great trust difference in multiple products or product lines from the same brand (note I said brand, not company) - GM, Sony, and others have mixed reputations based on sucky and good products. Really bad marketing decisions, I think.
The most important part of being a merchant is getting a first sale that goes off relatively smoothly. It doesn't have to be perfect, or even good, just not bad. People tend to do repeat business with a merchant that they know isn't horrible, as opposed to an unknown vendor. This explains all the loss-leaders and freebies in the market.
I am neither a marketing professional nor a psychologist, just someone who has read a bit of both and thinks about such things. People need to think about these basics in whatever market they are in, but integrate them with the market, the product, and the company itself. There's no one-size-fits all marketing strategy. So, as I am a techie with knowledge of business and who is available for work, you should hire me.
OK I am going out on a limb here, because I haven't bothered to check these vague rememberances of facts before posting...but hey this is slashdot, why bother?
anyhow, I know there is a difference in the effective life of a patent under EU and US patent laws. I believe that the US law says the timer stats clicking when the patent was issued, and the EU law says the timer starts clicking when the patent was filed. If Microsoft's patents did take 8 years to issue, this is probably Microsoft stalling the process by filing amendments, etc, meaning the patents may have been filed in 1984. So under EU law they have expired. I am not a lawyer, so this is not legal advice.
Second, we don't care about making FAT filesystems. We just want compatibility with FAT. This means that any copyright on FAT is not very important, and many patents aren't either. People have mentioned the extended filename patents as the only ones Microsoft has on FAT. Should this concern users of embedded devices? Not at all -- many of them are using the 8x3 format anyhow.
This issue is close to my heart, as I am developing an embedded Linux for wireless applications based upon Bering/LRP, which uses syslinux. Luckily, syslinux uses the 8x3 system so I don't think there is anything to worry about.
I will now consider recommending and buying Dell equipment again. This summer I had to spend some grueling half an hour on the phone to have a replacement part ordered. I swore I would never do business with Dell again and fretted about the state of american IT.
Now, those companies hiring Indian comapnies as programming sweat shops ought to think about this too: quality control is as poor as language skills. Not that I think there aren't bright people in India and from India, but those are not who you are hiring from these contractors.
This statement is often repeated by types like Rush Limbaugh, but no one that I have ever heard spout such BS has supported it, even when pressed to do so.
Also it doesn't matter if someone is brown or yellow or white or red or pink or green. What's skin color got to do with energy? Maybe darker skin people absorb more light and therefore create more heat?
You calculations are a bit simplistic. You need to store energy from the cells for later use. Deep-Cell sealed-lead-acid batteries (SLA) are the most economical way to do this, for home users. You also need a charge controller. This is because the voltage out of the photovoltaic cell varies with temperature. Current fluxuates with light intensity. Batteries need to be charged at a certain voltage otherwise they are at best inefficient, but can also be damaged. There are other factors in a charge controller as well. Best ones are PWM type. Also, the sun of course moves in the sky. You may want a mechanism to follow the sun across the sky. You can also use reflectors to concentrate sunlight onto the panel, but be careful not to overheat the panel. All this has to take in other factors such as weather protection, birds, safety, theft, and government regulations. All this costs money. Is wind easier? no...in fact it's more difficult. But hey, there are people who do this professionally, books have been written, etc. If you want more, search on kazaa for the ebook that's about solar and wind systems.
Well, I had some stuff to do in this timestream, so I thought I'd hang around a bit for this slashdot article to come by. Still, I am not sure I am in the correct time stream or not. If the Red Sox actually do win the world series, then I had better get ready to skip into a different timestream to avoid catastrophe.
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I highly doubt it. In the US and Australia, beer tends to be served much colder than the standard 55 F, which would cause a greater temperature difference between the outside air and the beer, and a greater temperature difference in the glass, and cause a noticable flow.
ok, putting aside the need for a magnetic field for a moment, how about letting evolution take hold:
use a mirror to concentrate light to warm an area with water and melt it. Introduce our best microbes to said area, giving them a fair amount of nutrients from earth, but at a controlled rate. The microbes reproduce, and gradually mutate, some of these traveling to the edge of the life zone, and becoming pioneers on the mars surface: surviving with less water, etc. The life zone continues to grow, with the most hardy pioneers on the fringes and the microbe manifest destiny to cover mars begins.
The problem is, this could take a very long time. Chemical processes, including life, tend to move slower at lower temperatures. Those multi-hundred year old lichens in antarctica would seem like bamboo/kudzu by comparison.
The whole idea of software being a commodity is absurd. Intellectual property can't be a commodity. By defenition, intellectual property has no physical form, which is why there are so many laws protecting IP owners from those who would copy it ad-infinitum. A commodity is a thing that is physical, and one unit of it is interchangeable with another. There's probably better ways of expressing this, but maybe that will be my doctoral thesis or something.
1970s manufacturing was similar, but, this doesn't support the argument that outsourcing is good. since the 1970s, vast portions of the US have been reduced to poverty as the jobs left...the "rust belt"..rural new england...even sunny california have all had their livelyhoods destroyed by the export of manufacturing jobs. The places that prospered were the place swith industries that could not be exported: Silicon Valley..Route 128..new york city..los angeles jobs in technology, medecine, finance, media. Is the south, manufacturing survived due the lax laws on ecology and workers' rights. What did american consumer get as workers' lost so much? well, TVs can be bought for $29 new (but forget about having them repaired). Do you really need a new tv every year? more cheap plastic junk, except that in the past ten years it is now being made in China instead of Japan. The U.S. manufacturing economy gave birth to the service (repair) economy, where TV repair, auto repair, vacuum cleaner repair, maytag repairman, etc were fixtures of small town markets along with the retailers. Now, it's cheaper to buy a new tv than repair and old one, and so there are no more repair shops. Wal-Mart has destroyed the local retailers, so they're reduced in number as well. Soon, there will be one or two banks in the US, one or two major retailers (walmart and who?), and one or two major jobs (head of major corporation, sell-out academics and economists) and a system with less wealth distribution than royal france.
We have away our manufacturing jobs witht he promise that high-paying tech jobs would be the replacement, in a world economy that we would come out on top. We haven't. Let's not give away the programming jobs as well. And then, let's take back manufacturing.
We
ham radio, old suns, the governments of minor countries, and I love to cook.
Does that neat yahoo thing track when insiders sell options to their shares? Because otherwise they could hide their pump & dump.
I am not an expert in any of these fields, but reviewing the basic facts...well I think it's just not plausible. No, I think that anyone who posits something so outrageous and fantastical needs to be able to back it up, and to have already consulted experts in the field and be able to answer the inevitable questions that come up. I don't see Safire as having done this. Looks like more hack reporting.
This is a bit late, but hey thanks for the great reply.
On the terms of robust-ness, there is als o the problem of avoiding the accusations of waste and abuse. There was much disgust over $300 hammers and $800 toilet seats and the like (I don't remember the figure, but you know what I mean), but was the idea addressed that these are not mass-marketed items, and in fact maybe they are unique, and that all the tooling, testing, and paperwork costs have to be counted in?
Quality costs money, it is true, but you never "get what you pay for" - you get what you negotiate. Dollars don't have minds to choose the better product, that is your job, as a buyer. And there's a good number of people that deserve to be fired from their jobs as consumers, for shoddy work.
I'd just like to put a Direct Connect Hub in space...yeah!
Do they have pictures of the atrocities committed at Dresden? Or have these mysteriously and conveniently been 'misplaced'.
Of all the jerks I have had the misfortune to come across, Simson is quite a creation. He is the most obnoxius, egotistical, self promoting, and rude person I have ever had the misfortune to share a podium with. I really wish people who stop letting him have access to the press.
>>servers are cheap these days. really. I've found >>p3-666 machines in the trash a few years back, and
>>other people are finding nice rack mount servers >>with drives,etc. I can't afford much more than my
>>rent, and yet I can come up with more server power
>>when I need it, just by using a bunch of old P300s
>>or whatever.
>One word: reliability.
No, that's not correct. My servers are reliable, as I imagine the servers of others here are. They are multiple, and running Linux. What you would be better off pointing to is scalability, or load tolerance. Static content is easily handled by linux server, and if it isn't with apache, I'll move to ther kernel web server. With dynamic contact it gets a little but more difficult. In both cases, the ability of the 'web artist' or 'web engineer' (I use the term loosely) come into play - an efficient application should be fine fore much more traffic than I estimate wikipedia gets, based upon how seldom I see it in search engine results.
Not saying that this application isn't valuable, I think it is -- however the $20k for a CPU is not reasonable in my estimation. If one were to combine the cost of hardware, bandwidth, and the salary of a part-time system administrator I could see the $20k figure being reasonable - but that is not what is indicated in this appeal = it is for hardware only. If this isn't only to line some pockets, why not ask for some donated server space? Certainly CVS can handle distributing the load. Or, even better, have some sort of P2P system handle the load -- and prove that you are technically adept.
Thanks for bringing up the $20k issue. I was wondering about the price as well, but then figured out that it's just a made up number. If he asks for $20k maybe he'll get $1k. But the idea bothers me.
servers are cheap these days. really. I've found p3-666 machines in the trash a few years back, and other people are finding nice rack mount servers with drives,etc. I can't afford much more than my rent, and yet I can come up with more server power when I need it, just by using a bunch of old P300s or whatever.
Don't read this book expecting facts. Slattala and quitner really failed on their fact checking. MOD pulled a great social engineering job with this one.
I know, I was there.
Yes, Narnia will be not too far from Oz (tralia).
$1395? no way. shiney tiny box too much geld.
How about $300?
Also using a laptop drive in a server worries me. Laptop drives are notoriously unreliable.
Royal Bank of Canada is very conspicuous and public. They hold a lot of people's accounts. I think it is tyme tyo start a protest/boycott of RBC until they change the way SCO does business. Hopefully by making McBridge a junior chambermaid apprentice.
Here, you are selling the product.
Here, you are selling the market
When it comes to marketing, there are several things that you try to do, depending on the market you are in and how you want to place your company. The fundamental reasons for this are sound, but the tactics used can seem so screwy as to make the whole concept of marketing seem like a scam.
The most important part of being a merchant is getting a first sale that goes off relatively smoothly. It doesn't have to be perfect, or even good, just not bad. People tend to do repeat business with a merchant that they know isn't horrible, as opposed to an unknown vendor. This explains all the loss-leaders and freebies in the market.
I am neither a marketing professional nor a psychologist, just someone who has read a bit of both and thinks about such things. People need to think about these basics in whatever market they are in, but integrate them with the market, the product, and the company itself. There's no one-size-fits all marketing strategy. So, as I am a techie with knowledge of business and who is available for work, you should hire me.
OK I am going out on a limb here, because I haven't bothered to check these vague rememberances of facts before posting...but hey this is slashdot, why bother?
anyhow, I know there is a difference in the effective life of a patent under EU and US patent laws. I believe that the US law says the timer stats clicking when the patent was issued, and the EU law says the timer starts clicking when the patent was filed. If Microsoft's patents did take 8 years to issue, this is probably Microsoft stalling the process by filing amendments, etc, meaning the patents may have been filed in 1984. So under EU law they have expired. I am not a lawyer, so this is not legal advice.
Second, we don't care about making FAT filesystems. We just want compatibility with FAT. This means that any copyright on FAT is not very important, and many patents aren't either. People have mentioned the extended filename patents as the only ones Microsoft has on FAT. Should this concern users of embedded devices? Not at all -- many of them are using the 8x3 format anyhow.
This issue is close to my heart, as I am developing an embedded Linux for wireless applications based upon Bering/LRP, which uses syslinux. Luckily, syslinux uses the 8x3 system so I don't think there is anything to worry about.
I will now consider recommending and buying Dell equipment again. This summer I had to spend some grueling half an hour on the phone to have a replacement part ordered. I swore I would never do business with Dell again and fretted about the state of american IT.
Now, those companies hiring Indian comapnies as programming sweat shops ought to think about this too: quality control is as poor as language skills. Not that I think there aren't bright people in India and from India, but those are not who you are hiring from these contractors.
I remember reading somewhere that NASA spent millions trying to develop a zero-G pen, whereas the russian just used pencils. Hrm.
This statement is often repeated by types like Rush Limbaugh, but no one that I have ever heard spout such BS has supported it, even when pressed to do so.
Also it doesn't matter if someone is brown or yellow or white or red or pink or green. What's skin color got to do with energy? Maybe darker skin people absorb more light and therefore create more heat?
You calculations are a bit simplistic. You need to store energy from the cells for later use. Deep-Cell sealed-lead-acid batteries (SLA) are the most economical way to do this, for home users. You also need a charge controller. This is because the voltage out of the photovoltaic cell varies with temperature. Current fluxuates with light intensity. Batteries need to be charged at a certain voltage otherwise they are at best inefficient, but can also be damaged. There are other factors in a charge controller as well. Best ones are PWM type. Also, the sun of course moves in the sky. You may want a mechanism to follow the sun across the sky. You can also use reflectors to concentrate sunlight onto the panel, but be careful not to overheat the panel. All this has to take in other factors such as weather protection, birds, safety, theft, and government regulations. All this costs money. Is wind easier? no...in fact it's more difficult. But hey, there are people who do this professionally, books have been written, etc. If you want more, search on kazaa for the ebook that's about solar and wind systems.
Well, I had some stuff to do in this timestream, so I thought I'd hang around a bit for this slashdot article to come by. Still, I am not sure I am in the correct time stream or not. If the Red Sox actually do win the world series, then I had better get ready to skip into a different timestream to avoid catastrophe.
Yes, I felt the same way about Star Trek, it was bad enough with the original but was amplified by later ones.