And this is in the 'science' section. And it's nothing but a bunch of speculation about how to convert aliens to christianity. My head is about to explode.
Actually, that's a crap excuse. If you ever confront a 'theatre owner' over this, they profess that they'd love to let you in but can't. And why wouldn't they? They have industry associations that the theatres can point to and say "look, they're the ones who make us do it".
It boils down to the same censorship from the same people just not technically using legal methods, but economic ones.
The cell phone market (in the US) is now just a bunch of behind-the-times telco companies that missed the cell phone boat to begin with and are trying to make up for it by throwing lobbyists and salespeople at a saturated market anyways.
802.11x is probably the only useful innovation left in cell phones, and the major providers are busy either ignoring it or trying to find a way to hijack the wi-fi hotspots that exist already to incorporate them into their networks and charge us for what *should* be free.
Everybody sees what a *great* job of "innovating" the baby bells have done with their massive, nearly guaranteed profits over the past twenty years. These are the same people who couldn't even turn a profit with Bell Labs.
We'd all be better off if they had a little real competition, if even from users themselves.
That way different 'vendors' products are similar in features, if not identical. After a few years, most GPL projects cross-seed each other enough to make switching pretty painless. And if you really have to switch before then, you can take your implementation *and* your features with you.
As I'm in the middle of a desktop linux rollout, let me amend your suggestions a bit:
Don't hit ctrl-alt-anything, in fact disable all of them if you can.
"Copy and paste" can be as easy as "highlight and middle-click." But frequently it isn't. The most *consistent* way to get copy/paste to work, especially between vastly different apps (wine/openoffice/mozilla/kde) is just to use the old hilight+right-click way and don't even tell them about the other way(s) unless they ask.
I'm really sick of correcting this every time I see it modded up to +4, but heregoes:
Electrolysis is nearly 98% efficient. That means that for every watt of electricity you use to crack water into Hydrogen and Oxygen, you get.98 watts back when you recombine them. Even electric heaters aren't that efficient.
The problem wrt efficiency of Hydrogen has mostly to do with the fuel cells, which are currently something like 50% efficient at most. But as many sites around the 'web will show you, Hydrogen can be efficiently (and cleanly) burned like any other gas and even used in internal (and external) combustion engines.
In short, electrolysis isn't the problem, storage of Hydrogen may be a problem, but it's fairly straightforward one. Designing efficient fuel cells is the problem that will make or break Hydrogen as an energy transport mechanism.
The thing to remember with cd-based distros is that, even though the media cannot be changed, many things that are stored in writable memory can be, up to and including the system BIOS. It's a good idea to reboot them periodically to verify that you're working with a "clean" OS and that any intrusions or modifications have been reverted.
This sounds like a good time to troll for votes for my Fedora Security Enhancement Bug. Without this enhancement, it's near impossible to verify a Fedora system from read-only media.
I don't know who to bother about getting this implemented but I assume someone at RH would have to adopt it. A few votes might get it recognized.
I've got a great idea for outsourcing video editing work to the third world. It can be done using a reasonable amount of bandwidth. After that, and once the Indian programmers help us to digitize all our business documents, accounting and legal work would be next.
Hell, other than manual labor, which is already done overwhelmingly by immigrants, we can outsource *all* our jobs to the rest of the world.
Of course, those of us left here in the US will have to be drafted into the military to maintain US "business interests" abroad, but that wouldn't be such a stretch. Have them ask if they'd rather work for a living or shoot people.
I'm particularly impressed at the ease of configuration of network devices and connections in OS X vs. WinXP.
Is this some kind of sick joke? Of course it's easier, Windows supports 100x the devices that OSX ever will. It's easy to make device-support easy and flawless when *you* control the devices.
The only thing he was right about is OSX geeks' ability to substitute less hardware choice and more money for easy hardware configuration.
This is definitely a known problem that has to do with the 2.6 kernels. On some motherboards, you may have to disable USB support completely (in the BIOS) to get your mouse or ps/2 devices to work.
Realtors don't *set* the market rate, but they can influence it. One way they influence it is by requiring 'covenants' and effecting zoning restrictions. They can put a clause in your contract that effectively restricts all future owners and raises the price of your land forever. The types of restrictions can get really absurd, down to the color of your house and how many bedrooms it has to have. Of course, their buddies in the construction business don't mind a bit:)
On a macro scale, the net result is that land prices are kept artificially high and there is a constant demand for forced construction to keep up with these restrictions.
I wonder whether an open source license type could be used instead, effectively "freeing" the land from future restrictions such as these? It works for intellectual property; can it work for *real* property?
I think it was more like a year and a half, but I could be wrong. Besides, it takes *time* for an organization to decide to make a change like that, and RedHat's changing pricing models every ~2 years doesn't help convince management that switching is a sane decision to make.
Counties are nothing more than a subdivision of the state. In fact, almost *all* state statutes are enforced by counties.
Incorporated cities are, also, subject to regulation by the state. In fact it is the states grant of regulatory powers to cities that allows them to exist at all.
This ruling only affects a state's ability to regulate subdivisions of state government.
better chances at employment right after graduation Great. Well then, your company is the *reason* that US education sucks. College is not on-the-job training. While companies like yours might be better served by a huge supply of graduates trained specifically on whatever tools you use at the moment, those students would not.
As soon as those tools are no longer in use, your company would fire those who use them in favor of a new crop of freshly-trained students. I for one am glad that there are Universities left with enough honesty *not* to sell out to your short-sighted demands. Companies like yours have ruined the US. Congratulations.
The top students in the US are not in danger of not finding jobs.
bzzt! wrong. When the general idiom of "school should consist of lots of repetitive bs" becomes standard (as it has, even in institutions of "higher" education) those students in the top 1-2% just drop out.
Couple that trend with the general trend of putting everybody in the same class regardless of ability and those with real talent become even more frustrated.
And, I haven't even begun to address the general bias *against* using aptitude (ability) instead of achievement (work) as a general indication of intelligence.
Red Hat shot their own foot off with the shift in business model.
Exactly, and not only from the 'mission-critical' large-business perspective. From a small-user perspective, I would have paid $40 for a RH desktop distro and never touched the support. I will *not* pay $200 to replace WinXP on a desktop, though. The crux is that I'm moving to Fedora, but RedHat doesn't get my $40 that they otherwise would have.
Why stop with judges? Hell, most of them have been trained to just "interpret" the laws as written. And we all know how well written most of our laws are. The fact is that, (as a corrolary to Goedel's Theorem) the more laws there are, the less lawsuits are frivolous. When was the last time Congress repealed a law?
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And this is in the 'science' section.
And it's nothing but a bunch of speculation about how to convert aliens to christianity.
My head is about to explode.
Actually, that's a crap excuse. If you ever confront a 'theatre owner' over this, they profess that they'd love to let you in but can't. And why wouldn't they? They have industry associations that the theatres can point to and say "look, they're the ones who make us do it".
It boils down to the same censorship from the same people just not technically using legal methods, but economic ones.
Arbitrary age restrictions like these, especially over something as innocuous as information, are plainly bullshit.
;)
How would you old farts like it if we put an age cap on viagra?
Don't think we couldn't do it
The cell phone market (in the US) is now just a bunch of behind-the-times telco companies that missed the cell phone boat to begin with and are trying to make up for it by throwing lobbyists and salespeople at a saturated market anyways.
802.11x is probably the only useful innovation left in cell phones, and the major providers are busy either ignoring it or trying to find a way to hijack the wi-fi hotspots that exist already to incorporate them into their networks and charge us for what *should* be free.
Everybody sees what a *great* job of "innovating" the baby bells have done with their massive, nearly guaranteed profits over the past twenty years. These are the same people who couldn't even turn a profit with Bell Labs.
We'd all be better off if they had a little real competition, if even from users themselves.
That way different 'vendors' products are similar in features, if not identical. After a few years, most GPL projects cross-seed each other enough to make switching pretty painless. And if you really have to switch before then, you can take your implementation *and* your features with you.
More accurately, the map on this page.
As I'm in the middle of a desktop linux rollout, let me amend your suggestions a bit:
Don't hit ctrl-alt-anything, in fact disable all of them if you can.
"Copy and paste" can be as easy as "highlight and middle-click."
But frequently it isn't. The most *consistent* way to get copy/paste to work, especially between vastly different apps (wine/openoffice/mozilla/kde) is just to use the old hilight+right-click way and don't even tell them about the other way(s) unless they ask.
Otherwise, good suggestions all around.
I'm really sick of correcting this every time I see it modded up to +4, but heregoes:
.98 watts back when you recombine them. Even electric heaters aren't that efficient.
Electrolysis is nearly 98% efficient. That means that for every watt of electricity you use to crack water into Hydrogen and Oxygen, you get
The problem wrt efficiency of Hydrogen has mostly to do with the fuel cells, which are currently something like 50% efficient at most. But as many sites around the 'web will show you, Hydrogen can be efficiently (and cleanly) burned like any other gas and even used in internal (and external) combustion engines.
In short, electrolysis isn't the problem, storage of Hydrogen may be a problem, but it's fairly straightforward one. Designing efficient fuel cells is the problem that will make or break Hydrogen as an energy transport mechanism.
The thing to remember with cd-based distros is that, even though the media cannot be changed, many things that are stored in writable memory can be, up to and including the system BIOS. It's a good idea to reboot them periodically to verify that you're working with a "clean" OS and that any intrusions or modifications have been reverted.
This sounds like a good time to troll for votes for my Fedora Security Enhancement Bug. Without this enhancement, it's near impossible to verify a Fedora system from read-only media.
I don't know who to bother about getting this implemented but I assume someone at RH would have to adopt it. A few votes might get it recognized.
I've got a great idea for outsourcing video editing work to the third world. It can be done using a reasonable amount of bandwidth. After that, and once the Indian programmers help us to digitize all our business documents, accounting and legal work would be next.
Hell, other than manual labor, which is already done overwhelmingly by immigrants, we can outsource *all* our jobs to the rest of the world.
Of course, those of us left here in the US will have to be drafted into the military to maintain US "business interests" abroad, but that wouldn't be such a stretch. Have them ask if they'd rather work for a living or shoot people.
play MP3s you insensitive clod...
I'm particularly impressed at the ease of configuration of network devices and connections in OS X vs. WinXP.
Is this some kind of sick joke? Of course it's easier, Windows supports 100x the devices that OSX ever will. It's easy to make device-support easy and flawless when *you* control the devices.
The only thing he was right about is OSX geeks' ability to substitute less hardware choice and more money for easy hardware configuration.
This is definitely a known problem that has to do with the 2.6 kernels. On some motherboards, you may have to disable USB support completely (in the BIOS) to get your mouse or ps/2 devices to work.
It's simple, really:
:)
on Earth, global warming is *bad*
on Mars, global warming is *good*
No environmental problems in sight
I see an upside:
1) More people needing cheap computers and software, ie. Linux.
2) VoIP becomes feasible as more people have access to it.
Realtors don't *set* the market rate, but they can influence it. One way they influence it is by requiring 'covenants' and effecting zoning restrictions. They can put a clause in your contract that effectively restricts all future owners and raises the price of your land forever. The types of restrictions can get really absurd, down to the color of your house and how many bedrooms it has to have. Of course, their buddies in the construction business don't mind a bit :)
On a macro scale, the net result is that land prices are kept artificially high and there is a constant demand for forced construction to keep up with these restrictions.
I wonder whether an open source license type could be used instead, effectively "freeing" the land from future restrictions such as these? It works for intellectual property; can it work for *real* property?
It depends upon whether you view that as a bug or a feature. I'd say being able to route around censorship is a feature.
I think it was more like a year and a half, but I could be wrong. Besides, it takes *time* for an organization to decide to make a change like that, and RedHat's changing pricing models every ~2 years doesn't help convince management that switching is a sane decision to make.
Counties are nothing more than a subdivision of the state. In fact, almost *all* state statutes are enforced by counties.
Incorporated cities are, also, subject to regulation by the state. In fact it is the states grant of regulatory powers to cities that allows them to exist at all.
This ruling only affects a state's ability to regulate subdivisions of state government.
better chances at employment right after graduation
Great. Well then, your company is the *reason* that US education sucks. College is not on-the-job training. While companies like yours might be better served by a huge supply of graduates trained specifically on whatever tools you use at the moment, those students would not.
As soon as those tools are no longer in use, your company would fire those who use them in favor of a new crop of freshly-trained students. I for one am glad that there are Universities left with enough honesty *not* to sell out to your short-sighted demands. Companies like yours have ruined the US. Congratulations.
The top students in the US are not in danger of not finding jobs.
bzzt! wrong. When the general idiom of "school should consist of lots of repetitive bs" becomes standard (as it has, even in institutions of "higher" education) those students in the top 1-2% just drop out.
Couple that trend with the general trend of putting everybody in the same class regardless of ability and those with real talent become even more frustrated.
And, I haven't even begun to address the general bias *against* using aptitude (ability) instead of achievement (work) as a general indication of intelligence.
Face it, US education just isn't up to the task.
Red Hat shot their own foot off with the shift in business model.
Exactly, and not only from the 'mission-critical' large-business perspective. From a small-user perspective, I would have paid $40 for a RH desktop distro and never touched the support. I will *not* pay $200 to replace WinXP on a desktop, though. The crux is that I'm moving to Fedora, but RedHat doesn't get my $40 that they otherwise would have.
wow, that's some great advice I've never heard before. thanks (+1, informative)
Why stop with judges? Hell, most of them have been trained to just "interpret" the laws as written. And we all know how well written most of our laws are. The fact is that, (as a corrolary to Goedel's Theorem) the more laws there are, the less lawsuits are frivolous. When was the last time Congress repealed a law?