But you are assuming that a government run school wants to produce students who can think critically.
If they did, then these people may actually ask the hard questions. "Why are you in office if all you do is lie to the public, cheat to get ahead, and steal from the public coffers?", "Why is the drug scheduling system based on "Potential for abuse" and not "Danger to the health of the individual?", "How can you violate the 4th amendment to the constitution by passing security acts and not amending the constitution?"
See, they don't want people who can think. They want people who will shut up and do what they are told.
This from someone who's daughter asked the hard questions in school about drug policy. Thus he was visited by the police to discuss it in detail. (Not a drug user but the mere argument was enough to get them to stop by for a chat.)
Sorry sir, but your application has been denied. If we followed your suggestions we would not need to horas, torture, or bother anyone. Then everyone would forget what DHS stands, we would loose funding and become an irrelevant agency like BATF.
Again thank you for your time, please see BOB on the way our for your complementary cavity search.
and most tech people build there own systems buying off the shelf parts. We also recommend systems to family and friends, and unlike most of the places I have worked, family and friends listen to me.
So, Will Dell, HP, and other BIG BOX providers take it.... Sure, they also had micro-channel. That does not mean it will take off or last. It will probably last longer on the server side. However, that is where this scheme will face it's biggest challenges as the list of server OS providers is much larger than the list of Desktop OS providers.
It will be released but not all the hardware vendors will sign on. Loads of tech people, like the ones here, will not buy it. It will flounder for a few years then eventually die off and go the way of microchannel.
Ill toss this one up there with Divix-DVD's and there pay per view, Sony memory standards, Micro-channel, and many other crappy ideas.
It seems to me that you could do a p2p certificate authority where a certificates trust is based on the number of people who trust the cert as well as a past history of your trusts.
So, if historically you trust certs that are frauds then the trust in you is reduced and all certs you trusted are reduced. If the opposite is true than the trust in you is higher as is the trust in the certs you have trusted.
So which programs do you ditch, and how would it help?
How about all of them?
We de-fund all of them, then each program has to come back to congress and justify it's continued existence. It has to provide supporting data that the job it is doing is needed and accomplishes the goals it was created for.
Farm Subsidies and WIC are easy things picked by most people as an example. Take a look at The U.S. Agency for International Development, Or the federal grant for $765,828 that was given to bring an International House of Pancakes franchise to Washington, D.C, and there are thousands more. The number of wasteful programs outweigh the number of good ones.
First, the biggest reason that business does not look at changing is the cost of retooling. Most businesses are soo tied into windows that they can not even consider an alternative. They have thousands of not hundreds of thousands tied up in the windows infrastructure that would, for the most part have to be scrapped and replaced. From communicator, exchange, Antivirus, share point, you name it and if it is a Microsoft product then it is designed to work with windows. I have known several large companies that looked at moving to Linux desktops, once you worked out the cost of retooling, retraining, and the disruption to the end user, it was cost prohibitive.
Now to home use, I think Linux as a home desktop is far more prevalent that most people think. I know quite a few non-tech people now running linux as a home desktop. I have noticed that almost every software provider has listed in there FAQ "Do you provide a version for Linux?" If it is a frequently asked question then, IMHO, it is far more prevalent than many believe. The issue here is proof, with windows it is sales but buying a Linux desktop is not as easy as going to Walmart and buying a windows one. Top that off with the fact that all systems sold with windows count towards windows numbers even when they are wiped and Linux is installed. So the real question is how many linux desktops are there and what is the best way to identify them. Until those questions are answered we really have no way of knowing how big the population is.
CIOs are in charge of a giant cost center. That a section of the business where money goes to die. The CEO's POV is that anyone who can't make a profit for the company is lacking in business sense.
Every time I hear how IT is a cost center and does not make money for the company I love to point out that accounting is also a cost center and does not make money for the company.
Guess it is time to save the company money and lay off accountants.
It doesn't seem like a CIO is special when a CEO doesn't like being told "that's not possible", but is stuck in that position more often than others by the nature of their job.
That is easily fixed. Absolutely everything can be done. In 20 years of IT I have never said "that's not possible"
It all boils down to
How much do you want to spend?
When they ask for something that is not possible with the existing equipment or man power, I simple work up what it will take. New equipment, number of people, how long to build/deploy/develop, etc. And send them the price and a high level overview of the project.
They want everything but , there is always a budget and it boils down to what they can get for the amount they want to pay.
Fine, break it down further there are 2 acres of arable land per person. However, arable land is land that can be farmed There is plenty of Forest, swamp land, and areas that are non-arable but still sequester carbon.
However, if you want to be fair to the numbers there are 1285 acres water per person on the planet and plankton sequesters more carbon that grass.
It takes 1 acre of forest or 2 acres of grass to sequester the gas produced by 1 American adult. It takes 1/8th acre to produce the vegetables needed to feed a family of 4.
So, what is the global population density and how many acres are there per person in the world? 10 acres per man, woman, and child on the planet!
That means that an average American family would have 45 acres (2 adults and 2.5 children on average) and only need a max of 4 acres to sequester the carbon they produce.
That is just the land mass and it is 1/3 of the planet and the other 2/3rds can sequester carbon as well due to plankton content.
So the question here is does Article 1 section 8 of the constitution trump the protections of the bill of rights?
by your reading, which I find way too broad, then the government could regulate the ownership of guns, bullets, wheat, bread, etc based on the concept that it may cross state lines and thus be "interstate commerce"
The relevant quote of Article 1 Section 8 is "The Congress shall have Power"
"To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes;
To me that says that congress can regulate state to state commerce, not private commerce between two people or businesses in different states.
Besides, how is my buying a plane ticket at the local airport, paying at the local airport, paying state and federal taxes on the tickets at the local airport and getting on a plain for another state "commerce among the several States"?
Congress has been violating the "charter" AKA The Constitution for years. If you are just noticing this then you need to wake up, get a cup of coffee, read the constitution and find out what has really been going on.
However, there is no guarantee that you or anyone will get to testify before congress. There is a guarantee that you will be secure in your persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures.
4th amendment "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."
Can some one point to the airport exclusion? Or where congress amended the constitution to allow this?
Paypal is to to the arena, I have seen these little smart phone CC readers in a lot of places. The most common place is at Gun shows.
Then, how will Paypal handle that? They dont allow you to use there service to sell guns, ammo, explosives, etc. but with these readers there is no way to check what you are selling.
Will they start locking accounts randomly until the seller submits what they are selling?
Will they contact the customer for a "Survey" to see what was bought?
I wonder if the local dealers will start taking CC's for a dime bag?
Ahh well, Paypal sucks and I would never use them because of there draconian methodologies and rules.
It would if it was 7 hours of just sitting there. However, I put the dvd's in start dvdbackup, go back to what ever I am going that day then return in 20 min to swap them out. No different then when I converted all my CD's to MP3 several years back.
Once all the conversions are done, that is it. Adding a new DVD is simply starting the rip to the HD then later adding it to the rip queue.
This is a one time process that, IMHO, pays for it self 1000x over. The ability to simply pull up a menu from any TV in the house and select the movie you want to watch it great!
You must be using windows to try to rip the movie.
I set up a FreeNAS server to share the drive. I then set up a second system to do the conversion.
Both my desktop and the conversion server (Linux) use dvdbackup to backup the dvd to the NAS. I can share it as is, but it takes a lot of space to store the whole backup (4 to 8 gb) So I queue the backup for conversion to xvid/avi on the conversion server. The xvid conversion is done with omgrip http://ogmrip.sourceforge.net/en/index.html
It processes about 10 dvd's a day with no cropping and no down scaling of the movie and the file size fixed at 1024m. I can fill the drive holding the dvd backups in an afternoon and have it rip the whole week with out adding to it. I have no sound sync issues and only a small number of really new DVD's will not read and backup. I have reported the errors to dvdbackup so I assume they will get it fixed.
I have 169 of my dvd's ripped and still have 580 to go.
All in all, I spend my spare time on Saturday doing dvdbackups (About 7 hours total for the day) and then spend about an hour a day moving the completed movies to the Movie directory and removing the dvd backup once it is done.
With those two pieces of software I have almost no messing around to do, simple set up a profile to set the xvid size, audio settings (Dolby 5.1), and turn off cropping.
All of my streaming is done to a Boxee Box.
Simple, easy, works almost every time (Total failure is about 10 dvd's so far.), no 2$ and no need for the internet connection to watch a movie.
The Pogoplug measures 10.1 x 7.1 inches The Raspberry Pi measures 3.370 × 2.125 inch
Pogoplug seems more of a media server where R-Pi is more development. Where I see the usefulness of this is internet connecting home devices using GPIO. No more build the board with a pic chip and custom write the stacks. The expansion possibilities make this a key device in my opinion.
Because he is one of the "hipster nerds who couldn't innovate their way out of a wet paper bag" thus he can not see all the possibilities that these low cost systems bring.
Thermodynamics is based on the idea that energy can be changed from one form to another, but it cannot be created or destroyed. It also supposes that the total amount of energy and matter in the Universe remains constant, merely changing from one form to another.
The second half of that appears to be wrong the total amount of energy and matter in the universe does not remain constant by my limited understanding of quantum mechanics and membrane theory. Potential particles are converted to particles of matter as they emerge from the plank level as a wave form.
My city (pop: 365,000) Will not even put in sidewalks.
It is a 30 mile hike to the nearest Bus or train terminal.
In the last city counsel meeting where it was discussed, the decision was made to maintain the status quo. because Buses, sidewalks, and trains bring in "The undesirable lower class people"
So, I am not sure that the "Auto industry" has a lot to do with it!
Wait a sec, you have projects that are not "Top Priority"?
I am currently working on 7 migration projects and every one of them is top priority. To top that off, the VP has told each and every PM that their project is top priority and I am dedicated to to getting their project done first.
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But you are assuming that a government run school wants to produce students who can think critically.
If they did, then these people may actually ask the hard questions. "Why are you in office if all you do is lie to the public, cheat to get ahead, and steal from the public coffers?", "Why is the drug scheduling system based on "Potential for abuse" and not "Danger to the health of the individual?", "How can you violate the 4th amendment to the constitution by passing security acts and not amending the constitution?"
See, they don't want people who can think. They want people who will shut up and do what they are told.
This from someone who's daughter asked the hard questions in school about drug policy. Thus he was visited by the police to discuss it in detail. (Not a drug user but the mere argument was enough to get them to stop by for a chat.)
Sorry sir, but your application has been denied. If we followed your suggestions we would not need to horas, torture, or bother anyone. Then everyone would forget what DHS stands, we would loose funding and become an irrelevant agency like BATF.
Again thank you for your time, please see BOB on the way our for your complementary cavity search.
and most tech people build there own systems buying off the shelf parts. We also recommend systems to family and friends, and unlike most of the places I have worked, family and friends listen to me.
So, Will Dell, HP, and other BIG BOX providers take it.... Sure, they also had micro-channel. That does not mean it will take off or last. It will probably last longer on the server side. However, that is where this scheme will face it's biggest challenges as the list of server OS providers is much larger than the list of Desktop OS providers.
It will be released but not all the hardware vendors will sign on. Loads of tech people, like the ones here, will not buy it. It will flounder for a few years then eventually die off and go the way of microchannel.
Ill toss this one up there with Divix-DVD's and there pay per view, Sony memory standards, Micro-channel, and many other crappy ideas.
It seems to me that you could do a p2p certificate authority where a certificates trust is based on the number of people who trust the cert as well as a past history of your trusts.
So, if historically you trust certs that are frauds then the trust in you is reduced and all certs you trusted are reduced.
If the opposite is true than the trust in you is higher as is the trust in the certs you have trusted.
So which programs do you ditch, and how would it help?
How about all of them?
We de-fund all of them, then each program has to come back to congress and justify it's continued existence. It has to provide supporting data that the job it is doing is needed and accomplishes the goals it was created for.
Farm Subsidies and WIC are easy things picked by most people as an example. Take a look at The U.S. Agency for International Development, Or the federal grant for $765,828 that was given to bring an International House of Pancakes franchise to Washington, D.C, and there are thousands more. The number of wasteful programs outweigh the number of good ones.
First, the biggest reason that business does not look at changing is the cost of retooling. Most businesses are soo tied into windows that they can not even consider an alternative. They have thousands of not hundreds of thousands tied up in the windows infrastructure that would, for the most part have to be scrapped and replaced. From communicator, exchange, Antivirus, share point, you name it and if it is a Microsoft product then it is designed to work with windows. I have known several large companies that looked at moving to Linux desktops, once you worked out the cost of retooling, retraining, and the disruption to the end user, it was cost prohibitive.
Now to home use, I think Linux as a home desktop is far more prevalent that most people think. I know quite a few non-tech people now running linux as a home desktop. I have noticed that almost every software provider has listed in there FAQ "Do you provide a version for Linux?" If it is a frequently asked question then, IMHO, it is far more prevalent than many believe. The issue here is proof, with windows it is sales but buying a Linux desktop is not as easy as going to Walmart and buying a windows one. Top that off with the fact that all systems sold with windows count towards windows numbers even when they are wiped and Linux is installed. So the real question is how many linux desktops are there and what is the best way to identify them. Until those questions are answered we really have no way of knowing how big the population is.
I predicted that one a few years ago. You can not take energy out of a system with out impacting the overall performance of the system.
I would say it is more along the line of the question of gravity being a wave or a particle.
We may understand gravity in general, just as we understand the generalizations of climate.
CIOs are in charge of a giant cost center. That a section of the business where money goes to die. The CEO's POV is that anyone who can't make a profit for the company is lacking in business sense.
Every time I hear how IT is a cost center and does not make money for the company I love to point out that accounting is also a cost center and does not make money for the company.
Guess it is time to save the company money and lay off accountants.
It doesn't seem like a CIO is special when a CEO doesn't like being told "that's not possible", but is stuck in that position more often than others by the nature of their job.
That is easily fixed. Absolutely everything can be done. In 20 years of IT I have never said "that's not possible"
It all boils down to
How much do you want to spend?
When they ask for something that is not possible with the existing equipment or man power, I simple work up what it will take. New equipment, number of people, how long to build/deploy/develop, etc. And send them the price and a high level overview of the project.
They want everything but , there is always a budget and it boils down to what they can get for the amount they want to pay.
Your options are always
1) Good
2) Fast
3) Cheep
You only get to pick 2 of the three.
Fine, break it down further there are 2 acres of arable land per person. However, arable land is land that can be farmed There is plenty of Forest, swamp land, and areas that are non-arable but still sequester carbon.
However, if you want to be fair to the numbers there are 1285 acres water per person on the planet and plankton sequesters more carbon that grass.
I can dispute it.
It takes 1 acre of forest or 2 acres of grass to sequester the gas produced by 1 American adult. It takes 1/8th acre to produce the vegetables needed to feed a family of 4.
So, what is the global population density and how many acres are there per person in the world? 10 acres per man, woman, and child on the planet!
That means that an average American family would have 45 acres (2 adults and 2.5 children on average) and only need a max of 4 acres to sequester the carbon they produce.
That is just the land mass and it is 1/3 of the planet and the other 2/3rds can sequester carbon as well due to plankton content.
Prior to 1970 all airline pilots were armed, there was little to no airport security and no hijackings of airlines.
So, the whole TSA could be replaced by providing every pilot with a $395 revolver. Billions saved and no violation of the constitution.
So the question here is does Article 1 section 8 of the constitution trump the protections of the bill of rights?
by your reading, which I find way too broad, then the government could regulate the ownership of guns, bullets, wheat, bread, etc based on the concept that it may cross state lines and thus be "interstate commerce"
The relevant quote of Article 1 Section 8 is
"The Congress shall have Power"
"To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes;
To me that says that congress can regulate state to state commerce, not private commerce between two people or businesses in different states.
Besides, how is my buying a plane ticket at the local airport, paying at the local airport, paying state and federal taxes on the tickets at the local airport and getting on a plain for another state "commerce among the several States"?
Congress has been violating the "charter" AKA The Constitution for years. If you are just noticing this then you need to wake up, get a cup of coffee, read the constitution and find out what has really been going on.
However, there is no guarantee that you or anyone will get to testify before congress. There is a guarantee that you will be secure in your persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures.
4th amendment
"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."
Can some one point to the airport exclusion? Or where congress amended the constitution to allow this?
Paypal is to to the arena, I have seen these little smart phone CC readers in a lot of places. The most common place is at Gun shows.
Then, how will Paypal handle that? They dont allow you to use there service to sell guns, ammo, explosives, etc. but with these readers there is no way to check what you are selling.
Will they start locking accounts randomly until the seller submits what they are selling?
Will they contact the customer for a "Survey" to see what was bought?
I wonder if the local dealers will start taking CC's for a dime bag?
Ahh well, Paypal sucks and I would never use them because of there draconian methodologies and rules.
It would if it was 7 hours of just sitting there. However, I put the dvd's in start dvdbackup, go back to what ever I am going that day then return in 20 min to swap them out. No different then when I converted all my CD's to MP3 several years back.
Once all the conversions are done, that is it. Adding a new DVD is simply starting the rip to the HD then later adding it to the rip queue.
This is a one time process that, IMHO, pays for it self 1000x over. The ability to simply pull up a menu from any TV in the house and select the movie you want to watch it great!
You must be using windows to try to rip the movie.
I set up a FreeNAS server to share the drive. I then set up a second system to do the conversion.
Both my desktop and the conversion server (Linux) use dvdbackup to backup the dvd to the NAS. I can share it as is, but it takes a lot of space to store the whole backup (4 to 8 gb) So I queue the backup for conversion to xvid/avi on the conversion server. The xvid conversion is done with omgrip http://ogmrip.sourceforge.net/en/index.html
It processes about 10 dvd's a day with no cropping and no down scaling of the movie and the file size fixed at 1024m. I can fill the drive holding the dvd backups in an afternoon and have it rip the whole week with out adding to it. I have no sound sync issues and only a small number of really new DVD's will not read and backup. I have reported the errors to dvdbackup so I assume they will get it fixed.
I have 169 of my dvd's ripped and still have 580 to go.
All in all, I spend my spare time on Saturday doing dvdbackups (About 7 hours total for the day) and then spend about an hour a day moving the completed movies to the Movie directory and removing the dvd backup once it is done.
With those two pieces of software I have almost no messing around to do, simple set up a profile to set the xvid size, audio settings (Dolby 5.1), and turn off cropping.
All of my streaming is done to a Boxee Box.
Simple, easy, works almost every time (Total failure is about 10 dvd's so far.), no 2$ and no need for the internet connection to watch a movie.
The Pogoplug measures 10.1 x 7.1 inches
The Raspberry Pi measures 3.370 × 2.125 inch
Pogoplug seems more of a media server where R-Pi is more development. Where I see the usefulness of this is internet connecting home devices using GPIO. No more build the board with a pic chip and custom write the stacks. The expansion possibilities make this a key device in my opinion.
Because he is one of the "hipster nerds who couldn't innovate their way out of a wet paper bag" thus he can not see all the possibilities that these low cost systems bring.
I did RTFA but do have a thermodynamics question.
Thermodynamics is based on the idea that energy can be changed from one form to another, but it cannot be created or destroyed. It also supposes that the total amount of energy and matter in the Universe remains constant, merely changing from one form to another.
The second half of that appears to be wrong the total amount of energy and matter in the universe does not remain constant by my limited understanding of quantum mechanics and membrane theory. Potential particles are converted to particles of matter as they emerge from the plank level as a wave form.
Did I miss something?
My city (pop: 365,000) Will not even put in sidewalks.
It is a 30 mile hike to the nearest Bus or train terminal.
In the last city counsel meeting where it was discussed, the decision was made to maintain the status quo. because Buses, sidewalks, and trains bring in "The undesirable lower class people"
So, I am not sure that the "Auto industry" has a lot to do with it!
Wait a sec, you have projects that are not "Top Priority"?
I am currently working on 7 migration projects and every one of them is top priority. To top that off, the VP has told each and every PM that their project is top priority and I am dedicated to to getting their project done first.
Looks like the SCOmbie is back, quick shoot it in the head!