but I fortunately live far enough toward the edge of Phoenix to have a beautiful view of the sky, and we've been seeing meteors about once every 3-5 minutes for the past month. Every other day or two (we watch for about 30 minutes a night) I see a large fireball.
I don't think the world's ending (nor would I found it constructive to worry about it if it was) but this guy things its the end:
I've done both Microsoft coding from back in the day (Win32 API through COM and ASP) and Linux with perl, c, php... and both platforms with Java
Recently I took a job with a company implementing Microsoft DRM, and selected C# for the new toolsets.
It was a good choice for Microsoft technologies... basically they took the old Win32 API, and wrote wrapper classes to babysit their crappy code underneith (something I used to do in C++) and it works exceptionally well.
And I ASP.Net WebMatrix is a good enough free tool to do effective development (if you don't mind command line compiles or just sticking with C# asp.net pages) if you don't want to spend the cash on VisualStudio.
Does anyone know how they can get there hands on this kind of equipment without selling their houses or cars?
For a few months now I keep thinking of the possiblity of googling by thought. If you can just get two different kinds of signals out, you've got morse code automatically.
Combine that with some of those lasers that shine images directly on your retinas that we hear about from time-to-time, and you'd have a real winner. Think of the productivity gains (or losses from having almost-in-brain IM services)
You can't say this is idea is only about getting high... I've thought about (but not researched) this concept before, this stuff grows like weeds! It'll grow just about anywhere. That seems like as good a reason as any for being a candidate for biomass.
But I do agree with you that they shouldn't use it as an excuse to legalize the smoking kind.
gov't should encourage telecommuting
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Provide businesses with tax/other insentives for having a certain portion of their work force telecommute for 3-4 days out of the week would greatly reduce the amount of fuel use caused by suburbia.
And I would be the first to sign up. 30 miles to and from work is a dog in traffic.
but the new version Microsoft MediaCenter PC will do just what you're asking, on demand purchases of video content on your TV. I know this because I am awaiting the beta sdk for providing DRM services for this system at work.
Microsoft is saying the units will run between $300-500, but I'm not going to vouch for that... the cheapest I've seen is $1200. I know they will be working toward a lower price point because the product will flop at current prices.
I'd love to have a system where the cabel companies feed stuff to us from their PVR dump, and then we store it on our harddrives with full control. Then I wouldn't have to wait for a certain time for a show to come on, and I can watch the news whenever I feel like it instead of only when a show isn't recording...
I work for a DRM company who talks to some of these giants (and Apple), and TimeWarner execs say that they aren't making any money off of selling songs at 99cents a pop because the credit card transaction fees eat up a lot of this.
What they need to do is sell tokens to make this really work.
Ah, you didn't read the post. Phoenix was an example of a place that has air polution and the cause of environmentallism -- nothing to do with the choatic system mention above. People are talking about what would essentially be terraforming on our planet, which I believe would be a terrible idea.
Although I always agree that everything requires "more study", I do agree with this poster's assessment of the situation. It is by no means contradictory to say that we can't change what is happening and that the Earth is a chaotic system. Worse yet, the Earth is a chaotic system for which we don't know all the variables, let alone how to change them.
This doesn't mean that conservation of the environment isn't a noble cause, because it is, I strongly dislike the smog here in Phoenix driving to work in the mornings. I just don't see exactly how anyone expects to "fix" the problems without breaking the system first.
Imagine trying to fix the bugs in a system the size of Windows with a disassembler, and then you're about halfway to the level of complexity you're talking about.
No question, there is a TON of math required for computer science, but if you're into computers it shouldn't be too difficult, as long as you actual read your assignments, unlike myself who coded until late in the night instead.
The one mistake I felt I've made is not taking enough business courses. I'm not saying to take the CIS route, as that skimps on the math, but now that I'm in the real world I find programmers are often called upon to make real business decisions, even sometimes inappropriate ones for the position.
In a world where many US jobs are being outsourced to India and I'm sure others soon, there will be less/no available junior level jobs that pay anything. I don't have a problem with this, but that means that for a lot of us to maintain our comfortable standard of living, we will need to come up with the ideas and forge business relationships, rather than just implementing the ideas.
Oh agree totally that there is a legal difference to artifical scarcity and real scarcity, but it the laws aren't enforced then the difference in reality is nil.
Geographic price discrimation is illegal? Then why is my milk in Arizona twice as expensive as milk in Indiana?
Or how able an example that doesn't involve increased costs... why does a dentist in Arizona cost twice as much as a dentist in Indiana?
If you want to talk about price discrimination, I bet a $4 part in Cambodia is actually more expensive to the Cambodians than the $10 part is to an American.
It's about supply and demand... the company can set whatever price they want, if people will pay $10 in America, then they're gonna sell them for $10... I doubt the same is true in Cambodia.
Actually, the murder solve rate was recently publicized here in Arizona. Less than 50% are solved for the murders of whites, less than 30% for murders of a minority.
And the illegal drug trade and human trafficing are running strong. There have already been ~50 deaths of immigrants out in the desert in 2004, and there was even a freeway machine-gun battle on the I-10 a couple of months ago that killed several... the "coyotes" that smuggle people into the country were having a turf war.
Oh well, at least no illegal music trading. Good for business I guess since code for a DRM company.
I've started using Crazybrowser at work. It has a stupid name, but it's uses the IE html engine with tabs. It's got nothing on Safari, but better than no tabs.
haven't personally seen any cars out of the box that go 60... usually they go about 25MPH, which is faster than you think on that small of a car, especially considering those Tyco Turbo Hoppers in the 1980's went between 5-10MPH. And man do the parts fly off when you get a curb at 25. I had to pour $1000 into a car at dealer prices to get a car that could do 40mph... The local club's record was 48MPH, clocked with the ever so accurate measure of driving it from the back of a pickup and checking the speedometer.
To get a car to go 60, you've gotta drain those 8.4volt batteries in a minute or two, and that'll kill even the best electric speed controllers after a few runs.
Man, thinking back makes me want to go buy another kit sometime...
fyi: speed record for electric r/c (5 years ago)
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My dad runs an R/C hobby shop.... the fastest recorded speed for an electric 1/10th scale car back when I worked for him (around 5 years ago) was an RC/10 clocked at 72MPH...
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but I fortunately live far enough toward the edge of Phoenix to have a beautiful view of the sky, and we've been seeing meteors about once every 3-5 minutes for the past month. Every other day or two (we watch for about 30 minutes a night) I see a large fireball.
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I don't think the world's ending (nor would I found it constructive to worry about it if it was) but this guy things its the end:
http://www.bushcountry.org/news/may_news_pages/
I've done both Microsoft coding from back in the day (Win32 API through COM and ASP) and Linux with perl, c, php... and both platforms with Java
Recently I took a job with a company implementing Microsoft DRM, and selected C# for the new toolsets.
It was a good choice for Microsoft technologies... basically they took the old Win32 API, and wrote wrapper classes to babysit their crappy code underneith (something I used to do in C++) and it works exceptionally well.
And I ASP.Net WebMatrix is a good enough free tool to do effective development (if you don't mind command line compiles or just sticking with C# asp.net pages) if you don't want to spend the cash on VisualStudio.
not flaming, but
:)
if (File.Exists("filename")) {
is one line of c#
although a little longer than the perl counter part
if (-e "filename")
Sounds reasonable... do we have the technology to detect single nerve impules or impulses from a bunch of nerves?
Does anyone know how they can get there hands on this kind of equipment without selling their houses or cars?
For a few months now I keep thinking of the possiblity of googling by thought. If you can just get two different kinds of signals out, you've got morse code automatically.
Combine that with some of those lasers that shine images directly on your retinas that we hear about from time-to-time, and you'd have a real winner. Think of the productivity gains (or losses from having almost-in-brain IM services)
and it has nothing to do with labels... in fact I'd venture to say that most bands that sound better on their albums than live AREN'T signed.
I don't see how having a garage band (pun not intended) using a tracker to cut a cd and then can't play it live is a corporate thing?
Or we could use the government's tactics and start shooting people until we get support.
You can't say this is idea is only about getting high... I've thought about (but not researched) this concept before, this stuff grows like weeds! It'll grow just about anywhere. That seems like as good a reason as any for being a candidate for biomass.
But I do agree with you that they shouldn't use it as an excuse to legalize the smoking kind.
Provide businesses with tax/other insentives for having a certain portion of their work force telecommute for 3-4 days out of the week would greatly reduce the amount of fuel use caused by suburbia.
And I would be the first to sign up. 30 miles to and from work is a dog in traffic.
but the new version Microsoft MediaCenter PC will do just what you're asking, on demand purchases of video content on your TV. I know this because I am awaiting the beta sdk for providing DRM services for this system at work.
Microsoft is saying the units will run between $300-500, but I'm not going to vouch for that... the cheapest I've seen is $1200. I know they will be working toward a lower price point because the product will flop at current prices.
I'd love to have a system where the cabel companies feed stuff to us from their PVR dump, and then we store it on our harddrives with full control. Then I wouldn't have to wait for a certain time for a show to come on, and I can watch the news whenever I feel like it instead of only when a show isn't recording...
:)
I know I know, buy the two tuner version
I work for a DRM company who talks to some of these giants (and Apple), and TimeWarner execs say that they aren't making any money off of selling songs at 99cents a pop because the credit card transaction fees eat up a lot of this.
What they need to do is sell tokens to make this really work.
Ah, you didn't read the post. Phoenix was an example of a place that has air polution and the cause of environmentallism -- nothing to do with the choatic system mention above. People are talking about what would essentially be terraforming on our planet, which I believe would be a terrible idea.
Although I always agree that everything requires "more study", I do agree with this poster's assessment of the situation. It is by no means contradictory to say that we can't change what is happening and that the Earth is a chaotic system. Worse yet, the Earth is a chaotic system for which we don't know all the variables, let alone how to change them.
This doesn't mean that conservation of the environment isn't a noble cause, because it is, I strongly dislike the smog here in Phoenix driving to work in the mornings. I just don't see exactly how anyone expects to "fix" the problems without breaking the system first.
Imagine trying to fix the bugs in a system the size of Windows with a disassembler, and then you're about halfway to the level of complexity you're talking about.
No question, there is a TON of math required for computer science, but if you're into computers it shouldn't be too difficult, as long as you actual read your assignments, unlike myself who coded until late in the night instead.
The one mistake I felt I've made is not taking enough business courses. I'm not saying to take the CIS route, as that skimps on the math, but now that I'm in the real world I find programmers are often called upon to make real business decisions, even sometimes inappropriate ones for the position.
In a world where many US jobs are being outsourced to India and I'm sure others soon, there will be less/no available junior level jobs that pay anything. I don't have a problem with this, but that means that for a lot of us to maintain our comfortable standard of living, we will need to come up with the ideas and forge business relationships, rather than just implementing the ideas.
Hey look everybody, the RIAA found Slashdot and decided to post anonymously! YAY!
Oh agree totally that there is a legal difference to artifical scarcity and real scarcity, but it the laws aren't enforced then the difference in reality is nil.
Geographic price discrimation is illegal? Then why is my milk in Arizona twice as expensive as milk in Indiana?
Or how able an example that doesn't involve increased costs... why does a dentist in Arizona cost twice as much as a dentist in Indiana?
If you want to talk about price discrimination, I bet a $4 part in Cambodia is actually more expensive to the Cambodians than the $10 part is to an American.
It's about supply and demand... the company can set whatever price they want, if people will pay $10 in America, then they're gonna sell them for $10... I doubt the same is true in Cambodia.
Actually, the murder solve rate was recently publicized here in Arizona. Less than 50% are solved for the murders of whites, less than 30% for murders of a minority.
And the illegal drug trade and human trafficing are running strong. There have already been ~50 deaths of immigrants out in the desert in 2004, and there was even a freeway machine-gun battle on the I-10 a couple of months ago that killed several... the "coyotes" that smuggle people into the country were having a turf war.
Oh well, at least no illegal music trading. Good for business I guess since code for a DRM company.
I've started using Crazybrowser at work. It has a stupid name, but it's uses the IE html engine with tabs. It's got nothing on Safari, but better than no tabs.
Booooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!! This is a bunch of crap!
Please don't mod the parent as 5. It has some pretty outlandishly inaccurate claims to be considered "informative".
haven't personally seen any cars out of the box that go 60... usually they go about 25MPH, which is faster than you think on that small of a car, especially considering those Tyco Turbo Hoppers in the 1980's went between 5-10MPH. And man do the parts fly off when you get a curb at 25. I had to pour $1000 into a car at dealer prices to get a car that could do 40mph... The local club's record was 48MPH, clocked with the ever so accurate measure of driving it from the back of a pickup and checking the speedometer.
To get a car to go 60, you've gotta drain those 8.4volt batteries in a minute or two, and that'll kill even the best electric speed controllers after a few runs.
Man, thinking back makes me want to go buy another kit sometime...
My dad runs an R/C hobby shop.... the fastest recorded speed for an electric 1/10th scale car back when I worked for him (around 5 years ago) was an RC/10 clocked at 72MPH...
Although I could see them being higher by now...
man again? he died last week too!