It will allow me to talk shit about my bosses a lot easier with little fear that my message will be forwarded by someone and end up in their INBOX.
While I appreciate your detailed comment, this sentence above just reeks of trouble in the making. All it takes is the boss jutting his head in your co-workers cubicle to ask a question and noticing that curious e-mail your co-worker happens to be reading. What if the e-mail administrator dumps the e-mail from the server for an occasional look-see for employee insolence?
Don't rely on such lame measures to protect you from your employer, because they will backfire due to common complacency. If you really have gripes to share, go out to lunch on the other side of town, scan the restaurant for possible corporate eavesdroppers (how do you recognize family you've never met, however), and, then, complain away.
Not everyone can get around to clicking on each and every e-mail, if the subject is enough for "Well, I can read this later", and, later, "No time to read this now, I gotta check up on Slashdot", and, again later, "Damn, it's time to go home", and, the next morning, "What the !@#$ happened to all my e-mail?!?".
Once again, technology is interfering with the often counter-intuitive (yet actually quite intuitive) lack of organization in the lives of everyday people.
He knows that selling to home users is irrelevant! All he needs to do is come up with some reason to force companies to upgrade, and they will.
I disagree. One reason why Windows won over UNIX in a lot of businesses (engineering firms, for example) is that sappy engineers wanted stuff at work to look like what they use at home. Forget that CDE is a very spartan and productive work environment for engineering (especially in large deployments of workstations), they wanted the Windows Kludge-o-Matic NT Professional XP Platinum Edition complete with AutoCrashLite 4.0 (TM) and the NetworkTransparencyIsForLosers XPerience.
We have to accept the fact that the unprofessional realm is driving many of the purchasing decisions of who should be respectable hard-core professionals. Windows and Office reek of unprofessionalism, but that doesn't stop anyone from buying them and using them like complete idiots, apparently.
This reminds me of playing Jade Cocoon 2. "Okay, I got all four crystals, the game must be nearing the end. Oh, what's behind this door to the right...AAARRRGGHHH!"
I hate nothing more than buying a game and beating it within the first week, or less than 10 hours of play time.
After being thankful I rented Star Wars: The Clone Wars, I agree fully.
Another peeve of mine are games that are extrememly formulaic and use plot only as a glue in the formula. Those FMV things between levels where we are supposed to be interested in the idle conversation of characters we don't have a good reason to care about are getting pretty stale.
First you exhange e-mail repeatedly...then you fall in love from your growing mutual awareness...then you meet at a diner...fall more in love...then you get married and start a family.
Are you saying the meat for my penguinburger was hunted down and slaughterd?!? Poor poor penguins wrought from their families in Antarctica to make my belly full. Oh tasty penguin, can you ever forgive me?
Personal flight simulators as real-pilot training tools has been common since before I can remember. My university had a PC connected to a big-screen TV for the aero students, and I knew a doctor years ago who had a really nice simulator on his Mac that he used to help keep his certifications current.
Citing one instance of a warranty paying off when the 100 other people who also bought warranties never used them is not sufficient justification for the warranties as a whole. Extended warranties are like gambling at a casino, where the casino knows the odds and the gamblers don't. This is why the warranties exist, because they are almost pure profit (the cost of the occasional replacement TV pales in comparison to the thousands of dollars they rake in on the warranty fees). Additionally, the replacement TV was worth $250 only from your point of view, not the wholesale point of view of the retailer (I wouldn't be suprised if $60 covered most of their loss on the replacment).
I view extended warranties to be of similar financial worth as the Powerball Lottery Retirement Plan, where two people will retire multi-millionaires while everyone else retires broke.
In the real world, its going to need a radio, and some enviromental controls.
A 100 watt radio and a 500 or so watt compressor and fan pale in comparison to a 200 HP electric motor (isn't 1HP about 750 watts?). The range reduction due to accessories/climate control should be minimal.
Actually, it would probably be more practical to put the motors where traditionally the differentials would go, and embed the planetary gear set in the motor itself. This allows two motors and a lightweight suspension.
Top speed, however, will seem stunted in comparison to that available from an internal combustion engine because they generally produce increasing torque with increasing RPM
If the motors are embedded in each wheel, they could always operate in low-RPM high-torque ranges. Four motors operating simultaneously could be powerful enough to forego any need for gear reduction. The only disadvantage would be excessive weight in the suspension (i.e., not great for a sports car).
Extended warranties are useful only to those people whose investment in the technology is so large relative to their income and liquid savings that replacing a defective or broken unit would bankrupt them. So, unless in such a desparate situation, it is much better to never purchase an extended warranty on anything, even cars, and use the accumulated savings to either more than adequately take care of the rare breakage or put it to more useful things, like a vacation or reducing other debt.
For anyone who would like to defend the usefulness of extended warranties, your argument is squashed by the mere fact that companies and stores offer them in the first place. These warranties are extremely profitable, as their only business expenses are for accounting their profits while producing only a slip of paper for people to take home and file away.
We aren't talking things of the scale of homeowner's insurance or health insurance...we're talking about a computer that costs under $1000. I recommend foregoing AppleCare and anything similar and taking a significant other out to a nice dinner, because a single enjoyable evening beats the value of an extended warranty ten fold.
I've voted green in the last election, and will in the next...
I know the greens and the libertarians have platforms that are one-to-one up to a point and then diverge sharply at issues of social justice. I wonder if the debate over social justice could be delayed long enough for these two major third parties to run a unified canidate. It wouldn't be easy (and possibly very hard to stomach for die-hard libertarians and greens), but it could give this canidate a much larger voter base to pull from. Certainly enough to get noticed in 2004. One or two presidencies are much too short for social justice policies to make any difference, anyway, leaving a possibility for these issues to be revisited in earnest in 2012 or 2016.
This is the most chilling statement I've read in a while. Out of dozens of paragraphs, the first one with a specific choice of word--anathema--describes exactly why electronic systems developed by pork-barrel government contracts are absolutely the least appropriate for running elections.
how repetitive these Slashdot discussions about e-voting have become. It is pretty damn clear that electronic voting technology is a long ways off from being suitable for electing our representation, and it is probable that electronic voting simply is inappropriate for this absolutely critical aspect of our nation.
If anyone who is a member of a congressperson's staff or works with other people in policy-making roles is reading these things, make sure to point them out to your boss. This single action is probably worth a thousand letters from constituents, as Slashdot is a forum that includes comments from every state in the USA (and beyond). Not only that, many comments contain links to websites archiving evidence of corruption within Diebold and possibly corruption in our political process itself.
This is big-deal stuff, so I urge anyone who can to spread the word from the inside.
People who would scoff at the idea of robotic prostitutes
Actually, this is an amazingly brilliant idea. Dunk the robot into a solution of Lysol after each client (and have an internal reverse flush mechanism) and losers can get a fix without worring about VD nor upsetting the wife (it was just a robot, honey, honest).
Slashdot Mirror
It will allow me to talk shit about my bosses a lot easier with little fear that my message will be forwarded by someone and end up in their INBOX.
While I appreciate your detailed comment, this sentence above just reeks of trouble in the making. All it takes is the boss jutting his head in your co-workers cubicle to ask a question and noticing that curious e-mail your co-worker happens to be reading. What if the e-mail administrator dumps the e-mail from the server for an occasional look-see for employee insolence?
Don't rely on such lame measures to protect you from your employer, because they will backfire due to common complacency. If you really have gripes to share, go out to lunch on the other side of town, scan the restaurant for possible corporate eavesdroppers (how do you recognize family you've never met, however), and, then, complain away.
They don't really delf-destruct...
Then, what's the whole point?!?
Not everyone can get around to clicking on each and every e-mail, if the subject is enough for "Well, I can read this later", and, later, "No time to read this now, I gotta check up on Slashdot", and, again later, "Damn, it's time to go home", and, the next morning, "What the !@#$ happened to all my e-mail?!?".
Once again, technology is interfering with the often counter-intuitive (yet actually quite intuitive) lack of organization in the lives of everyday people.
He knows that selling to home users is irrelevant! All he needs to do is come up with some reason to force companies to upgrade, and they will.
I disagree. One reason why Windows won over UNIX in a lot of businesses (engineering firms, for example) is that sappy engineers wanted stuff at work to look like what they use at home. Forget that CDE is a very spartan and productive work environment for engineering (especially in large deployments of workstations), they wanted the Windows Kludge-o-Matic NT Professional XP Platinum Edition complete with AutoCrashLite 4.0 (TM) and the NetworkTransparencyIsForLosers XPerience.
We have to accept the fact that the unprofessional realm is driving many of the purchasing decisions of who should be respectable hard-core professionals. Windows and Office reek of unprofessionalism, but that doesn't stop anyone from buying them and using them like complete idiots, apparently.
the writer of such incriminating material can be like "SELF DESTRUCTION IN 3 DAYs SO I WILL NOT GO JAIL!"
The reader sees something juicy, sneaks in a camera, and giggles uncontrollably at the naivete of the writer.
The Quest For More Levels/i.
This reminds me of playing Jade Cocoon 2. "Okay, I got all four crystals, the game must be nearing the end. Oh, what's behind this door to the right...AAARRRGGHHH!"
I hate nothing more than buying a game and beating it within the first week, or less than 10 hours of play time.
After being thankful I rented Star Wars: The Clone Wars, I agree fully.
Another peeve of mine are games that are extrememly formulaic and use plot only as a glue in the formula. Those FMV things between levels where we are supposed to be interested in the idle conversation of characters we don't have a good reason to care about are getting pretty stale.
...the only critic you can accept is yourself.
Does your collective agree?
Spam is not free speech. Spam is advertising.
It is probably more accurate to say that spam is theft or, at best, trespassing.
Do we have to exchange mail forever?
First you exhange e-mail repeatedly...then you fall in love from your growing mutual awareness...then you meet at a diner...fall more in love...then you get married and start a family.
So, don't reply unless you are really committed.
Are you saying the meat for my penguinburger was hunted down and slaughterd?!? Poor poor penguins wrought from their families in Antarctica to make my belly full. Oh tasty penguin, can you ever forgive me?
Personal flight simulators as real-pilot training tools has been common since before I can remember.
My university had a PC connected to a big-screen TV for the aero students, and I knew a doctor years ago who had a really nice simulator on his Mac that he used to help keep his certifications current.
Citing one instance of a warranty paying off when the 100 other people who also bought warranties never used them is not sufficient justification for the warranties as a whole. Extended warranties are like gambling at a casino, where the casino knows the odds and the gamblers don't. This is why the warranties exist, because they are almost pure profit (the cost of the occasional replacement TV pales in comparison to the thousands of dollars they rake in on the warranty fees). Additionally, the replacement TV was worth $250 only from your point of view, not the wholesale point of view of the retailer (I wouldn't be suprised if $60 covered most of their loss on the replacment).
I view extended warranties to be of similar financial worth as the Powerball Lottery Retirement Plan, where two people will retire multi-millionaires while everyone else retires broke.
In the real world, its going to need a radio, and some enviromental controls.
A 100 watt radio and a 500 or so watt compressor and fan pale in comparison to a 200 HP electric motor (isn't 1HP about 750 watts?). The range reduction due to accessories/climate control should be minimal.
Actually, it would probably be more practical to put the motors where traditionally the differentials would go, and embed the planetary gear set in the motor itself. This allows two motors and a lightweight suspension.
Top speed, however, will seem stunted in comparison to that available from an internal combustion engine because they generally produce increasing torque with increasing RPM
If the motors are embedded in each wheel, they could always operate in low-RPM high-torque ranges. Four motors operating simultaneously could be powerful enough to forego any need for gear reduction. The only disadvantage would be excessive weight in the suspension (i.e., not great for a sports car).
(whiny voice sound) Keeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh! Keeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh!
Ahhh, the sound of driving a quality car in the city.
AppleCare
Extended warranties are useful only to those people whose investment in the technology is so large relative to their income and liquid savings that replacing a defective or broken unit would bankrupt them. So, unless in such a desparate situation, it is much better to never purchase an extended warranty on anything, even cars, and use the accumulated savings to either more than adequately take care of the rare breakage or put it to more useful things, like a vacation or reducing other debt.
For anyone who would like to defend the usefulness of extended warranties, your argument is squashed by the mere fact that companies and stores offer them in the first place. These warranties are extremely profitable, as their only business expenses are for accounting their profits while producing only a slip of paper for people to take home and file away.
We aren't talking things of the scale of homeowner's insurance or health insurance...we're talking about a computer that costs under $1000. I recommend foregoing AppleCare and anything similar and taking a significant other out to a nice dinner, because a single enjoyable evening beats the value of an extended warranty ten fold.
So is this what they are calling Passport account cracking, now?
I've voted green in the last election, and will in the next...
I know the greens and the libertarians have platforms that are one-to-one up to a point and then diverge sharply at issues of social justice. I wonder if the debate over social justice could be delayed long enough for these two major third parties to run a unified canidate. It wouldn't be easy (and possibly very hard to stomach for die-hard libertarians and greens), but it could give this canidate a much larger voter base to pull from. Certainly enough to get noticed in 2004. One or two presidencies are much too short for social justice policies to make any difference, anyway, leaving a possibility for these issues to be revisited in earnest in 2012 or 2016.
Or should this be anathema?
This is the most chilling statement I've read in a while. Out of dozens of paragraphs, the first one with a specific choice of word--anathema--describes exactly why electronic systems developed by pork-barrel government contracts are absolutely the least appropriate for running elections.
how repetitive these Slashdot discussions about e-voting have become. It is pretty damn clear that electronic voting technology is a long ways off from being suitable for electing our representation, and it is probable that electronic voting simply is inappropriate for this absolutely critical aspect of our nation.
If anyone who is a member of a congressperson's staff or works with other people in policy-making roles is reading these things, make sure to point them out to your boss. This single action is probably worth a thousand letters from constituents, as Slashdot is a forum that includes comments from every state in the USA (and beyond). Not only that, many comments contain links to websites archiving evidence of corruption within Diebold and possibly corruption in our political process itself.
This is big-deal stuff, so I urge anyone who can to spread the word from the inside.
People who would scoff at the idea of robotic prostitutes
Actually, this is an amazingly brilliant idea. Dunk the robot into a solution of Lysol after each client (and have an internal reverse flush mechanism) and losers can get a fix without worring about VD nor upsetting the wife (it was just a robot, honey, honest).
Vibration is annoying.
Mount the computer underneath your girlfriend's seat. You'll know what I mean after the movie is over and the real happy ending begins.
Get comfortable in your chair, and a high enough level of white noise from your systems, and you'll be out like a light in ten minutes, tops.
The baby's room: a perfect new application for used Sun Ultra workstations.
Turned out to be the analog odometer turning over every tenth mile.
At least when I looked back in 2000 or 2001, the Saturn SL-2 has a digital odometer, now.