Only charge those who are being wiretapped. That way they can see the charge in their bill, know they're being tapped, and stop using that phone line to conduct their illegal activies. This ultimately reduces the cost of wire tapping to zero.;-)
Just a thought. I've played with Photoshop/Paintshop Pro and various standard filters can turn individual photos into an artistic rendering eg. Brushstrokes or Charcoal drawing. What's to stop someone from writing software that will extract each image from a video, apply the filter and then re-encode to video? Has this already been done elsewhere?
As an aside I love the effect on pets using the charcoal filters drawing filters. The fur translates surprisingly well.
What's even more interesting is how much money did the company lose in firing and re-hiring. How much expertise walked out the door with a nice redundancy payout and years of built up knowledge. Unless they lost only their least talented or least satisfied employees, this is a wasteful practice that can only erode the quality of the company.
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My god, the guy gets corrected and specifically told the reason he was wrong and still doesn't get it. When you reach the half way point you've already been accelerating for all that time, you'll start deaccelaerting but you sure as hell wouldn't stop right there like you claim with your "HALF" in capital letters.
For heaven sakes people I was NOT suggesting that it would literally stop mid way, even if my wording is inprecise. I do know what inertia is. What I was suggesting is that if you had a solar sail being blown around by 2 stars and they were your only form of propulsion you'd:
A) Only accelerate for a little while, and take a very long time to get there B) Be blown back by the stellar wind of the other star once you reached the boundaries of its solar wind. If this was your only form of propulsion you'd have to have a retractable sail and calculate when to put it out to break adequately. C) Find this a very impractical way to get between stars.
The light from Sol would keep pushing it at least until it passes the heliopause, and after that, probably have little effect. At that time, the target star would not have much effect on the sail. When the sail is getting closer to the other star, it would start to slow down.
Yes, after the heliopause much less effect, which equates to a slow slow ride relying on inertia built up while in the heliosphere.
Of course it's far fetched to use the target star's gravity in order to slow down while approaching it! The gravity would not exactly stop you from falling towards it, would it?
You can definitely use the gravity of a large body to either slow down or "slingshot" you to speed you up. A great many probes use planets to do just this, so that they don't require inpractical amounts of fuel to do this.
I'm suggesting that it would be pushed back and forth until it reached an equilibrium point between the 2 stars, if they were the only 2 forces acting (which they would never be).
You'd get pretty close to the other star, then the sail would act as a parachute. Okay you say so you want to slow down when you get to the other star. Without controlled propulsion just try and do it.
PERHAPS you could try shutting down the sail to insert yourself into a stellar orbit using the star's gravity for breaking. I think even that would be far fetched.
This is not a good controlled way to travel between stars.
Mind you I _COULD_ be very wrong. I just doubt it.
At least that's how I read it. He WAS a great Captain Kirk in his time. He hasn't aged well, and he's ruining the character everyone will remember him for when he's dead. It's sci-fi cap'tn but not as we know it.
Please. One poster has already pointed out that this only works within the limit of a star's solar wind. It's also a very slow mode of transport. If you want to send your decayed remanants (even the bones will have disintegrated) HALF way to the stars this is definitely the way to go!
For travel within the inner solar system however, as a secondary form of propulsion it may have its uses.
The thing with a factory is you produce the same line of products repeatedly in mass quantities. We already have this in software and its very efficient. You can make an exact copy of a piece of software on CD very very cheaply without involving programmers.
Programmers get paid to solve problems (Analyst programmers), or do things differently to how they are currently done. The problems may be similar but they are not exactly the same. If they were exactly the same you would use off the shelf configurable software. If the business is small or the problem calls for a generic solution this is absolutely the right thing to do.
Packages have been applied in the areas of HR, management and timekeeping. However what you find is that companies that provide generic solutions force you into their methodologies and charge a mint for their supposedly superior software.
Each business is in fact different and wants slightly different solutions. Not just different look and feel, or configuration, but their organisational structure and decision making processes differ. As long as this is the case they may try to pay developers like factory workers but this will be an injustice, since the job is more complex and stressful than a repedative job in a factory.
Why are we so obsessed with passwords. You can get much more security out of a passphrase. Preferably one that employs some punctuation. Plus they're easier to remember. Why then are we stuck with the idea of using a single word that's increasingly hard to remember. You can have more fun with them. For example:
"The quick brown fox jumped over my lazy boss!".:-) (Actually my boss at the moment is a nice guy).
They should just patent and copyright the English language, as well as every other popularly spoken language. That way you'll have to pay to listen to it, pay to speak it.
"Your honour this man was found speaking without a DRM registration. We have him on DRM authorized recording saying the word 'Hi'". "You've been found guilty of speaking without a license. This is a very serious offence and you've been sentenced to 3 years in a corrective facility".
Think what I've said is totally ridiculous. Policing the use of recording media is only a little less so.
Patents and copyrights are pure evil and in their current form they need to go before companies do make them draconian in the name of protecting their rights.
But honestly how many config files do you have to hand edit under Linux still, compared to none for windows).
Ummm... if you pick a good distro, none.
I've used Redhat, and Slackware most. I've played with others. What do you call a good distro? In any case you can't be arguing that its as easy as Windows. You can stumble your way to almost any config in Windows from the menus and control panel. Occassionally you may need to hand edit the registry but most users don't.
This is something like living in a society where you could leave your doors wide open, then having a spate of house robberies hit your neighbourhood. Suddenly everyone's use to locking their doors. But what about the cars? Yes you'll need to lock them too because sooner or later they'll be hit.
Eventually all our more sophisticated devices will need firewalls, antivirus and other security, however that evolves. In 10 years expect your mobile, PDA, digital camera etc. to have this. It's a sad truth that as the world gets more sophisticated so do the theives.
"This conclusion is bogus. Basically all hardware works just fine with Windows. It's not the same for Linux. Give me a break."
This deduction is bogus... the hardware is built (and drivers written) with windows in mind. This damn near never happends with linux, yet.
This is like saying that a Chevy sucks because a Ford motor can't easily be used in it. Sure you can do it, but that's not what it was designed for.
Guess what. It doesn't matter why Linux doesn't work with the hardware out there. If it doesn't work, then either Linux developers make it work, or Linux is not ready for the desktop.
What you're doing is the equivalent of shoving the Ford motor in the Chevy anyway and whining about it not being Ford's fault. Sure its not, but it doesn't change the fact that the car won't run, and it would be cruel to give it to the drive and tell him he's gotta drive the monstrousity anyway!
I know how I'll be modded for this one but its no myth. Linux is simply not ready for the desktop of grandmother Jones and Peggy the office girl just yet. (Mind you I'd argue XP is barely ready for the desktop either, since its buggy and configuration isn't obvious to a non-techy user. But honestly how many config files do you have to hand edit under Linux still, compared to none for windows).
Instead of spending time "dispelling myths", how about spending the time improving and unifying Linux admin? How about improving open office etc. The framework's there but if Linux was a cake for serving to end users it'd still be mushy on the inside. Give them the OS in this state, and insist its ready, and see how many end users you put off ever trying it again. Do that with enough CEOs (some of whom still do everything with paper!!!) and you'll sink our best hope for open source.
A photographer only displays their best work. How about Linux developers and users only display theirs? Only then will they move on from being treated like hobbyists and start getting the respect reserved for professionals who are taken seriously.
Sure this does mean I get to sue the arse off my boss if I'm fired for inappropriate use of company resources when I'm caught surfing pr0n at work, right? I mean he's discriminating against my disability! Shame on him!
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Only charge those who are being wiretapped. That way they can see the charge in their bill, know they're being tapped, and stop using that phone line to conduct their illegal activies. This ultimately reduces the cost of wire tapping to zero. ;-)
Just a thought. I've played with Photoshop/Paintshop Pro and various standard filters can turn individual photos into an artistic rendering eg. Brushstrokes or Charcoal drawing. What's to stop someone from writing software that will extract each image from a video, apply the filter and then re-encode to video? Has this already been done elsewhere?
As an aside I love the effect on pets using the charcoal filters drawing filters. The fur translates surprisingly well.
What's even more interesting is how much money did the company lose in firing and re-hiring. How much expertise walked out the door with a nice redundancy payout and years of built up knowledge. Unless they lost only their least talented or least satisfied employees, this is a wasteful practice that can only erode the quality of the company.
I can just see the ads!
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My god, the guy gets corrected and specifically told the reason he was wrong and still doesn't get it. When you reach the half way point you've already been accelerating for all that time, you'll start deaccelaerting but you sure as hell wouldn't stop right there like you claim with your "HALF" in capital letters.
For heaven sakes people I was NOT suggesting that it would literally stop mid way, even if my wording is inprecise. I do know what inertia is. What I was suggesting is that if you had a solar sail being blown around by 2 stars and they were your only form of propulsion you'd:
A) Only accelerate for a little while, and take a very long time to get there
B) Be blown back by the stellar wind of the other star once you reached the boundaries of its solar wind. If this was your only form of propulsion you'd have to have a retractable sail and calculate when to put it out to break adequately.
C) Find this a very impractical way to get between stars.
Why don't you stop posting as AC and get a clue.
The light from Sol would keep pushing it at least until it passes the heliopause, and after that, probably have little effect. At that time, the target star would not have much effect on the sail. When the sail is getting closer to the other star, it would start to slow down.
Yes, after the heliopause much less effect, which equates to a slow slow ride relying on inertia built up while in the heliosphere.
Of course it's far fetched to use the target star's gravity in order to slow down while approaching it! The gravity would not exactly stop you from falling towards it, would it?
You can definitely use the gravity of a large body to either slow down or "slingshot" you to speed you up. A great many probes use planets to do just this, so that they don't require inpractical amounts of fuel to do this.
I'm suggesting that it would be pushed back and forth until it reached an equilibrium point between the 2 stars, if they were the only 2 forces acting (which they would never be).
You'd get pretty close to the other star, then the sail would act as a parachute. Okay you say so you want to slow down when you get to the other star. Without controlled propulsion just try and do it.
PERHAPS you could try shutting down the sail to insert yourself into a stellar orbit using the star's gravity for breaking. I think even that would be far fetched.
This is not a good controlled way to travel between stars.
Mind you I _COULD_ be very wrong. I just doubt it.
Until acted on by another force, such as that from the solar wind of another star.
Don't lecture me on inertia let alone as an AC.
At least that's how I read it. He WAS a great Captain Kirk in his time. He hasn't aged well, and he's ruining the character everyone will remember him for when he's dead. It's sci-fi cap'tn but not as we know it.
"He's dead Jim."
We'll sail to the stars.
Please. One poster has already pointed out that this only works within the limit of a star's solar wind. It's also a very slow mode of transport. If you want to send your decayed remanants (even the bones will have disintegrated) HALF way to the stars this is definitely the way to go!
For travel within the inner solar system however, as a secondary form of propulsion it may have its uses.
...the flux capacitor? Doc's gonna be mad if they haven't!
Programming a tool, which is a very generic thing is very different to programming a system.
I think you'll find we're already very good overall at building tools for automating mudane tasks.
The thing with a factory is you produce the same line of products repeatedly in mass quantities. We already have this in software and its very efficient. You can make an exact copy of a piece of software on CD very very cheaply without involving programmers.
Programmers get paid to solve problems (Analyst programmers), or do things differently to how they are currently done. The problems may be similar but they are not exactly the same. If they were exactly the same you would use off the shelf configurable software. If the business is small or the problem calls for a generic solution this is absolutely the right thing to do.
Packages have been applied in the areas of HR, management and timekeeping. However what you find is that companies that provide generic solutions force you into their methodologies and charge a mint for their supposedly superior software.
Each business is in fact different and wants slightly different solutions. Not just different look and feel, or configuration, but their organisational structure and decision making processes differ. As long as this is the case they may try to pay developers like factory workers but this will be an injustice, since the job is more complex and stressful than a repedative job in a factory.
Why are we so obsessed with passwords. You can get much more security out of a passphrase. Preferably one that employs some punctuation. Plus they're easier to remember. Why then are we stuck with the idea of using a single word that's increasingly hard to remember. You can have more fun with them. For example:
:-) (Actually my boss at the moment is a nice guy).
"The quick brown fox jumped over my lazy boss!".
Should we consider ourselves 'Natural Philosphers' instead of Scientists?
Nup we're definitely scientists. Scientists stand slightly more chance of being employed for more than a burger flipper.
"Would you like fries with that? Let us examine exactly what a fry is, taking into account its physical and incorporeal qualities".
If this stands, /. will own billions to a lot of companies. How many sites have been quoted here?
No I'm not serious, so please point that flame thrower elsewhere
They should just patent and copyright the English language, as well as every other popularly spoken language. That way you'll have to pay to listen to it, pay to speak it.
"Your honour this man was found speaking without a DRM registration. We have him on DRM authorized recording saying the word 'Hi'". "You've been found guilty of speaking without a license. This is a very serious offence and you've been sentenced to 3 years in a corrective facility".
Think what I've said is totally ridiculous. Policing the use of recording media is only a little less so.
Patents and copyrights are pure evil and in their current form they need to go before companies do make them draconian in the name of protecting their rights.
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But honestly how many config files do you have to hand edit under Linux still, compared to none for windows).
Ummm... if you pick a good distro, none.
I've used Redhat, and Slackware most. I've played with others. What do you call a good distro? In any case you can't be arguing that its as easy as Windows. You can stumble your way to almost any config in Windows from the menus and control panel. Occassionally you may need to hand edit the registry but most users don't.
This is something like living in a society where you could leave your doors wide open, then having a spate of house robberies hit your neighbourhood. Suddenly everyone's use to locking their doors. But what about the cars? Yes you'll need to lock them too because sooner or later they'll be hit.
Eventually all our more sophisticated devices will need firewalls, antivirus and other security, however that evolves. In 10 years expect your mobile, PDA, digital camera etc. to have this. It's a sad truth that as the world gets more sophisticated so do the theives.
"This conclusion is bogus. Basically all hardware works just fine with Windows. It's not the same for Linux. Give me a break."
This deduction is bogus... the hardware is built (and drivers written) with windows in mind. This damn near never happends with linux, yet.
This is like saying that a Chevy sucks because a Ford motor can't easily be used in it. Sure you can do it, but that's not what it was designed for.
Guess what. It doesn't matter why Linux doesn't work with the hardware out there. If it doesn't work, then either Linux developers make it work, or Linux is not ready for the desktop.
What you're doing is the equivalent of shoving the Ford motor in the Chevy anyway and whining about it not being Ford's fault. Sure its not, but it doesn't change the fact that the car won't run, and it would be cruel to give it to the drive and tell him he's gotta drive the monstrousity anyway!
I know how I'll be modded for this one but its no myth. Linux is simply not ready for the desktop of grandmother Jones and Peggy the office girl just yet. (Mind you I'd argue XP is barely ready for the desktop either, since its buggy and configuration isn't obvious to a non-techy user. But honestly how many config files do you have to hand edit under Linux still, compared to none for windows).
Instead of spending time "dispelling myths", how about spending the time improving and unifying Linux admin? How about improving open office etc. The framework's there but if Linux was a cake for serving to end users it'd still be mushy on the inside. Give them the OS in this state, and insist its ready, and see how many end users you put off ever trying it again. Do that with enough CEOs (some of whom still do everything with paper!!!) and you'll sink our best hope for open source.
A photographer only displays their best work. How about Linux developers and users only display theirs? Only then will they move on from being treated like hobbyists and start getting the respect reserved for professionals who are taken seriously.
Sure this does mean I get to sue the arse off my boss if I'm fired for inappropriate use of company resources when I'm caught surfing pr0n at work, right? I mean he's discriminating against my disability! Shame on him!