Space flight is dangerous, but so was sailing across the ocean in wooden boats - where would we be today if no one had ever possssed the courage to do that?
If your goal is latter, introduce them to Wikipedia, and then set up a Wiki instance on the intranet for colaborative information storage.
Oh hell. Why even bother with that intranet stuff? Just start putting out a bunch of real Wiki nodes with names like SecretProject that links to more pages. That way we can all observe and see what they're doing and offer helpful edits!
Even better, show them the real joys of Wikipedia by having them edit pages, seeing how their content comes back after they do so. And then, when they go home and try to show to their spouse/roommate/pet rhinocerous their scintilating comment: "Elvis suckz bAllz", posted on the main Elvis Presley page, you can get their call and try to explain to them why it isn't there any longer.
I'll agree with the executives part, but in most organizations, first- and second-level managers are paid only slightly above worker-level wages and quite often their salary ranges overlap with the higher paid of those whom they manage. In general, the salaries of managers (at least at the level that most of us swim at) are just about as low as those of the people they manage.
As soon as we recognize that homo sapiens is subject to evolutionary pressures and its various subpopulations are variously adapted to their environments.
As soon as we recognize that, like all large populations, subgroups of individuals vary widely about the mean and, as the means are relatively close together with respect to the value of that mean, have significant overlap in abilities regardless of which subgroup you pluck them from. As soon as we realize that structures we use for gates in our society quite often do not predict how well an individual would do once they have (or had they) been allowed to pass through. As soon as we realize that structures we use for gates in our society are often used in capricious or hostile manner to prevent those who might suceed to pass through.
what in the hell does that even mean? Is he going to set off the nukular reactors and blow someone up?
No. To spell it out for you, nuclear power plants are supposed to be privately held, but publicly regulated. This regulation is essential to insure that the populace is not injured due to lack of plant maintenance or poor operation. The Bush administration has shown itself willing to allow industries off the hook (and actively fighting for them to be kept of the same hoook) for several years now. It is unlikely that their stance on nuclear regulation would be different. As such, most people (even us who support the technology) are quite leery about letting it return under this administration.
And before you give me the old Libertarian saw about how the power companies would be hurting themselves if they let the plants go out of safety compliance, remember that people and companies do a whole lot of things which, in hindsight, appear to be stupid, in order to take "low-risk" gains, only to have said probability turn aginst them. Also, as the Congress' new tort-reform legislation has been signed (and was always limited in practice by actual assets - there's not a lot of value in a busted nuclear plant), there is almost no way for the public to have redress if such an accident did happen. all of these act as factors to say that nukes probably won't be getting approved for at least another 3 years are up. Stop voting for idiots who think it's fine to let companies screw over people without penalty and maybe they'll let the companies have their (somewhat dangerous) toys back.
The "editors" are supposed to reject shit summaries like this one.
No, the editors (and I do use the word loosely) are supposed to post "shit summaries like this one" two or three times and then light their cigars with a $100 bill, relaxing after a hard day's work well done.
...the Libertarians are on to something. I mean really, why the hell do we do DST in the first place?
Yeah! And really, why do people in different towns need to stay on the same timebase? We have enough computers to know if the town five miles over is two hours behind or fifteen minutes ahead of us! In fact, why don't we let each person have his or her own timekeeping system! We're all adult enough to handle our own synchronization! What could be the harm? Damn government! Always interfering...
Considering the existence of the undisclosed and highly pertinent content on the final discs...
I would hope that all the information on the disk would be pertinent. I would be fairly shocked to find old family photos, AS/400 binaries, or (heaven forfend) Commodore 64 Basic files on a modern video game disk!
That being said, I believe the word the submitter was looking for is prurient:
prurient - adj. Inordinately interested in matters of sex; lascivious.
This brings me to my main point - why do people use a word that obviously has the wrong meaning when they could use one that is both simple and correct? For example, the submitter could have written "Considering the existence of the undisclosed adult content on the final discs..." just as easily. I would guess that the submitter either confused this word with the opposite of pertinent - impertenent (but even so, this word does not have quite the right meaning in this context) - or was trying to impress us with his superior intelligence and just got horribly off track.
In any case, don't do this anymore. It annoys people.
The article describes a process of bonding multiple wafers in a stack, with wires going between the levels.
Either Amdahl or Cray tried this in the mid-eighties. They stacked wafers vertically and etched grooves into the backside to run coolant through. In the end, trying to get the wafers to stay aligned and the contactes to be secure was too much, so the industry moved on to trying to add more layers. The problem with this approach is that the lower active and wiring layers make the next active layers really wavy (technical term:-) and so you need to grow a new epitaxial layer between one laer and the next. However, there are heat dissipation and chemical issues with depositing new epitaxy layers in the current technologies. But these guys seem smart and heck, another five or ten years, we may actually have this stuff in production.
This will cause mainframers to be confused about why you can't assign a linked list to an array and have it "just work".
Actually, they're right about this one. They're both sequences and in a non-stupid world hey would both inherit from a base class called Sequence that had generic indexing methods, insertion menthods, concatenation methods, etc. (Look at the ANSI Common Lisp standard or Dylan for this done correctly; look at C++'s STL for it done sort of correctly.) And they should be easily interconvertable. Why aren't they? Bad language and library design.
...but there is nothing realy to justify the insane price their stock is selling for.
There is never anything to justify the price of any stock. At the best there is only after the fact remorse or jubilation or simple fatigue all backed by much rationalization. The real question is what you'd put money into that you think would outperform GOOG. Right now, I'm heavily weighted in the non-US markets, but that's mainly due to the abysmal state of US monetary/trade imblance issues which should have the chickens arriving to roost any day now - but that's my rationalization.
I, for one, commend our valiant Attorney General for this heroic action to make sure our proceless intellectionual property is safe from potential terrorist use - if only due to the fact that while he's involved with this he has less time to write memos justifying torture...
By the time the grand jury was convened it was clear what was going on here. There is a grave difference between somebody leaking information to uncover a crime and someone leaking information to commit one. I do not believe that denying shield privilege in the second case weakens shield privilege in the first, nor do I think that any rational journalist would decline to go to jail in the first case.
This is just another grandstanding play by the press (and JM) to try to cover their cozy relationship with beltway insiders with a micron-thin layer of ethics. As such, I say let her rot in jail. At least then, she won't be promoting a bunch of crap from Chalabi and the ilk.
Communism. Thats the problem causing the Great Firewall of China, not Google or Microsoft or Cisco, but the underlying Totalitarianism of China.
If that's your stance, I would also say that the corporations you menton are complicit in the support and maintenance of said regimes. Especially when they participate in the blockage of information - one of the essentials needed to drive these country's people toward freedom. As such, they should also be held partially responsible.
E-books are great for things that change a lot, like science...
The level of science that is taught in the primary and secondary schools has not changed in the past seventy-five or so years. Most high schools (even the ones that offer advanced science classes) don't get into the finer points of GUTs, resonance theory, or genotypic dispersion models where stuff is actually changing (and that stuff that does change can be taken care of by supplemental materials). The closest you come to rapidly changing material is in technology courses, where the differences between a 1984 and a 1988 Volvo or between a standard chip in 1998 and 2004 can be quite large. That being the case, unless you're talking about vocational training, I see little use in replacing five or six $60 books that are good for ca. 5-10 years with $600 laptops that have a MTBR of maybe 3 years. And this MTBR figure is generous when you consider the MTBR of even your laptop used every day. Now think of the same laptop in a manufacturing environment, which is light-duty compared with what a kid can (and probably will) do. My estimate is that the MTBR for an educational laptop is somewhere around 1.5 years max.
Can I just get that without all the electronic crap?
Seriously. I'm getting worn out on all the gadgets that <random-company-of-the-week> wants us to buy. I already have a cell phone and a PDA and a laptop. I am connected enough and have access to enough information to choke my information bandwidth 24 hours a day. Why do I need a video iPod to carry around, too?
Unless, of course, Apple wants to give it to me for free. Which is the real issue... Who actually has the money to keep buying, upgrading, maintaining, and buying content for all of this crap? Or maybe I'll need the pony to carry around all of it...
I would bet that you like to claim that you are "tolerant" of other cultures.
As with most things, I call them like I see them. I am quite tolerant of your culture, as long as the denizens of which it consists could keep their cultural hands off my life via the government. However, that not being the case, I reserve any and all powers I have to point out what a bunch of degenerate, racist mofo's y'all happen to be because I hope you would be ashamed enough to change. But, given that you probably won't, I hope to warn others of your true nature. The only thing better would be to impose an economic embargo against you. Sadly, that's not possible either... yet. Have a nice day.
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where you can't find seared ahi tuna or a decent pesto sauce on a Sunday night...
And, having grown up in a town of 750 people in the midst of said country, I can say that anyone with half a brain would take the availability of the tuna and pesto (and other inducements - like people of *gasp* other cultures, lively theatre, a variety of music (beyond country *and* western)) over the overrated joys of Jeebus and NASCAR any day. Given the fact that the blue states overwhelmingly support the red states with their tax dollars, we are waiting with bated breath for the day that you get tired enough of our degenerate culture to seceed again. This time, we'll let you go so you can form the theocratic, cousin-loving, gay-hating, chicken-farming nation you've always wished for.
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Oh hell. Why even bother with that intranet stuff? Just start putting out a bunch of real Wiki nodes with names like SecretProject that links to more pages. That way we can all observe and see what they're doing and offer helpful edits!
Even better, show them the real joys of Wikipedia by having them edit pages, seeing how their content comes back after they do so. And then, when they go home and try to show to their spouse/roommate/pet rhinocerous their scintilating comment: "Elvis suckz bAllz", posted on the main Elvis Presley page, you can get their call and try to explain to them why it isn't there any longer.
I'll agree with the executives part, but in most organizations, first- and second-level managers are paid only slightly above worker-level wages and quite often their salary ranges overlap with the higher paid of those whom they manage. In general, the salaries of managers (at least at the level that most of us swim at) are just about as low as those of the people they manage.
Why complain they will need brains to work those cities and repair the robots...
Not if the robots can repair each other.
As soon as we recognize that, like all large populations, subgroups of individuals vary widely about the mean and, as the means are relatively close together with respect to the value of that mean, have significant overlap in abilities regardless of which subgroup you pluck them from. As soon as we realize that structures we use for gates in our society quite often do not predict how well an individual would do once they have (or had they) been allowed to pass through. As soon as we realize that structures we use for gates in our society are often used in capricious or hostile manner to prevent those who might suceed to pass through.
No. To spell it out for you, nuclear power plants are supposed to be privately held, but publicly regulated. This regulation is essential to insure that the populace is not injured due to lack of plant maintenance or poor operation. The Bush administration has shown itself willing to allow industries off the hook (and actively fighting for them to be kept of the same hoook) for several years now. It is unlikely that their stance on nuclear regulation would be different. As such, most people (even us who support the technology) are quite leery about letting it return under this administration.
And before you give me the old Libertarian saw about how the power companies would be hurting themselves if they let the plants go out of safety compliance, remember that people and companies do a whole lot of things which, in hindsight, appear to be stupid, in order to take "low-risk" gains, only to have said probability turn aginst them. Also, as the Congress' new tort-reform legislation has been signed (and was always limited in practice by actual assets - there's not a lot of value in a busted nuclear plant), there is almost no way for the public to have redress if such an accident did happen. all of these act as factors to say that nukes probably won't be getting approved for at least another 3 years are up. Stop voting for idiots who think it's fine to let companies screw over people without penalty and maybe they'll let the companies have their (somewhat dangerous) toys back.
No, the editors (and I do use the word loosely) are supposed to post "shit summaries like this one" two or three times and then light their cigars with a $100 bill, relaxing after a hard day's work well done.
And the main message it sends is "Stay out of amateur radio, you losers..." It's not a very good message if you want to keep your bands.
Yeah! And really, why do people in different towns need to stay on the same timebase? We have enough computers to know if the town five miles over is two hours behind or fifteen minutes ahead of us! In fact, why don't we let each person have his or her own timekeeping system! We're all adult enough to handle our own synchronization! What could be the harm? Damn government! Always interfering...
Of course it would be. Everyone knows it should be based on the number of days since the world began.
I would hope that all the information on the disk would be pertinent. I would be fairly shocked to find old family photos, AS/400 binaries, or (heaven forfend) Commodore 64 Basic files on a modern video game disk!
That being said, I believe the word the submitter was looking for is prurient:
prurient - adj. Inordinately interested in matters of sex; lascivious.
This brings me to my main point - why do people use a word that obviously has the wrong meaning when they could use one that is both simple and correct? For example, the submitter could have written "Considering the existence of the undisclosed adult content on the final discs..." just as easily. I would guess that the submitter either confused this word with the opposite of pertinent - impertenent (but even so, this word does not have quite the right meaning in this context) - or was trying to impress us with his superior intelligence and just got horribly off track.
In any case, don't do this anymore. It annoys people.
Now all Rupert needs to do is to figure out how to cut out the left side of the space.
Either Amdahl or Cray tried this in the mid-eighties. They stacked wafers vertically and etched grooves into the backside to run coolant through. In the end, trying to get the wafers to stay aligned and the contactes to be secure was too much, so the industry moved on to trying to add more layers. The problem with this approach is that the lower active and wiring layers make the next active layers really wavy (technical term :-) and so you need to grow a new epitaxial layer between one laer and the next. However, there are heat dissipation and chemical issues with depositing new epitaxy layers in the current technologies. But these guys seem smart and heck, another five or ten years, we may actually have this stuff in production.
Actually, they're right about this one. They're both sequences and in a non-stupid world hey would both inherit from a base class called Sequence that had generic indexing methods, insertion menthods, concatenation methods, etc. (Look at the ANSI Common Lisp standard or Dylan for this done correctly; look at C++'s STL for it done sort of correctly.) And they should be easily interconvertable. Why aren't they? Bad language and library design.
Dude! That's yo mama!
Should I be happy because someone ignored a consultant or sad that they caused so much trouble by doing so? Decisions, decisions...
There is never anything to justify the price of any stock. At the best there is only after the fact remorse or jubilation or simple fatigue all backed by much rationalization. The real question is what you'd put money into that you think would outperform GOOG. Right now, I'm heavily weighted in the non-US markets, but that's mainly due to the abysmal state of US monetary/trade imblance issues which should have the chickens arriving to roost any day now - but that's my rationalization.
I, for one, commend our valiant Attorney General for this heroic action to make sure our proceless intellectionual property is safe from potential terrorist use - if only due to the fact that while he's involved with this he has less time to write memos justifying torture...
This is just another grandstanding play by the press (and JM) to try to cover their cozy relationship with beltway insiders with a micron-thin layer of ethics. As such, I say let her rot in jail. At least then, she won't be promoting a bunch of crap from Chalabi and the ilk.
If that's your stance, I would also say that the corporations you menton are complicit in the support and maintenance of said regimes. Especially when they participate in the blockage of information - one of the essentials needed to drive these country's people toward freedom. As such, they should also be held partially responsible.
The level of science that is taught in the primary and secondary schools has not changed in the past seventy-five or so years. Most high schools (even the ones that offer advanced science classes) don't get into the finer points of GUTs, resonance theory, or genotypic dispersion models where stuff is actually changing (and that stuff that does change can be taken care of by supplemental materials). The closest you come to rapidly changing material is in technology courses, where the differences between a 1984 and a 1988 Volvo or between a standard chip in 1998 and 2004 can be quite large. That being the case, unless you're talking about vocational training, I see little use in replacing five or six $60 books that are good for ca. 5-10 years with $600 laptops that have a MTBR of maybe 3 years. And this MTBR figure is generous when you consider the MTBR of even your laptop used every day. Now think of the same laptop in a manufacturing environment, which is light-duty compared with what a kid can (and probably will) do. My estimate is that the MTBR for an educational laptop is somewhere around 1.5 years max.
Anyone who would recommend this never got paid by the word!
P.S. I am just kidding. I liked Strunk and adored White.
Can I just get that without all the electronic crap?
Seriously. I'm getting worn out on all the gadgets that <random-company-of-the-week> wants us to buy. I already have a cell phone and a PDA and a laptop. I am connected enough and have access to enough information to choke my information bandwidth 24 hours a day. Why do I need a video iPod to carry around, too?
Unless, of course, Apple wants to give it to me for free. Which is the real issue... Who actually has the money to keep buying, upgrading, maintaining, and buying content for all of this crap? Or maybe I'll need the pony to carry around all of it...
As with most things, I call them like I see them. I am quite tolerant of your culture, as long as the denizens of which it consists could keep their cultural hands off my life via the government. However, that not being the case, I reserve any and all powers I have to point out what a bunch of degenerate, racist mofo's y'all happen to be because I hope you would be ashamed enough to change. But, given that you probably won't, I hope to warn others of your true nature. The only thing better would be to impose an economic embargo against you. Sadly, that's not possible either... yet. Have a nice day.
And, having grown up in a town of 750 people in the midst of said country, I can say that anyone with half a brain would take the availability of the tuna and pesto (and other inducements - like people of *gasp* other cultures, lively theatre, a variety of music (beyond country *and* western)) over the overrated joys of Jeebus and NASCAR any day. Given the fact that the blue states overwhelmingly support the red states with their tax dollars, we are waiting with bated breath for the day that you get tired enough of our degenerate culture to seceed again. This time, we'll let you go so you can form the theocratic, cousin-loving, gay-hating, chicken-farming nation you've always wished for.