of suggesting NASA research using a giant reflecting lens to fry ants from the ISS. They'd be "heavy" deuterium ants of course. But they'd be about pinhead size.
Hmmm. I guess it'd be hard to orbit the giant sidewalk substrate, though...
(perhaps I'm due for an "insensitive clod" rebuttal?)
There ARE areas in the U.S. with relatively cheap real estate, but the almighty Transnationals won't "outsource" to telecommuters there, they force you to live nearby the offices (where it's expensive), or report to another "owner" if elsewhere.
OTOH, maybe real estate prices will "correct" soon, but that of course means serious trouble for all those people holding 90% mortgages.
Make multiple versions of [[program/script]] for various targets. Enclose said versions in a single, portable, file/archive.
Should we use ar? tar? cpio? uuencode??? I know, let's use XML! Yeah, and let's patent it too, bacause this is some serious [[stuff]] we got here!
I guess they must hire MIS/BCIS majors to review computer patents. I can't imagine anybody I graduated with in my CS department not laughing as they tossed this, and many other patent applications, into [[the equivalent of]] the trash can. Yes, that's graduated with, not all the folks who fled in terror after a year of programming & math.
God knows, I just get lazier and lazier as I get old.
I thought Laziness was one of the (Perl) programming virtues anyway? Along the same vein, I'm too lazy to use Windows if I can avoid it (sometimes I can't).
"Where's the phreakin' command line?!? I know how to do this, just get outta my way". I've had to use a (bad) GUI tool at work lately, instead of "all that difficult programming". It's making me completely insane. Hmm. THAT'S how the techno-foolish have afflicted, er, affected me
Windows is for precognitive cretins who suffer a lack of "object permanence" ability: If I can't see it, it doesn't exist! I know, let's hit it with a rock and eat it! click, click!/rant
Upon reading the article heading, my first thought was also "Oh great, now they're gonna get a whooping from slashdot as well!", but, of course, the first N-teen posts are all the same thing. So, "AOL!" to you all!
November 2004 is not just about the presidential election, it's also about controlling Congress. If Republicans continue to hold majority power, there is no way anything like this will be followed up on.
On the other hand, if the GOP becomes a minority (Dems + others, ideally), then Watergate II this indeed may become. In a less dystopic world, anyway.
This, I think, is the world some (no, I don't believe all) of the Republicans want, and will stop at nothing to create.
Some of these power hungry grubbers really seem to miss flat out owning people.
Compare some of the last few events to some of the characters (villians) in a Vernor Vinge novel (e.g. - Marooned in Real Time, Deepness in the Sky). While the characters in a book may be caricatures, it's still somewhat disconcerting what with TIA, protecting us for our own good and all the other stuff about how much Big Brother loves me. Bah!
-- Ladies and gents, WEEKS of programmer time is expensive compared to one programmer spending 8-10 hours per week tracking down bad code in the codebase and rewriting it. --
Nuh uh! Our code is blessed with corporate goodness! It would NEVER require weeks to find bugs that aren't there, and even if they were, they wouldn't be too hard to fix, and even if they were hard to fix, they don't happen too often and their not worth fixing! So there!!!
You want to spend how much? Waaaaaaaah!
(not that I disagree you, but I think it would be fun to watch you explain this to The Great Wall of Managament, http://info.astrian.net/jargon/terms/w/wall.html)
Why not just send enough stuff to LIVE? Send a bunch of stuff over before the mission on "the slow boat", then set up to stay.
Why make it a suicide mission? We should be able to land a decade's worth of canned food, water and such within a few kilometers of the target landing area. Set up a green house and / or wait for the occasional "care package" and do the explorer job.
Hell, in 10 years, maybe you can get a ride home on a new & improved ship...
According to stuff I read (read, who does that?!?) in the paper, the US consumer price index does NOT include housing and fuel, because their prices are "too volatile". Never mind that they are among your biggest, most relevant, expenses.
This is one trick to hide exactly what you are pointing out (denial of big, big, inflation).
Good job on the numbers, assuming they are accurate. I've been wording what the @#$%^&() has been going on with the national debt the last few years, myself (not the "derivative"/"slope" deficit, the actual amount, the debg). We seem destined to screw ourselves at the national financial level in the next 5 to 10 years.
Read the title / caption on the link you provided: "The Best of Both Worlds". This also happened to be the name of the Star Trek TNG episode where Capt. Picard becomes a Borg. Quite fitting for installing BillGatus-ware on a Mac, I think.
Perhaps a first step might be to disallow contributions by corporations to candidates.
Individuals could still donate their own take home pay if they chose to (but "I was hoping that the other members of the board would donate *their* personal funds to our boy, who supports the "Screw Everybody Act", so I would not have to", which is the intended effect).
Then, you go after Unions and other non-profits making donations as well.
You want to donate, you do it our of YOUR OWN take home pay, not by appropriating money from a group (shareholders, employees, union members).
You could use that with the Slackware distro I had back in '95 (I had a "tower" 386-40 w/ 4 MB RAM, vs. your 486-25 w/ 2 MB). BUT I sure would NOT try to startx on it!... I guess it wouldn't be that much use, other than to run telnet, lynx or gcc from...
Wow. We've come a ways in the last decade, after all.
Almost. Keep in mind that the device supplying the power need not be the device reading the tag. A small drone plane could send out some fairly strong pulses to power up the RFID chips, while a previously layed down network of readers could detect whatever was tagged (probable identifying criteria: kill anything stupid enough to be tagged).
My first thought was I would hate to have one of the things on me still while I was on the front lines. While there are probably easier ways to detect a soldier, it's yet another thing you have to worry about masking if you wish to remain stealthy.
I very much hope they have powerful directed scanners to make sure this electronic trash is stripped off before sending anybody out in harm's way, or where an ECM like the what you or others suggested is used against them.
Unfortunately, my old laptop is an offbrand 486-100, and it's starting to physically decay just a bit. Yeah, it's got a split disk with win 3.1/95 on one part. and an old slackware w/ 2.0.0 kernal on the other. I guess it's time to get a slightly updated "bottom feeder" model, kinda like what you described (P3 from the refurb laptop shop???)
for quite a while: Most of a *cheap* laptop I can carry around, even if there's no battery.
It sounds like you can set up a nice one for about half of what a low end laptop costs. This looks like the thing. (But, but, but!... all the management critters with laptops always use the "docking stations" with them anyway, so why bother with the built in screen and keyboard, unless you really do type on the plane, train or bus?)
Seriously, get a dinky beige box, sign on the LAN at work and just use the thing (its disk) as a "briefcase" to use for transporting projects when I work at home. I guess that's kinda boring compared to the ulitimate game serving toaster and all, but it would be practical.
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of suggesting NASA research using a giant reflecting lens to fry ants from the ISS. They'd be "heavy" deuterium ants of course. But they'd be about pinhead size.
Hmmm. I guess it'd be hard to orbit the giant sidewalk substrate, though...
(perhaps I'm due for an "insensitive clod" rebuttal?)
I mean, come on, if you're gonna have a swiss army computing device, it's got to run Perl!
(insensitive clod ducks as Python users hurl their knives at *him*. However, as they are dull, he is unharmed)
You hit the nail on the head.
There ARE areas in the U.S. with relatively cheap real estate, but the almighty Transnationals won't "outsource" to telecommuters there, they force you to live nearby the offices (where it's expensive), or report to another "owner" if elsewhere.
OTOH, maybe real estate prices will "correct" soon, but that of course means serious trouble for all those people holding 90% mortgages.
It seems a pretty lame patent:
Make multiple versions of [[program/script]] for various targets.
Enclose said versions in a single, portable, file/archive.
Should we use ar? tar? cpio? uuencode??? I know, let's use XML! Yeah, and let's patent it too, bacause this is some serious [[stuff]] we got here!
I guess they must hire MIS/BCIS majors to review computer patents. I can't imagine anybody I graduated with in my CS department not laughing as they tossed this, and many other patent applications, into [[the equivalent of]] the trash can. Yes, that's graduated with, not all the folks who fled in terror after a year of programming & math.
God knows, I just get lazier and lazier as I get old.
/rant
I thought Laziness was one of the (Perl) programming virtues anyway? Along the same vein, I'm too lazy to use Windows if I can avoid it (sometimes I can't).
"Where's the phreakin' command line?!? I know how to do this, just get outta my way". I've had to use a (bad) GUI tool at work lately, instead of "all that difficult programming". It's making me completely insane. Hmm. THAT'S how the techno-foolish have afflicted, er, affected me
Windows is for precognitive cretins who suffer a lack of "object permanence" ability: If I can't see it, it doesn't exist! I know, let's hit it with a rock and eat it! click, click!
Upon reading the article heading, my first thought was also "Oh great, now they're gonna get a whooping from slashdot as well!", but, of course, the first N-teen posts are all the same thing. So, "AOL!" to you all!
No fair, guys, April is almost 2 months away....
November 2004 is not just about the presidential election, it's also about controlling Congress. If Republicans continue to hold majority power, there is no way anything like this will be followed up on.
On the other hand, if the GOP becomes a minority (Dems + others, ideally), then Watergate II this indeed may become. In a less dystopic world, anyway.
s/plantation/corporation/g
#include "usual_inhabitants"
This, I think, is the world some (no, I don't believe all) of the Republicans want, and will stop at nothing to create.
Some of these power hungry grubbers really seem to miss flat out owning people.
Compare some of the last few events to some of the characters (villians) in a Vernor Vinge novel (e.g. - Marooned in Real Time, Deepness in the Sky). While the characters in a book may be caricatures, it's still somewhat disconcerting what with TIA, protecting us for our own good and all the other stuff about how much Big Brother loves me. Bah!
-- Ladies and gents, WEEKS of programmer time is expensive compared to one programmer spending 8-10 hours per week tracking down bad code in the codebase and rewriting it. --
Nuh uh! Our code is blessed with corporate goodness! It would NEVER require weeks to find bugs that aren't there, and even if they were, they wouldn't be too hard to fix, and even if they were hard to fix, they don't happen too often and their not worth fixing! So there!!!
You want to spend how much? Waaaaaaaah!
(not that I disagree you, but I think it would be fun to watch you explain this to The Great Wall of Managament, http://info.astrian.net/jargon/terms/w/wall.html)
Why not just send enough stuff to LIVE? Send a bunch of stuff over before the mission on "the slow boat", then set up to stay.
Why make it a suicide mission? We should be able to land a decade's worth of canned food, water and such within a few kilometers of the target landing area. Set up a green house and / or wait for the occasional "care package" and do the explorer job.
Hell, in 10 years, maybe you can get a ride home on a new & improved ship...
According to stuff I read (read, who does that?!?) in the paper, the US consumer price index does NOT include housing and fuel, because their prices are "too volatile". Never mind that they are among your biggest, most relevant, expenses.
This is one trick to hide exactly what you are pointing out (denial of big, big, inflation).
Good job on the numbers, assuming they are accurate. I've been wording what the @#$%^&() has been going on with the national debt the last few years, myself (not the "derivative"/"slope" deficit, the actual amount, the debg). We seem destined to screw ourselves at the national financial level in the next 5 to 10 years.
And nobody cares...
So I guess they won't be able to ask for that "tera-pixel" digital camera to go with it, eh?
"mine's bigger", indeed.
Read the title / caption on the link you provided: "The Best of Both Worlds". This also happened to be the name of the Star Trek TNG episode where Capt. Picard becomes a Borg. Quite fitting for installing BillGatus-ware on a Mac, I think.
Bill just can't help himself, I guess...
You see the ring??? Bell Labs "died" / became Lucent, and their logo looks much like that fatal "ring" thing.
What? Like *all of you* never posted a flame?
Perhaps a first step might be to disallow contributions by corporations to candidates.
Individuals could still donate their own take home pay if they chose to (but "I was hoping that the other members of the board would donate *their* personal funds to our boy, who supports the "Screw Everybody Act", so I would not have to", which is the intended effect).
Then, you go after Unions and other non-profits making donations as well.
You want to donate, you do it our of YOUR OWN take home pay, not by appropriating money from a group (shareholders, employees, union members).
That might help some.
welcome our new politically correct overlords^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H masters^H^H^H^H^H^H^ primaries???
On second thought...
I, for one, suggest they shove off!
(sorry)
Zippy's got nothing on this guy (the link) for off the wall fortune-fodder.
You could use that with the Slackware distro I had back in '95 (I had a "tower" 386-40 w/ 4 MB RAM, vs. your 486-25 w/ 2 MB). BUT I sure would NOT try to startx on it! ... I guess it wouldn't be that much use, other than to run telnet, lynx or gcc from ...
Wow. We've come a ways in the last decade, after all.
Imagine a Beowulf cluster!
(of fat f***ing cellular traffic jams?!?)
back to work....
Almost. Keep in mind that the device supplying the power need not be the device reading the tag. A small drone plane could send out some fairly strong pulses to power up the RFID chips, while a previously layed down network of readers could detect whatever was tagged (probable identifying criteria: kill anything stupid enough to be tagged).
My first thought was I would hate to have one of the things on me still while I was on the front lines. While there are probably easier ways to detect a soldier, it's yet another thing you have to worry about masking if you wish to remain stealthy.
I very much hope they have powerful directed scanners to make sure this electronic trash is stripped off before sending anybody out in harm's way, or where an ECM like the what you or others suggested is used against them.
Cool!
Unfortunately, my old laptop is an offbrand 486-100, and it's starting to physically decay just a bit. Yeah, it's got a split disk with win 3.1/95 on one part. and an old slackware w/ 2.0.0 kernal on the other. I guess it's time to get a slightly updated "bottom feeder" model, kinda like what you described (P3 from the refurb laptop shop???)
Um. I interpreted the parent post as "so what" sarcasm. ("Imagine having to badge in to work -- the horror!" / NOT)
The tags on the kids still is kinda creepy, though.
for quite a while:
... all the management critters with laptops always use the "docking stations" with them anyway, so why bother with the built in screen and keyboard, unless you really do type on the plane, train or bus?)
Most of a *cheap* laptop I can carry around, even if there's no battery.
It sounds like you can set up a nice one for about half of what a low end laptop costs. This looks like the thing. (But, but, but!
Seriously, get a dinky beige box, sign on the LAN at work and just use the thing (its disk) as a "briefcase" to use for transporting projects when I work at home. I guess that's kinda boring compared to the ulitimate game serving toaster and all, but it would be practical.