We have to take it step farther than "quick, multiple diagnosis". The various chemical levels in the body fluctuate with time and vary drastically with input. I want to strap a device onto/into my arm for a week and monitor 300 levels over the time period. Allow everyone to see their data and use the internet to analyze it. Even simply monitoring acidity over time would be a helpful start. How do you analyze a website? How do you debug/profile your software? Why can't I do that with my body? We need to get the body's data on screen -- let everyone see their own data and question it, publicly or privately.
Timeseries data is step one.
A pill to measure gastrointestinal bacteria, protein breakdown and absorption is step two.
Nerve traffic monitoring is step three.
A real and usable microscope on my cell phone with image recognition is step four.
The inequality of badly-run or corrupt states is boosted by the power of technology
I call B.S. on that. Technology is the only thing keeping the poor man in the game. Technology is the only thing keeping inflation from running out of control.
These things boost the corrupt states and increase the gap between the rich and the poor:
1. Apathetic populaces.
2. Fiat money payment requirements.
3. Central banks that can inflate at will (that also loan money).
4. The ability of corrupt nations and dictators to borrow money from said banks or other overly-anxious capitalists (who probably have elitist bankers as parents).
5. Laws that make investing money difficult or elitist.
6. Minimum wage laws.
7. Governments that pay off the money they borrow with more borrowed money.
Dear ESPN: I will pay you directly $30 per year to watch college football online. I don't care to see any other sports. I want live or historical access to all football games you film/broadcast//capture.
Groups are a neglected feature of Facebook. They seem to not understand the "communities can come together" concept. They focus on "communities around the popular" rather than equal participation groups. If Facebook would, uh, lift a few ideas from group management and layout inside G+, the latter would die an ignominious death. If we could just merge and fork groups on Facebook we might have something...
Idaho Falls, ID, and Logan, UT, both have plenty of tech job openings, plenty of rural living, relatively low housing cost, all the amenities, etc. I work near Logan. Every month at our valley Software Craftsmanship Club meeting people come asking "anyone want to switch companies this month?"
Observing an apparent deficiency in demographics is not proof of bias, it is merely an observation of what is.
No doubt, brother. The group that gets the most discrimination in the tech world is "women". Every other week the ACM publishes an article to the effect of "Where are all the women in tech?" Who the freak cares? Quit pressuring them. Maybe they don't want to do tech. Let's leave them alone. Maybe tech jobs aren't fun for them. Maybe their natural tendencies and talents take them on some other road. And I give the same criticism to the interracial tech concern.
As a Canadian, I wish our government would partner with the US to fund super awesome science mega-projects
Well, as an American I wish that the rest of the planet could understand this stuff should be done by private companies and organizations. If you want to do some awesome science, start the company yourself ask for donations to be received out of good will. Don't wine about the government's lack of initiative -- that's the last thing any government needs. Personally, I don't want is some government official pocketing my tax money in the name of science. I can do it better myself. It's not in the proper role of government as it has nothing to do with maintaining liberty and justice for all.
The optimal way would be, of course, to use tax dollars to provide health care to everyone.
You're forgetting the other effects of that policy. First, you've brought in force. Everyone has to pay regardless of whether or not they want the service. Second, you don't get "health care", rather you get the "health care" that the public deems prudent to provide you at the time. In other words, you have no options. Third, when you take this decision out of the hands of the citizens, everyone suffers due to the general atrophy that overtakes society. We're already struggling with that in America. Read Bastiat's fantastic "Private and Public Services" for further arguments in that regard.
A few years from now we'll find that there are actually helpful viruses in our digestive tract. Welcome to the next wave of malnutrition -- not that we've mastered any of the present food intolerance issues.
Dr. Lindzen of MIT showed through his research of thirty years that carbon dioxide does not retain heat. That report was published two years ago. The idea that carbon dioxide is evil is published and promoted only by those who stand to gain from such lies. Breath the free air, people.
You didn't even mention the really bad stuff President Wilson did: created the Federal Reserve and the 16th and 17th amendments to the Constitution -- all of which have had awful consequences for America. Those three items right there define the commercialization and authoritarian footprint of congress. They opened the door to the lobbyist and inflation problems of the present.
My roommate is a pilot. They wouldn't let him carry on his fingernail clippers last week. It must be common temptation for pilots to cut their fingernails mid-flight. (I agree that those of us writing transportation control software have a lot more at stake. If I wanted to manipulate the website on purpose I suppose I could forward myself some credit cards and passwords. That's still a level below accidentally accelerating when we intended to decelerate.)
Cut the effects crew in half. Give half of the left over money to the game writers to make something original. Use the other half of the leftovers to reduce the sale price. In other words, show Hollywood how it should be done.
Why? Because Ronald Reagan said so? What do you think caused the current financial mess?
I can think of a number of things that caused the current financial mess, including but not starting with Reagan's debt. Income tax and mortgage lender subsidies find their way on the list as well. It's no a lack of regulation that caused the mess, unless you mean the other definition of regulation slack -- a lack of being fair to all industries.
The loudness of advertising is none of the states' business.
The state's business is whatever the voters say it is. If you don't like what they're regulating, go vote for someone else.
I call BS on you. Either you don't understand basic constitutional republicanism or you are from one of those democratic socialist states. In a democracy, the states business goes with the voters. In a republic, the state's business is to stick to the constitution/charter/etc.
Limiting advertising is a blatant violation of the US Constitution. Duh. You can't do it.
If taxes have to be raised, then raise the income taxes or property taxes. Sales taxes are a pain to collect, and they have a dampening effect on retail businesses. Also, they are skewed against the poor, since poorer people typically must spend a higher percentage of their income on retail goods.
This is a blatant lie that needs to stop now. Sales taxes are much cheaper to collect than income and property taxes -- there are significantly fewer retail sales points than tax filers currently. Income tax has the same dampening effect on retail business as sales tax if not worse due to the lack of transparency. Sales taxes are not skewed against the poor. There is nothing forcing a poor person to pay a higher percentage of his income on retail goods than a rich person would pay. If sales taxes were fair, as in they applied to new houses and retail services like visiting a doctor, you would see that rich people pay an equal or higher percentage of total sales tax collected.
The fact that the oil will run out is precisely the reason that we don't need to artificially inflate its price or spend any significant funds on repairing its wake. The money would be better spent assassinating anti-nuclear-power dimwits so that we can move on to the electric car. Of course we currently spend huge amounts of money "enforcing" the low oil price in the Middle East, which isn't right either.
I complained to Dell recently about the optical drive on my new laptop. If you put in a DVD with the slightest scratch on it the whole system would hard lock. (Yes, Vista allows the drivers the privilege of taking down the whole OS.) Anyway, the support dude was like "well, duh, we can't read a scratched disk." More googling revealed that TCorp had released firmware to fix the problem.
I recently filed a bug about a certain popular grid control's mouse wheel behavior. The company making the control responded that it was not a bug because "Microsoft's [ancient] grid control has the same behavior." Gee thanks, dorks. Good thing you set your standards so high.
For years I've wanted to get some scary Halloween music, but I have no idea what album to get and I've never seen one advertised that appears to have what I want. Any suggestions?
if an individual can't get a patent, then the only ones getting them are the huge corporations
That's not true. To clarify, I think it would be valuable for a individual to register a sole-proprietorship-type business and then put his patent in his business name. I intended for individuals to acquire patents using this mechanism.
I don't think I like that phrase "social value" in this context. Does it mean we only allow patents on devices that improve your odds of getting a date? Or does it mean we only allow patents on devices that demotivate the truly motivated people in this country? (In which case I hope somebody got a patent on minimum wage and graduated tax levels.)
The changes to copyright law have pretty obviously been made solely to benefit huge corporations.
That's the whole problem. If we had 10 years for a sole-proprietor patent, 5 years for a corporation patent, and maybe 12 years for a copyright we'd totally shut down all this wasted litigation money from corporations. I don't think an individual should be able to get a patent; if they aren't planning to make money on it, it should be given to the public domain.
And exactly how would the welfare system prevent you from abusing your slaves? Was it not the welfare system that brought him to this situation where he won't work without a thorough beating first?
I'd like to see some remote desktop speed tests and network file transfer speeds. Vista is dog slow on network file transfers.
And as for the AV, the first thing I do on any company machine is add an exclusion for my project workspace files. The last thing I need is AV checks on intermediate compilation files.
Odd. SUSE Linux is a popular product with many tie-in deals. They will be fine.
Are you kidding? You think a Linux distro with a few commercial tie-ins will hold a company of several thousand people? Their Mono work is the same way -- there just isn't much of a revenue model for it.
I confess I had to laugh out loud when I saw that Novell was first on the list. 17 years ago Novell had a few billion dollars in the bank. They thought "we should go spend this money on some cool word processing and internet companies". I guess that gives MS 17 years.
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We have to take it step farther than "quick, multiple diagnosis". The various chemical levels in the body fluctuate with time and vary drastically with input. I want to strap a device onto/into my arm for a week and monitor 300 levels over the time period. Allow everyone to see their data and use the internet to analyze it. Even simply monitoring acidity over time would be a helpful start. How do you analyze a website? How do you debug/profile your software? Why can't I do that with my body? We need to get the body's data on screen -- let everyone see their own data and question it, publicly or privately. Timeseries data is step one. A pill to measure gastrointestinal bacteria, protein breakdown and absorption is step two. Nerve traffic monitoring is step three. A real and usable microscope on my cell phone with image recognition is step four.
The inequality of badly-run or corrupt states is boosted by the power of technology
I call B.S. on that. Technology is the only thing keeping the poor man in the game. Technology is the only thing keeping inflation from running out of control.
These things boost the corrupt states and increase the gap between the rich and the poor:
1. Apathetic populaces.
2. Fiat money payment requirements.
3. Central banks that can inflate at will (that also loan money).
4. The ability of corrupt nations and dictators to borrow money from said banks or other overly-anxious capitalists (who probably have elitist bankers as parents).
5. Laws that make investing money difficult or elitist.
6. Minimum wage laws.
7. Governments that pay off the money they borrow with more borrowed money.
Dear ESPN: I will pay you directly $30 per year to watch college football online. I don't care to see any other sports. I want live or historical access to all football games you film/broadcast//capture.
Groups are a neglected feature of Facebook. They seem to not understand the "communities can come together" concept. They focus on "communities around the popular" rather than equal participation groups. If Facebook would, uh, lift a few ideas from group management and layout inside G+, the latter would die an ignominious death. If we could just merge and fork groups on Facebook we might have something...
Idaho Falls, ID, and Logan, UT, both have plenty of tech job openings, plenty of rural living, relatively low housing cost, all the amenities, etc. I work near Logan. Every month at our valley Software Craftsmanship Club meeting people come asking "anyone want to switch companies this month?"
Observing an apparent deficiency in demographics is not proof of bias, it is merely an observation of what is.
No doubt, brother. The group that gets the most discrimination in the tech world is "women". Every other week the ACM publishes an article to the effect of "Where are all the women in tech?" Who the freak cares? Quit pressuring them. Maybe they don't want to do tech. Let's leave them alone. Maybe tech jobs aren't fun for them. Maybe their natural tendencies and talents take them on some other road. And I give the same criticism to the interracial tech concern.
As a Canadian, I wish our government would partner with the US to fund super awesome science mega-projects
Well, as an American I wish that the rest of the planet could understand this stuff should be done by private companies and organizations. If you want to do some awesome science, start the company yourself ask for donations to be received out of good will. Don't wine about the government's lack of initiative -- that's the last thing any government needs. Personally, I don't want is some government official pocketing my tax money in the name of science. I can do it better myself. It's not in the proper role of government as it has nothing to do with maintaining liberty and justice for all.
The optimal way would be, of course, to use tax dollars to provide health care to everyone.
You're forgetting the other effects of that policy. First, you've brought in force. Everyone has to pay regardless of whether or not they want the service. Second, you don't get "health care", rather you get the "health care" that the public deems prudent to provide you at the time. In other words, you have no options. Third, when you take this decision out of the hands of the citizens, everyone suffers due to the general atrophy that overtakes society. We're already struggling with that in America. Read Bastiat's fantastic "Private and Public Services" for further arguments in that regard.
A few years from now we'll find that there are actually helpful viruses in our digestive tract. Welcome to the next wave of malnutrition -- not that we've mastered any of the present food intolerance issues.
Dr. Lindzen of MIT showed through his research of thirty years that carbon dioxide does not retain heat. That report was published two years ago. The idea that carbon dioxide is evil is published and promoted only by those who stand to gain from such lies. Breath the free air, people.
You didn't even mention the really bad stuff President Wilson did: created the Federal Reserve and the 16th and 17th amendments to the Constitution -- all of which have had awful consequences for America. Those three items right there define the commercialization and authoritarian footprint of congress. They opened the door to the lobbyist and inflation problems of the present.
My roommate is a pilot. They wouldn't let him carry on his fingernail clippers last week. It must be common temptation for pilots to cut their fingernails mid-flight. (I agree that those of us writing transportation control software have a lot more at stake. If I wanted to manipulate the website on purpose I suppose I could forward myself some credit cards and passwords. That's still a level below accidentally accelerating when we intended to decelerate.)
Cut the effects crew in half. Give half of the left over money to the game writers to make something original. Use the other half of the leftovers to reduce the sale price. In other words, show Hollywood how it should be done.
Regulation is bad. Period.
Why? Because Ronald Reagan said so? What do you think caused the current financial mess?
I can think of a number of things that caused the current financial mess, including but not starting with Reagan's debt. Income tax and mortgage lender subsidies find their way on the list as well. It's no a lack of regulation that caused the mess, unless you mean the other definition of regulation slack -- a lack of being fair to all industries.
The loudness of advertising is none of the states' business.
The state's business is whatever the voters say it is. If you don't like what they're regulating, go vote for someone else.
I call BS on you. Either you don't understand basic constitutional republicanism or you are from one of those democratic socialist states. In a democracy, the states business goes with the voters. In a republic, the state's business is to stick to the constitution/charter/etc.
Limiting advertising is a blatant violation of the US Constitution. Duh. You can't do it.
If taxes have to be raised, then raise the income taxes or property taxes. Sales taxes are a pain to collect, and they have a dampening effect on retail businesses. Also, they are skewed against the poor, since poorer people typically must spend a higher percentage of their income on retail goods.
This is a blatant lie that needs to stop now. Sales taxes are much cheaper to collect than income and property taxes -- there are significantly fewer retail sales points than tax filers currently. Income tax has the same dampening effect on retail business as sales tax if not worse due to the lack of transparency. Sales taxes are not skewed against the poor. There is nothing forcing a poor person to pay a higher percentage of his income on retail goods than a rich person would pay. If sales taxes were fair, as in they applied to new houses and retail services like visiting a doctor, you would see that rich people pay an equal or higher percentage of total sales tax collected.
I have two comments, and they both go with a the same line of code:
// the special sauce
//Application.DoEvents(); // somebody's special sauce that needs to be done some other way
Application.DoEvents();
The fact that the oil will run out is precisely the reason that we don't need to artificially inflate its price or spend any significant funds on repairing its wake. The money would be better spent assassinating anti-nuclear-power dimwits so that we can move on to the electric car. Of course we currently spend huge amounts of money "enforcing" the low oil price in the Middle East, which isn't right either.
I complained to Dell recently about the optical drive on my new laptop. If you put in a DVD with the slightest scratch on it the whole system would hard lock. (Yes, Vista allows the drivers the privilege of taking down the whole OS.) Anyway, the support dude was like "well, duh, we can't read a scratched disk." More googling revealed that TCorp had released firmware to fix the problem.
I recently filed a bug about a certain popular grid control's mouse wheel behavior. The company making the control responded that it was not a bug because "Microsoft's [ancient] grid control has the same behavior." Gee thanks, dorks. Good thing you set your standards so high.
For years I've wanted to get some scary Halloween music, but I have no idea what album to get and I've never seen one advertised that appears to have what I want. Any suggestions?
if an individual can't get a patent, then the only ones getting them are the huge corporations
That's not true. To clarify, I think it would be valuable for a individual to register a sole-proprietorship-type business and then put his patent in his business name. I intended for individuals to acquire patents using this mechanism.
I don't think I like that phrase "social value" in this context. Does it mean we only allow patents on devices that improve your odds of getting a date? Or does it mean we only allow patents on devices that demotivate the truly motivated people in this country? (In which case I hope somebody got a patent on minimum wage and graduated tax levels.)
The changes to copyright law have pretty obviously been made solely to benefit huge corporations.
That's the whole problem. If we had 10 years for a sole-proprietor patent, 5 years for a corporation patent, and maybe 12 years for a copyright we'd totally shut down all this wasted litigation money from corporations. I don't think an individual should be able to get a patent; if they aren't planning to make money on it, it should be given to the public domain.
And exactly how would the welfare system prevent you from abusing your slaves? Was it not the welfare system that brought him to this situation where he won't work without a thorough beating first?
I'd like to see some remote desktop speed tests and network file transfer speeds. Vista is dog slow on network file transfers.
And as for the AV, the first thing I do on any company machine is add an exclusion for my project workspace files. The last thing I need is AV checks on intermediate compilation files.
1) Novell
Odd. SUSE Linux is a popular product with many tie-in deals. They will be fine.
Are you kidding? You think a Linux distro with a few commercial tie-ins will hold a company of several thousand people? Their Mono work is the same way -- there just isn't much of a revenue model for it.
I confess I had to laugh out loud when I saw that Novell was first on the list. 17 years ago Novell had a few billion dollars in the bank. They thought "we should go spend this money on some cool word processing and internet companies". I guess that gives MS 17 years.