Walmart is NOT more efficient. They just use cheaper labor, as in pseudo-slave labor. Walmart has a history of human rights and workers rights violations up to par with companies like the Gap and Nike.
It's easy to be cheaper when your "producers" are starving to death, forced to work 20 day, not allowed to organize, and are forced into birth control and abortions for the sake of "efficiency".
Remember how badly it hurt Kmart when people realized that Kathy Lee's clothing line was made in sweat shops? That's because their cost went way up suddenly, while their competitor, Walmart, didn't have to change a thing.
Agreed. I use the free-version of Opera, because the ads ain't that bad, and you can kill pop under windows, making the net amount of ads I am Forced to see less. The other plus is that it isn't owned by MS or AOL/TW, so I feel less like I am collaborating with satan.
Re:Why not new Nobel Prizes? Math Prize and more..
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The prizes were dictated by Nobel, and are awarded from the interest on his estate. So, if new prizes were created the money would not exist to pay them, unless other prizes were reduced (not likely, each comes to less than a cool million, and is usually split more than one way), or another prize would have to be eliminated. Let's see, trade peace for maths, or maybe advancements in medicine.... Nobel's priorities are stagnant, and thus is the prize.
In the future if I want to use an older version that requires a key that can only be obtained through electronic registration (as I expect MS will do soon, if XP doesn't require this already), and it is no longer supported, does this mean there will be NO WAY to do an install of the older OS?
In the lab I work at we still have a few AT machines, that run an early version of DOS and have programs in Basica to control some instruments. When we thought the system and program disks had been lost for a while we couldn't figure out how to re-obtain the things we needed, but at least all we had to look for was some disks, and not also a registration confirmation.
I am thinking maybe the reg scheme that I expect to become commonplace will require upgrades every 5 years, whence you can no longer reinstall the OS, which lets face it, you have to do quite a bit with Windows.
But what about the part of the lisense agreement that says that modifying the OS or the disc is not allowed. You have to agree to use the software, and in that you are forced to agree not to change anything like install type. Doesn't the agreement count as a legal agreement? If not, what is the point?
Working in a lab were we are trying to do something like this, I have very little idea what you are talking about, but am afraid to ask for explanation because you have already called me stupid. Guess I will keep my mouth shut and mod you +5 Insightful.
Don't mod me down because you are smart, and know what parent is talking about!
Globalization is a synonym for Unavoidable. In an age where communication is rapidly approaching purely global, and commerce has few closed markets, the economy of the world will undoubtably assimillate. The concern is how. Will the powers and corporations that start the game make fair rules? I think that it only takes Gap, Nike, Home Depot, and Shell to see that they will not unless forced to. But that required a globalized governing body, perhaps.
1,800 Japanese Grad students are looking for a new advisor, citing "extended duration of research project" as the reason. Each potential particle-physicist has a co-authorship of several papers, all shared with the other 1,799 students and their advisors. It is expected that many will go into theory soon, as the resulting projects can be finished this decade. One student was overheard saying "first I was put as 234th author on our last paper, and now the experiment is gone. I've had it, I'm going into astronomy, man! Or maybe condensed matter theory, but not this! Not anymore!"
But do you remember the Bush website game during the last election. Someone bought GWBush.com, and offered to sell it to the campaign for a huge price ($5000 I think). The campaign got upset, looked at their legal options, and ended up buying most other domains in the general realm, but ignoring gwbush.com (they even got bushsucks.com and whatnot and routed these to the main page). GWBush.com became a spoof of the original campaign page, and is still working it.
That's not what I said. Yes CFC's ARE responsible for ozone depletion, but halting use will not show immediate results. That does not make it unimportant in the long term. I would say quite the opposite.
Low altitude ozone is BAD. O3 is a poison, and it won't travel up high all by itself. It is easy to make, but placing it high up is costly, and the pollutants from the fuel required to get the junk up there would likely cancel any gain we could make. I don't know where to find an actual calculation of a pollution to ozone reproduction ratio, but I bet you can find one in on the EPA web page. Then again, I could be wrong about everything.
Last summer I did some educational outreach for the lab I work for, at a day-camp for science kids, and the topic was ozone one day. If I remember correctly regulation can't possibly account for this, because the CFC's have a destructive lifetime in the atmosphere for something on the order of 100 years. ie. the little buggers break apart O-3 for a long time after we stop using them. Even if we stopped all CFC use today, we wouldn't see any atmospheric effect for many decades. Begging the question: why IS the hole reducing?
I do not think that an engineering education is at all more broad than a physicists. True, with a bachelors degree an engineer is probably more prepared to build something distributable, but engineering degrees are inherently specific. You only learn optics, or mechanics, or electronics, whilst a good physics program should cover all those areas with depth. I just don't think an engineer can cover as much as a physics Ph.D. But then I am working on my physics Ph.D. so I might be somewhat biased.
But during my undergrad days I interned for Lockheed Martin and they just didn't know what to do with a physics major. All the engineering majors had placements, but since I wasn't optical or mechanical or chemical or electrical, they didn't know what I could do, while I honestly think I could have been productive in any of the groups. I may not have memorized the "right" formulas for calculation at that point, but I did have a deeper understanding of the fundamentals, and from there the calculations are a small step away.
Seems that the label before the word engineer is what HR usually looks at.
The article states that comp. engs. and EEs are the ones being hired, but most scientists with higher degrees should be able to do this job. Physicists usually arn't considered for engineering jobs, both in govt and industry, and I have never understood why.
Several years ago I tried to create a Marxist Paradise in Sim City, and everyone left my city because taxes were too high, and I built no stadium. You cannot think outside the box with Sim brand.
Sim war with strategy:
Build troops attack early = win
Otherwise = lose
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It's good to test management, just like in the movies:
Leave the rules to your Fight Club in the photocopier.
Pretend to work in the mail room, but really be an executive who has to comically change clothes in the elevators.
Make up sexual harrasment charges, then get stoned and pump iron.
Make certain that you got the memo, then don't follow new procedures.
Let your boss find out that you are really the prince of a country in Africa, and date his daughter.
Trade bodies with your teenage son, and have him fill your shoes for a few days, just to spice up the office.
Walmart is NOT more efficient. They just use cheaper labor, as in pseudo-slave labor. Walmart has a history of human rights and workers rights violations up to par with companies like the Gap and Nike.
It's easy to be cheaper when your "producers" are starving to death, forced to work 20 day, not allowed to organize, and are forced into birth control and abortions for the sake of "efficiency".
Remember how badly it hurt Kmart when people realized that Kathy Lee's clothing line was made in sweat shops? That's because their cost went way up suddenly, while their competitor, Walmart, didn't have to change a thing.
Agreed. I use the free-version of Opera, because the ads ain't that bad, and you can kill pop under windows, making the net amount of ads I am Forced to see less. The other plus is that it isn't owned by MS or AOL/TW, so I feel less like I am collaborating with satan.
The prizes were dictated by Nobel, and are awarded from the interest on his estate. So, if new prizes were created the money would not exist to pay them, unless other prizes were reduced (not likely, each comes to less than a cool million, and is usually split more than one way), or another prize would have to be eliminated. Let's see, trade peace for maths, or maybe advancements in medicine.... Nobel's priorities are stagnant, and thus is the prize.
But the problem still remains, that most of the business world uses .doc as the standard for many things, and conversion just isn't up to par yet.
In the future if I want to use an older version that requires a key that can only be obtained through electronic registration (as I expect MS will do soon, if XP doesn't require this already), and it is no longer supported, does this mean there will be NO WAY to do an install of the older OS?
In the lab I work at we still have a few AT machines, that run an early version of DOS and have programs in Basica to control some instruments. When we thought the system and program disks had been lost for a while we couldn't figure out how to re-obtain the things we needed, but at least all we had to look for was some disks, and not also a registration confirmation.
I am thinking maybe the reg scheme that I expect to become commonplace will require upgrades every 5 years, whence you can no longer reinstall the OS, which lets face it, you have to do quite a bit with Windows.
"Customers who purchase Windows XP Professional have full downgrade rights to, Windows Professional, Windows NT, Windows 95, and Windows 98."
Now if only I could figure out how to downgrade RedHat 7.2 to XP, so I can get microsoft support.
But what about the part of the lisense agreement that says that modifying the OS or the disc is not allowed. You have to agree to use the software, and in that you are forced to agree not to change anything like install type. Doesn't the agreement count as a legal agreement? If not, what is the point?
"...researchers are testing a microscopic "smart bomb" to target, attack, and kill cancer cells."
I just hope they can tell the difference between my organs and say a Chinese Embassy, or Red Cross Center.
"That said, they ain't buying Linux either."
BUYING Linux?
Working in a lab were we are trying to do something like this, I have very little idea what you are talking about, but am afraid to ask for explanation because you have already called me stupid. Guess I will keep my mouth shut and mod you +5 Insightful. Don't mod me down because you are smart, and know what parent is talking about!
Globalization is a synonym for Unavoidable. In an age where communication is rapidly approaching purely global, and commerce has few closed markets, the economy of the world will undoubtably assimillate. The concern is how. Will the powers and corporations that start the game make fair rules? I think that it only takes Gap, Nike, Home Depot, and Shell to see that they will not unless forced to. But that required a globalized governing body, perhaps.
1,800 Japanese Grad students are looking for a new advisor, citing "extended duration of research project" as the reason. Each potential particle-physicist has a co-authorship of several papers, all shared with the other 1,799 students and their advisors. It is expected that many will go into theory soon, as the resulting projects can be finished this decade. One student was overheard saying "first I was put as 234th author on our last paper, and now the experiment is gone. I've had it, I'm going into astronomy, man! Or maybe condensed matter theory, but not this! Not anymore!"
But do you remember the Bush website game during the last election. Someone bought GWBush.com, and offered to sell it to the campaign for a huge price ($5000 I think). The campaign got upset, looked at their legal options, and ended up buying most other domains in the general realm, but ignoring gwbush.com (they even got bushsucks.com and whatnot and routed these to the main page). GWBush.com became a spoof of the original campaign page, and is still working it.
That's not what I said. Yes CFC's ARE responsible for ozone depletion, but halting use will not show immediate results. That does not make it unimportant in the long term. I would say quite the opposite.
Low altitude ozone is BAD. O3 is a poison, and it won't travel up high all by itself. It is easy to make, but placing it high up is costly, and the pollutants from the fuel required to get the junk up there would likely cancel any gain we could make. I don't know where to find an actual calculation of a pollution to ozone reproduction ratio, but I bet you can find one in on the EPA web page. Then again, I could be wrong about everything.
Last summer I did some educational outreach for the lab I work for, at a day-camp for science kids, and the topic was ozone one day. If I remember correctly regulation can't possibly account for this, because the CFC's have a destructive lifetime in the atmosphere for something on the order of 100 years. ie. the little buggers break apart O-3 for a long time after we stop using them. Even if we stopped all CFC use today, we wouldn't see any atmospheric effect for many decades. Begging the question: why IS the hole reducing?
I do not think that an engineering education is at all more broad than a physicists. True, with a bachelors degree an engineer is probably more prepared to build something distributable, but engineering degrees are inherently specific. You only learn optics, or mechanics, or electronics, whilst a good physics program should cover all those areas with depth. I just don't think an engineer can cover as much as a physics Ph.D. But then I am working on my physics Ph.D. so I might be somewhat biased.
But during my undergrad days I interned for Lockheed Martin and they just didn't know what to do with a physics major. All the engineering majors had placements, but since I wasn't optical or mechanical or chemical or electrical, they didn't know what I could do, while I honestly think I could have been productive in any of the groups. I may not have memorized the "right" formulas for calculation at that point, but I did have a deeper understanding of the fundamentals, and from there the calculations are a small step away.
Seems that the label before the word engineer is what HR usually looks at.
The article states that comp. engs. and EEs are the ones being hired, but most scientists with higher degrees should be able to do this job. Physicists usually arn't considered for engineering jobs, both in govt and industry, and I have never understood why.
Like some geek can compete with Robert Redford, Dan Akroyd, River Pheonix and Sidney Poitier. I mean, they took on Ghandi when he ran the mob!
Several years ago I tried to create a Marxist Paradise in Sim City, and everyone left my city because taxes were too high, and I built no stadium. You cannot think outside the box with Sim brand. Sim war with strategy: Build troops attack early = win Otherwise = lose
Why worry about the evil corporations (hmm, SONY comes to mind right about now) and bad governmental actions?
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I am so glad that someone is taking the time to fight the injustice of
Just wait until Linux starts destroying the rainforests and enslaving third world children to code.
Oops, I got troll-tricked to offtopic.
Er, what did Lego do? Oh, I guess I should look it up myself. Here's the original /. post on the Lego response to hacks.
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Toodles and poodles.
http://slashdot.org/articles/01/09/12/0327200.s
At least as well as self-policing has historically in the oil/timber/mining industries!