Actually a huge amount of flying is automated now on the big airliners. Pilot always has the option to go manual but more often than not so little input is needed the flight system can just be switched to auto pilot till you come into land again. The systems can also even land the plane for you, enabling truly unmanned flying...but pilots are always there for obvious reasons, but the planes do regularly land themselves.
http://www.airliners.net/discussions/general_aviat ion/read.main/1882971/
Couldnt find direct Boeing type links but that forum has some info on the automated landing.
The coal argument is often used...however it is always used wrongly....the 300 year projection is based on current usage...not usage in trying to replace oil and further population growth. In which case coal is only projected to last 90 years at most. Still a fair while, but not as rosy as 300 years.
http://www.physicstoday.org/vol-57/iss-7/p47.html# cap4
It may not save the world, but when you combine just a small amount of power saving over a large amount then it at least SLOWS the power crunch. Simply dismissing saving on power consumption because you think its too late already is just wishing disaster to happen. Your line of thinking is man kind may as well kill himself now and not even bother trying to save itself any further.
I agree the mext few decades could be bleak, but im certainly not inviting it to arrive any faster so I can say "HAH! look we told you so!" which a lot of the die off, peak oil forums etc etc seem to be courting from survivalists.
How about the cotton, sugar and other farming subsidies USA provides its farmers at the expense of poor nations unable to compete and with little other export possibilties, thats not just putting people out of work, but starving them also. The EU also does the same, so anyone crying foul at the Chinese is laughable.
"Floaters" appeared in my field of vision at first, it was like a hair or two litterally floating around my eye (number of sites on the net have pictures of what its like seeing with them) but as the numbers increased, it was litteraly like a spider web of hairs/broken optic nerves in my field of vision. They mostly occur in older people as the gel in your eye drys out/collapses, but also caused by swelling etc.
The Floaters increased in numbers and my vision deteriated, I had some pressure tests and I was on the high end of the scale (entering long term damage territory), but the eye drops thankfully calmed it. The drops can also cause Catarax (bummer), so they try to limit the amount taken...bit of a balancing act.
Currently its just regular check ups and pressure tests with 3 drops a day (was 6). My vision is still blurred however with the floaters and Ive been told that its not curable, just something to control from here on out. When you move your eye the floaters swing from side to side, really anoying at first but you learn to block them out..
Ive been a heavy computer user for about 17 years now, the early signs of Glaucoma appeared in June of this year....cant tell you how scary it is thinking you might end up blind...thankfully I caught it soon so currently getting monthly check ups and using some steroid eye drops to calm it.
Not saying its because of computers, just saying I fit the profile that the article is stating.
BTW> a non slashdotted link
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4008185.stm
Cuba is actually a really great place to holiday, I and many people I know have been there for 2 weeks/month stay and enjoyed it greatly for its beauty and beaches. Yours is nothing but an uninformed US media fed image. Some aspects of what you say has truth, but you have no clue about visiting Cuba.
"Google continues to insist it does not believe the interview, conducted after the company announced plans for the IPO, was a violation of securities law, and it said it would fight any such finding by courts. But it does list the article as a risk factor for the IPO that could force it to repurchase shares from investors, the same boilerplate warning it gave in an SEC filing Friday."
http://money.cnn.com/2004/08/18/technology/googlep rice/index.htm
That will be a hefty chunk of change if they have to buy back all previously issued stock at the IPO price.
The radiation decays the containers, I recently read the thing on BBC as UK is pondering storage requirements also.
"Currently, after a period of temporary storage, when the most radioactive products have had a chance to decay, high-level waste from spent nuclear fuel is encased in a borosilicate glass and sealed in stainless steel drums.
But this is really only a short-term solution because the radiation emitted by the waste will slowly attack the integrity of the containers. "
Doesnt change the fact that i have never had a virus or exploit against me on any windows machine Ive had for the past 9 years either. I think this study points out that just because you run OS X your not immune and just because you run windows you attract virus and exploits like a plague rat. The user/admin can be the biggest deciding factor whether or not a virus or exploit affects you.
"If this had been a bug in MS, we may might not have heard about it for months or years unless someone on the outside published it. The crackers would have still had a good chance to have known about it. "
But with the supposed 1000s of developers constantly looking at the Linux kernel why was the bug left in so long? How many months has this bug been in the kernel, easily open to the evil crackers to see? (Ive no clue, im asking as regardless if the bug is now fixed quickly or not, its been available for the oft praised peer review for X amount of time).
Theres huge shortage of skilled labour in the UK, electricians, plumbers, carpenters etc...all thanks to the governments Lets Send Everyone To University ploy...now we have loads of graduates with either mickey mouse degrees and/or lack of jobs in that area.
Ive read news paper reports of some plumbers in London making over $70K+ a year, they can charge practically what they want, and theres hardly any competition.
"Most of these people don't know how or why they should lock down their boxes and keep their packages up to date."
Same with windows.
"Part of the problem is that many distros enable a lot of services by default, and over time, they become vulnerable to the latest buffer overflows and get rooted eventually by people who don't know about them."
Same with windows.
"The blame really doesn't go to Linux for its design. It just happens to be popular amongst people who don't know squat about security, though it would help if more distros would lock things down by default."
People on Slashdot DO blame windows for its design. A security hole is a security hole whether the box is locked down or not. If your giving support to Linux because its apparently run incorrectly and in badly laid out networks with poor all round security, why not lend Windows the same support? A lot of attacks on windows are done through the exact same abuse of unpatched/locked down systems ran by people with no clue about computer security in general. Perhaps Linux is MORE dangerous because its being touted as Ultra-Secure compared to windows, and people think that simply running Linux in any form is bullet proof security. Perhaps.
I think vast majority of people can not tell the difference (me included)...And, not wishing to discount what you say, but I cant understand how you can possibly find it so bad either...maybe its just a matter of dont know what your missing till you miss it, but MP3s sound wonderful to me and everyone else I know.
Man...ditto....
I really got into the whole Home Show programming...but after non stop sh$te about home makeovers, building homes, and retards making money selling homes it just doesnt hold its same appeal...
Alot of these retards made money by the housing market going up and nothing else, the actual money they spent doing a place up was just pi$$ed away and didnt add jack squat to the value.
And this new Wife Swap craze is just opening a whole new can of crap for more XXXX Swap programs.
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"Linux is cost efficient and has more applications available."
Too true! When all those 1000s of SourceForge projects eventually get out of Alpha/Beta or even "Idea" phase we will be in application heaven! So many text editors and email programs I`ll be like a kid in a candy store!
Trying to be clever and inventing some idiotic scheme like converting some program files into a sound file and calling it music. Crap like this just makes people look foolish rather than actually bringing up a thought provoking argument and discussion.
I always find it ammusing listening to people claim the legal uses for P2P. Its like standard politics, just keep saying it even though you know its BS. Sure some of it may be legal, but who do they think they are fooling? P2P = copyrighted crap, argue all you want about your tiny amount of free files your sharing, admit it or dont admit it, makes little difference to the facts.
"I don't understand the general mentality in OSS, always re-inventing what is already there. If you doubt me, how many text editors do we have?.. Mail clients?.. if we would all work together on one thing at a time.. it would be amazing what could get done.
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I thought choice was one of the corner stones of open source, now someone trys to create a viable alternative and suddenly its "leave us alone, i dont want to even contemplate something different".
Slashdot Mirror
Were there not already search engines, web directories, webmail sites etc etc before Google?
Actually a huge amount of flying is automated now on the big airliners. Pilot always has the option to go manual but more often than not so little input is needed the flight system can just be switched to auto pilot till you come into land again. The systems can also even land the plane for you, enabling truly unmanned flying...but pilots are always there for obvious reasons, but the planes do regularly land themselves. http://www.airliners.net/discussions/general_aviat ion/read.main/1882971/
Couldnt find direct Boeing type links but that forum has some info on the automated landing.
The coal argument is often used...however it is always used wrongly....the 300 year projection is based on current usage...not usage in trying to replace oil and further population growth. In which case coal is only projected to last 90 years at most. Still a fair while, but not as rosy as 300 years. http://www.physicstoday.org/vol-57/iss-7/p47.html# cap4
It may not save the world, but when you combine just a small amount of power saving over a large amount then it at least SLOWS the power crunch. Simply dismissing saving on power consumption because you think its too late already is just wishing disaster to happen. Your line of thinking is man kind may as well kill himself now and not even bother trying to save itself any further. I agree the mext few decades could be bleak, but im certainly not inviting it to arrive any faster so I can say "HAH! look we told you so!" which a lot of the die off, peak oil forums etc etc seem to be courting from survivalists.
How about the cotton, sugar and other farming subsidies USA provides its farmers at the expense of poor nations unable to compete and with little other export possibilties, thats not just putting people out of work, but starving them also. The EU also does the same, so anyone crying foul at the Chinese is laughable.
"The Americans will always do the right thing... after they've exhausted all the alternatives." Winston Churchill
"Floaters" appeared in my field of vision at first, it was like a hair or two litterally floating around my eye (number of sites on the net have pictures of what its like seeing with them) but as the numbers increased, it was litteraly like a spider web of hairs/broken optic nerves in my field of vision. They mostly occur in older people as the gel in your eye drys out/collapses, but also caused by swelling etc.
The Floaters increased in numbers and my vision deteriated, I had some pressure tests and I was on the high end of the scale (entering long term damage territory), but the eye drops thankfully calmed it. The drops can also cause Catarax (bummer), so they try to limit the amount taken...bit of a balancing act.
Currently its just regular check ups and pressure tests with 3 drops a day (was 6). My vision is still blurred however with the floaters and Ive been told that its not curable, just something to control from here on out. When you move your eye the floaters swing from side to side, really anoying at first but you learn to block them out..
Ive been a heavy computer user for about 17 years now, the early signs of Glaucoma appeared in June of this year....cant tell you how scary it is thinking you might end up blind...thankfully I caught it soon so currently getting monthly check ups and using some steroid eye drops to calm it. Not saying its because of computers, just saying I fit the profile that the article is stating. BTW> a non slashdotted link http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4008185.stm
Cuba is actually a really great place to holiday, I and many people I know have been there for 2 weeks/month stay and enjoyed it greatly for its beauty and beaches. Yours is nothing but an uninformed US media fed image. Some aspects of what you say has truth, but you have no clue about visiting Cuba.
"Google continues to insist it does not believe the interview, conducted after the company announced plans for the IPO, was a violation of securities law, and it said it would fight any such finding by courts. But it does list the article as a risk factor for the IPO that could force it to repurchase shares from investors, the same boilerplate warning it gave in an SEC filing Friday." http://money.cnn.com/2004/08/18/technology/googlep rice/index.htm
That will be a hefty chunk of change if they have to buy back all previously issued stock at the IPO price.
The radiation decays the containers, I recently read the thing on BBC as UK is pondering storage requirements also.
"Currently, after a period of temporary storage, when the most radioactive products have had a chance to decay, high-level waste from spent nuclear fuel is encased in a borosilicate glass and sealed in stainless steel drums. But this is really only a short-term solution because the radiation emitted by the waste will slowly attack the integrity of the containers. "
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3896463.stm
Doesnt change the fact that i have never had a virus or exploit against me on any windows machine Ive had for the past 9 years either. I think this study points out that just because you run OS X your not immune and just because you run windows you attract virus and exploits like a plague rat. The user/admin can be the biggest deciding factor whether or not a virus or exploit affects you.
I quite agree...Im from UK, European in name only ;)
At some point a horrific realisation will be thrust upon those that you mention.
"If this had been a bug in MS, we may might not have heard about it for months or years unless someone on the outside published it. The crackers would have still had a good chance to have known about it. "
But with the supposed 1000s of developers constantly looking at the Linux kernel why was the bug left in so long? How many months has this bug been in the kernel, easily open to the evil crackers to see? (Ive no clue, im asking as regardless if the bug is now fixed quickly or not, its been available for the oft praised peer review for X amount of time).
Theres huge shortage of skilled labour in the UK, electricians, plumbers, carpenters etc...all thanks to the governments Lets Send Everyone To University ploy...now we have loads of graduates with either mickey mouse degrees and/or lack of jobs in that area. Ive read news paper reports of some plumbers in London making over $70K+ a year, they can charge practically what they want, and theres hardly any competition.
"Most of these people don't know how or why they should lock down their boxes and keep their packages up to date."
Same with windows.
"Part of the problem is that many distros enable a lot of services by default, and over time, they become vulnerable to the latest buffer overflows and get rooted eventually by people who don't know about them."
Same with windows.
"The blame really doesn't go to Linux for its design. It just happens to be popular amongst people who don't know squat about security, though it would help if more distros would lock things down by default."
People on Slashdot DO blame windows for its design. A security hole is a security hole whether the box is locked down or not. If your giving support to Linux because its apparently run incorrectly and in badly laid out networks with poor all round security, why not lend Windows the same support? A lot of attacks on windows are done through the exact same abuse of unpatched/locked down systems ran by people with no clue about computer security in general. Perhaps Linux is MORE dangerous because its being touted as Ultra-Secure compared to windows, and people think that simply running Linux in any form is bullet proof security. Perhaps.
I think vast majority of people can not tell the difference (me included)...And, not wishing to discount what you say, but I cant understand how you can possibly find it so bad either...maybe its just a matter of dont know what your missing till you miss it, but MP3s sound wonderful to me and everyone else I know.
Check out Country Ratings
US comes 13th out of the 16 ranked countries. Funnily enough, for all the outsourcing it gets, India is last.
Man...ditto....
I really got into the whole Home Show programming...but after non stop sh$te about home makeovers, building homes, and retards making money selling homes it just doesnt hold its same appeal...
Alot of these retards made money by the housing market going up and nothing else, the actual money they spent doing a place up was just pi$$ed away and didnt add jack squat to the value.
And this new Wife Swap craze is just opening a whole new can of crap for more XXXX Swap programs.
Ditto. Well said.
"Linux is cost efficient and has more applications available."
Too true! When all those 1000s of SourceForge projects eventually get out of Alpha/Beta or even "Idea" phase we will be in application heaven! So many text editors and email programs I`ll be like a kid in a candy store!
Bah mod me flamebait if you want. Im sticking with my opinion though. You know im right.
Trying to be clever and inventing some idiotic scheme like converting some program files into a sound file and calling it music. Crap like this just makes people look foolish rather than actually bringing up a thought provoking argument and discussion.
I always find it ammusing listening to people claim the legal uses for P2P. Its like standard politics, just keep saying it even though you know its BS. Sure some of it may be legal, but who do they think they are fooling? P2P = copyrighted crap, argue all you want about your tiny amount of free files your sharing, admit it or dont admit it, makes little difference to the facts.
"I don't understand the general mentality in OSS, always re-inventing what is already there. If you doubt me, how many text editors do we have?.. Mail clients?.. if we would all work together on one thing at a time.. it would be amazing what could get done. "
I thought choice was one of the corner stones of open source, now someone trys to create a viable alternative and suddenly its "leave us alone, i dont want to even contemplate something different".