Those of us who work in computer labs know all about those nice big red push buttons that cut the power to the lab... You'll have to have them wired all over your house so when the cops show up to sieze your computer, you'll hit the button and it'll start a goldberg type contraption that'll destory the USB dongle.
Back in the day a band would send their tape to a radio station. If the DJ's liked what they heard they played it. If the people listening liked what they heard, they'd call and ask for more of it.
Here's a good idea... setup a website where bands could submit their music. Then fans could rate it up or down. After a few interations, you'd see the good stuff (or those stuffing the ballot boxes) float to the top. Then get yourself affliated with a couple indie stations and pass on good stuff onto them.
I know that ideas leaves alot of technical stuff out like what format stuff would get distributed in etc...
What you need todo is convince them that they need to outsource their outsourcing! Then you all need to quit enmasse and start your own company that they'll draw employees from;-)
On a serious note, I think the government is going to have todo something about this very soon. Yeah, 20 or 30 thousand jobs go over seas and it's hardly a blip. But if 10 million programming jobs go over seas, that's some serious income tax that gets lost.
In the short term, expect more silliness. However in the long run, I think things will work out for the best.
Firstly: It's alot easier (and cheaper) to blame people pirating music for diminishing record sales then face the fact that people have had their fill of printing press created music.
Producing music is expensive. Scouting talent, culitvating it, helping artists see their vision of what they want their sound to sound like and then getting that all onto a little plastic disk is expensive, complicated and time consuming. Record companies would rather find a working formula and stick with it. Bimbo's sell records? Roll in the bimbos!
Secondly: The whole music industry has invested alot of time and effort into building a highly controlled distribution system. They're just not ready to let go of that. Any technology that disrupts the flow is precieved as a hostile threat.
So, how it this going to work out for the best? Eventally the record companies are going to run out of money and/or fight. They'll realize that playing wack-o-mole with millions of people is just fools folly and does nothing but alienate the people they want buying their product.
This combined with the crumbling of huge radio station conglomerates (because less and less people are listening because their content sucks = less commerial revenue) + billions in debt load means lots of radio stations to be found for cheap money (couple million for a station probably).
With radio stations out of the hands of 10 people means that you'll see lots more variety and radio will actually be cool again.
Also, artists will have control over the use of their content, so I suspect that this combined with better audio tools that'll reduce the cost of album production, means that bands will either give away their music or charge a nomial fee for the phyiscal media and do what they've always done (which is make all their money on the tours).
So, in a nutshell the best thing that could happen to music would be to have all the production companies and radio stations go out of business.
Several Gartner employees were caught using microsoft issued credit cards at bunny ranches in nevada. Also, it's reported that Melinda Gates made them dinner at the Gates house after flying back in Bills private jet...
I don't know what the recycle rate is here in the US, but I try todo my part and recycle as much as I can. As for the fees, those sounds very acceptable. I'd have no problem paying something like that if I knew it would ensure that it didn't end up in a landfill somewhere.
Here in the US, aluminum cans are recycleable for 5 cents.
I've also heard that europe generally has more efficent appliances as well. I know a buddy of mine recently bought a german made dishwasher and is really happy with it.
As a total side note totally off the subject, my ancestors were of Swiss origin! So, it's good to see that one of my many places of origin is doing good for the environment! Now if I could only get my own country to be nearly as effiecent!
Here's the question. Is it easier to engineer a robot that can work in the confines of a fast food reasturant, OR is it easier to just redesign the fast food resturant so the whole thing is just automated.
There's been lots and lots of research put into factory automation... think about it. Do you really think human hands touch those microwavable pork sandwiches you can buy from BJ's? Their totally put together by a big stainless steel machine. All that technology is extremely well understood.
What I could see is that you walk into a fast food resturant and you walk up to an ATM looking machine, swipe your card and choose what you want. Then it would tell you your number and ask you to wait. Then after a few minutes, you'd hear your number called. You'd walk up to the place where you recieve your food and you'd swipe your card and the appropiate door would open and you could retrieve your milkshake/soy burger/etc.
Now where are the employees in this senario? They'd be around, however they'd be there to clean up around the place, resolve any issues the machines might have (burger stuck in gears) and to address any issues customers had.
As for inital installations, airports come to mind. Hell, they've all ready got conveyer belt sidewalks! Now people will be able to eat fast food and stand still!
I'm one of those people who play on percevial and find it really annoying when people come up to you and ask questions like "Can you salvage this helm, thx dude!". I make it a point to lay it on thick at that point... However, you generally find as long as you play in character and keep it the language and topic realivent to what's going on inside the realm, people generally aren't going to freak. As for the example above if the person had said "Good sir, I have a broken helm and I am looking for a craftsmen who could render down so that I may make a better one." I'd have no problem helping them.
I wonder if there's a direct corrilation to those of us who play on the roleplaying servers and how many of us in real life attend Ren Faires?
So, if I work in a privately held company and I'm using linux, how is SCO to know that I'm using it?
They don't have any legal right to come barging in and demanding that we show what we've got running on our servers!
What this all comes down to is greed. SCO doesn't care about the idea of a community. What they see is an opportunity to make money, period.
I guess I'll have to reverse my stance on this. IBM should have bought them lock, stock and barrel and then just gutted the company and released the IP to the public domain.
I hope these devices aren't just sitting out on the internet, but that the government sets up a seperate secure network for all the sensors.
The last thing we need is some [dipshit|terrorist|*] cracking the network and causing mayhem by tricking the system into thinking there are attacks all over the place.
Seriously... something tells me that the serious push for broadband wasn't so grandma could do her geneology research faster... Someone once said that every advancement in media technology only came of age because it could be used to transmit porn.
Now, take a good hard look at your cubemate. You know what they do when they get home... and it's not BF1942... probably gives you good insight into their test bench naming conventions...
Yeah we know... actually we want Russians to install windows on as many machines as they possibly can. Even better, we'd like installed in as many government institutions as possible as well...
Once you've got that all installed, we've got some special "service packs" for you to install... While your installing those, could you also park any experimental aircraft you've got out infront of their hangars around 11:37 moscow time... Thanks;-)
? Yeah, maybe you haven't checked lately, but with each generation humans are getting bigger. Hence why my dad is taller than grampa and I'm taller than my dad.
I don't have a gut, I'm 5'11" and 200lbs. In fact most of my friends are all between 5'5" and 6'4" and are an average of 200lbs.
So, even though I consider myself atypical, I am infact the typical North American caucasian adult male. *shrugs*
I just want to be that dude that goes around office buildings tackling people (and I'm not talking about the BSA!) I think it might be Terry Owens.
You could even have some plot stuff built into it. Like you've gotta tackle some exec before he sells the company, etc. Tackle the UPS guy before he can leave the lobby with the receptionists pen. There could be time trials, most injuries incured in 1 minute. Better yet, they could take some pads and make a DDR type game only instead of dancing around like a boy band member on crack, you'd be have this foam covered rubber pole that you'd jump against to simulate knocking co-workers on their asses. They coulc call it "Tackle revolution" or "Insta-lawsuit";-)
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Those of us who work in computer labs know all about those nice big red push buttons that cut the power to the lab... You'll have to have them wired all over your house so when the cops show up to sieze your computer, you'll hit the button and it'll start a goldberg type contraption that'll destory the USB dongle.
Back in the day a band would send their tape to a radio station. If the DJ's liked what they heard they played it. If the people listening liked what they heard, they'd call and ask for more of it. Here's a good idea... setup a website where bands could submit their music. Then fans could rate it up or down. After a few interations, you'd see the good stuff (or those stuffing the ballot boxes) float to the top. Then get yourself affliated with a couple indie stations and pass on good stuff onto them. I know that ideas leaves alot of technical stuff out like what format stuff would get distributed in etc...
What you need todo is convince them that they need to outsource their outsourcing! Then you all need to quit enmasse and start your own company that they'll draw employees from ;-)
On a serious note, I think the government is going to have todo something about this very soon. Yeah, 20 or 30 thousand jobs go over seas and it's hardly a blip. But if 10 million programming jobs go over seas, that's some serious income tax that gets lost.
In the short term, expect more silliness. However in the long run, I think things will work out for the best.
Firstly: It's alot easier (and cheaper) to blame people pirating music for diminishing record sales then face the fact that people have had their fill of printing press created music.
Producing music is expensive. Scouting talent, culitvating it, helping artists see their vision of what they want their sound to sound like and then getting that all onto a little plastic disk is expensive, complicated and time consuming. Record companies would rather find a working formula and stick with it. Bimbo's sell records? Roll in the bimbos!
Secondly: The whole music industry has invested alot of time and effort into building a highly controlled distribution system. They're just not ready to let go of that. Any technology that disrupts the flow is precieved as a hostile threat.
So, how it this going to work out for the best? Eventally the record companies are going to run out of money and/or fight. They'll realize that playing wack-o-mole with millions of people is just fools folly and does nothing but alienate the people they want buying their product.
This combined with the crumbling of huge radio station conglomerates (because less and less people are listening because their content sucks = less commerial revenue) + billions in debt load means lots of radio stations to be found for cheap money (couple million for a station probably).
With radio stations out of the hands of 10 people means that you'll see lots more variety and radio will actually be cool again.
Also, artists will have control over the use of their content, so I suspect that this combined with better audio tools that'll reduce the cost of album production, means that bands will either give away their music or charge a nomial fee for the phyiscal media and do what they've always done (which is make all their money on the tours).
So, in a nutshell the best thing that could happen to music would be to have all the production companies and radio stations go out of business.
Several Gartner employees were caught using microsoft issued credit cards at bunny ranches in nevada. Also, it's reported that Melinda Gates made them dinner at the Gates house after flying back in Bills private jet...
I was just thinking the same thing! My local library just had a bunch of new PC's donated with nice CD-RW drives.
So, if I go and download a bunch of songs, burn them to CD and then delete them off the machine.
If it's a truely anonymous system. Aka, no camera's, no logging in, no sign in at the desk, how do they know who did the downloading?
Tragically I think the answer is that they'll have to take the anonymous access away or limit access to content to protect themselves from liability.
I don't know what the recycle rate is here in the US, but I try todo my part and recycle as much as I can. As for the fees, those sounds very acceptable. I'd have no problem paying something like that if I knew it would ensure that it didn't end up in a landfill somewhere.
Here in the US, aluminum cans are recycleable for 5 cents.
I've also heard that europe generally has more efficent appliances as well. I know a buddy of mine recently bought a german made dishwasher and is really happy with it.
As a total side note totally off the subject, my ancestors were of Swiss origin! So, it's good to see that one of my many places of origin is doing good for the environment! Now if I could only get my own country to be nearly as effiecent!
My take is rather different on this one.
Here's the question. Is it easier to engineer a robot that can work in the confines of a fast food reasturant, OR is it easier to just redesign the fast food resturant so the whole thing is just automated.
There's been lots and lots of research put into factory automation... think about it. Do you really think human hands touch those microwavable pork sandwiches you can buy from BJ's? Their totally put together by a big stainless steel machine. All that technology is extremely well understood.
What I could see is that you walk into a fast food resturant and you walk up to an ATM looking machine, swipe your card and choose what you want. Then it would tell you your number and ask you to wait. Then after a few minutes, you'd hear your number called. You'd walk up to the place where you recieve your food and you'd swipe your card and the appropiate door would open and you could retrieve your milkshake/soy burger/etc.
Now where are the employees in this senario? They'd be around, however they'd be there to clean up around the place, resolve any issues the machines might have (burger stuck in gears) and to address any issues customers had.
As for inital installations, airports come to mind. Hell, they've all ready got conveyer belt sidewalks! Now people will be able to eat fast food and stand still!
I'm one of those people who play on percevial and find it really annoying when people come up to you and ask questions like "Can you salvage this helm, thx dude!". I make it a point to lay it on thick at that point... However, you generally find as long as you play in character and keep it the language and topic realivent to what's going on inside the realm, people generally aren't going to freak. As for the example above if the person had said "Good sir, I have a broken helm and I am looking for a craftsmen who could render down so that I may make a better one." I'd have no problem helping them.
I wonder if there's a direct corrilation to those of us who play on the roleplaying servers and how many of us in real life attend Ren Faires?
Hmm, I suppose if it was a choice between using Open Server and smoking crack, the crack would probably screw the children up less...
That sounds like a really good idea!
It seems to me as an American, that the Scandanavian countries tend to be very progressive in the realm of recycling.
How much is this "Deposit" though? Does it add significant cost to the product?
Here's the link I referenced: TDP
Along with recycling the waste we're currently creating, I think we should go into a proactive recycling of old waste. Along with reusing the glass and plastic, we should look at using techologies such as >TDP </a> (Thermal Depolymerization Process) to better break down the waste.<p>It frustrates me as an American to see what a wasteful society we are. <i>Everything</i> is desposible. I'd be okay with that if everything was being recycled as well. If there was some synthetic ecosystem of waste and reuse, I wouldn't have to feel the massive guilt I do everytime I purchase something that's whole purpose is to be used one and then discarded.
So, if I work in a privately held company and I'm using linux, how is SCO to know that I'm using it?
They don't have any legal right to come barging in and demanding that we show what we've got running on our servers!
What this all comes down to is greed. SCO doesn't care about the idea of a community. What they see is an opportunity to make money, period.
I guess I'll have to reverse my stance on this. IBM should have bought them lock, stock and barrel and then just gutted the company and released the IP to the public domain.
Hate to break it to you, but it is...
I hope these devices aren't just sitting out on the internet, but that the government sets up a seperate secure network for all the sensors.
The last thing we need is some [dipshit|terrorist|*] cracking the network and causing mayhem by tricking the system into thinking there are attacks all over the place.
Actually, I have a real office with a door that closes with a little window and everything... My company has a policy against cubicles.
Purge? They should just be writing them do /dev/null...
Seriously... something tells me that the serious push for broadband wasn't so grandma could do her geneology research faster... Someone once said that every advancement in media technology only came of age because it could be used to transmit porn.
Now, take a good hard look at your cubemate. You know what they do when they get home... and it's not BF1942... probably gives you good insight into their test bench naming conventions...
Wow, I didn't realize it was that high. Where I live (MA) we've got lots of little airports and you never hear about crashes.
Well, if you take the numbers from 2002, the number of air travelers that died in the US was 0.00%
Annoyingly, even after quoting this number, my wife still cringes at the idea of flying somewhere...
Yeah we know... actually we want Russians to install windows on as many machines as they possibly can. Even better, we'd like installed in as many government institutions as possible as well...
;-)
Once you've got that all installed, we've got some special "service packs" for you to install... While your installing those, could you also park any experimental aircraft you've got out infront of their hangars around 11:37 moscow time... Thanks
? Yeah, maybe you haven't checked lately, but with each generation humans are getting bigger. Hence why my dad is taller than grampa and I'm taller than my dad.
I don't have a gut, I'm 5'11" and 200lbs. In fact most of my friends are all between 5'5" and 6'4" and are an average of 200lbs.
So, even though I consider myself atypical, I am infact the typical North American caucasian adult male. *shrugs*
Actually, american phones use 24volts (if I remember correctly.)
I just want to be that dude that goes around office buildings tackling people (and I'm not talking about the BSA!) I think it might be Terry Owens.
;-)
You could even have some plot stuff built into it. Like you've gotta tackle some exec before he sells the company, etc. Tackle the UPS guy before he can leave the lobby with the receptionists pen. There could be time trials, most injuries incured in 1 minute. Better yet, they could take some pads and make a DDR type game only instead of dancing around like a boy band member on crack, you'd be have this foam covered rubber pole that you'd jump against to simulate knocking co-workers on their asses. They coulc call it "Tackle revolution" or "Insta-lawsuit"