Give it a month or two. Then bitch and complain. That way, in the event that things work out better than you expect, you avoided a month or two of bitching and complaining, and if things work out worse than you expect, you will have plenty of energy for bitching and complaining.
Suspending mark-to-market accounting for bad debt and increasing the FDIC limit to $250,000 aren't the kinds of things which will come back to bite us in a month. Maybe 6 months, maybe a year or two, but eventually the banks won't be able to credibly maintain high enough ficticious values for the securities, and they'll start failing again -- and the $250,000 limit will deplete the FDIC fund even faster.
They can't accept the fact that the free market is what caused this mess.
Because it isn't. There are multiple causes, but it's ridiculous to talk about the free market causing the problem when two of the elephants leading the stampede were the government-sponsored enterprises, Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac.
I'd love for my MythTV box to boot faster. Since it's not silent (though the TV fans are louder, the TV isn't always on either), I leave it turned off, and the long boot time makes it less appliance-like.
Some of you math nuts out there can help me out and give me the exact equasion, which I have not had enough coffee yet to recall, but there is a scientific reason why we do not simply charge directly to 100%.
There is, but it's nothing simple, and it's only for lithium chemistries. NiMH you can charge all the way up to 100% with a constant-current charger.
Well, maybe the quality of internet forums will finally improve once all the "Fr1st ps0t", "me too", and other trolls are weeded out.
Not likely. Because getting their comment posted is MORE important to the trolls than it is to the normals, making it more difficult to post will actually sway the balance in their favor; they are more motivated to jump through the hoops.
Really? So where are all those cars and planes running on nuclear power, solar power, geothermal power or hydro power?
Replace all the coal, oil, and natural gas electrical plants and then we can worry about extracting from the atmosphere the CO2 created by the transportation fuels.
Make some H2 by splitting water and feed both into the Sabatier process, assuming that you have a CO2-neutral power source to power all of this.
Yeah, and if I had some ham, I could have ham and eggs, if I had some eggs.
If we had a carbon-neutral power source good enough to reform the CO2 and H2O back into hydrocarbons, we could use it directly, no need to first extract the CO2 from the air.
Err.. The idea being then that at those depths, bacteria wouldn't get to them? Or that with no oxygen available, decomposition would be infeasible? I have to say, it sounds like an awful lot of work - first to do the digging, and secondly to actually place the cut-down trees in these deposits
Well, you could drop them into certain parts of Lake Superior. We know from experience with logs accidentally dropped there don't decompose for hundreds of years. And no digging required.
I agree that cloud computing can be a very bad idea. I don't agree, though, that GMail is an example of a bad use. Fact is, all my email comes through the "cloud" anyway. Email's not very good if it only works on my own machine. So what difference does it make if I have my email on Gmail as opposed to my ISPs mail server, or a third party mail server I'm paying for?
Which is why most decent IT shops lock down the machines so that new apps cannot be installed on them.
Which is just great until someone, you know, wants to get some work done. Maybe secretaries and data entry people don't need to install apps, but developers are a different matter.
We allow water cooler conversations and the like, but that's because we track your time at your desk using a company log-in system that's part of the IP phone system and corporate chat network. Employees are trained to set their status as away if they leave their desk (for PCs that access critical personal data, logout is detected by the webcam and is instantaneous).
The Devil is said to have many names, but I never knew "sandbags" was among them. Oh well, learn something new every day.
Mine the clathrates now! Capturing and burning them is the only way to halt global catastrophe! A few billion dollars to Exxon and Haliburton is a small price to pay to save the world!
All the shuttered businesses and foreclosed homes which are resulting from the financial mess should reduce energy consumption considerably. Remember, if you're the last one out, DO turn off the lights.
The question is, can your scanner tell the difference between barcodes 2 and 4? That's the problem we are currently facing
That's one reason common barcodes start out with a "guard band". That is, a sequence consisting of bar-space-bar, which allows the scanner to determine the size of the symbols. There's also limitations on the number of the same symbol you can have in a row. Same sort of thing that's done in magnetic formats and RF transmission.
Retailers *really* *are* paranoid about stuff like that, and not even just as related to prices. The layout of things on shelves, the colors and placement of signage, use of lighting, how the back stock is managed -- basically, they consider everything in the entire bloody store to be their own trade secret, even though almost all of it is right out in the open for all to see.
And in this world where almost everyone has a cell phone, and almost every cell phone has a camera, those retailers are just plain screwed.
Would a security expert really by "stunned" by this? Sounds like business as usual to me.
Never seen Casablanca, have you?
Captain Renault: I'm shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here! [a croupier hands Renault a pile of money] Croupier: Your winnings, sir.
If you believe stem cell research is evil, you have to at the very least turn down any treatment from multi-purpose cells like this, say you were wrong, or admit you are a hypocrite.
The "fruit of the poison tree" approach only goes so far. Should we discard research done on injured or killed soldiers because that would be benefiting from the evil of war?
Not really. IPS cell technology is still based off of knowledge from and studies using human embryonic stem cells. This new approach wouldn't exist without the type of research the Vatican and Republicans oppose.
While the Vatican is very big on the fruit-of-the-poisoned-tree stuff (what's original sin if not that?), they don't actually expect people not to use the stuff, just to feel guilty about it.
It's useful. It's novel. It's non-obvious (at least to me, but I don't claim to be an expert).
Unlike so many other business method patents, which fail the last two tests miserably, this one cuts through the implementation details and shows why the whole concept of a business method patent is fatally flawed. I doubt that's what IBM intended however.
True but incomplete. Society rewards people who take big risks and succeed. Those that take risks and don't succeed get a Darwin-award or a bankruptcy.
Bill Gates, of course -- a programmer from the start. Hans Reiser. He didn't make the list, but IMO ReiserFS should have put him on the list before he gained lasting infamy. Linus Torvalds Brian Kernighan & Dennis M. Ritchie Bill Atkinson Ada Lovelace Grace Hopper Steve Wozniak (though I think of him more as an engineer)
Some of the other names I think of as famous, but not so much as programmers -- Wirth, Backus, and Dijkstra I think of as computer scientists, for instance.
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Suspending mark-to-market accounting for bad debt and increasing the FDIC limit to $250,000 aren't the kinds of things which will come back to bite us in a month. Maybe 6 months, maybe a year or two, but eventually the banks won't be able to credibly maintain high enough ficticious values for the securities, and they'll start failing again -- and the $250,000 limit will deplete the FDIC fund even faster.
Because it isn't. There are multiple causes, but it's ridiculous to talk about the free market causing the problem when two of the elephants leading the stampede were the government-sponsored enterprises, Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac.
I'd love for my MythTV box to boot faster. Since it's not silent (though the TV fans are louder, the TV isn't always on either), I leave it turned off, and the long boot time makes it less appliance-like.
They were probably comparing a 110V 15A outlet to a 220V 30A outlet (e.g. a dryer plug).
There is, but it's nothing simple, and it's only for lithium chemistries. NiMH you can charge all the way up to 100% with a constant-current charger.
Not likely. Because getting their comment posted is MORE important to the trolls than it is to the normals, making it more difficult to post will actually sway the balance in their favor; they are more motivated to jump through the hoops.
Replace all the coal, oil, and natural gas electrical plants and then we can worry about extracting from the atmosphere the CO2 created by the transportation fuels.
Yeah, and if I had some ham, I could have ham and eggs, if I had some eggs.
If we had a carbon-neutral power source good enough to reform the CO2 and H2O back into hydrocarbons, we could use it directly, no need to first extract the CO2 from the air.
Well, you could drop them into certain parts of Lake Superior. We know from experience with logs accidentally dropped there don't decompose for hundreds of years. And no digging required.
Because in a week I'm going to be auto-DOSing every frigging zombie which connects to my servers and tries to send spam or crack SSH.
(No, not really. Besides, the botnet people would probably turn off syncookies on their zombies)
I agree that cloud computing can be a very bad idea. I don't agree, though, that GMail is an example of a bad use. Fact is, all my email comes through the "cloud" anyway. Email's not very good if it only works on my own machine. So what difference does it make if I have my email on Gmail as opposed to my ISPs mail server, or a third party mail server I'm paying for?
Which is just great until someone, you know, wants to get some work done. Maybe secretaries and data entry people don't need to install apps, but developers are a different matter.
The Devil is said to have many names, but I never knew "sandbags" was among them. Oh well, learn something new every day.
Real: Oh, no problem, we can pay the souls out of petty cash. Um, are they still "innocent" if they were trying to watch porn when we "buffered" them?
Mine the clathrates now! Capturing and burning them is the only way to halt global catastrophe! A few billion dollars to Exxon and Haliburton is a small price to pay to save the world!
All the shuttered businesses and foreclosed homes which are resulting from the financial mess should reduce energy consumption considerably. Remember, if you're the last one out, DO turn off the lights.
That's one reason common barcodes start out with a "guard band". That is, a sequence consisting of bar-space-bar, which allows the scanner to determine the size of the symbols. There's also limitations on the number of the same symbol you can have in a row. Same sort of thing that's done in magnetic formats and RF transmission.
And in this world where almost everyone has a cell phone, and almost every cell phone has a camera, those retailers are just plain screwed.
Never seen Casablanca, have you?
Captain Renault: I'm shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here!
[a croupier hands Renault a pile of money]
Croupier: Your winnings, sir.
The "fruit of the poison tree" approach only goes so far. Should we discard research done on injured or killed soldiers because that would be benefiting from the evil of war?
While the Vatican is very big on the fruit-of-the-poisoned-tree stuff (what's original sin if not that?), they don't actually expect people not to use the stuff, just to feel guilty about it.
Generally the reason for a root canal is that the tooth has died. So that tooth is no longer filled with live stem cells.
It's useful. It's novel. It's non-obvious (at least to me, but I don't claim to be an expert).
Unlike so many other business method patents, which fail the last two tests miserably, this one cuts through the implementation details and shows why the whole concept of a business method patent is fatally flawed. I doubt that's what IBM intended however.
That's not what Alan Fishman says.
Bill Gates, of course -- a programmer from the start.
Hans Reiser. He didn't make the list, but IMO ReiserFS should have put him on the list before he gained lasting infamy.
Linus Torvalds
Brian Kernighan & Dennis M. Ritchie
Bill Atkinson
Ada Lovelace
Grace Hopper
Steve Wozniak (though I think of him more as an engineer)
Some of the other names I think of as famous, but not so much as programmers -- Wirth, Backus, and Dijkstra I think of as computer scientists, for instance.