You are kidding, right? I think Sgrena is flattering herself a bit much if she really thinks the US wanted her dead - someone that up to that point was as far as the US was concerned still a hostage. The Italians *did not* tell the US that they were coming, with their just freed hostage. I also find it interesting that she claims the car was riddled with 400 rounds, which would make me ask if that were really the case, why is she still alive?
The italians also claimed they were driving just 30mph, though satellite pics indicates otherwise.
Sgrena also claimed that was able to pickup handfuls of bullets off of the seats of her car, supporting her claim of 400 rounds fired. Anyone who knows anything about ballistics knows bullets do not pass through one side of a car and then land harmlessly on the seat. They would either embed themselves in the opposite side of the vehicle, or pass all the way through. They would also probably be way too hot to touch.
She also at one point claimed to have been shot with a 4 inch tank round. People who are shot by 4" rounds do not live to talk about it.
I think the true story here is that Sgrena didn't like the US before this happened, and is inclined to try and paint by any means the US as the responsible party here.
It would make life better for the rest of us, and thus encourage html/xhtml development for web applications. I wouldn't be surprised though if msft by not supporting CSS is trying to make xaml into the next big webapp platform. The deal there being, if people have failed to learn from history and bite, they'll be locked into Windows yet all over again.
Windows isn't really done, but this was my thought when IBM put their pc business up for sale. Back in the day, it was this group because of pressure from Microsoft that would put up internal ibm roadblocks to their own OS/2. I imagine they initially weren't that friendly to Linux, either. Dumping this low-margin business though has the added benefit of letting IBM focus on their hardware and services. If IBM wants to sell Linux, OS/400, Windows, etc, there's not much msft can do about it legally or otherwise now.
They are apparently including the opensource hsql database engine. I imagine that's the backend if you need it - otherwise, as this screenshot indicates, you can connect to an existing database server and use that. In that case, this becomes a pretty front end.
It's a misleading title - I originally read it as market share as well, thinking Windows would have had to been trounced to account for those numbers. It's not though, but only refers to revenue, where Unix/Linux/Windows are all up.
I don't know how much of that initial number is real estate - though in some countries it is obviously easier to come by. I also suspect that when one or two of these things are built, their cost would have to come down relative to the power output as risk decreases. I also agree with the original posters point on the relative cost though - the physical generator is gonig to cost the same whether your Kenya or Japan - you still have to buy from the same vendors.
Where I think this might have interesting possibilities is in those countries that make the international community nervous when they start talking about the need for nuclear power plants.
Hot air rises - and it also expands, adding to the effect. It's too bad this type of generator cannot be incorporated into existing structures but on a smaller scale - i.e. office buildings, blacktop streets to heat air, etc.
I believe it's
China and Russia, with the Veto's, that are not allowing anything in regards to Darfur get through the security council.
As to the Dues, the money used for Peace Keeping comes out of a budget meant just for that purpose, and does not come from the general administrative budget.
The UN can't respond to something as catastrophic as genocide w/ in a year or two of its happening, and normally then it's "ah,... ". This is nothing but a power grab - their interest is not in humanities welfare. I vote NO on rewarding incompetence and nepotism.
A good way to do that is for every offending model/company, post it to slashdot or an appropriately public place, along with comment and a reminder of why this is *bad*. I would hope that negative publicity would cause these companies to change behavior.
I think China is the big unknown in this whole thing. If NK *does* have the bomb, SK and Japan are not going to sit by and not develop one themselves. China you can also be sure DOES NOT want a nuclear armed S Korea or Japan. So I think the interesting question in this whole thing is, what is China going to do?
Pakistan does have serious issues, you are right. Not to mention they didn't even prosecute the physicist because he's now some sort of local hero.
Here's the 'but' though - Nukes are most dangerous when in the hands of a nut-job, and NK's Kim Jong-Il would have to take the prize, making Pakistans Musharraf look like Mother Teresa by comparison.
My big question though now that the genie is out of the bottle, is what will Japan's immediate reaction be, or South Korea's for that matter? I can't imagine China believes that these two countries are both going to sit by while North Korea has the bomb and they don't. I also don't imagine that China want's a nuclear S. Korea or Japan, so that brings us back to N. Korea. I wonder maybe if China isn't as much in North Korea's corner as they really think.
I have to agree. The recent 'mini-arcs' have been pretty good, and I've been actually looking forward to each episode and not just watching out of boredom. Too bad it took them four years to find this out though.
I 2nd the squeezebox. This little thing can play so many formats either natively, or through server side decoding. That, and your server can be win, lin, mac, bsd, solaris, etc. Shoot, Debian even has a compatible server in their apt repository. The price is quite a bit less (I'm guessing) than the described mac setup above.
If it were me - even if I had to pay someone to do this - I'd get someone to run cat5 through your new house and put drops whereever you're going to have a computer or stereo. As you will probably have a wireless network anyway though, not a real issue.
Your cost after cable would be 279 * stereos, + a computer to store your music (mp3, mp2, aiff, wav, ogg, aac, wma, apple lossless, and flac). Not a bad deal for the functionality.
1GB CF for $69 at pcmall.com. Doesn't sound too bad to me - especially when you knock the price down on this camcorder if they offered a version w/o internal memory. I wish they'd just make a digital camcorder that used an open standard memory device (CF or SD), so as to lessen the costs. Being able to store only a limited amount of video if you're say on vacation and away from your computer is a limiting factor in my mind. They say you can use the Memory Sticks, though I own nothing else that uses that form factor - and they're pricier anyways.
Remember, you'd also most likely re-use your cf cards anyways, and use your computer (or CD/DVDs) for permanent storage. Not having to buy camcorder tapes will save some money in the long run I'm sure.
Airbus receives Launch Aid in the form of interest based LOANS.
If I remember correctly, these only have to be paid back if the product under development with these loans turns a profit - kind of takes the risk out of business.
I also think the idea of tax-cuts as aid is a bit gray as well. If the tax rate was simply lower, it wouldn't be called a cut. That then asks what are the comparitive tax rates - something I'm not sure we should be getting into unless we want to form a world government.
Airbus does lease factories off of local governments at a favourable rate tho, but this isnt covered under hte 1992 agreement, and so is a gray area.
The EU subsidising Airbus factories would be aid plain and simple, and would also strengthen the US case that the '92 agreement has to be redone.
Boeing outsourced the wing and center fuselage construction to Japan, where the three firms making the sections are 75% subsidised by the Japanese government, allowing these sections to be sold to Boeing much cheaper than they otherwise would be.
Not sure where you got these numbers, but if true, strikes me more as Japan using this scheme to buy US technology and nurture their own aviation industry more than anything else. Otherwise, it'd be much cheaper for them to just place those workers on state welfare.
I think the real crux of the matter is stated above in a few places. Why would Japan aid a non-profitable industry, and maintain that financial burden - when market forces without state aid would probably dictate they do something else. Same with Washington State tax cuts - those should be lowered across the board if Washington is not competitive with other states - or other items comensorate with that have to change. Ditto to the EU subsidizing Airbus factories and giving Airbus those loans. If the WTO were to simply come out and state all governments must have hands off, this would be resolved tomorrow.
Another dominant company in their market. They decided in the 80's/90's though to focus on manufacturing and parsing their vehicles into segments, and ignored investing in quality or innovative product. They are only now trying to correct that after being continuously hammered in the market place.
I hope Intel doesn't make the same mistake, only focusing on manufacturing processes, and not bothering to invest in the designs of what they are actually manufacturing.
I've actually seen that before, and it is very cool. The only niggle I had with it when I last tried it (awhile ago) was the added bandwidth to any IE users.
As technologists who appreciate standards and their benefits, it surprises me that no one has created a plugin for IE so that it can RENDER AS MOZILLA or Firefox. If such a beast existed, then those web developers that really gave a damn about css and standards could just target gecko, and be done with it.
I *think* what they were saying is that because there is constant thrust during the entire trip as opposed to a massive amount at just the very beginning, that constant thrust would in effect simulate gravity. This might be the intent, but the reality is it would be very low, and I would love to see someone calculate the actual generated g's.
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You are kidding, right? I think Sgrena is flattering herself a bit much if she really thinks the US wanted her dead - someone that up to that point was as far as the US was concerned still a hostage. The Italians *did not* tell the US that they were coming, with their just freed hostage. I also find it interesting that she claims the car was riddled with 400 rounds, which would make me ask if that were really the case, why is she still alive?
The italians also claimed they were driving just 30mph, though satellite pics indicates otherwise.
Sgrena also claimed that was able to pickup handfuls of bullets off of the seats of her car, supporting her claim of 400 rounds fired. Anyone who knows anything about ballistics knows bullets do not pass through one side of a car and then land harmlessly on the seat. They would either embed themselves in the opposite side of the vehicle, or pass all the way through. They would also probably be way too hot to touch.
She also at one point claimed to have been shot with a 4 inch tank round. People who are shot by 4" rounds do not live to talk about it.
I think the true story here is that Sgrena didn't like the US before this happened, and is inclined to try and paint by any means the US as the responsible party here.
It would make life better for the rest of us, and thus encourage html/xhtml development for web applications. I wouldn't be surprised though if msft by not supporting CSS is trying to make xaml into the next big webapp platform. The deal there being, if people have failed to learn from history and bite, they'll be locked into Windows yet all over again.
That's it - his new office appears to be separated from Infospaces offices by at most a few floors.
Windows isn't really done, but this was my thought when IBM put their pc business up for sale. Back in the day, it was this group because of pressure from Microsoft that would put up internal ibm roadblocks to their own OS/2. I imagine they initially weren't that friendly to Linux, either. Dumping this low-margin business though has the added benefit of letting IBM focus on their hardware and services. If IBM wants to sell Linux, OS/400, Windows, etc, there's not much msft can do about it legally or otherwise now.
They are apparently including the opensource hsql database engine. I imagine that's the backend if you need it - otherwise, as this screenshot indicates, you can connect to an existing database server and use that. In that case, this becomes a pretty front end.
I just had this image of Gates as Lord Farquaad in Shrek.
It's a misleading title - I originally read it as market share as well, thinking Windows would have had to been trounced to account for those numbers. It's not though, but only refers to revenue, where Unix/Linux/Windows are all up.
Invisible hell. One more drink past that and I can fly.
I don't know how much of that initial number is real estate - though in some countries it is obviously easier to come by. I also suspect that when one or two of these things are built, their cost would have to come down relative to the power output as risk decreases. I also agree with the original posters point on the relative cost though - the physical generator is gonig to cost the same whether your Kenya or Japan - you still have to buy from the same vendors.
Where I think this might have interesting possibilities is in those countries that make the international community nervous when they start talking about the need for nuclear power plants.
Hot air rises - and it also expands, adding to the effect. It's too bad this type of generator cannot be incorporated into existing structures but on a smaller scale - i.e. office buildings, blacktop streets to heat air, etc.
I believe it's China and Russia, with the Veto's, that are not allowing anything in regards to Darfur get through the security council.
As to the Dues, the money used for Peace Keeping comes out of a budget meant just for that purpose, and does not come from the general administrative budget.
The UN can't respond to something as catastrophic as genocide w/ in a year or two of its happening, and normally then it's "ah, ... ". This is nothing but a power grab - their interest is not in humanities welfare. I vote NO on rewarding incompetence and nepotism.
A good way to do that is for every offending model/company, post it to slashdot or an appropriately public place, along with comment and a reminder of why this is *bad*. I would hope that negative publicity would cause these companies to change behavior.
I think China is the big unknown in this whole thing. If NK *does* have the bomb, SK and Japan are not going to sit by and not develop one themselves. China you can also be sure DOES NOT want a nuclear armed S Korea or Japan. So I think the interesting question in this whole thing is, what is China going to do?
Pakistan does have serious issues, you are right. Not to mention they didn't even prosecute the physicist because he's now some sort of local hero.
Here's the 'but' though - Nukes are most dangerous when in the hands of a nut-job, and NK's Kim Jong-Il would have to take the prize, making Pakistans Musharraf look like Mother Teresa by comparison.
My big question though now that the genie is out of the bottle, is what will Japan's immediate reaction be, or South Korea's for that matter? I can't imagine China believes that these two countries are both going to sit by while North Korea has the bomb and they don't. I also don't imagine that China want's a nuclear S. Korea or Japan, so that brings us back to N. Korea. I wonder maybe if China isn't as much in North Korea's corner as they really think.
I have to agree. The recent 'mini-arcs' have been pretty good, and I've been actually looking forward to each episode and not just watching out of boredom. Too bad it took them four years to find this out though.
I 2nd the squeezebox. This little thing can play so many formats either natively, or through server side decoding. That, and your server can be win, lin, mac, bsd, solaris, etc. Shoot, Debian even has a compatible server in their apt repository. The price is quite a bit less (I'm guessing) than the described mac setup above.
If it were me - even if I had to pay someone to do this - I'd get someone to run cat5 through your new house and put drops whereever you're going to have a computer or stereo. As you will probably have a wireless network anyway though, not a real issue.
Your cost after cable would be 279 * stereos, + a computer to store your music (mp3, mp2, aiff, wav, ogg, aac, wma, apple lossless, and flac). Not a bad deal for the functionality.
1GB CF for $69 at pcmall.com. Doesn't sound too bad to me - especially when you knock the price down on this camcorder if they offered a version w/o internal memory. I wish they'd just make a digital camcorder that used an open standard memory device (CF or SD), so as to lessen the costs. Being able to store only a limited amount of video if you're say on vacation and away from your computer is a limiting factor in my mind. They say you can use the Memory Sticks, though I own nothing else that uses that form factor - and they're pricier anyways.
Remember, you'd also most likely re-use your cf cards anyways, and use your computer (or CD/DVDs) for permanent storage. Not having to buy camcorder tapes will save some money in the long run I'm sure.
If I remember correctly, these only have to be paid back if the product under development with these loans turns a profit - kind of takes the risk out of business.
I also think the idea of tax-cuts as aid is a bit gray as well. If the tax rate was simply lower, it wouldn't be called a cut. That then asks what are the comparitive tax rates - something I'm not sure we should be getting into unless we want to form a world government.
The EU subsidising Airbus factories would be aid plain and simple, and would also strengthen the US case that the '92 agreement has to be redone.
Not sure where you got these numbers, but if true, strikes me more as Japan using this scheme to buy US technology and nurture their own aviation industry more than anything else. Otherwise, it'd be much cheaper for them to just place those workers on state welfare.I think the real crux of the matter is stated above in a few places. Why would Japan aid a non-profitable industry, and maintain that financial burden - when market forces without state aid would probably dictate they do something else. Same with Washington State tax cuts - those should be lowered across the board if Washington is not competitive with other states - or other items comensorate with that have to change. Ditto to the EU subsidizing Airbus factories and giving Airbus those loans. If the WTO were to simply come out and state all governments must have hands off, this would be resolved tomorrow.
Ford (mercury) is apparently coming out with a diesel-electric hybrid in 2007, and it qualifies for near-zero emmissions.
Another dominant company in their market. They decided in the 80's/90's though to focus on manufacturing and parsing their vehicles into segments, and ignored investing in quality or innovative product. They are only now trying to correct that after being continuously hammered in the market place.
I hope Intel doesn't make the same mistake, only focusing on manufacturing processes, and not bothering to invest in the designs of what they are actually manufacturing.
I've actually seen that before, and it is very cool. The only niggle I had with it when I last tried it (awhile ago) was the added bandwidth to any IE users.
As technologists who appreciate standards and their benefits, it surprises me that no one has created a plugin for IE so that it can RENDER AS MOZILLA or Firefox. If such a beast existed, then those web developers that really gave a damn about css and standards could just target gecko, and be done with it.
There is 5280ft in a mile, and 3600 seconds in an hour. 7/5280 * 3600 = 4.77 mph.
I *think* what they were saying is that because there is constant thrust during the entire trip as opposed to a massive amount at just the very beginning, that constant thrust would in effect simulate gravity. This might be the intent, but the reality is it would be very low, and I would love to see someone calculate the actual generated g's.