You can't honestly be serious. Your guy lost a very close election, and you now feel personally threatened?
It's now clear that we hate the majority and that they hate us - this is crazy. It's okay to disagree with people without you hating them or them you. If you think otherwise, I really have to wonder what your honest opinion about civil discourse and democracy really is.
I think democrats could have found a candidate more palpable to the majority of americans than Kerry, and won this election by a decent margin. Democrats shouldn't blame the rest of the country for their loss, but sit back and determine how they can do better next time - and not leave the game.
I had thought it was 60 Minutes, but it was apparently DateLine that fabrictaed a story about exploding General Motors trucks in the 80's. They wanted to do a story on trucks exploding when in collisions - the only problem they had was that they didn't. So they undid the gas caps, poured fuel all over the place, inserted a detonator or two, you get the idea. They lost the court case pretty convincingly when GM sued
Corporations selling product lying to me is bad enough - but I recognize that there's a motive there for them to do so, and why. News organizations shoveling crap for ratings though is another ball of wax. These people should go to jail.
I absolutely agree - people love challenges. It's also apparent that private industry might be better suited (more agile) at this than public institutions. Congress couldn't finish debating the financing before someone else would have completed the task.
An interesting historical note, these kinds of competitions were popular in the 20's and 30's to spur aviation development. Quite a bit of the money was put up my newspaper owners.
Actually - a recent Discovery show on this had a few interviews with Rutan, and in one of them he was holding a model of a booster rocket with Space Ship One on top. I suspect it wasn't supposed to be the original though, but the 7-seat successor they're already talking about.
The Discovery Channel had a great documentary on Rutan's attempt at the x-prize on last night, and there will probably be re-runs. The guy is an absolute genious, he's probably the closest to a real life Zeframe Cochran that we'll ever have - at least in our lifetimes.
He talked about some of the challenges that they overcame that government space programs have not - for instance re-entering the earth's atmosphere in a composite vehicle w/o tiles or heat sheilds, such as what the Space Shuttle OR the X-15 had. Space Ship One is designed to essentially fold up so that it falls in an aerodynamically and controlled manner. When it reaches and altitude and speed where the control surfaces are effective again, it turns itself back into a glider.
During one of the interview segments between him and camera, he mentioned a private mission to pluto that was in the planning stages by another group - he didn't say if he was involved in that - but he did openly talk about plans for a 7-seat version of Space Ship One, plans for a psuedo space hotel, plans to put a version of Space Ship One on a booster rocket to get into orbit, etc. Him and a few employees mentioned the next five years being incredible, and the next ten-fifteen even more so than that.
I've posted this before - and I'll post again. Peoples political core beliefs tend to be two dimensional, while our political system is one dimensional. That's the reason we have the terms "Social Conservative" or "Fiscal Conservative" vs. "Socially Liberal" or "Fiscal Liberal".
Many people vote their religeon, others their social values, and still others on how they feel the government should run in regards to both personal and governmental financial responsibility. That's why I think the whole left/right thing is an over simplification.
My question - does this also bear on our ability to predict comet/asteroid strikes and near-misses in the future? I didn't see any numbers on the margin of error over this 30 year span.
China should be concerned - for this reason. If NK does have nukes, it won't be long before South Korea and Japan do as well. China has ZERO interest in seeing either of those two countries gain nuke capabilities. If NK were to remain nuke free, they could reasonably expect South Korea and Japan to remain so also - but all bets are off if that is not the case.
Would it be possible to create a 'plugin' version of the Gecko Renderer for IE? Design std compliant pages that work with Gecko, and for IE Browsers, specify that they need the plugin - netscape/mozilla/firefox users need not worry as they have the required functionality built in.
Read a book on the Mossad once. At least the parts they allowed to be written about. I'd have to agree with the context of your question, they are not people to mess with.
It was a very well written article, balanced from a technical point of view which most 'dotters appreciate, and a usability convenience aspect which blocks us from getting everyone we know on this software. I live if msft country though, and coming from msn, this is going to be a great link to send around.
Congress has talked about doing away with bundling, letting subscribers pick and choose channels. If that happens, watch the crud channels die away as no one subscribes to them - accentuating this apparent trend of fewer channels.
The ironic part is that those channels that may not get the audience now may in the future under a law like this thrive, driving other channels out.
Something else that I find ironic is such a scheme would promote a free market in cable channels - quality would matter again. If Congress doesn't pass this law though I suspect it will only be because of contributions from 'free market' capitalists heading these cable companies.
You've hit a nail on the head I think, describing Kerry & Bush in relation to their Euro counterparts. It has always made me scratch my head a bit that politicians everywhere are often times described as either liberal or conservative. Blair is liberal, Chirac is conservative. Kerry is liberal (though probably more conservative than Chirac), etc.
I think the libertarian quiz page (a bit slanted to convince you you're libertarian) has an interesting point on this, that political affiliation is not 1 dimensional.
Unless the aliens come. Then you could be Bruce Willis in Space! This would be a lot more realistic than Bruce Willis at sea turning into Bruce Willis in space.
I set my parents up with a wireless network in their house, and had the same issues. Mine might be just a bit better than yours though, as *all* their hardware is 802.11g, and it's all Linksys. The WinME laptop, using the Linksys software, connected w/o problem first time.
The machine running XP would only connect w/o WEP enabled, and if I was within about six feet of the router. Once connected, I could walk outside the house - it'd refuse to pickup the network though unless I was in or next to the closet, and as long as WEP wasn't being used. Of course, after totally whacking security on it, it'd pickup from anywhere in the house.
Its unfortunate that the one company in a position to drive security, ease of use, etc. is also in a position that removes any incentive for them to do so.
Well, it is, just that, a generalization. Unlike most generalizations, however, this one actually has some value when you examine it.
You are correct in that there is for the most part value in this one - though I'd be happier if you didn't start by lumping me into the 'Pig' category.
My criticism would nearly be as hard if most everyone did as you seem to do. That is, have one truck or SUV for doing your work and hauling and another for actually moving people around.
I assume the would should be wouldn't:)
I'm still hoping for what I described earlier - not just newer and more efficient technology, but the will by manufacturers/government to use that technology.
Nice Generalization. I own an SUV, for one reason, and considering current gas prices, one reason only; to tow a trailer and still carry the family. A crew cab truck could do the same - but that's just a bigger SUV.
If not for that, and Toyota Siennas and Subaru Outbacks do not tow trailers, I'd have something else - probably a minivan of some sort. Our other vehicle is a Toyota Corolla (Pontiac Vibe actually, rebadged Toyota) which gets used for 80% of our driving (literally), so we're not suffering that much for mileage.
What cracks me up (not really, it's frustrating) though is that US Manufacturers that do sell diesels do not do it for mileage purposes, but only for larger trucks that require heavy load capacities. They only sell large diesels. I'm assuming it's to do with the available diesel fuel and emissions. Checkout this study by Cummins (1 of the big 3 diesel engine companies in the US) on building a light diesel for the Durango. I'd love to see a smaller diesel motor such as this combined with a hybrid setup like GM is working on.
As an alternative to the above, I think that California has a good idea with mandating hydrogen pumping stations by 2010. I think the use of hydrogen in vehicles is being hampered by a chicken and egg type of problem, there will be no vehicles w/o the fuel, and no fuel without the vehicles. I think this will remove that for car manufacturers, and hopefully the public will latch on and buy.
To the parent poster - what do you drive with a 5.7L engine that's not a block - a Corvette, or something from Daimler-Chrysler with the Hemi?
My Parents have been tired of me moaning about Windows forever - but the recent spate of viruses and spyware had them asking for help. I installed Firefox on their machines, and they're totally in love. The thing that sold my Dad was the available extensions. My Mom also loved the no-pop ups, the better security, etc. Next I'll sneak Mandrake or Fedora onto their boxes:)
I'm not in the navy, so I'll plead ignorance here. But doesn't 'Stealth' technology seem kind of wasted on what is essentially a mine layer? The article also said this corvette would be used for anti-submarine warfare - last I checked, subs use sonar, and are very rarely on the surface in a position to use radar.
Question - does anyone know how difficult a hull breach would be to repair on a vessel with this material? I'd assume that dockyards are setup to weld repairs on std. naval craft, but this would be a new challenge I'm sure.
Have you ever heard a contractor or purchasing government ever claim something was not affordable? I think the parent poster had an interesting idea though - if a private company thinks it can produce and use a albeit smaller spacecraft profitably, they probably have some ideas worth looking at.
Thanks to AMD and their recent successes in the market, Intel it seems is finally focussing on their core business - manufacturing successively faster processors, not inventing new marketing schemes. Before this announcement I could only imagine chips like these being reserved for high-end xeons.
You say that if they legally could these companies would employ slaves. Well I am sure the same could be said of the American companies.
I believe he *was* referring to american companies - the article is about american companies outsourcing their labor over seas. His point being these companies would go to the bottom of the barrel to save a dollar.
Oh wait! They did. And they also profited from Nazi forced labor. Holier than thou indeed.Just one of the examples.
I suspect that American companies in WWII Germany were most likely in effect nationalized by the nazis during the course of the war. I somehow doubt there was an american manager in the background calling the shots. 'Yes, Hanz. Cancel that last order of fighter planes the Germans ordered. It's going to be bad for our British operations.'
I myself have mixed feelings about the whole outsourcing thing - economic theory would seem to suggest that lower paying jobs moving to where they are more efficiently tasked would free labor here for more specialized higher paying jobs. The crow bar in that though being where are those higher paying jobs at. Barrett himself didn't seem to have the answer.
In terms of Craig Barrett and Intel, I think it is interesting that Intel refuses to pay any margin on their labor, but when it comes to selling their product, they prefer a more closed market with excessive margins.
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You can't honestly be serious. Your guy lost a very close election, and you now feel personally threatened?
It's now clear that we hate the majority and that they hate us - this is crazy. It's okay to disagree with people without you hating them or them you. If you think otherwise, I really have to wonder what your honest opinion about civil discourse and democracy really is.
I think democrats could have found a candidate more palpable to the majority of americans than Kerry, and won this election by a decent margin. Democrats shouldn't blame the rest of the country for their loss, but sit back and determine how they can do better next time - and not leave the game.
Or they would if this were really a problem for them. Makes one wonder.
Can't say :)
I had thought it was 60 Minutes, but it was apparently DateLine that fabrictaed a story about exploding General Motors trucks in the 80's. They wanted to do a story on trucks exploding when in collisions - the only problem they had was that they didn't. So they undid the gas caps, poured fuel all over the place, inserted a detonator or two, you get the idea. They lost the court case pretty convincingly when GM sued
Corporations selling product lying to me is bad enough - but I recognize that there's a motive there for them to do so, and why. News organizations shoveling crap for ratings though is another ball of wax. These people should go to jail.
I absolutely agree - people love challenges. It's also apparent that private industry might be better suited (more agile) at this than public institutions. Congress couldn't finish debating the financing before someone else would have completed the task.
An interesting historical note, these kinds of competitions were popular in the 20's and 30's to spur aviation development. Quite a bit of the money was put up my newspaper owners.
Actually - a recent Discovery show on this had a few interviews with Rutan, and in one of them he was holding a model of a booster rocket with Space Ship One on top. I suspect it wasn't supposed to be the original though, but the 7-seat successor they're already talking about.
The Discovery Channel had a great documentary on Rutan's attempt at the x-prize on last night, and there will probably be re-runs. The guy is an absolute genious, he's probably the closest to a real life Zeframe Cochran that we'll ever have - at least in our lifetimes.
He talked about some of the challenges that they overcame that government space programs have not - for instance re-entering the earth's atmosphere in a composite vehicle w/o tiles or heat sheilds, such as what the Space Shuttle OR the X-15 had. Space Ship One is designed to essentially fold up so that it falls in an aerodynamically and controlled manner. When it reaches and altitude and speed where the control surfaces are effective again, it turns itself back into a glider.
During one of the interview segments between him and camera, he mentioned a private mission to pluto that was in the planning stages by another group - he didn't say if he was involved in that - but he did openly talk about plans for a 7-seat version of Space Ship One, plans for a psuedo space hotel, plans to put a version of Space Ship One on a booster rocket to get into orbit, etc. Him and a few employees mentioned the next five years being incredible, and the next ten-fifteen even more so than that.
I've posted this before - and I'll post again. Peoples political core beliefs tend to be two dimensional, while our political system is one dimensional. That's the reason we have the terms "Social Conservative" or "Fiscal Conservative" vs. "Socially Liberal" or "Fiscal Liberal".
Many people vote their religeon, others their social values, and still others on how they feel the government should run in regards to both personal and governmental financial responsibility. That's why I think the whole left/right thing is an over simplification.
My question - does this also bear on our ability to predict comet/asteroid strikes and near-misses in the future? I didn't see any numbers on the margin of error over this 30 year span.
China should be concerned - for this reason. If NK does have nukes, it won't be long before South Korea and Japan do as well. China has ZERO interest in seeing either of those two countries gain nuke capabilities. If NK were to remain nuke free, they could reasonably expect South Korea and Japan to remain so also - but all bets are off if that is not the case.
Would it be possible to create a 'plugin' version of the Gecko Renderer for IE? Design std compliant pages that work with Gecko, and for IE Browsers, specify that they need the plugin - netscape/mozilla/firefox users need not worry as they have the required functionality built in.
Read a book on the Mossad once. At least the parts they allowed to be written about. I'd have to agree with the context of your question, they are not people to mess with.
It was a very well written article, balanced from a technical point of view which most 'dotters appreciate, and a usability convenience aspect which blocks us from getting everyone we know on this software. I live if msft country though, and coming from msn, this is going to be a great link to send around.
Congress has talked about doing away with bundling, letting subscribers pick and choose channels. If that happens, watch the crud channels die away as no one subscribes to them - accentuating this apparent trend of fewer channels.
The ironic part is that those channels that may not get the audience now may in the future under a law like this thrive, driving other channels out.
Something else that I find ironic is such a scheme would promote a free market in cable channels - quality would matter again. If Congress doesn't pass this law though I suspect it will only be because of contributions from 'free market' capitalists heading these cable companies.
The squeeze box also requires server software, but they do have a linux version, apparently GPL'd. It's available on debian sarge as slimp3.
http://www.slimp3.com/
I only found this because I was looking for something that'd play ogg vorbis files as well.
You've hit a nail on the head I think, describing Kerry & Bush in relation to their Euro counterparts. It has always made me scratch my head a bit that politicians everywhere are often times described as either liberal or conservative. Blair is liberal, Chirac is conservative. Kerry is liberal (though probably more conservative than Chirac), etc.
I think the libertarian quiz page (a bit slanted to convince you you're libertarian) has an interesting point on this, that political affiliation is not 1 dimensional.
Unless the aliens come. Then you could be Bruce Willis in Space! This would be a lot more realistic than Bruce Willis at sea turning into Bruce Willis in space.
I set my parents up with a wireless network in their house, and had the same issues. Mine might be just a bit better than yours though, as *all* their hardware is 802.11g, and it's all Linksys. The WinME laptop, using the Linksys software, connected w/o problem first time.
The machine running XP would only connect w/o WEP enabled, and if I was within about six feet of the router. Once connected, I could walk outside the house - it'd refuse to pickup the network though unless I was in or next to the closet, and as long as WEP wasn't being used. Of course, after totally whacking security on it, it'd pickup from anywhere in the house.
Its unfortunate that the one company in a position to drive security, ease of use, etc. is also in a position that removes any incentive for them to do so.
Well, it is, just that, a generalization. Unlike most generalizations, however, this one actually has some value when you examine it.
You are correct in that there is for the most part value in this one - though I'd be happier if you didn't start by lumping me into the 'Pig' category.
My criticism would nearly be as hard if most everyone did as you seem to do. That is, have one truck or SUV for doing your work and hauling and another for actually moving people around.
I assume the would should be wouldn't :)
I'm still hoping for what I described earlier - not just newer and more efficient technology, but the will by manufacturers/government to use that technology.
If not for that, and Toyota Siennas and Subaru Outbacks do not tow trailers, I'd have something else - probably a minivan of some sort. Our other vehicle is a Toyota Corolla (Pontiac Vibe actually, rebadged Toyota) which gets used for 80% of our driving (literally), so we're not suffering that much for mileage.
What cracks me up (not really, it's frustrating) though is that US Manufacturers that do sell diesels do not do it for mileage purposes, but only for larger trucks that require heavy load capacities. They only sell large diesels. I'm assuming it's to do with the available diesel fuel and emissions. Checkout this study by Cummins (1 of the big 3 diesel engine companies in the US) on building a light diesel for the Durango. I'd love to see a smaller diesel motor such as this combined with a hybrid setup like GM is working on.
As an alternative to the above, I think that California has a good idea with mandating hydrogen pumping stations by 2010. I think the use of hydrogen in vehicles is being hampered by a chicken and egg type of problem, there will be no vehicles w/o the fuel, and no fuel without the vehicles. I think this will remove that for car manufacturers, and hopefully the public will latch on and buy.
To the parent poster - what do you drive with a 5.7L engine that's not a block - a Corvette, or something from Daimler-Chrysler with the Hemi?
My Parents have been tired of me moaning about Windows forever - but the recent spate of viruses and spyware had them asking for help. I installed Firefox on their machines, and they're totally in love. The thing that sold my Dad was the available extensions. My Mom also loved the no-pop ups, the better security, etc. Next I'll sneak Mandrake or Fedora onto their boxes :)
I'm not in the navy, so I'll plead ignorance here. But doesn't 'Stealth' technology seem kind of wasted on what is essentially a mine layer? The article also said this corvette would be used for anti-submarine warfare - last I checked, subs use sonar, and are very rarely on the surface in a position to use radar.
Question - does anyone know how difficult a hull breach would be to repair on a vessel with this material? I'd assume that dockyards are setup to weld repairs on std. naval craft, but this would be a new challenge I'm sure.
Have you ever heard a contractor or purchasing government ever claim something was not affordable? I think the parent poster had an interesting idea though - if a private company thinks it can produce and use a albeit smaller spacecraft profitably, they probably have some ideas worth looking at.
Thanks to AMD and their recent successes in the market, Intel it seems is finally focussing on their core business - manufacturing successively faster processors, not inventing new marketing schemes. Before this announcement I could only imagine chips like these being reserved for high-end xeons.
Competition is always a good thing.
I believe he *was* referring to american companies - the article is about american companies outsourcing their labor over seas. His point being these companies would go to the bottom of the barrel to save a dollar.
I suspect that American companies in WWII Germany were most likely in effect nationalized by the nazis during the course of the war. I somehow doubt there was an american manager in the background calling the shots. 'Yes, Hanz. Cancel that last order of fighter planes the Germans ordered. It's going to be bad for our British operations.'
I myself have mixed feelings about the whole outsourcing thing - economic theory would seem to suggest that lower paying jobs moving to where they are more efficiently tasked would free labor here for more specialized higher paying jobs. The crow bar in that though being where are those higher paying jobs at. Barrett himself didn't seem to have the answer.
In terms of Craig Barrett and Intel, I think it is interesting that Intel refuses to pay any margin on their labor, but when it comes to selling their product, they prefer a more closed market with excessive margins.
I'm guessing 1990 - Seattle WA.