Most people who connect to Slashdot use Windows. It's the reality of working
in the computer field today.
Vint Cerf said it's true. Quote from your sig: ' "During My
Service In The United States Congress, I Took The Initiative In Creating The
Internet." -Al Gore'
Several years ago I asked Vint
Cerf about that, and he said it is true. Vint Cerf, and
many other people, connected a lot of computers together, in a project called
ArpaNet,
which was then a scheme by the U.S. government to make killing people and
destroying property more efficient. Originally you could only connect if you
worked for a company with "Defense" (killing-related) contracts.
Al Gore made ArpaNet the public utility it is today. Vint Cerf, and
others, had technical power. Al Gore had the political power to take the
network away from the control of those who study how to kill, and make it
available to everyone. Al Gore's initiative was strongly opposed by many of
those who had access, including someone I knew at Tektronix at the time,
because they didn't want commercial involvement.
Most politicians at the time didn't even know how to type. Keyboards
were for secretaries. The head of IBM at the time didn't have a computer in
his office! (Former IBM CEO Lou Gerstner said that in his book, Who Says Elephants Can't Dance?)
Al Gore's involvement showed technical foresight then far more
advanced than that of almost all or all politicians today.
There are two parts of the Republican Party, a real party, and a party
of corruption. The party of corruption sells favors from the U.S. government
to whomever pays the most. One of the ways they do that is by finding angry
people and helping them act out their anger by supplying them with words that
have been market-tested for believability. Example: The Republicans are not
"Conservative". That apply that term to themselves because they know it
will get votes.
Being hostile toward Al Gore was part of what they did to put George
W. Bush in office, only that.
It's not no exchange fee. They decide the rate of exchange; they don't use the interbank rate. Hotels make 5 or 7 or even 10 percent on all the money you exchange. It's a huge rip-off, that slows global progress. Maybe there are hotels that don't take advantage of guests, if so, I certainly don't know of any.
Maybe it is better to have something that doesn't make everyone who sees you say, "Rich guy!" Find some other way to protect your stuff. Avoid being a target of crime.
Bags costing $200 do more than carry your stuff. They talk to everyone who sees you. They say, "I have money to burn. I am probably carrying expensive things you could sell. Steal me."
One of our biggest problems right now is how to move money internationally.
All the banks we've discovered have big fees and numerous anti-customer arrangements. How do you write a check in Euros or Brazilian Reais? How do you move one currency to another without paying a bank a huge amount?
We need ATM cards that allow withdrawing money in the currency of the country in which we are working -- without paying the large fee banks charge, or the "3%" currency exchange fee that is, in fact 5%.
Before the 8086 was released, I knew a V.P. of Technology who was extremely excited about it. Every time I saw him, he would tell me the date of release, and how much he was waiting for that date.
On that day, he was very sad. Intel made some horrible design decisions. We've had to live with them every since. Starting with the fact that assembly language programming for the X86 architecture is really annoying.
From Microsoft: ' "we ask callers not to call Microsoft Customer Support Services to request an extension for Windows XP", a company representative said.'
That reminds me of a line from a movie: "What we have here is a failure to communicate."
Customers should not ASK Microsoft for anything. That assumes that the customers have power. Customers should do what Microsoft says and believe anything Microsoft says; that's the social position of customers, judging by the way Microsoft acts.
Microsoft is making a transition, from being badly managed to being even more badly managed.
Exactly. The Republican Party is not "conservative". That word is only used to
get votes. In fact, the Republican Party has put the U.S. government into far
more debt.
There are, in effect, two Republican Parties. One is a real political
party. The other is extremely corrupt and merely says anything necessary to
get control. The real purpose is control, not managing the U.S. government for
its citizens. For example, search digg.com and reddit.com for the term
"martial law".
There has been conflict of interest because of the fact that the
president and vice-president and their families and friends and associates
have a history of investment in oil and weapons. The purpose of invading Iraq
was to get control of the oil supply, so that the price of oil would rise.
Saddam Hussein was not cooperating; he was selling as much oil as he wanted.
The reason for the U.S. government's plan to invade Iran is to further
restrict the supply of oil. If the U.S. government invades, the price of oil
could easily become $8 per gallon; it is necessary to have oil to make our
societies function; people would have to pay any price.
Also, his name is "Barack" Obama, as others have noted. I wish
Slashdot editors could be real editors, and check their work.
That telephone number that is supposedly the sender's is just a setting in every fax machine. You can enter anything. It's entirely meaningless as proof of anything.
Allowing the sending of signatures by fax is STUPID, stupid, stupid. It got started when a fax was allowed as an initial application, to be completed when a mailed letter was received. Then work-avoidance schemes took control, and waiting for a letter and opening it and finding the application and continuing the processing was eliminated.
This whole issue of Platinum and Palladium interacting with Hydrogen
needs to be handled in a more professional manner.
People are being encouraged to believe things that are not true. Labs
have been demonstrating these things for years, and they have never, as far as
I know, been able to build reliable experiments or understand the physics.
They don't even seem to try to understand the physics.
If I am wrong, write a good synopsis of what is known, publish it on
your web site, and I will submit it to Slashdot as a story, or someone else
could do that.
Stories that exaggerate the work, or cause people to have
exaggerated ideas, make your job far, far more difficult.
I would say more, but at present your web site is not functioning, so I can't look at the web page again.
You said, "... even today Spanish speakers can understand Portuguese with a bit of practice and effort..."
It's actually more true the opposite way. Portuguese speakers have little trouble understanding Spanish. For Spanish speakers, understanding Portuguese is difficult because there is so much French influence.... Which demonstrates your point about the drift of language depending on distance.
However, someone has to understand the fundamental physics. People have been playing with platinum or palladium and hydrogen for many years, and everyone is able to demonstrate that something unusual happens sometimes, but no one is able to make their experiments reproducible. That's what I understand.
So, sooner or later a physicists and mathematicians must be involved.
To me, what is VERY important is that the researcher has been working with palladium and hydrogen since before 2006, and his experiments are still not reliable. It seems like playing, to me.
Yes, but the Nokia E70 got a bad review. Was that review written by an iPhone owner, or is it true that the sound quality is poor? There are some of us who actually use our cellular phones to make phone calls. *grin*
"It may not be "cold fusion" but they have proof of excess
heat and other signs of nuclear process."
"Excess heat" is not a sign of nuclear fusion. It is a sign of something that has been known for more than 40 years, that Platinum and Palladium absorb Hydrogen, and sometimes heat is generated when experimenting with that.
Wikipedia: Palladium. Quote: "Incredibly, when palladium is at room temperature and atmospheric pressure, it can absorb up to 900 times its own volume of hydrogen,..."
The people who "demonstrate" "cold fusion" never seem to be physicists. This Slashdot story is about someone who works for the Welding Research Institute at Osaka University.
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The problem is that those banks will charge a huge amount for exchanging currencies.
Most people who connect to Slashdot use Windows. It's the reality of working in the computer field today.
Vint Cerf said it's true. Quote from your sig: ' "During My Service In The United States Congress, I Took The Initiative In Creating The Internet." -Al Gore'
Several years ago I asked Vint Cerf about that, and he said it is true. Vint Cerf, and many other people, connected a lot of computers together, in a project called ArpaNet, which was then a scheme by the U.S. government to make killing people and destroying property more efficient. Originally you could only connect if you worked for a company with "Defense" (killing-related) contracts.
Al Gore made ArpaNet the public utility it is today. Vint Cerf, and others, had technical power. Al Gore had the political power to take the network away from the control of those who study how to kill, and make it available to everyone. Al Gore's initiative was strongly opposed by many of those who had access, including someone I knew at Tektronix at the time, because they didn't want commercial involvement.
Most politicians at the time didn't even know how to type. Keyboards were for secretaries. The head of IBM at the time didn't have a computer in his office! (Former IBM CEO Lou Gerstner said that in his book, Who Says Elephants Can't Dance?)
Al Gore's involvement showed technical foresight then far more advanced than that of almost all or all politicians today.
There are two parts of the Republican Party, a real party, and a party of corruption. The party of corruption sells favors from the U.S. government to whomever pays the most. One of the ways they do that is by finding angry people and helping them act out their anger by supplying them with words that have been market-tested for believability. Example: The Republicans are not "Conservative". That apply that term to themselves because they know it will get votes.
Being hostile toward Al Gore was part of what they did to put George W. Bush in office, only that.
Interesting. Who determines the exchange rate? It's necessary to consider all the fees, not just one.
You pay the exchange rate, which I suppose is whatever they want it to be. If so, they make a LOT of money on foreign use.
It's not no exchange fee. They decide the rate of exchange; they don't use the interbank rate. Hotels make 5 or 7 or even 10 percent on all the money you exchange. It's a huge rip-off, that slows global progress. Maybe there are hotels that don't take advantage of guests, if so, I certainly don't know of any.
Maybe it is better to have something that doesn't make everyone who sees you say, "Rich guy!" Find some other way to protect your stuff. Avoid being a target of crime.
Skyway Northwest Trails Westport 30" Rolling Duffle: $29.99.
McGuire-Nicholas Rolling Bag Set includes 14" Multi-Purpose Rolling Bag with 16" and 12" Bags: $39.99.
ATEC XL Pro Travel Bag Three Sidecar Pockets, Zippered Full-length Mesh Inside Pocket: $59.99
Bags costing $200 do more than carry your stuff. They talk to everyone who sees you. They say, "I have money to burn. I am probably carrying expensive things you could sell. Steal me."
One of our biggest problems right now is how to move money internationally.
All the banks we've discovered have big fees and numerous anti-customer arrangements. How do you write a check in Euros or Brazilian Reais? How do you move one currency to another without paying a bank a huge amount?
We need ATM cards that allow withdrawing money in the currency of the country in which we are working -- without paying the large fee banks charge, or the "3%" currency exchange fee that is, in fact 5%.
You said, "... Compaq and IBM 486 machines ...".
I think you mean 8086 computers, or even 8008 computers.
What other discussion boards?
Before the 8086 was released, I knew a V.P. of Technology who was extremely excited about it. Every time I saw him, he would tell me the date of release, and how much he was waiting for that date.
On that day, he was very sad. Intel made some horrible design decisions. We've had to live with them every since. Starting with the fact that assembly language programming for the X86 architecture is really annoying.
From Microsoft: ' "we ask callers not to call Microsoft Customer Support Services to request an extension for Windows XP", a company representative said.'
That reminds me of a line from a movie: "What we have here is a failure to communicate."
Customers should not ASK Microsoft for anything. That assumes that the customers have power. Customers should do what Microsoft says and believe anything Microsoft says; that's the social position of customers, judging by the way Microsoft acts.
Microsoft is making a transition, from being badly managed to being even more badly managed.
Exactly. The Republican Party is not "conservative". That word is only used to get votes. In fact, the Republican Party has put the U.S. government into far more debt.
There are, in effect, two Republican Parties. One is a real political party. The other is extremely corrupt and merely says anything necessary to get control. The real purpose is control, not managing the U.S. government for its citizens. For example, search digg.com and reddit.com for the term "martial law".
There has been conflict of interest because of the fact that the president and vice-president and their families and friends and associates have a history of investment in oil and weapons. The purpose of invading Iraq was to get control of the oil supply, so that the price of oil would rise. Saddam Hussein was not cooperating; he was selling as much oil as he wanted.
The reason for the U.S. government's plan to invade Iran is to further restrict the supply of oil. If the U.S. government invades, the price of oil could easily become $8 per gallon; it is necessary to have oil to make our societies function; people would have to pay any price.
Also, his name is "Barack" Obama, as others have noted. I wish Slashdot editors could be real editors, and check their work.
"... even the first 3 words of the summary?" should be ... even the first 3 words of the article?
When was the last time a Slashdot summary didn't have something wrong with it?
The title of the referenced article is "Its not X86, but who cares?" There's no X86 in an ARM processor. It's a licensed design.
It was too much for the Slashdot editor to read even the first 3 words of the summary?
That telephone number that is supposedly the sender's is just a setting in every fax machine. You can enter anything. It's entirely meaningless as proof of anything.
Allowing the sending of signatures by fax is STUPID, stupid, stupid. It got started when a fax was allowed as an initial application, to be completed when a mailed letter was received. Then work-avoidance schemes took control, and waiting for a letter and opening it and finding the application and continuing the processing was eliminated.
MOD PARENT UP!
Thanks for commenting. It's good that you took the time to help others understand.
This story about the same researcher mentioned in the Slashdot story is far more sensible: Cold-fusion demonstration "a success".
Steven,
This whole issue of Platinum and Palladium interacting with Hydrogen needs to be handled in a more professional manner.
People are being encouraged to believe things that are not true. Labs have been demonstrating these things for years, and they have never, as far as I know, been able to build reliable experiments or understand the physics. They don't even seem to try to understand the physics.
If I am wrong, write a good synopsis of what is known, publish it on your web site, and I will submit it to Slashdot as a story, or someone else could do that.
Stories that exaggerate the work, or cause people to have exaggerated ideas, make your job far, far more difficult.
I would say more, but at present your web site is not functioning, so I can't look at the web page again.
Very interesting comments.
... Which demonstrates your point about the drift of language depending on distance.
You said, "... even today Spanish speakers can understand Portuguese with a bit of practice and effort..."
It's actually more true the opposite way. Portuguese speakers have little trouble understanding Spanish. For Spanish speakers, understanding Portuguese is difficult because there is so much French influence.
He is only documenting that he is not able to demonstrate anything reliably, like everyone else. It's just playing.
Good point.
However, someone has to understand the fundamental physics. People have been playing with platinum or palladium and hydrogen for many years, and everyone is able to demonstrate that something unusual happens sometimes, but no one is able to make their experiments reproducible. That's what I understand.
So, sooner or later a physicists and mathematicians must be involved.
To me, what is VERY important is that the researcher has been working with palladium and hydrogen since before 2006, and his experiments are still not reliable. It seems like playing, to me.
Another Roland Piquepaille story on Slashdot. He is paid to get stories on the internet. Does he pay Slashdot?
Yes, but the Nokia E70 got a bad review. Was that review written by an iPhone owner, or is it true that the sound quality is poor? There are some of us who actually use our cellular phones to make phone calls. *grin*
Interesting. It says, "... created on May 8, 2003...", 5 years ago.
Could you post that link again? There was a mistake.
"It may not be "cold fusion" but they have proof of excess heat and other signs of nuclear process."
..."
"Excess heat" is not a sign of nuclear fusion. It is a sign of something that has been known for more than 40 years, that Platinum and Palladium absorb Hydrogen, and sometimes heat is generated when experimenting with that.
Wikipedia: Palladium. Quote: "Incredibly, when palladium is at room temperature and atmospheric pressure, it can absorb up to 900 times its own volume of hydrogen,
The people who "demonstrate" "cold fusion" never seem to be physicists. This Slashdot story is about someone who works for the Welding Research Institute at Osaka University.