It would have been nice to open a trial to find the people responsible for this catastrophe, fine them, and forbid them from exercising the job of banker or to have a position in government.
I also think that the ban on short-selling that some countries adopted will have far more positive effect than the bailout
Alternative plan : actually nationalize the failed banks and make a public, sane, not-for-profit and transparent bank run by the government. If you call that communist, then have a little faith in capitalism and let the failures happen.
The thing is, this bailout doesn't save your economy, it just buys some time. It is not a fix, it is damage control.
They want to kill Microsoft on as many markets as possible. They know that MSN, Windows Search, hotmail, and various Microsoft services are a threat not because they are technically superior, but because they are forcibly imposed on the user. Google tries to create an environment in which it can compete technically with Microsoft.
Also, they have too much money for all their needs, better fund projects like the Android than pay tax money to the current US administration...
An electric discharge, changing a single byte in memory, of a value of 1500 has simply no chance of happening.
At the extreme limit, rebooting, frying components *could* happen in an extremely badly designed machine. I think that the "experts" who state such a thing should be tried, either for incompetence or, more probably, for lies. I think that at this point, it is a legal offense.
(this having to wait 5 minutes between posts is a pain in the ass. Anyone else stuck with this restriction?)
Yes, limiting the possibilities to comment is clearly a bad idea./. summaries have always been quite bad for as long I can remember it, but all the informational value is in the comments. Where else can you see a fearmongering article, people making some obvious remarks, getting insightful retorts to finally end on a +5 comment coming from a guy working in the lab TFA mentions ?
Slashdot, don't fear posters. Your moderation system filters spam (and as*holeness) with enough efficiency, don't add nagging features !
Jokes aside, a tree goal is to grow and reproduce, not to efficiently capture CO2 into a solid form, even if it is an important part of the process. Remember that an adult tree releases about as much CO2 as it releases oxygen. If you want to efficiently use trees to capture CO2, you'll have to cut adult trees regularly to keep all individuals in their growth period. This uses energy, too.
It could be possible to create a more efficient machine for the task. I am not sure this one is, but it may be possible to improve the process.
A mathematically consistent formulation would have prevented me from submitting "cat/dev/null" as a proposition, with the annotation that this is a program simulating the output of a dead brain.
These are not mathematical problems (well, not all of them). Some are physics, most are algorithmic and a few are really mathematical questions. But things like "the brain" is not a mathematical object and thus has no place in the formulation of a mathematical question.
The Arctic temperatures anomalies have been exceptional the past few years. I think it is a century record and am confident this is the warmest 10-years period there has been for this century in the Arctic region.
Still the estimate of methane that could be emitted is said to be equal to the amount of the global reserves of coal. Even if it were "only" CO2, it would still give us a nice greenhouse gas supply.
I wonder if these "embryonic-like cells" would develop into a fetus, if put into a womb. That would make many conservatives uneasy and (maybe, one can dream) make them realize that they have to update or narrow their definitions on a few things.
Note that this one rare country in the world where unemployement is not a problem : it just mean you don't work. In this country, citizens don't pay taxes but get a part of the petroleum money. They have, in fact, negative taxes. So, not working is possible and done by many people.
People who tagged this "Darwin" are probably not aware that this guy isn't just your regular redneck who strapped rocket engines to a backpack but someone who actually used and tested this suit. It works, just go watch his previous videos. I think that there will be no problem with this flight.
The future will be "Songs are our promotion, and concerts are where the real money's at."
I'd like to point to that this is also the past. I recently read an interview given by three famous French singers (Brassens, Brel and Ferrer) in 1969. They explained that they never planned on becoming rich with their songs. They saw the appearance of discs and disc sales that made them a huge revenue but they felt like it was cheating. They thought that the normal way for a singer to earn money was through representations.
Of course the world changes. I am not sure that the future of artists is in songs or concerts. I think that a system of "bounty for more songs" will begin to appear. A bit like "do you like this work ? support it by sending money and we are likely to make more!"
If I recall correctly, the last time I traveled to USA, I had to fill a form stating that the intent of my travel was not to kill the US president. People who create such forms would probably fund a research on a "suspicious person detector"
I think it is insane to even let a company fit the parts together. How do you know that they don't patch the software beforehand ? When it is proved than in less than two minutes with physical access you can rig a machine to falsify stealthily its results, how can you trust a private company to assemble it or even to store it ?
Wow, that's... big.
How many trial did the EFF lose ? IIRC, they are usually fierce and study their cases carefully before going to court, am I wrong ?
In a world where backup takes money, a law that says to companies "keep every communication backuped" is saying essentially the same thing as "communicate less".
Jesus : Ok, end of the world today !
not-so-believer : Go away, hallucination !
build-a-relationship-with-jesus-independent-thinker : Yes Lord !
Someone able to put blinders on some facts that pertains the beginning of the world is presumably very probable to put the same blinders on the Holy Land, or the end of the world. Or even on practically anything. Once you begin to take scriptures as valid axioms, you fail at being a critical thinker.
I would also add that having Windows on these things is a success of the OSS community. Without Linux, this project would not have been possible or even considered. Bill Gates himself told how useless he thought this initiative was.
Without the threat to use Linux, Windows would never have made integration efforts for the OLPC.
I agree on the referendum part, but today, when a treaty is signed, it is not automatically a law. It is a (usually presidential) agreement to pass a law in the country. Some treaties take a long time to be ratified. Some are even contested by successors.
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It would have been nice to open a trial to find the people responsible for this catastrophe, fine them, and forbid them from exercising the job of banker or to have a position in government.
I also think that the ban on short-selling that some countries adopted will have far more positive effect than the bailout
Alternative plan : actually nationalize the failed banks and make a public, sane, not-for-profit and transparent bank run by the government. If you call that communist, then have a little faith in capitalism and let the failures happen.
The thing is, this bailout doesn't save your economy, it just buys some time. It is not a fix, it is damage control.
They want to kill Microsoft on as many markets as possible. They know that MSN, Windows Search, hotmail, and various Microsoft services are a threat not because they are technically superior, but because they are forcibly imposed on the user. Google tries to create an environment in which it can compete technically with Microsoft.
Also, they have too much money for all their needs, better fund projects like the Android than pay tax money to the current US administration...
An electric discharge, changing a single byte in memory, of a value of 1500 has simply no chance of happening.
At the extreme limit, rebooting, frying components *could* happen in an extremely badly designed machine. I think that the "experts" who state such a thing should be tried, either for incompetence or, more probably, for lies. I think that at this point, it is a legal offense.
Then just plug the supply directly on the laptop. Do you really need a wire between your laptop and the supply box ?
So you say we need to have bigger leads between the power supply and the laptop ? This is not such a big deal...
(this having to wait 5 minutes between posts is a pain in the ass. Anyone else stuck with this restriction?)
Yes, limiting the possibilities to comment is clearly a bad idea. /. summaries have always been quite bad for as long I can remember it, but all the informational value is in the comments. Where else can you see a fearmongering article, people making some obvious remarks, getting insightful retorts to finally end on a +5 comment coming from a guy working in the lab TFA mentions ?
Slashdot, don't fear posters. Your moderation system filters spam (and as*holeness) with enough efficiency, don't add nagging features !
Plus, it is working out of solar energy !
Jokes aside, a tree goal is to grow and reproduce, not to efficiently capture CO2 into a solid form, even if it is an important part of the process. Remember that an adult tree releases about as much CO2 as it releases oxygen. If you want to efficiently use trees to capture CO2, you'll have to cut adult trees regularly to keep all individuals in their growth period. This uses energy, too.
It could be possible to create a more efficient machine for the task. I am not sure this one is, but it may be possible to improve the process.
A mathematically consistent formulation would have prevented me from submitting "cat /dev/null" as a proposition, with the annotation that this is a program simulating the output of a dead brain.
These are not mathematical problems (well, not all of them). Some are physics, most are algorithmic and a few are really mathematical questions. But things like "the brain" is not a mathematical object and thus has no place in the formulation of a mathematical question.
The Arctic temperatures anomalies have been exceptional the past few years. I think it is a century record and am confident this is the warmest 10-years period there has been for this century in the Arctic region.
Still the estimate of methane that could be emitted is said to be equal to the amount of the global reserves of coal. Even if it were "only" CO2, it would still give us a nice greenhouse gas supply.
I wonder if these "embryonic-like cells" would develop into a fetus, if put into a womb. That would make many conservatives uneasy and (maybe, one can dream) make them realize that they have to update or narrow their definitions on a few things.
Heh, is that number based on consumption with or without marketing ?
...and thanks for the fish
Note that this one rare country in the world where unemployement is not a problem : it just mean you don't work. In this country, citizens don't pay taxes but get a part of the petroleum money. They have, in fact, negative taxes. So, not working is possible and done by many people.
People who tagged this "Darwin" are probably not aware that this guy isn't just your regular redneck who strapped rocket engines to a backpack but someone who actually used and tested this suit. It works, just go watch his previous videos. I think that there will be no problem with this flight.
The future will be "Songs are our promotion, and concerts are where the real money's at."
I'd like to point to that this is also the past. I recently read an interview given by three famous French singers (Brassens, Brel and Ferrer) in 1969. They explained that they never planned on becoming rich with their songs. They saw the appearance of discs and disc sales that made them a huge revenue but they felt like it was cheating. They thought that the normal way for a singer to earn money was through representations.
Of course the world changes. I am not sure that the future of artists is in songs or concerts. I think that a system of "bounty for more songs" will begin to appear. A bit like "do you like this work ? support it by sending money and we are likely to make more!"
If I recall correctly, the last time I traveled to USA, I had to fill a form stating that the intent of my travel was not to kill the US president. People who create such forms would probably fund a research on a "suspicious person detector"
violence will not be tolerated either on the internet or in the real world,' she said.
It is already forbidden to stab people over the internet...
I think it is insane to even let a company fit the parts together. How do you know that they don't patch the software beforehand ? When it is proved than in less than two minutes with physical access you can rig a machine to falsify stealthily its results, how can you trust a private company to assemble it or even to store it ?
Wow, that's... big.
How many trial did the EFF lose ? IIRC, they are usually fierce and study their cases carefully before going to court, am I wrong ?
In a world where backup takes money, a law that says to companies "keep every communication backuped" is saying essentially the same thing as "communicate less".
Jesus : Ok, end of the world today !
not-so-believer : Go away, hallucination !
build-a-relationship-with-jesus-independent-thinker : Yes Lord !
Someone able to put blinders on some facts that pertains the beginning of the world is presumably very probable to put the same blinders on the Holy Land, or the end of the world. Or even on practically anything. Once you begin to take scriptures as valid axioms, you fail at being a critical thinker.
... but why a golfer ?
I would also add that having Windows on these things is a success of the OSS community. Without Linux, this project would not have been possible or even considered. Bill Gates himself told how useless he thought this initiative was.
Without the threat to use Linux, Windows would never have made integration efforts for the OLPC.
I agree on the referendum part, but today, when a treaty is signed, it is not automatically a law. It is a (usually presidential) agreement to pass a law in the country. Some treaties take a long time to be ratified. Some are even contested by successors.