I was at Universal "Islands of Adventure" in Orlando and they used this same system. Worked really well. All you need to do is remember which locker station you used and it recalls the actual number for you and opens it when you scan your finger.
Are we to assume (or does the FBI assume) that a group of motivated and intelligent individuals (terrorists who were intelligent enough to facilitate 9/11) are going to be stupid enough to check a bag in the statue of liberty and submit their finger prints while doing so. Come on. lets assume for a second that this thing is actually hooked up to the FBI's database. What idiot criminal is going ot say..."hmm, I'm in a national park run by the govenrment that is hunting me, I think I'll walk over to that fingerprint reader and scan my finger on it. I'm sure nothing will come of it."
I realize this and I know that it is a safety net in the stock market. Seeing as how the majority of money in the market is in large funds that are invested for dividend yields. This is really the base value of the market though. It essentially creates a floor for how far the market can fall. But that floor is pretty far down there. Probably at 2-3k for the dow (I'm speculating wildly). The rest is fluffed up invented value.
I guess this is true of most stocks in that their actual assets create a "floor" for their share price (exceptions being the cases you pointed out). This probably adds another 2-3K to the dow, giving it a floor of about 5-6k. So the odds of the market falling to a true zero value is pretty unlikely. But for the amount of money that is percieved to be in the market, if it fell to 5-6k we would certainly see people jumping out of windows.
The stock market is absolutely a zero sum game. Most of the money "invested" in the market doesn't exist. If everyone in the market decided that they wanted their money today, there would be almost no money in the market. In fact it is reasonable to assume that the sum total of all the money actually "in" the stock market is zero. And that if every single person in the stock market asked for their money back today there would be NO money to give them. Stocks only have value as far as someone is willing to give money for them. If NOBODY wants to buy stocks then stocks are worth $0. So the stock market is a zero sum game. It just doesn't look like one because there is always a buyer who sees greater value in the future than what he/she can purchase a share of stock for today.
This is not to say that the market is a bad place to have your money. It is also reasonable to assume (given historic performance) that the stock market's perceived value will continue to go up. Thus a single investor can make money by buying in now and giving his share to someone else later on. However that investor is dependent on others keeping their investments in the market. Of course if you want something to fall back on in a crisis, ther stock market is not it. Consider trying to trade a share of stock in GE for food and shelter during WW3. Good luck. now consider a gold brick or gasoline...much better because it is actually a tangible good.
This is obviously a more complex subject than I am capable of explaining fully, but you can see that stock has value because people have confidence that more people will continue to invest in it. When it comes down to it, the stock market is one big pyramid scheme. I buy something with a limited supply, then I try to convince others they should buy it too, which drives up the price so I can sell it for a tidy profit. This continues to work as long as the guy I sold it to convinces more people to join in. It seems that eventually we would run out of money, but all I have to do is sell my stock to someone else and go buy more stock. The guy I bought stock from can go buy more stock with that money, and so on... (essentially velocity of money and multiplier effect)...so it continues to grow...until we all want it back. Then we get a dot com bubble bursting.
That is because our capitalist society still rewards innovation with $$$. Why would anyone create a truly innovative product and then just give it away. All people will do for free is copy other stuff. But that's what the author (I RTFA but forgot to RHFN) is saying. Open source is a commodity. Because it is a commodity people have room to use it and innovate on top of it without spending their otherwise innovative resources on boilerplate.
I know that there are a few exceptions to people giving away innovative products (I am using struts right now and it is wonderful) but even the creator of Struts now has a job at Sun. So he did get rewarded for his efforts. If you can say a job at sun is a reward.
market that is shrinking into a single commodity gadget
It is amazing to me that a device that has so much opportunity for differentiation and amazing opportunity for innovation that it is so quickly turning into a commodity. Bluetooth, cameras, pda's , Internet, and who knows what else is all possible, yet to most people a phone is just a phone. Nobody has been able to successfully sell features in a phone. Well except customizable colors from nokia. But that was 5 years ago. So I am curious why is a platform with so much innovation going into it becoming a comodity? And what would be a must have feature that would get you to pay a premium for a phone. Keep in mind you can probably find a bluetooth, Internet, camera phone with a plan for ~$50. What would be something new that would get you paying ~$250?
Let us not obfuscate the issue with false analogies to Christopher Columbus, Ferdinand Magellan, and Lewis and Clark, or with visions of establishing a pleasant tourist resort on the planet Mars," van Allen suggests.
This is just plain ignorance. Columbus didn't even set sail expecting to find a "New World" he just wanted to get to China. Contrast that with space exploration and we don't want to find any new worlds we just want to go to Mars. Who knows what we might find on the way. Cure for Cancer? Intelligent Life? New minerals? How can you say that "adventure" is the only reason to go. It is also funny that all of the people mentioned failed in their quests.
Columbus-never got to china
Lewis and Clark-Never found the NW passage
Magellan-Died on the way(Right?)
Still all of them are famous as making history and advancing civilization. Shouldn't that tell us something about doing something because its an adventure and never been done. That is the only way we discover.
Not to mention that it puts lots of money into the economy. Think how many engineers the x-prize gives jobs to. Wait until we actually privately put a man into orbit. Then we'll see lots of jobs in the "private" space sector. Lots of high paying ones at that.
This is very true. It is not just a "left" wing conspiracy to get you to listen to Britney's music. Its the enitre political system in the clutches of corprate music labels. The "left and the "right". Of course the other left and right don't hurt.
Go to best buy, spend $30 on a linksys usb ethernet (most others will work too, but linksys is "officially" supported) card and plug it into the back of your tivo. In the phone and network settings for tivo go to tcp/ip settings. My guess is you can figure out the rest from there. Since I don't have my tiVo in front of me I can't be more detailed. Sorry about the $30 for the card, but you did take it upon yourself to implement an unsupported system when you got voip and dropped your landline. FYI, a tivo setup can be accomplished through this same method using something like,#411(I think) for the phone number at the beginning.
Between this and yesterday's ruling on detainees during "war time" I have to give a big shout out to the supreme court. I am glad to see that they are protecting our freedoms as they are supposed to. Not that I think so much that terrorists should be treated fairly or that kids shouldn't be protected from porn. Just that laws that limit these things can easily be abused and I'm happy to see that the supreme court is taking a stand. Since our Executive branch is so set on stealing our freedoms.
Oh God I hope they fingerprint you. Then put you in the database of dumb people. Model Rocketry and the NAR have been wonderful and responsible amateur rocketeers for a long time. then we have you idiots. "Hehe, I blowed it up!"
if MS opened the source of Windows ( I realize this is not gonna happen) what kind of license would it have? it seems that if it was opened without the right to redistribute binaries (Just source) then not much changes for them. Windows can only be distributed in source from and you can't compile it and give it to your buddies. If you have to compile the source of windows on your own machine, obviously this is both too big a job and too technical fo the average user, then does it matter to their revenue stream?
Really, for MS what would slashdot say if they (By some maniacal twist of fate) opened their source code to the world?
I have the right to (up to the noise laws limit) stand at the border of your property and scream at your home, install video cameras pointing at you and take your picture. Hell I can ask your mailman what you got in the mail and/or take photographs as he put's mail in your mailbox (but I cant touch it!) hell I can follow you around town and document every thing you do.
I completely agree
but I certianly cant install cameras inside your home without your explicit permission, and I certianly should not be able to install software on your computer without explicit permission.
I see it this way. (Note I did not RTFA) You can go to the town hall or square, or even my curb, and scream to the high heavens about anything you want. But the second you step onto my property I have the right to arrest you. It is not a public place and thus your right to free speech is gone.
I see the "information" space the same way. It is fine for you to post to public forums whatever you want to post to them. You can advertise your penis enlarger wherever you want, but when you start espousing your bullshit on my property I am well within my rights to call the cops, or tell you to stop, enact a law, etc.
until you realize that mapping isn't obvious at all.
I don't know. It seems like it has to be pretty obvious if a one celled organism can figure out the process. if something takes the intellectual capacity of a ribozome it should be considered obvious.:-)
Its funny that 90% or so of the comments in this story so far are making fun of the pilot for not being able to control his "attitude", but what is funnier is that attitude is actually a flight term. (I don't know what it means). Sadly Melville is being made fun of for overcoming a problem in the launch to make a near disaster a huge success. He should be commended not made fun of, but we are too busy wallowing in our ignorance to realize his achievment.
Yeah...I would say that this is definately true. I guess more what I meant was that American's are not stupid so much as blind to reality. Which can appear as stupidity even though it is stubbornness. The reality is that there is no good reason to leave a software development job in the US anymore. If you expect to spend the next 40 years of your life writing code you should expect to be under the poverty line in the United States by 2015.
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I was at Universal "Islands of Adventure" in Orlando and they used this same system. Worked really well. All you need to do is remember which locker station you used and it recalls the actual number for you and opens it when you scan your finger.
Are we to assume (or does the FBI assume) that a group of motivated and intelligent individuals (terrorists who were intelligent enough to facilitate 9/11) are going to be stupid enough to check a bag in the statue of liberty and submit their finger prints while doing so. Come on. lets assume for a second that this thing is actually hooked up to the FBI's database. What idiot criminal is going ot say..."hmm, I'm in a national park run by the govenrment that is hunting me, I think I'll walk over to that fingerprint reader and scan my finger on it. I'm sure nothing will come of it."
Give me a break!
I realize this and I know that it is a safety net in the stock market. Seeing as how the majority of money in the market is in large funds that are invested for dividend yields. This is really the base value of the market though. It essentially creates a floor for how far the market can fall. But that floor is pretty far down there. Probably at 2-3k for the dow (I'm speculating wildly). The rest is fluffed up invented value.
I guess this is true of most stocks in that their actual assets create a "floor" for their share price (exceptions being the cases you pointed out). This probably adds another 2-3K to the dow, giving it a floor of about 5-6k. So the odds of the market falling to a true zero value is pretty unlikely. But for the amount of money that is percieved to be in the market, if it fell to 5-6k we would certainly see people jumping out of windows.
The stock market is absolutely a zero sum game. Most of the money "invested" in the market doesn't exist. If everyone in the market decided that they wanted their money today, there would be almost no money in the market. In fact it is reasonable to assume that the sum total of all the money actually "in" the stock market is zero. And that if every single person in the stock market asked for their money back today there would be NO money to give them. Stocks only have value as far as someone is willing to give money for them. If NOBODY wants to buy stocks then stocks are worth $0. So the stock market is a zero sum game. It just doesn't look like one because there is always a buyer who sees greater value in the future than what he/she can purchase a share of stock for today.
This is not to say that the market is a bad place to have your money. It is also reasonable to assume (given historic performance) that the stock market's perceived value will continue to go up. Thus a single investor can make money by buying in now and giving his share to someone else later on. However that investor is dependent on others keeping their investments in the market. Of course if you want something to fall back on in a crisis, ther stock market is not it. Consider trying to trade a share of stock in GE for food and shelter during WW3. Good luck. now consider a gold brick or gasoline...much better because it is actually a tangible good.
This is obviously a more complex subject than I am capable of explaining fully, but you can see that stock has value because people have confidence that more people will continue to invest in it. When it comes down to it, the stock market is one big pyramid scheme. I buy something with a limited supply, then I try to convince others they should buy it too, which drives up the price so I can sell it for a tidy profit. This continues to work as long as the guy I sold it to convinces more people to join in. It seems that eventually we would run out of money, but all I have to do is sell my stock to someone else and go buy more stock. The guy I bought stock from can go buy more stock with that money, and so on... (essentially velocity of money and multiplier effect)...so it continues to grow...until we all want it back. Then we get a dot com bubble bursting.
Is there anything that can't be done with a little JavaScript
Yeah, you can't do dynamic content on a browser that has java script turned off.
Also you can't write code (easily) that works for JScript, Javascript and who knows what BS language will replace javascript in Longhorn.
That is because our capitalist society still rewards innovation with $$$. Why would anyone create a truly innovative product and then just give it away. All people will do for free is copy other stuff. But that's what the author (I RTFA but forgot to RHFN) is saying. Open source is a commodity. Because it is a commodity people have room to use it and innovate on top of it without spending their otherwise innovative resources on boilerplate.
I know that there are a few exceptions to people giving away innovative products (I am using struts right now and it is wonderful) but even the creator of Struts now has a job at Sun. So he did get rewarded for his efforts. If you can say a job at sun is a reward.
market that is shrinking into a single commodity gadget
It is amazing to me that a device that has so much opportunity for differentiation and amazing opportunity for innovation that it is so quickly turning into a commodity. Bluetooth, cameras, pda's , Internet, and who knows what else is all possible, yet to most people a phone is just a phone. Nobody has been able to successfully sell features in a phone. Well except customizable colors from nokia. But that was 5 years ago. So I am curious why is a platform with so much innovation going into it becoming a comodity? And what would be a must have feature that would get you to pay a premium for a phone. Keep in mind you can probably find a bluetooth, Internet, camera phone with a plan for ~$50. What would be something new that would get you paying ~$250?
This is just plain ignorance. Columbus didn't even set sail expecting to find a "New World" he just wanted to get to China. Contrast that with space exploration and we don't want to find any new worlds we just want to go to Mars. Who knows what we might find on the way. Cure for Cancer? Intelligent Life? New minerals? How can you say that "adventure" is the only reason to go. It is also funny that all of the people mentioned failed in their quests.
Still all of them are famous as making history and advancing civilization. Shouldn't that tell us something about doing something because its an adventure and never been done. That is the only way we discover.
Not to mention that it puts lots of money into the economy. Think how many engineers the x-prize gives jobs to. Wait until we actually privately put a man into orbit. Then we'll see lots of jobs in the "private" space sector. Lots of high paying ones at that.
This is very true. It is not just a "left" wing conspiracy to get you to listen to Britney's music. Its the enitre political system in the clutches of corprate music labels. The "left and the "right". Of course the other left and right don't hurt.
Go to best buy, spend $30 on a linksys usb ethernet (most others will work too, but linksys is "officially" supported) card and plug it into the back of your tivo. In the phone and network settings for tivo go to tcp/ip settings. My guess is you can figure out the rest from there. Since I don't have my tiVo in front of me I can't be more detailed. Sorry about the $30 for the card, but you did take it upon yourself to implement an unsupported system when you got voip and dropped your landline. FYI, a tivo setup can be accomplished through this same method using something like ,#411(I think) for the phone number at the beginning.
Between this and yesterday's ruling on detainees during "war time" I have to give a big shout out to the supreme court. I am glad to see that they are protecting our freedoms as they are supposed to. Not that I think so much that terrorists should be treated fairly or that kids shouldn't be protected from porn. Just that laws that limit these things can easily be abused and I'm happy to see that the supreme court is taking a stand. Since our Executive branch is so set on stealing our freedoms.
Definitive studies on the matter are as yet unavailable
As are definitive articles.
Oh God I hope they fingerprint you. Then put you in the database of dumb people. Model Rocketry and the NAR have been wonderful and responsible amateur rocketeers for a long time. then we have you idiots. "Hehe, I blowed it up!"
Taking a few sick days is certainly better than being DEAD.
if MS opened the source of Windows ( I realize this is not gonna happen) what kind of license would it have? it seems that if it was opened without the right to redistribute binaries (Just source) then not much changes for them. Windows can only be distributed in source from and you can't compile it and give it to your buddies. If you have to compile the source of windows on your own machine, obviously this is both too big a job and too technical fo the average user, then does it matter to their revenue stream?
Really, for MS what would slashdot say if they (By some maniacal twist of fate) opened their source code to the world?
Wasn't there (I suppose there still is) a Marvel character called Juggeernaut where this was his mutation?
Will this guy be allowed to compete in the Olympics when he grows up?
Are we going to accept this guy or make him an outcast like the X-Men series predicts?
So many unrelated questions so little time.
I have the right to (up to the noise laws limit) stand at the border of your property and scream at your home, install video cameras pointing at you and take your picture. Hell I can ask your mailman what you got in the mail and/or take photographs as he put's mail in your mailbox (but I cant touch it!) hell I can follow you around town and document every thing you do.
I completely agree
but I certianly cant install cameras inside your home without your explicit permission, and I certianly should not be able to install software on your computer without explicit permission.
Taht's what I'm saying
I see it this way. (Note I did not RTFA) You can go to the town hall or square, or even my curb, and scream to the high heavens about anything you want. But the second you step onto my property I have the right to arrest you. It is not a public place and thus your right to free speech is gone.
I see the "information" space the same way. It is fine for you to post to public forums whatever you want to post to them. You can advertise your penis enlarger wherever you want, but when you start espousing your bullshit on my property I am well within my rights to call the cops, or tell you to stop, enact a law, etc.
LOL
until you realize that mapping isn't obvious at all.
:-)
I don't know. It seems like it has to be pretty obvious if a one celled organism can figure out the process. if something takes the intellectual capacity of a ribozome it should be considered obvious.
Its funny that 90% or so of the comments in this story so far are making fun of the pilot for not being able to control his "attitude", but what is funnier is that attitude is actually a flight term. (I don't know what it means). Sadly Melville is being made fun of for overcoming a problem in the launch to make a near disaster a huge success. He should be commended not made fun of, but we are too busy wallowing in our ignorance to realize his achievment.
Does anyone have the numbers for how much they actually spent to get to this point? I have heard ~$20 million...but I don't know a real number.
Yeah...I would say that this is definately true. I guess more what I meant was that American's are not stupid so much as blind to reality. Which can appear as stupidity even though it is stubbornness. The reality is that there is no good reason to leave a software development job in the US anymore. If you expect to spend the next 40 years of your life writing code you should expect to be under the poverty line in the United States by 2015.
Finland? Finland's not a country!
Yeah...after I posted that I realized I should have said humor not irony.