""Boeing will continue to be profitable, but without the glory.""
US Shareholders do not expect glory. They expect profits.
Boeing is being very smart not to try to compete with the A380. After all, the A380 program is the recipient of millions upon millions in legally questionable bailout money already, so there's no reason Boeing should throw good money at competing with it until the legal hurdles are worked out. The A380 still may never come to fruition, so the wait-and-see stance is appropriate.
That hydrogen they are using is no doubt manufactured from fossil fuels...
In sunny places, it might be feasible to use photovoltaics to disassociate water, but up in Iceland? It's natural gas conversion... so it's not really solving any global problems - just a problem of local pollution at the expense of another 100% efficient energy conversion step.
Yep... a net loss... just paying interest to move the environmental pollution debt from one credit card to another..
Universities are not that inept when it comes to setting up firewalls. Second, universities have SO MANY machines that the casual outside hacker isn't going to just stumble upon the id server, or even know how to find it....
However, universities are INCREDIBLY inept when it comes to hiring cheap student labor to work in the IT department. Broke-ass students have both motive and opportunity to commit ID theft on this wide a scale. ID Theft rings are fairly well-known for approaching student IT workers at schools of affluence like Mason, where the majority of the student body are wealthy and have good credit.
The university didn't have to pay for the credit checks. If you believe you have been a victim of identity theft, you get a report for free from each of the big-three credit bureaus..
They will most certainly say it is the Internet, although the Internet was created more than 25 years ago. They did put "commercialized GPS" on the list, so I imagine that's a clue that they'll say "commercialized DARPAnet"
Also, the list is supposed to be non-medical, so why are Hearing Aids and DNA Fingerprinting on the list?
The economy was up in 2004... therefore CD sales were up as a matter of trend. As the economy improves, so does disposable income and sales of just about everything.
Here's why the economic boycott will not work. If there is an economic boycott, their revenues will fall. They will turn around and blame this on filesharing and p2p, and then come to the conclusion that they need MORE DRM. For the most part, they will be correct, because people participating in the boycott will be more likely to steal the content using filsharing. Eventually, however, Hollywood will go out of business and there will be no more content to steal.
That is most certainly a complete sentence. It can be rewritten as
The self-imposed etiquette of many users is as interesting as the phenomena of customers leeching power from the businesses they frequent.
The problem with writing it this way is that the premise of the statement is not established until after the conclusion. This way is ambiguous because "users" have not been defined yet.
Right, they are a business, but they have also taken BILLIONS of PUBLIC (i.e. Gov't tax breaks, grants, etc) dollars over the years to build the infrastructure. Therefore, they have a moral and currently legal obligation to share that infrastructure. Even if the legal obligation is done away with, the moral obligation will still exist.
It's also one thing to look at a catastrophe that is a natural event and quite another to look at one that is the result of sheer, unbridled hatred and desire to kill. The latter tends to be ranked as a worse catastrophe because it makes us dislike ourselves as a race. After all, humans made a conscious decision to murder as many people as possible, whereas the Earth didn't get up this morning and decide to kill 11,000 people. The fact that the catastrophe was a result of a conscious decision makes it 100x worse than a natural disaster.
This is truly a sad day for all of humanity. 11,000 people is a huge incredible loss of life. We can talk about the science behind tsunamis all day long, but let's all take a moment to pray for the victims of this catastrophe. Keep in mind that it's not just 11,000 dead, but it's millions homeless, without clean water or food, or a place to live.
If you can, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE give some money to one of the many relief organizations that is working to help feed and shelter people in the affected zones. I am sure the International Red Cross would be a good place to start.
I think it's important to realize that there are actually legitimate uses of the H1-B visa program. More often than not, the bad press you hear about the H1-B is caused by certain companies criminally manipulating the system with the specific purpose of circumventing immigration law.
Also, it is not like the H1-B visas that are granted are never scrutinized. Without getting into the gory details, I will just say that the government makes it very expensive from a legal standpoint to hire H1-B's because of the constant headache of having to deal with the INS. My fiancee is constantly hassled by the INS about her visa - just for her to go home to Colombia for Christmas takes $2k at the lawyer's office and 6 months of filling out forms and waiting - just because if there is one little mistake on some obscure form somewhere, her visa will be cancelled. This happened to her last year and it took almost $10k in legal fees (which really just amount to bribing the INS since immigration lawyers and administrative law judges all get together and play golf on weekends anyway) to get her back to the US. Her employer is also constantly harassed about whether or not they have her job posted, whether they have interviewed any Americans for her job, and so on.
Believe me, whatever money the company has saved by sponsoring someone's H1-B is spent threefold more on legal hassles. Once we're married, I too will have to cough up INS bribes for three years until she can naturalize...
I think a far greater injustics is the L-1 visa, which never ever gets any press. The L-1 is FAR more dangerous to American jobs than the H1-B. The L-1 allows multinationals to bring in foreigners from overseas offices without any scrutiny whatsoever - and there are no quotas. Larger companies can also get a "blanket L-1" which allows them to bring foreigners over without even filing a petition to the INS.
Whenever designing a product, whether it be hardware or software, one of the very first steps is to define your target market.
If I am writing a piece of software, and my Target Market is the United States, I'm a) not going to go out of my way to make it usable in Elbonia and b) not going to give a flip if Elbonians don't like that.
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""Boeing will continue to be profitable, but without the glory.""
US Shareholders do not expect glory. They expect profits.
Boeing is being very smart not to try to compete with the A380. After all, the A380 program is the recipient of millions upon millions in legally questionable bailout money already, so there's no reason Boeing should throw good money at competing with it until the legal hurdles are worked out. The A380 still may never come to fruition, so the wait-and-see stance is appropriate.
FLIPPER....
Damn thing looks like a dolphin, doesn't it?
That hydrogen they are using is no doubt manufactured from fossil fuels...
In sunny places, it might be feasible to use photovoltaics to disassociate water, but up in Iceland? It's natural gas conversion... so it's not really solving any global problems - just a problem of local pollution at the expense of another 100% efficient energy conversion step.
Yep... a net loss... just paying interest to move the environmental pollution debt from one credit card to another..
Universities are not that inept when it comes to setting up firewalls. Second, universities have SO MANY machines that the casual outside hacker isn't going to just stumble upon the id server, or even know how to find it....
However, universities are INCREDIBLY inept when it comes to hiring cheap student labor to work in the IT department. Broke-ass students have both motive and opportunity to commit ID theft on this wide a scale. ID Theft rings are fairly well-known for approaching student IT workers at schools of affluence like Mason, where the majority of the student body are wealthy and have good credit.
$ASSUMPTION_THAT_YOU_LIVE_IN_THE_US
The university didn't have to pay for the credit checks. If you believe you have been a victim of identity theft, you get a report for free from each of the big-three credit bureaus..
I need to look up the melting temperature of FR-4.
They will most certainly say it is the Internet, although the Internet was created more than 25 years ago. They did put "commercialized GPS" on the list, so I imagine that's a clue that they'll say "commercialized DARPAnet"
Also, the list is supposed to be non-medical, so why are Hearing Aids and DNA Fingerprinting on the list?
The economy was up in 2004... therefore CD sales were up as a matter of trend. As the economy improves, so does disposable income and sales of just about everything.
See, you only read it 5 times... I understood it on the sixth :)
Here's why the economic boycott will not work. If there is an economic boycott, their revenues will fall. They will turn around and blame this on filesharing and p2p, and then come to the conclusion that they need MORE DRM. For the most part, they will be correct, because people participating in the boycott will be more likely to steal the content using filsharing. Eventually, however, Hollywood will go out of business and there will be no more content to steal.
That is most certainly a complete sentence. It can be rewritten as
The self-imposed etiquette of many users is as interesting as the phenomena of customers leeching power from the businesses they frequent.
The problem with writing it this way is that the premise of the statement is not established until after the conclusion. This way is ambiguous because "users" have not been defined yet.
Now, if only we can get murderers, rapists, and child molesters this kind of sentence?
Right, they are a business, but they have also taken BILLIONS of PUBLIC (i.e. Gov't tax breaks, grants, etc) dollars over the years to build the infrastructure. Therefore, they have a moral and currently legal obligation to share that infrastructure. Even if the legal obligation is done away with, the moral obligation will still exist.
If Peter Jackson had done the Prequels..
Han: We have to get to the death star to destroy the evil empire
Luke: Oh Han, I'm so happy we're together. I Love you!
Han: I love you too, Luke. Let's embrace and hold eachother a bit too long to be straight
Luke: Allright! As long as we're together, we can do anything!
Vader: I will kill you all!
Obiwan: So much death!
argh... continue, I cannot..
It's also one thing to look at a catastrophe that is a natural event and quite another to look at one that is the result of sheer, unbridled hatred and desire to kill. The latter tends to be ranked as a worse catastrophe because it makes us dislike ourselves as a race. After all, humans made a conscious decision to murder as many people as possible, whereas the Earth didn't get up this morning and decide to kill 11,000 people. The fact that the catastrophe was a result of a conscious decision makes it 100x worse than a natural disaster.
This is truly a sad day for all of humanity. 11,000 people is a huge incredible loss of life. We can talk about the science behind tsunamis all day long, but let's all take a moment to pray for the victims of this catastrophe. Keep in mind that it's not just 11,000 dead, but it's millions homeless, without clean water or food, or a place to live.
If you can, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE give some money to one of the many relief organizations that is working to help feed and shelter people in the affected zones. I am sure the International Red Cross would be a good place to start.
Based on *current measurements* the estimated probability of impact (we'll call it n) is 1/233 and the probability of non-impact is 232/233.
Their statement spoke of the probability (we'll call it a) of the estimated probability of impact falling from 1/233 to 0/233.
a is the probability of n changing.
In this case, they are saying that the probability, a, of n changing from 1/233 to 0/233, is nearly 1.
They are different statements, although subtly.
You misunderstood the message...
The message is this:
"The probabiliy of 232 becoming 233 is nearly 1 as the orbit of the object is more accurately defined in the future"
Now I can keep my computer with the 32-bit clock! I won't have to worry about it rolling over... Nice! :)
Because if we sit around waiting for the UN to make a fscking decision, we'll all be charred to a crisp before anything is done about it...
I think it's important to realize that there are actually legitimate uses of the H1-B visa program. More often than not, the bad press you hear about the H1-B is caused by certain companies criminally manipulating the system with the specific purpose of circumventing immigration law.
Also, it is not like the H1-B visas that are granted are never scrutinized. Without getting into the gory details, I will just say that the government makes it very expensive from a legal standpoint to hire H1-B's because of the constant headache of having to deal with the INS. My fiancee is constantly hassled by the INS about her visa - just for her to go home to Colombia for Christmas takes $2k at the lawyer's office and 6 months of filling out forms and waiting - just because if there is one little mistake on some obscure form somewhere, her visa will be cancelled. This happened to her last year and it took almost $10k in legal fees (which really just amount to bribing the INS since immigration lawyers and administrative law judges all get together and play golf on weekends anyway) to get her back to the US. Her employer is also constantly harassed about whether or not they have her job posted, whether they have interviewed any Americans for her job, and so on.
Believe me, whatever money the company has saved by sponsoring someone's H1-B is spent threefold more on legal hassles. Once we're married, I too will have to cough up INS bribes for three years until she can naturalize...
I think a far greater injustics is the L-1 visa, which never ever gets any press. The L-1 is FAR more dangerous to American jobs than the H1-B. The L-1 allows multinationals to bring in foreigners from overseas offices without any scrutiny whatsoever - and there are no quotas. Larger companies can also get a "blanket L-1" which allows them to bring foreigners over without even filing a petition to the INS.
It's computers and technology, not air conditioning (except for the A/C used to keep datacenters cool).
Green energy is still not competitive with fossil fuels, even with the twofold increase in energy prices?
Yeah, that's what I thought..
Whenever designing a product, whether it be hardware or software, one of the very first steps is to define your target market.
If I am writing a piece of software, and my Target Market is the United States, I'm a) not going to go out of my way to make it usable in Elbonia and b) not going to give a flip if Elbonians don't like that.
Your laptop is not emitting anywhere near 3W of RF... more likely about 17dBm, which works out to about 40mW..