First off, I struggled to get through quantum mechanics and found a lot of the theories that were taught to be unbelievable. However, I have read Mills's paper on CQM (Classical Quantum Mechanics) and like it a lot. It is a bit short in the derivation department, but so was my quantum mechanics book. So here is Mills in a nutshell.
First, Mills tosses the following concepts from QED
Schrödinger's equation
Bohrs interpretation of the Schrödinger's equation as a probability density
Standard Model
Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle
Entanglement and correlation
Second, he states with some proof and handwaving that quantum mechanics can be derived 100% with classical physics equations and Einsteins relativstic equations (gamma).
Third, he states the electron is really a 2D current loop which when captured by a proton becomes a 3D sphere called an orbitsphere.
Fourth, he states that the ground state of the Hydrogen atom can be lowered. He claims this can be accomplished with a chemical reaction and a catalyst. When this happens, the Hyrdrogen atom releases energy which can be used for useful purposes, like creating heat or electricity.
Fifth, Mills believes that the mysterious "dark-matter" in the universe is composed of Hydrinos and believes the Big-Bang theory is wrong and has proposed and alternate theory.
In my opinion, Mills needs to put-up or shut-up. He has been screaming breakthrough for 5-years, but hasn't produced a practical device. I believe he is an incredibly smart and talented man. I believe he gets no respect because he is a chemist, and not a physicist. I hope his hydrino theory is true and that we can harness new forms of energy by decreasing the ground state of Hydrogen atoms. A single hydrogen atom possess an amazing amount of energy, it's simply a matter of figuring out how to release it in a controlled and safe way.
Until I see a working reproducable experiment, I won't believe Mills has done it. I need a demonstration. However, I think Mills is keeping his research secret due to patent concerns, since the trick to creating hydrinos (if possible) is probably fairly straghtforward chemical reaction and simple to copy.
Dude, if I may call you dude. Online schools like the University of Phoenix are great if you already have a great career and are just going after a piece of paper to look good to get that next promotion. However, life is more than have a framed piece of paper hanging on the wall. Life is about socializing, making friends, and sharing ideas. Consider that you may meet someone in a traditional college with whom you will start the next Google. Yes, that's right. The founders of Google attended Stanford together, however I am not sure if they ever posted a story on Slashdot.
You might make friends in different fields that open doors which you never considered. You never know who you will meet and what opportunities will arise from these chance meetings. Additionally, social networking is one of the best ways to find employment. You might do an internship and get hired or find other talented people like yourself and start a company (read the history of Hotmail).
Online learning tends to be very isolated and there is very little chance of meeting interesting people and connecting with them. Online courses are likely filled with people chasing a piece of paper and missing out on a far richer experience. Online learning also decreases the number of females you will meet that aren't from India or China. Please note, I am not biased against Indian or Chineese women, they just statistcally tend to comprise the majority of female computer science graduates. Going to a brick-n-mortar college will land you in a liberal arts class where you might find a date or even future wife. Remember, sometimes the journey is it's own reward:)
Maybe Slashdot could do a longitudal study of your education and career path choices to find out the answer to online vs. traditional schools and lifetime opportunities at the 4-year and 8-year mark. I've been to both type of universities and definately prefer the face-to-face interaction at a traditional school and have found it to be a much richer experience.
Yes! Someone else finally gets it. I believe that (by content) nearly 50% of our military hardware is produced abroad (*cough* CHINA *cough*). China has been coming to the US for years and buying manufacturing capacity and then literally moving the plants brick-by-brick over to China.
One day Chairman Mao could call the president of the US and demand a surrender saying, "I am the subcontractor of your subcontractor of your subcontractor for all your military hardware. I win, All your base are belong to us! HA HA HA HA"
Now for my rant. I went to an energy financial planning seminar last week and manufacturing is less than 11% of GNP and falling. Soon America will make nothing but IP and fast food. Go free-market! Go NAFTA! Go CAFTA! Go trade imbalances! Goodbye middle class! Goodbye jobs that pay living wages! Goodbye health care! Hello service industry! Hello Walmart! I hope someone with a financial brain has a long term plan, but I fear our greedy short-sighted CEOs and pullstring politicans have already weaked the country to the point where recovery is not possible. I predict change will come in one of two ways... 1) China will declare war on the US or 2) We will end up as a 2-class society which will precipitate the next revolution. Remember boys and girls, greed kills.
If Google capitulates to this request it could destroy them as a company. Assume Google pays the record companies a percentage of ad revenue based on product keyword searches. What is to stop everyone with search content in google from making the same demand? This would make Google much less profitable and we would soon be back to the days of "hit or click inflation" to try and generate more revenue. I could even imagine the RIAA contracting with nefarious programmers to create worms with the sole purpose of generating hits on Google.
Google must reject this request and let the RIAA take them to court and subsequently lose. The stakes on this are quite high for all search engine companies. I agree with previous posters who said that Google should delete all RIAA content and have them pay for to get into Google's search database. The result of this would hurt the RIAA worse than it would hurt Google.
For me, I quit buying Sony Consumer Electronics after I burned my first mix CD and found that my Sony CD/DVD player wouldn't read burned CDs. About 2 years later, the consumer electronics division is cutting 10,000 jobs and facing a $2B(US) loss this year.
Now the half of the house that sells CDs is trying hard to alienate it's customers by releasing CDs that can't be listened to on iPods. Earth to Sony, if you make your products unusable, consumers aren't going to buy them. In addition, the consumer economy is severely depressed due to energy prices and a really expensive war we are fighting in Iraq. Until these issues are resolved, consumers are going to spend less money on both electronics and content. Meanwhile, you probably shouldn't sacrifice the per CD licensing fees to the copy protection and DRM companies. Instead you should focus on superior products and profitability.
Selling products in a free-market economy is a tricky thing. Good luck! Oh, and one more thing. We are all sick of the movie remakes, please innovate something new and interesting. Herbie, Bewitched, and now King Kong? Geeeeeez.
Sure, a lot of the allegations are crap, however that is how legal cases work. You throw as much crap as you can muster and see what sticks, even if the claims are mutually exclusive. Once the crap is shot down, you fight over the remainder, but making as many claims as possible in the beginning gets the legal ball rolling. However, making too many false claims can get you into frivilous lawsuit trouble.
As technical people, we know that many of the allegations in this case might be bogus, but that is for the RIAA and their lackeys to prove in the discovery process. We all suspect that this case is never going to see a courtroom. The RIAA is going to get out the checkbook and settle (assuming they are smart). However, an ambitious State Attorney General might decide to start an investigation in the racketeering allegation and then the RIAA is going to write a bigger check to settle and someone may even go to jail.
The RIAA might want to quit while they still can. If this case goes to trial, it will become the model for how to defeat the RIAA in court. You've got to feel a bit sorry for the RIAA, being a dinosaur on the edge of extinction in the modern world.
The PC is a relic as long as you don't want to run applications that don't suck. Let's face it, all applications that run inside a webbrowser are inferior to those that run native on a PC. Webapps like GMAIL are getting better, but functionality is still far below an application that takes advantage of the local windows manager.
First of all, no one says any idea that pops into your head 24 hours a day belongs to your employer (unless your contract says so, of course).
Most employment contracts do state that.
Intellectual Property: A major flaw at the heart
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Intellectual Property: A major flaw at the heart of the open source movement is the misconception that most individuals actually have the legal right to contribute their intellectual efforts to OSS projects. In most industrialized nations, intellectual property (IP) generated by an employee through the course of his or her employment legally belongs to the employer. In the UK, this is embodied in the Patents Act 1977 and the Copyright, Designs & Patents Act 1988.
He almost got it correct. Intellectual Property is a major flaw in this day and time. Could someone give me a legal definition of IP please? I believe there are patents, copyrights, and trade secrets but I am unfamiliar with Intellectual Property. Furthermore as an employess of Megacorp, being forced to agree that your employer owns any though that pops into your head 24 hours a day is unethical and wrong.
Intellectual Property needs a legal definition and employees need rights and protection against thought slavery. The problem is not OSS, the problem is that corporate greed and control of its employees know no bounds. I thought we abolished slavery in the "civilized" world long ago, but it appears to be coming back in different forms. Instead of "physical slavery" we now have "mental slavery".
All your Intellectual Property are belong to us...
If Vista can turn my PC into an appliance and get it to power-up and come to life as fast as the television then I might be tempted. If Vista could increase the speed of my Internet connection or possibly reduce the price of ink for my photoprinter. If Vista could help me communicate with the computer faster, possibly not require a keyboard or mouse. If Vista could keep my dad from getting every known virus and worm on his computer and reduce my tech support calls. If Vista could make my PC run quieter, use less electricity and produce less heat.
Unfortunately, all Vista is going to do is slooooow everything down to a crawl (yet again) to try and push new HW sales. Once everything is slooowed down, I am sure Vista will then try to lock the PC down by secretly encrypting all MP3's and disabling iTunes. Right now, Win2K and Linux are fine with me. Both run great on old HW with lots of RAM. I wonder how many developers will flock to Vista? Maybe MS should just write checks payable directly to application developers instead of spending it on advertising.
I wonder if Vista will help with the dupe posts on Slashdot? That might be worth it!:)
Google doesn't want to control the world, they just want a large specialized niche. Microsoft on the other hand will crush anyone who stands in the way between them and market share expansion.
I think Google is still a free-wheeling fun place to work where MS is starting to lose it's shine as the internal bureacracy stifles innovation. MS has been playing the "me too" game for years. Google is just the latest company to show MS "nothing but taillights" and they are crying that Google is stealing all the talent. Boo Hoo! MS has had a giant talent pool since the late 90's and what have they done with it? Oh yeah, I remember now Longhorn and ".NET"...
Hopefully one day, MS will just accept their place in life as a commodity i.e. (the maker of Solitare and the Word Processor) and just shut the h*ll-up. If MS isn't going to innovate, quit whining. There are so many simple things that MS could do to improve to computing universe and add some real value but instead all they do is whine, patent, and sue. I would post the top-10 list of how MS could improve the computing universe, but it is patent pending. However, I would be willing to sell it to their consultants:) I actually have the next innovation that would give MS tons of new market share and possibly even outsell iPod. However, we will have to wait for Apple to bring it to us, even though MS already has the lead.
Google is not evil and the glory days of MS are long gone.
This is great, soon I can call India from the U.S. and get someone to both fix my Dell and perform surgery. I just hope the link doesn't go down during the operation.
BMO - two words, DEEP FREEZE. This is what I use to protect the school and public library computers from the users. It works great, just reboot for a clean machine.
That's because Area 51 is restricted air space.. A NO FLY ZONE, you can't take aerial photographs if you can't fly over it. Google uses a Satellite so they can take pictures of everything:)
In Northern Michigan, Halloween is a BIG holiday. The streets are literally jammed with kids and the firetrucks roam the streets tossing out candy. Northern Michigan is not as paranoid as the rest of the country and does not really subscribe to the "culture of fear".
Also, the local newscasts do not start with someone shouting, "You are all going to die, stay tuned and we will tell you how to increase your chances of survival."
Good one! That comment is hilarious and should have been included in the PDF presentation! Nothing like an IIS slam to get room full of OSS geeks excited.:)
Apparently, Wired has gone to a "autorenew" subscription model. I decided to let my subscription lapse due to a move. I reasoned that once I got to the new address I would re-subscribe with the new address and not have to deal with mail forwarding.
That's when the letter from NSA showed up. They appear to be a fake collections agency that send out mildly threatening letters in an attempt to annoy you into renewing.
However, being a subscriber since the beginning the letter seriously cheesed me off and I contacted Wired subscriber services via email.
They sent me this response:
Customer_Service@cdsfulfillment.com
As you requested, your credit order has been cancelled. Please disregard any further billing you may receive.
Please accept any issues you have received with our compliments.
If you need further assistance, please use the reply with history feature to include all previous correspondence because we have several customer service representatives answering messages. Wired Jenn
About a week later, a subscription renewal for $8/year showed up and I sent that in after ignoring Wired and NSA letters for about 4 months. However, even though the subscription has been renewed I still get letters from the NSA (North Shore Agency). This is all just a poorly thought-out scam to get people to renew on time (or else). Some executive probably came up with this after going to a seminar on the "culture of fear" in which we supposedly now live. What he/she didn't realize is that the technofolks don't have time for mass media and aren't part of the "culture of fear" thus, can't be herded like sheep. The old adage, "Know your audience" comes to mind. Those in charge at Wired's subscription services do not appear to know their audience and really screwed up. I hope it doesn't kill off the magazine. I wonder if they will issue an apology anytime soon.
Anyone looking to ditch hotmail? Let me know and I will send you your very own GMAIL invitation. GMAIL is not run by the "evil empire" and generally does an excellent job at crushing spam. GMAIL is run by a cool company named Google, while Hotmail is run by a crusty, uncool company named MicroSoft. Just based on cool points alone, GMAIL is the superior choice.
MS-Word is great for 2-3 page documents, but start adding graphics, charts, and including parts of contributed by other parties and MS-Word starts to destabilize.
I have have stayed up many a late night working on large reports or proposals because MS-Word decided to screw up a large file. I am so paranoid when working in MS-Word on large documents that I save multiple revisions of the same document, so I can revert back to them in the event that MS-Word eats or screws up a large document.
I haven't tried large documents in OpenOffice, but will give it a try soon.
How about giving me an accurate weather report?
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So let me get this straight. We can put together enough hardware to simulate the universe, YET WE ARE UNABLE TO PREDICT THE FREAKING WEATHER.
Instead, put all those computers together to model the earth's weather and use the laws of physics to tell me if I should take off next Friday to play golf or schedule a trip to Disney in late August. Geez........
The first kind of fool is a smart person who defends and idea because it is an old idea, and worked in the past....
The second type defends and idea because it is new assuming it must be better...
Both positions are equally bad.... The tricky thing with ideas is being able to recognize and discriminate the good ideas from the bad ideas. I have yet to master this skill.
It's still good to see there are men of principle around. Even though it may cost them in the short-term, they did the right thing and can lie down with a clear conscience at night.
Yes they would... imagine if someone made a movie about all the companies that Microsoft crushed and stole from, just because they could. I know there is a much, much longer list of little companies who were lured in by Microsoft, had all their ideas stolen, and then cast aside.
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First, Mills tosses the following concepts from QED
Second, he states with some proof and handwaving that quantum mechanics can be derived 100% with classical physics equations and Einsteins relativstic equations (gamma).
Third, he states the electron is really a 2D current loop which when captured by a proton becomes a 3D sphere called an orbitsphere.
Fourth, he states that the ground state of the Hydrogen atom can be lowered. He claims this can be accomplished with a chemical reaction and a catalyst. When this happens, the Hyrdrogen atom releases energy which can be used for useful purposes, like creating heat or electricity.
Fifth, Mills believes that the mysterious "dark-matter" in the universe is composed of Hydrinos and believes the Big-Bang theory is wrong and has proposed and alternate theory.
In my opinion, Mills needs to put-up or shut-up. He has been screaming breakthrough for 5-years, but hasn't produced a practical device. I believe he is an incredibly smart and talented man. I believe he gets no respect because he is a chemist, and not a physicist. I hope his hydrino theory is true and that we can harness new forms of energy by decreasing the ground state of Hydrogen atoms. A single hydrogen atom possess an amazing amount of energy, it's simply a matter of figuring out how to release it in a controlled and safe way.
Until I see a working reproducable experiment, I won't believe Mills has done it. I need a demonstration. However, I think Mills is keeping his research secret due to patent concerns, since the trick to creating hydrinos (if possible) is probably fairly straghtforward chemical reaction and simple to copy.
Dude, if I may call you dude. Online schools like the University of Phoenix are great if you already have a great career and are just going after a piece of paper to look good to get that next promotion. However, life is more than have a framed piece of paper hanging on the wall. Life is about socializing, making friends, and sharing ideas. Consider that you may meet someone in a traditional college with whom you will start the next Google. Yes, that's right. The founders of Google attended Stanford together, however I am not sure if they ever posted a story on Slashdot.
:)
You might make friends in different fields that open doors which you never considered. You never know who you will meet and what opportunities will arise from these chance meetings. Additionally, social networking is one of the best ways to find employment. You might do an internship and get hired or find other talented people like yourself and start a company (read the history of Hotmail).
Online learning tends to be very isolated and there is very little chance of meeting interesting people and connecting with them. Online courses are likely filled with people chasing a piece of paper and missing out on a far richer experience. Online learning also decreases the number of females you will meet that aren't from India or China. Please note, I am not biased against Indian or Chineese women, they just statistcally tend to comprise the majority of female computer science graduates. Going to a brick-n-mortar college will land you in a liberal arts class where you might find a date or even future wife. Remember, sometimes the journey is it's own reward
Maybe Slashdot could do a longitudal study of your education and career path choices to find out the answer to online vs. traditional schools and lifetime opportunities at the 4-year and 8-year mark. I've been to both type of universities and definately prefer the face-to-face interaction at a traditional school and have found it to be a much richer experience.
Good for you Taco to be on the receiving end every now and again! :)
Remember that next time you ignore my article submission in favor of posting a DUPE!
Yes! Someone else finally gets it. I believe that (by content) nearly 50% of our military hardware is produced abroad (*cough* CHINA *cough*). China has been coming to the US for years and buying manufacturing capacity and then literally moving the plants brick-by-brick over to China.
One day Chairman Mao could call the president of the US and demand a surrender saying, "I am the subcontractor of your subcontractor of your subcontractor for all your military hardware. I win, All your base are belong to us! HA HA HA HA"
America's manufacturing capability in terms of military hardware and strategic resources is pitiful. However, never fear, we can defend ourselves with intellectual assests of mass destruction.
Now for my rant. I went to an energy financial planning seminar last week and manufacturing is less than 11% of GNP and falling. Soon America will make nothing but IP and fast food. Go free-market! Go NAFTA! Go CAFTA! Go trade imbalances! Goodbye middle class! Goodbye jobs that pay living wages! Goodbye health care! Hello service industry! Hello Walmart! I hope someone with a financial brain has a long term plan, but I fear our greedy short-sighted CEOs and pullstring politicans have already weaked the country to the point where recovery is not possible. I predict change will come in one of two ways... 1) China will declare war on the US or 2) We will end up as a 2-class society which will precipitate the next revolution. Remember boys and girls, greed kills.
Try this link from The Wayback Machine, they have quite a few of the pics: Archive.org
My favorites, The Buffalo and The Wright Brothers
If Google capitulates to this request it could destroy them as a company. Assume Google pays the record companies a percentage of ad revenue based on product keyword searches. What is to stop everyone with search content in google from making the same demand? This would make Google much less profitable and we would soon be back to the days of "hit or click inflation" to try and generate more revenue. I could even imagine the RIAA contracting with nefarious programmers to create worms with the sole purpose of generating hits on Google.
Google must reject this request and let the RIAA take them to court and subsequently lose. The stakes on this are quite high for all search engine companies. I agree with previous posters who said that Google should delete all RIAA content and have them pay for to get into Google's search database. The result of this would hurt the RIAA worse than it would hurt Google.
For me, I quit buying Sony Consumer Electronics after I burned my first mix CD and found that my Sony CD/DVD player wouldn't read burned CDs. About 2 years later, the consumer electronics division is cutting 10,000 jobs and facing a $2B(US) loss this year.
Now the half of the house that sells CDs is trying hard to alienate it's customers by releasing CDs that can't be listened to on iPods. Earth to Sony, if you make your products unusable, consumers aren't going to buy them. In addition, the consumer economy is severely depressed due to energy prices and a really expensive war we are fighting in Iraq. Until these issues are resolved, consumers are going to spend less money on both electronics and content. Meanwhile, you probably shouldn't sacrifice the per CD licensing fees to the copy protection and DRM companies. Instead you should focus on superior products and profitability.
Selling products in a free-market economy is a tricky thing. Good luck! Oh, and one more thing. We are all sick of the movie remakes, please innovate something new and interesting. Herbie, Bewitched, and now King Kong? Geeeeeez.
Sure, a lot of the allegations are crap, however that is how legal cases work. You throw as much crap as you can muster and see what sticks, even if the claims are mutually exclusive. Once the crap is shot down, you fight over the remainder, but making as many claims as possible in the beginning gets the legal ball rolling. However, making too many false claims can get you into frivilous lawsuit trouble.
As technical people, we know that many of the allegations in this case might be bogus, but that is for the RIAA and their lackeys to prove in the discovery process. We all suspect that this case is never going to see a courtroom. The RIAA is going to get out the checkbook and settle (assuming they are smart). However, an ambitious State Attorney General might decide to start an investigation in the racketeering allegation and then the RIAA is going to write a bigger check to settle and someone may even go to jail.
The RIAA might want to quit while they still can. If this case goes to trial, it will become the model for how to defeat the RIAA in court. You've got to feel a bit sorry for the RIAA, being a dinosaur on the edge of extinction in the modern world.
The PC is a relic as long as you don't want to run applications that don't suck. Let's face it, all applications that run inside a webbrowser are inferior to those that run native on a PC. Webapps like GMAIL are getting better, but functionality is still far below an application that takes advantage of the local windows manager.
First of all, no one says any idea that pops into your head 24 hours a day belongs to your employer (unless your contract says so, of course).
Most employment contracts do state that.
Intellectual Property: A major flaw at the heart of the open source movement is the misconception that most individuals actually have the legal right to contribute their intellectual efforts to OSS projects. In most industrialized nations, intellectual property (IP) generated by an employee through the course of his or her employment legally belongs to the employer. In the UK, this is embodied in the Patents Act 1977 and the Copyright, Designs & Patents Act 1988.
He almost got it correct. Intellectual Property is a major flaw in this day and time. Could someone give me a legal definition of IP please? I believe there are patents, copyrights, and trade secrets but I am unfamiliar with Intellectual Property. Furthermore as an employess of Megacorp, being forced to agree that your employer owns any though that pops into your head 24 hours a day is unethical and wrong.
Intellectual Property needs a legal definition and employees need rights and protection against thought slavery. The problem is not OSS, the problem is that corporate greed and control of its employees know no bounds. I thought we abolished slavery in the "civilized" world long ago, but it appears to be coming back in different forms. Instead of "physical slavery" we now have "mental slavery".
All your Intellectual Property are belong to us...
If Vista can turn my PC into an appliance and get it to power-up and come to life as fast as the television then I might be tempted. If Vista could increase the speed of my Internet connection or possibly reduce the price of ink for my photoprinter. If Vista could help me communicate with the computer faster, possibly not require a keyboard or mouse. If Vista could keep my dad from getting every known virus and worm on his computer and reduce my tech support calls. If Vista could make my PC run quieter, use less electricity and produce less heat.
:)
Unfortunately, all Vista is going to do is slooooow everything down to a crawl (yet again) to try and push new HW sales. Once everything is slooowed down, I am sure Vista will then try to lock the PC down by secretly encrypting all MP3's and disabling iTunes. Right now, Win2K and Linux are fine with me. Both run great on old HW with lots of RAM. I wonder how many developers will flock to Vista? Maybe MS should just write checks payable directly to application developers instead of spending it on advertising.
I wonder if Vista will help with the dupe posts on Slashdot? That might be worth it!
Google doesn't want to control the world, they just want a large specialized niche. Microsoft on the other hand will crush anyone who stands in the way between them and market share expansion.
...
:) I actually have the next innovation that would give MS tons of new market share and possibly even outsell iPod. However, we will have to wait for Apple to bring it to us, even though MS already has the lead.
I think Google is still a free-wheeling fun place to work where MS is starting to lose it's shine as the internal bureacracy stifles innovation. MS has been playing the "me too" game for years. Google is just the latest company to show MS "nothing but taillights" and they are crying that Google is stealing all the talent. Boo Hoo! MS has had a giant talent pool since the late 90's and what have they done with it? Oh yeah, I remember now Longhorn and ".NET"
Hopefully one day, MS will just accept their place in life as a commodity i.e. (the maker of Solitare and the Word Processor) and just shut the h*ll-up. If MS isn't going to innovate, quit whining. There are so many simple things that MS could do to improve to computing universe and add some real value but instead all they do is whine, patent, and sue. I would post the top-10 list of how MS could improve the computing universe, but it is patent pending. However, I would be willing to sell it to their consultants
Google is not evil and the glory days of MS are long gone.
This is great, soon I can call India from the U.S. and get someone to both fix my Dell and perform surgery. I just hope the link doesn't go down during the operation.
Laugh, it's funny, ok?
BMO - two words, DEEP FREEZE. This is what I use to protect the school and public library computers from the users. It works great, just reboot for a clean machine.
That's because Area 51 is restricted air space.. A NO FLY ZONE, you can't take aerial photographs if you can't fly over it. Google uses a Satellite so they can take pictures of everything :)
In Northern Michigan, Halloween is a BIG holiday. The streets are literally jammed with kids and the firetrucks roam the streets tossing out candy. Northern Michigan is not as paranoid as the rest of the country and does not really subscribe to the "culture of fear".
Also, the local newscasts do not start with someone shouting, "You are all going to die, stay tuned and we will tell you how to increase your chances of survival."
Good one! That comment is hilarious and should have been included in the PDF presentation! Nothing like an IIS slam to get room full of OSS geeks excited. :)
Anyone looking to ditch hotmail? Let me know and I will send you your very own GMAIL invitation. GMAIL is not run by the "evil empire" and generally does an excellent job at crushing spam. GMAIL is run by a cool company named Google, while Hotmail is run by a crusty, uncool company named MicroSoft. Just based on cool points alone, GMAIL is the superior choice.
MS-Word is great for 2-3 page documents, but start adding graphics, charts, and including parts of contributed by other parties and MS-Word starts to destabilize.
I have have stayed up many a late night working on large reports or proposals because MS-Word decided to screw up a large file. I am so paranoid when working in MS-Word on large documents that I save multiple revisions of the same document, so I can revert back to them in the event that MS-Word eats or screws up a large document.
I haven't tried large documents in OpenOffice, but will give it a try soon.
So let me get this straight. We can put together enough hardware to simulate the universe, YET WE ARE UNABLE TO PREDICT THE FREAKING WEATHER.
Instead, put all those computers together to model the earth's weather and use the laws of physics to tell me if I should take off next Friday to play golf or schedule a trip to Disney in late August. Geez........
- The first kind of fool is a smart person who defends and idea because it is an old idea, and worked in the past....
- The second type defends and idea because it is new assuming it must be better...
Both positions are equally bad.... The tricky thing with ideas is being able to recognize and discriminate the good ideas from the bad ideas. I have yet to master this skill.It's still good to see there are men of principle around. Even though it may cost them in the short-term, they did the right thing and can lie down with a clear conscience at night.
Yes they would... imagine if someone made a movie about all the companies that Microsoft crushed and stole from, just because they could. I know there is a much, much longer list of little companies who were lured in by Microsoft, had all their ideas stolen, and then cast aside.
I'll start the list.
Stac Electronics
Burst.com
Borland
Caldera over Dr. DOS in UK
This is almost a job for Michael Moore....