The denialists have shifted their arguments as the evidence for climate change has become stronger and as we have been subject to daily "weather" that shows that climate change is happening and actually exceeding the "worst case" models. At first they were just denialists stating that it isn't happening. As the climate has actually started to change and we have record heat, drought, flood, etc. they it has become harder to deny that climate change is happening. So, they have shifted their arguments to "we didn't cause it and there is nothing we can do about it". They cite a lot of dubious "evidence" (all of which has been debunked by actual scientists). There are a lot of sensible things we can do to stop burning fossil fuels (such as the telecommuting idea you propose) but the denialists take the position that it's not our fault and we can't do anything. As usual, it pays to follow the money and you find the fossil fuel industries behind all of the denialist "science" and find them spreading all of this FUD.
I've heard of it but I don't think it's "spoiled"... i.e. it's not infected with bacteria or yeast. Good old Wikipedia gives an answer: "The process changes beef by two means. Firstly, moisture is evaporated from the muscle. This creates a greater concentration of beef flavour and taste. Secondly, the beef’s natural enzymes break down the connective tissue in the muscle, which leads to more tender beef."
Cheese is just spoiled milk just like wine is spoiled grapes and beer is spoiled grain. This has been going on as long as these things have existed. Hungry people will try to eat anything even if it has spoiled. Fortunately, sometimes when things spoil, they get better (but don't try this with meat).
The real problem is that nobody wants nuclear waste because it is... well, radioactive, duh! This is the core problem with nuclear (fission) energy. There is no way to deal with the radioactive waste. Nobody wants it anywhere. Nobody wants the risk of disease. Everybody is a nuclear NIMBY. Much better to look at other sources of energy which don't have this waste problem which is qualitatively much different than any other industrial process.
I used ARCnet in the 80s... I still have a hammer from the 60s that I use regularly. I have an HP LJ4L printer that is about 25 years old and still works fine and is my main printer (attached to an HP JetDirect network Ethernet adapter).
Just a few clarifications to your post. Loan guarantees are not grants. A123 received a $250 million loan guarantee, not $90 billion. Government has a vital role to play in keeping the economy moving. This is done through tax incentives, loans, stimulus programs and grants. The problem is that the wrong corporations capture these incentives. Obsolete industries and industries which are doing fine without incentives tend to capture most of them... (i.e. General Electric receives enough government incentives that they pay no taxes but they are a perfectly viable business to stand on their own.)
The government has been tossing taxpayer money to the oil industry, big agriculture, banks and everyone else who could buy themselves a politician or two since the beginning of time. This particular failure sounds like a combination of bad management plus the fact that developing and scaling new technology is hard.
This is common across all sectors and all skill levels. The corporations have set things up so that the owners and managers capture all of the profit and any productivity gains. They have also bought enough politicians to keep their tax rates low so they don't have to contribute to the "general welfare". Corporate profits and upper management incomes are at record levels. The situation with tech wages is the same as that with WalMart employees. You are expendable and replaceable and if you make trouble you will be fired so just sit down and shut up and get to work. At least tech wages are above poverty level so they don't have to go on Medicaid and food stamps to survive... be thankful for small favors. The last time things were this far out of kilter was the 1930s and that gave rise to the union movement (as well as socialists and communists). This time, people seem more complacent and are just happy to have small crumbs.
So... they have about 1,000,000 boards shipped now... What is magic about 1,500,000? BTW, I can generally get them in about 2-3 weeks from Newark/Element14 so I count that as "generally available" in the US.
One of the two boards I ordered was DOA. The little red light would come on but nothing else... no boot, etc. The other board worked fine with the same memory card, cables, power supply, etc. so it had to be the board. Nice to know that I had the only 1 in 150,000... maybe I should try the lottery.
You're willing to pay for access so it is simple. It's only complicated if you want "free" access. I find it easier to just ignore the WSJ. Why do you assume that complaining about a firewall is a liberal bias?
Reminds me of ENIAC. I went to the Moore School at U of Penn and ENIAC parts were in the basement (may still be there, for all I know). The story was that since it was all vacuum tubes, at the beginning they were lucky to get it to run for more than 10 minutes before a tube blew.
That being said, I can't believe that supercomputers don't have some kind of supervisory program to detect bad nodes and schedule around them.
I don't think he "stole" the email addresses. AFAIK, they are still in ATT hands. No theft, no possession of stolen property. No burglary. He copied stuff that was on a public web site. ATT probably didn't intend to make it publicly available, but that should be their problem, not his.
"The CEO's pay had exactly nothing to do with the demise of the company..."
I think this is the crux of the matter. The CEOs got their pay and bonuses and pay raises regardless of the outcome of the labor negotiations. They got this even if the company failed. The only thing they gave up was the right to loot the company for more dollars in the future but they probably figured that the company was done for and they couldn't get more out of it. They will happily move on to the next victim (see: Bain Capital).
This is nothing but the usual corporate blindness. Corporations are looking for drones and don't care about quality or creativity. They just want someone to crank out tons of low quality code and not complain. They like young dumb programmers with poor social and communication skills. I started my first software company when I was 40 and did most of the programming myself for the first few years. I sold this and "retired" after 8 years then started another software company targeting a different platform using a different language and also did most of the programming myself. I'm now 65 (and still "retired") and thinking of starting another software company targeting different platforms and using different languages.
I found this book to be invaluable. It gives a simple plan to create presentations where you can get your point across in 7 minutes leaving 8 for Q and A. If your presentation is more complicated than that, you will lose your audience. http://www.amazon.com/15-Minutes-Including-World-Presentations/dp/0978577620
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The denialists have shifted their arguments as the evidence for climate change has become stronger and as we have been subject to daily "weather" that shows that climate change is happening and actually exceeding the "worst case" models.
At first they were just denialists stating that it isn't happening. As the climate has actually started to change and we have record heat, drought, flood, etc. they it has become harder to deny that climate change is happening. So, they have shifted their arguments to "we didn't cause it and there is nothing we can do about it". They cite a lot of dubious "evidence" (all of which has been debunked by actual scientists).
There are a lot of sensible things we can do to stop burning fossil fuels (such as the telecommuting idea you propose) but the denialists take the position that it's not our fault and we can't do anything. As usual, it pays to follow the money and you find the fossil fuel industries behind all of the denialist "science" and find them spreading all of this FUD.
How about a Raspitory?
GUI runs great in 256.
XBMC plays great video.
Debian runs Chrome, Abiword and Gnumeric and they are fast.
I don't know what you're trying to do but both Midori and Chrome run just fine on 256mb.
Sounds disgusting .
I've heard of it but I don't think it's "spoiled"... i.e. it's not infected with bacteria or yeast.
Good old Wikipedia gives an answer:
"The process changes beef by two means. Firstly, moisture is evaporated from the muscle. This creates a greater concentration of beef flavour and taste. Secondly, the beef’s natural enzymes break down the connective tissue in the muscle, which leads to more tender beef."
Cheese is just spoiled milk just like wine is spoiled grapes and beer is spoiled grain.
This has been going on as long as these things have existed.
Hungry people will try to eat anything even if it has spoiled. Fortunately, sometimes when things spoil, they get better (but don't try this with meat).
The real problem is that nobody wants nuclear waste because it is... well, radioactive, duh!
This is the core problem with nuclear (fission) energy. There is no way to deal with the radioactive waste. Nobody wants it anywhere. Nobody wants the risk of disease. Everybody is a nuclear NIMBY.
Much better to look at other sources of energy which don't have this waste problem which is qualitatively much different than any other industrial process.
I used ARCnet in the 80s...
I still have a hammer from the 60s that I use regularly.
I have an HP LJ4L printer that is about 25 years old and still works fine and is my main printer (attached to an HP JetDirect network Ethernet adapter).
Just a few clarifications to your post.
Loan guarantees are not grants.
A123 received a $250 million loan guarantee, not $90 billion.
Government has a vital role to play in keeping the economy moving. This is done through tax incentives, loans, stimulus programs and grants.
The problem is that the wrong corporations capture these incentives. Obsolete industries and industries which are doing fine without incentives tend to capture most of them... (i.e. General Electric receives enough government incentives that they pay no taxes but they are a perfectly viable business to stand on their own.)
The government has been tossing taxpayer money to the oil industry, big agriculture, banks and everyone else who could buy themselves a politician or two since the beginning of time.
This particular failure sounds like a combination of bad management plus the fact that developing and scaling new technology is hard.
This is common across all sectors and all skill levels.
The corporations have set things up so that the owners and managers capture all of the profit and any productivity gains. They have also bought enough politicians to keep their tax rates low so they don't have to contribute to the "general welfare". Corporate profits and upper management incomes are at record levels.
The situation with tech wages is the same as that with WalMart employees. You are expendable and replaceable and if you make trouble you will be fired so just sit down and shut up and get to work. At least tech wages are above poverty level so they don't have to go on Medicaid and food stamps to survive... be thankful for small favors.
The last time things were this far out of kilter was the 1930s and that gave rise to the union movement (as well as socialists and communists). This time, people seem more complacent and are just happy to have small crumbs.
Sounds like the Apple App Store.
So... they have about 1,000,000 boards shipped now... What is magic about 1,500,000?
BTW, I can generally get them in about 2-3 weeks from Newark/Element14 so I count that as "generally available" in the US.
One of the two boards I ordered was DOA. The little red light would come on but nothing else... no boot, etc.
The other board worked fine with the same memory card, cables, power supply, etc. so it had to be the board.
Nice to know that I had the only 1 in 150,000... maybe I should try the lottery.
" the quality of USB chargers and powered hub wall warts is excitingly variable"
I have had some exciting times with USB wall warts... melting is not too exciting but when you get flames it can get very exciting.
You're willing to pay for access so it is simple.
It's only complicated if you want "free" access.
I find it easier to just ignore the WSJ.
Why do you assume that complaining about a firewall is a liberal bias?
Reminds me of ENIAC. I went to the Moore School at U of Penn and ENIAC parts were in the basement (may still be there, for all I know). The story was that since it was all vacuum tubes, at the beginning they were lucky to get it to run for more than 10 minutes before a tube blew.
That being said, I can't believe that supercomputers don't have some kind of supervisory program to detect bad nodes and schedule around them.
I don't think he "stole" the email addresses. AFAIK, they are still in ATT hands. No theft, no possession of stolen property. No burglary.
He copied stuff that was on a public web site. ATT probably didn't intend to make it publicly available, but that should be their problem, not his.
"The CEO's pay had exactly nothing to do with the demise of the company..."
I think this is the crux of the matter. The CEOs got their pay and bonuses and pay raises regardless of the outcome of the labor negotiations. They got this even if the company failed. The only thing they gave up was the right to loot the company for more dollars in the future but they probably figured that the company was done for and they couldn't get more out of it. They will happily move on to the next victim (see: Bain Capital).
This is nothing but the usual corporate blindness. Corporations are looking for drones and don't care about quality or creativity. They just want someone to crank out tons of low quality code and not complain. They like young dumb programmers with poor social and communication skills.
I started my first software company when I was 40 and did most of the programming myself for the first few years. I sold this and "retired" after 8 years then started another software company targeting a different platform using a different language and also did most of the programming myself. I'm now 65 (and still "retired") and thinking of starting another software company targeting different platforms and using different languages.
Have you ever been in a Walmart?
It's a real stretch to call anything they sell "necessary".
People could start taking climate change seriously and reduce CO2 emissions.
I found this book to be invaluable.
It gives a simple plan to create presentations where you can get your point across in 7 minutes leaving 8 for Q and A.
If your presentation is more complicated than that, you will lose your audience.
http://www.amazon.com/15-Minutes-Including-World-Presentations/dp/0978577620
The votes of people in safe red or blue states are worth nothing.