Good idea - I got a 'manbag' myself and can never find anything, because it's designed as a large black hole (event horizon sold separately). Problem is 'finding' those little pockets as well - I still think that a little light can be immensly helpful.
Actually, come to think about it - a combo of a fluorescent material ('somehow' being charged) and little pockets might be the winner...
Think about it - we're (the U.S.) spending $1 Billion a week to sustain our troops in Iraq. On top of that we spending a fortune here on the 'home front' (LOL) and in other places around the world where we are busy meddling around. Now, take that $52 Billion ++ and spend it on cold fusion research - voila! Five years later nobody needs to be dying for foreign oil anymore.
I know it sounds so crazy - it could actually work! But hey, all those GWB cronies wouldn't be able to buy Hummers for their 18 year old daughters anymore... Looks like we'll have to wait until after we invaded every oil exporting country on the planet... sigh...
I don't deny that. The point I am trying to make is that in the long run we need to deal with the cause of terrorism and make different 'long term' decisions:
- Get off the crude oil needle
- Start funding energy alternatives
- Quit pissing off other nations and its citizens
- Regulate immigration and keep a close eye on extremists
etc..
In other words: all the money spent so far in the Iraq war and for surveillance cameras, security personnel, etc.. it's probably in the trillions worldwide. Take the same money and invest it in cold fusion - voila: [almost] free energy, more wealth, opportunities, and education for the average inhabitant on this planet - in the LONG run this will curb terrorism. Happy people don't blow other happy people up.
Dear Surfer Dude!
Why don't you climb back onto your sinker and quit posting on slashdot until you've something intelligent to contribute? The situation here in the U.S. is not very different from that in the U.K. - same idiots running the show and same complacency in the general populace.
Okay, just for the record: I live in the U.S. and am for sure no Saddam-lover, but here it goes: We are completely missing the point when it comes to terrorism. When Saddam Hussein was still running Iraq he had a very unique approach to dealing with terrorist attacks stemming from the neighboring Iran (who he was in war with for close to a decade). After an attack he basically had all family members of the suicide bomber killed - one after the other! Now, that might sound harsh, but trust me, it's a war out there and Saddam's approach worked like a charm.
I've got Karma to burn, so I thought I throw this out here...
bullpucky! public surveillance cameras are like laws - once they're setup it takes a lot to take them down again. once you realize that the hoped for equilibrium has not been attained it's too late. I can't believe you're sitting at home and hoping that other people will make the right decisions for you - naive idiot!
GREAT! First meddle in the affairs of poor but oil producing middle East nations for several decades. Don't worry about millions of people getting displaced and/or killed in the process. At the same time, prevent public transporation from becoming a viable alternative in your own country and build as many freeways as possible. Now, that your urban landscapes mostly revolve around the automobile and your citizens have to drive to the next city park to enjoy a few trees protect your 'investment' by building as many nuclear weapons as possible (120,000 to be mor precise). Don't worry about children suffering from asthma, one of three of your citizens dying from cancer, and a constantly diminishing amount of wildlife zones. After all, you've fought hard to earn the right to have your 18 year old daughter drive a Hummer to college. Soaring oil prices shouldn't worry you either too much - just invade another oil exporting country (Iran might make a good target), but be careful to not lose that stream of lower class mid-West volunteers by an unproportunal death toll. Come up with some publically acceptable enemy figure and a good cause: How about 'don't let the terrorits win' or 'they hate us for our freedom'.
Now, eventually you might find yourself in the position of having to defend yourself from foreign nationalists bent on paying you back for some of the supression, meddling, back-alley dealing, intimidation, bombing, killing, etc.. that you got you to the top of the food chain in the first place. Well, all those nukes you built won't help you there - unless you find a single country to drop a few onto. But that country you just invaded provides a great launching point for even 'more' meddling and 'democratization' - it'll cost you a fortune but you're hooked on oil and after all, the end justifies the means. We're the mighty and proud United States of America after all - the land of the free!
Damn, I'm so fucking pissed at this world - I could puke everytime I watch the news...
I'm about to hit 40 next January and when comparing my life now with how things felt in the 80s and 90s I realize how much the country I live in (U.S.) and the countries I was raised in (all over Europe) have changed in the last two decades. Just go to downtown London or any British city: cameras and microphones everywhere!! Do they prevent any terrorist attacks? OBVIOUSLY NOT! Any of us could come up with a plot and blow up some public building if we put our heads to it. What's a LOT more annoying than the remote chance of dying in a terrorist attack is the increasing curbing of civil liberties for the sake of 'public security'.
As Benjamin Franklin once argued: A nation that gives up freedom to gain security
deserves neither.
Well, as coincidence has it I'm currently using an AJAX style approach to implement new UI functionality for one of our corporate apps. The JavaScript can get a bit hairy at times but I expect there to be a growing library of taglibs, APIs, etc
Besides the obvious UI experience (think gmail) I really like how AJAX has the potential to improve the quality of server side code. Servlets can now delivery small incremental parts of a page and the whole game becomes a lot more modular. Almost starts feeling like Swing development - well, maybe not really - LOL. I'd like to see improved support for event handling though - instead of passing the servlet/jsp name I'd like to be able to refer to a resource struts style and make my request that way. So, a particular JavaScript event handler would refer to a serve side resource by name. Yes, I'm doing this on my own right now but this should be a LOT easier a few months down the line.
Anyway, yes I know this stuff has been around for years, but it's always been a bit hairy to implement and there were NO standards (kind of where ORM was before Hibernate and iBatis, etc.). This really could be more than a new 'fad' and allow developers to rapidly build dynamic apps based on common standards (think supportable, appliable, and extendable).
Spellchecker? We do not need no stinkin' spellchecker!!!
There's only one 'Norwegian country' - Norway!! Maybe you were referring to the 'North European' countries? I just wish you Americans would take a look at an atlas or a map sometimes...
Just look at the current spike in oil prices! Yes, I know that we are approaching peak production and such and that the days of cheap oil are over, but the current spike in gasoline prices is just a matter of pure greed...
The seller of a product will usually set the price of a product to a level that he thinks the market is able bear without turning to alternatives (theft, competition, abstinence, etc.). If the good ole' boys over at the RIAA think that $9.99 for a downloadable album is not enough (and trust me - they do!) then they'll explore every nook and cranny if they can get away with charging a few bucks more! Businesses have no sense of 'fair', 'good', or 'evil' - they produce a product and will try to squeeze as much profit out of their customers as possible. If the profits are less than expected than they will try to 'instill demand' (think advertising and other types of brainstorming) to somehow part Joe Shmoe with part of his earnings.
At the end of the day, it's a voting game - they rise the prices, we go back to piracy. Trust me, economic consequence is the only language they understand. Companies are by default pathological entities that have no compassion, vision (in most cases at least), remorse, or concience. It will squeeze you for all you got - that's why it is a commercial entity! The democratic mediator is the consumer and obviously most of the responses on this thread (it just started and I'm an early poster, but let me just guess;-) will be against a price hike. If nothing else the RIAA is looking in the wrong direction - as competition brews I believe that these prices should come down, not go up. After all, there is no physical media involved and selling bags of bites is a great business to be in...
Again, good point made. HOWEVER, in banking you have entities such as numbered accounts (Swiss/offshore - you name it). The 'owner' is anonymous but that doesn't mean that there is not a 'something' that can be logged and referred to. In voting this could translate into you getting some kind of ID assigned to you when you vote - the ID is only known to you and there is a finite amount of them. Once that ID has been used up it cannot be issued again. Now, make your vote and go home - you know that YOUR ID has been referred to as either 'Kerry/Bush/Nader'. If there is EVER any concern as to if your vote was counted correctly, just go online and check your ID - it's anonymous (actually similarly to how HIV tests are done). If there's any monkey business it's immediately visible to you, the voter.
I mean, it's not rocket science after all....
Point well taken and I'm sure there are improvements that can be made. But can we both agree that the statistic variations between bank transactions and vote counting are not within the same decimal point?;-)
Okay, I've heard it all - how difficult it's supposed to be to deliver a concise vote, and that we all 'have to live with a certain amount of misvotes and irregularities'. Well, NO - WE DON'T!!! Look at banks - they process billions of transactions on a daily basis and almost NEVER get any of them wrong. Are there irregularities and mistakes sometimes? YES, but they usually figure out what went wrong and the numbers are precise at the end of the day. How often have you gone to the ATM and got a printout stating that you've got somewhere 'around 3000 bucks - give or take'? LOL!!! Seriously - I'm not saying we should privatize this essential aspect of our democracy, but if the banks can setup a system that's nearly flawless and does the same work on a daily basis that our government needs to do ONCE every 4 years, then I feel like we're all having the wool pulled over our eyes.
Damn I'm really pissed about this eternal bul...it - counting votes is so important these days and we all are acting like fuc...ing sheep...
Seriously, if I was a hiring manager at the DOD's IETF I would put this guy on the top of my resume heap. Seriously, after reading some of the indignant responses on this alias I wonder if any of you guys ever had anything close to a 'childhood' or 'juvenile years'. I for one got into more trouble than I care to remember during my teens and twens and didn't turn out to be public enemy #1. Like it or not, some smart kids will always try to push the envelope and although I believe that the 11 months will probably well spent I also wonder if some serious public service (e.g. cleaning up some of the mess in New Orleans) wouldn't have been a better verdict.
Just started a new gig and am forced to use WebSphere (WAS 5.x/6.x) and RAD. What can I say - it's a huge piece of turd and I miss using Tomcat/JBoss for real. There are great advantages to using commercial application servers - for instance WAS (and Weblogic) allows you to hotdeploy and debug your code while running it in your container right out of the box. Of course you can do that with JBoss as well, just takes a big longer to setup and configure. Some plug-ins like SolarEclipse attempt to address this and they are doing a great job (however they're commercial;-)
Anyway, fact is that JBoss is based on JMX and that modular design is simply superior. Another fact is that JBoss has matured to a level where it frankly can do anything any commercial J2EE container can do. Unless you've already standardized on Websphere or Weblogic, I just don't see a reason not to take a very serious look at JBoss - it runs fast, it's stable, and there is plenty of support (and great books, obviously).
I bought the very first RIO that they released and believe it or not, my wife still uses that old thing - LOL. It's waaaay obsolete now but she doesn't mind and it gets her through one hike (barely - its only 32MB!!). Now it's officially a collectible - sign of the times where a 5 year old device becomes a thing of the past...
... where the pharmaceutical industry devotes itself to researching drugs like these while people all over the world are dying/suffering from various incurable diseases. Now, I am aware that these types of drugs are often found by chance, but I think my argument still stands. The pharmaceutical industry has their own priorities and in most cases it's not the benefit of mankind. Am I the only one getting upset reading these types of press releases, while having given up hope a long time ago to ever learn about a real AIDS drug (one that really works)? I mean, this planet and its inhabitants are slowly drifting up the river without a paddle (we're running out of sweet water resources, we're nearing peak production of oil, the artic regions are in melt-down mode, overpopulation, war, diseases crossing continents, 35 animal species become extinct each day, etc..), and the best we can come up with to stem the tide is a fucking anti-sleep drug???
Every year almost like clockwerk there's an article about a company 'about to offer' power based Internet access. I've been reading this for half a decade now and I yet have to see one company successfully deploy such a solution. Let's move on - I really doubt this is ever going to happen.
For the record: I always thought this was a brilliant idea - every household has at least one power outlet right? And it doesn't have to be broadband - even minimal speed might be beneficial for non-PC devices. Nevertheless - there appear obvious technological hurdles otherwise 'somebody somewhere' would have made a pretty penny with this already.
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That's fucking funny, mate - ROTFL!!
Good idea - I got a 'manbag' myself and can never find anything, because it's designed as a large black hole (event horizon sold separately). Problem is 'finding' those little pockets as well - I still think that a little light can be immensly helpful.
Actually, come to think about it - a combo of a fluorescent material ('somehow' being charged) and little pockets might be the winner...
Think about it - we're (the U.S.) spending $1 Billion a week to sustain our troops in Iraq. On top of that we spending a fortune here on the 'home front' (LOL) and in other places around the world where we are busy meddling around. Now, take that $52 Billion ++ and spend it on cold fusion research - voila! Five years later nobody needs to be dying for foreign oil anymore.
I know it sounds so crazy - it could actually work! But hey, all those GWB cronies wouldn't be able to buy Hummers for their 18 year old daughters anymore... Looks like we'll have to wait until after we invaded every oil exporting country on the planet... sigh...
I don't deny that. The point I am trying to make is that in the long run we need to deal with the cause of terrorism and make different 'long term' decisions: - Get off the crude oil needle - Start funding energy alternatives - Quit pissing off other nations and its citizens - Regulate immigration and keep a close eye on extremists etc.. In other words: all the money spent so far in the Iraq war and for surveillance cameras, security personnel, etc.. it's probably in the trillions worldwide. Take the same money and invest it in cold fusion - voila: [almost] free energy, more wealth, opportunities, and education for the average inhabitant on this planet - in the LONG run this will curb terrorism. Happy people don't blow other happy people up.
Dear Surfer Dude!
Why don't you climb back onto your sinker and quit posting on slashdot until you've something intelligent to contribute? The situation here in the U.S. is not very different from that in the U.K. - same idiots running the show and same complacency in the general populace.
I've got Karma to burn, so I thought I throw this out here...
bullpucky! public surveillance cameras are like laws - once they're setup it takes a lot to take them down again. once you realize that the hoped for equilibrium has not been attained it's too late. I can't believe you're sitting at home and hoping that other people will make the right decisions for you - naive idiot!
Now, eventually you might find yourself in the position of having to defend yourself from foreign nationalists bent on paying you back for some of the supression, meddling, back-alley dealing, intimidation, bombing, killing, etc.. that you got you to the top of the food chain in the first place. Well, all those nukes you built won't help you there - unless you find a single country to drop a few onto. But that country you just invaded provides a great launching point for even 'more' meddling and 'democratization' - it'll cost you a fortune but you're hooked on oil and after all, the end justifies the means. We're the mighty and proud United States of America after all - the land of the free!
Damn, I'm so fucking pissed at this world - I could puke everytime I watch the news...
I'm about to hit 40 next January and when comparing my life now with how things felt in the 80s and 90s I realize how much the country I live in (U.S.) and the countries I was raised in (all over Europe) have changed in the last two decades. Just go to downtown London or any British city: cameras and microphones everywhere!! Do they prevent any terrorist attacks? OBVIOUSLY NOT! Any of us could come up with a plot and blow up some public building if we put our heads to it. What's a LOT more annoying than the remote chance of dying in a terrorist attack is the increasing curbing of civil liberties for the sake of 'public security'.
As Benjamin Franklin once argued: A nation that gives up freedom to gain security deserves neither.
Anyway, yes I know this stuff has been around for years, but it's always been a bit hairy to implement and there were NO standards (kind of where ORM was before Hibernate and iBatis, etc.). This really could be more than a new 'fad' and allow developers to rapidly build dynamic apps based on common standards (think supportable, appliable, and extendable).
Spellchecker? We do not need no stinkin' spellchecker!!!
There's only one 'Norwegian country' - Norway!! Maybe you were referring to the 'North European' countries? I just wish you Americans would take a look at an atlas or a map sometimes...
ROTFL - I love that one - thanks :-)
The seller of a product will usually set the price of a product to a level that he thinks the market is able bear without turning to alternatives (theft, competition, abstinence, etc.). If the good ole' boys over at the RIAA think that $9.99 for a downloadable album is not enough (and trust me - they do!) then they'll explore every nook and cranny if they can get away with charging a few bucks more! Businesses have no sense of 'fair', 'good', or 'evil' - they produce a product and will try to squeeze as much profit out of their customers as possible. If the profits are less than expected than they will try to 'instill demand' (think advertising and other types of brainstorming) to somehow part Joe Shmoe with part of his earnings.
At the end of the day, it's a voting game - they rise the prices, we go back to piracy. Trust me, economic consequence is the only language they understand. Companies are by default pathological entities that have no compassion, vision (in most cases at least), remorse, or concience. It will squeeze you for all you got - that's why it is a commercial entity! The democratic mediator is the consumer and obviously most of the responses on this thread (it just started and I'm an early poster, but let me just guess ;-) will be against a price hike. If nothing else the RIAA is looking in the wrong direction - as competition brews I believe that these prices should come down, not go up. After all, there is no physical media involved and selling bags of bites is a great business to be in...
Again, good point made. HOWEVER, in banking you have entities such as numbered accounts (Swiss/offshore - you name it). The 'owner' is anonymous but that doesn't mean that there is not a 'something' that can be logged and referred to. In voting this could translate into you getting some kind of ID assigned to you when you vote - the ID is only known to you and there is a finite amount of them. Once that ID has been used up it cannot be issued again. Now, make your vote and go home - you know that YOUR ID has been referred to as either 'Kerry/Bush/Nader'. If there is EVER any concern as to if your vote was counted correctly, just go online and check your ID - it's anonymous (actually similarly to how HIV tests are done). If there's any monkey business it's immediately visible to you, the voter.
I mean, it's not rocket science after all....
Point well taken and I'm sure there are improvements that can be made. But can we both agree that the statistic variations between bank transactions and vote counting are not within the same decimal point? ;-)
Okay, I've heard it all - how difficult it's supposed to be to deliver a concise vote, and that we all 'have to live with a certain amount of misvotes and irregularities'. Well, NO - WE DON'T!!! Look at banks - they process billions of transactions on a daily basis and almost NEVER get any of them wrong. Are there irregularities and mistakes sometimes? YES, but they usually figure out what went wrong and the numbers are precise at the end of the day. How often have you gone to the ATM and got a printout stating that you've got somewhere 'around 3000 bucks - give or take'? LOL!!! Seriously - I'm not saying we should privatize this essential aspect of our democracy, but if the banks can setup a system that's nearly flawless and does the same work on a daily basis that our government needs to do ONCE every 4 years, then I feel like we're all having the wool pulled over our eyes.
Damn I'm really pissed about this eternal bul...it - counting votes is so important these days and we all are acting like fuc...ing sheep...
Anyway, just my 2 cents... I could be wrong.
No pun intended? Okay, *someone* had to point this out, I've got karma to burn - LOL :-)
Just started a new gig and am forced to use WebSphere (WAS 5.x/6.x) and RAD. What can I say - it's a huge piece of turd and I miss using Tomcat/JBoss for real. There are great advantages to using commercial application servers - for instance WAS (and Weblogic) allows you to hotdeploy and debug your code while running it in your container right out of the box. Of course you can do that with JBoss as well, just takes a big longer to setup and configure. Some plug-ins like SolarEclipse attempt to address this and they are doing a great job (however they're commercial ;-)
Anyway, fact is that JBoss is based on JMX and that modular design is simply superior. Another fact is that JBoss has matured to a level where it frankly can do anything any commercial J2EE container can do. Unless you've already standardized on Websphere or Weblogic, I just don't see a reason not to take a very serious look at JBoss - it runs fast, it's stable, and there is plenty of support (and great books, obviously).
Just my 2 cents for all it's worth.
I bought the very first RIO that they released and believe it or not, my wife still uses that old thing - LOL. It's waaaay obsolete now but she doesn't mind and it gets her through one hike (barely - its only 32MB!!). Now it's officially a collectible - sign of the times where a 5 year old device becomes a thing of the past...
... someone gets it! :-)
Remember - a little-known language called 'Java'? ;-)
... where the pharmaceutical industry devotes itself to researching drugs like these while people all over the world are dying/suffering from various incurable diseases. Now, I am aware that these types of drugs are often found by chance, but I think my argument still stands. The pharmaceutical industry has their own priorities and in most cases it's not the benefit of mankind. Am I the only one getting upset reading these types of press releases, while having given up hope a long time ago to ever learn about a real AIDS drug (one that really works)? I mean, this planet and its inhabitants are slowly drifting up the river without a paddle (we're running out of sweet water resources, we're nearing peak production of oil, the artic regions are in melt-down mode, overpopulation, war, diseases crossing continents, 35 animal species become extinct each day, etc..), and the best we can come up with to stem the tide is a fucking anti-sleep drug???
Exactly - it's prounounced 'sedi' or something like that (not sure how to write phonetics). Doesn't anyone learn 2nd languages anymore?
For the record: I always thought this was a brilliant idea - every household has at least one power outlet right? And it doesn't have to be broadband - even minimal speed might be beneficial for non-PC devices. Nevertheless - there appear obvious technological hurdles otherwise 'somebody somewhere' would have made a pretty penny with this already.