I always found it odd that of all places, slashdot (where automation of tasks such as parsing of text into spell checkers and compilers should be king) posters seem to take such joy out of 'trolling' each other over grammar and spelling mistakes.
Educated people are a limited resource.
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I don't care how many people IBM, Acc, EDS, CSC or whoever are hiring per day in India. Educated and intelligent people are a limited resource.
But thats not what you really wanted to know is it?
Well I'm the kind of coder that has never written anything for a non-windows platform in my life. I can barely install a linux distro, but I managed to work out Bugzilla by using their website documentation. Its easy.
Whatever happens, Britain is sitting pretty. We have our own oil and gas reserves. We have enough coal to synthesize petroleum when the oil does run out. We even have the world's largest and most advanced Fusion reactor.
Question is, why are we a net importer of fuel? Kyoto commitments.
Actually you are incorrect as far as the radiation is concerned. Whilst there would be no explosion, the by products of the currently proposed tritium fusion reactions are highly radioactive. Fortunately they have a half-life of a couple of years and so are nowhere near as dirty as traditional nuclear waste.
After that, the only issue is heat, I dread the amount of heat leakage possible with mass production of these things.
I think that if we got to the stage where by this becomes an issue, we as a race will have also developed the ability to leave the solar system.
Space Travel is not as dangerous - many more people have died scuba diving. So I guess maybe space travel is a way for whimps to experience scuba diving.
Bah, both are for woosies. REAL men strap scuba gear AND Satrurn IVs to their arses!
... and this is ONLY $1 million a year, out of how many 100s of billions that is the US's defence budget?
It sounds more than reasonable to me to spend that sort of money on an initial analysis of whether the claims are bullshit or not. Now just imagine if your country was at war and you were "second to market" in some 'way out' technology? Hiroshima for instance.
... and the figures quoted seem ludicrously inflated. The Accenture contracts (which are 2 out of the 5 available) cost the NHS less than £1 billion over the next 10 years. BTW your link doesn't work.
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I always found it odd that of all places, slashdot (where automation of tasks such as parsing of text into spell checkers and compilers should be king) posters seem to take such joy out of 'trolling' each other over grammar and spelling mistakes.
Eventually oil will run out to you know.
I think I speak for all for all physics grads when I say: "where can I sign up?".
Well I'm the kind of coder that has never written anything for a non-windows platform in my life. I can barely install a linux distro, but I managed to work out Bugzilla by using their website documentation. Its easy.
Win2k, Apacehe, mySQL, PHP. Jobs a good'un
Yes, the course is called 'Marketing Elective 101'.
They can then at least guarantee that company's internal web apps writen in asp and .NET will render the same way as they did in IE.
http://mirrordot.org/stories/fbe18de303c13c7a1f140 f43465eca04/index.html
... because Mirrordot.org is not fast enough!
Show us the pictures and we will decide!
Question is, why are we a net importer of fuel? Kyoto commitments.
After that, the only issue is heat, I dread the amount of heat leakage possible with mass production of these things.
I think that if we got to the stage where by this becomes an issue, we as a race will have also developed the ability to leave the solar system.
http://www.fusion.org.uk/
"Fears grow amid the ever improving resolution of picture phone" replace with: "Fears grow amid the never ending march of technological improvement"
Can I have aflash on my pin hole camera also please?
Yeah because I can hire those paddys for a few $s a go AND they'll thank me!
That would not be a problem, unless of course MS win their appeal.
I can think of more than one instance were my current employers could have benefited from it.
You sure can't beat that OS built-in goodness.
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Bah, both are for woosies. REAL men strap scuba gear AND Satrurn IVs to their arses!
Scuba diving really does compare to being strapped to x-hundred tonnes of liquified gas.... oh wait.
It sounds more than reasonable to me to spend that sort of money on an initial analysis of whether the claims are bullshit or not. Now just imagine if your country was at war and you were "second to market" in some 'way out' technology? Hiroshima for instance.
For the record, yes IAAP (I Am A Physicist).
... and the figures quoted seem ludicrously inflated. The Accenture contracts (which are 2 out of the 5 available) cost the NHS less than £1 billion over the next 10 years. BTW your link doesn't work.
I would hope that was the first possibility that they ruled out.
An Indonesian island reveals the existence of an extinct group of pygmy humans
The Flores discovery fits very nicely into a biblical view of history
You are joking right? Troll.
... So what does the bible have to say about this? Homofloresiensis