According to TFA, the asteroid is mostly black and "aircraft carrier sized". The first thing that flashed into my mind was that it would be very interesting if radar images during the flyby revealed it was in fact a very, Very VERY old spacecraft.
Not vapor, Nokia will produce Windows 7 phones and I believe they will also do Windows 8 tablets. Let's face it, if your company were sinking, you'd clutch at anything, even if it didn't float.
M$ seems to genuinely believe that they will have some significant presence in the smartphone and tablet markets. Having a strong tie (or ownership depending on what rumors you believe) of a hardware company that makes those gadgets is a reasonable step for them to take. I can even imagine that M$ was having trouble shopping Windows Phone 7 to many of the other manufacturers, so basically has to buy the business to achieve market penetration.
Will any of this work? I don't think so. I don't believe M$ will ever achieve a significant portion of either markets. The advantage is, they still has their core business to keep them going when it's time to throw Nokia overboard.
The people behind Righthaven must have known this would have a high probability of happening, and prepared to cast off the company when they had gotten what mileage they could out of it. So we have the pleasure of seeing the name disappear and some rented furniture thrown out into the street, but they'll just try again elsewhere. This is but a small battle in a large war. On the other hand, we *did* win this one, and some celebration is probably in order.
'S a good point. The company is finished. Let's stop concentrating on that, and go after individuals for the rest of the funds. I know, incorporating is supposed to protect them from that, but there ought to be some way in egregious instances like this.
I think the concept was always broken. It's why I no longer use a Blackberry, even though it's the best integrated device with the best keyboard. Our Enterprise server went down for a week and a half, for reasons I will not go into right now, and by the time it was up again many of us had switched to Android or iOS. BES provides some really great features, when it's running. A single point of failure is fine, until it fails. And then it's not funny anymore.
People can do something about this if they only band together. What citizens need to do is contest the ticket. If you get a few contests, it's just part of the cost of doing business. If you get hundreds, word will come down from the judge and things will change. I have seen this work for a speed trap a local town put up on a highway several miles north of the town. (It wasn't just a partially hidden limit sign, the first cop would pull someone over for speed, then the second cop would pull someone over for going too fast by a traffic stop, (which is a different, higher revenue offense) and then the first cop would pull someone over who's going too fast by the second cop, leapfrogging down the road.) Worked for awhile, then people started complaining en-masse. Judge looked into it, found the local department didn't have jurisdiction on that road, shut down the traffic stops and refunded a bunch of tickets.
If you lived in an area that has red light cameras (like mine) you might feel differently. In a perfect world where the police were angels who distributed perfect justice for free, it's probably a good idea. I might even go with the autocannons. Because the problem you describe is very real and very dangerous. And those guys are assholes.
But in real life, what happens is the local police department makes a deal with private companies, the private companies manage the equipment (putting them in the odd position of being non-LEOs dispensing traffic tickets) and then the goal becomes to maximize the number of tickets. The first thing they do is shorten the yellow, to make it more likely that you'd leave the intersection red. If you live in a state where you can leave red as long as you enter yellow, you have to prove your innocence in court.
In summary, the intent is good, but the moment you present a police department with an unattended way to generate revenue, corruption inevitably sets in. It's like leaving a stack of twenties on a bus seat.
> Whenever a car enters its range, the Cordon will automatically generate two images: one from wide-angle view and one closeup shot of the vehicle's license plate. It's also capable of instantly measuring a car's speed and mapping its position, and can easily be synced with other databases via WiFi, 3G or WiMAX."
...the results of which will be officers telling you "Sir, you were going 20 over the limit. I got a firm lock on you." no matter how fast you were actually going. Just like now.
My personal experience is that Red Hat support doesn't buy one much except the warm feeling of having it. I've never known a corporation to go for CentOS on Production machines, but I've seen it all the time in Development environments.
As someone else suggested, you'd be wise not to try to be spending someone else's money. In your place, I'd make a case that outward facing system should have support, because we lose (whatever it is -- sometimes thousands of dollars a minute) when they're down, and under those circumstances, you don't want to be asking on Linux forums for a solution. Everything else, development, test, sandbox, can be CentOS if it's a comparable build to Prod.
But if he turns that down, well, he's the CIO. He gets paid to make those decisions, and to live or die by them.
Right. They can't have it both ways. I keep hearing rather snootily that this inordinately cold weather we've been having is not an indication of the lack of global warming. And so, in my neck of the woods, we had the coldest year in a couple of decades and the temp has been trending down over the last few years, but that's just weather. Where whether meets expectations, it's called climate.
Not what I meant. I was considering the impact over time of construction of batteries, the real world (not ideal) disposal of same, when things ramp up to a significant fraction of cars on the road.
The "pollution" from electrical vehicles is not just the pollution from electricity providers, although I hasten to say it is intellectually honest of you to consider that and you seem to know something about it. Batteries are also consumables, and need to be considered into the equation. I am nervous about that. Firstly because we're hearing now that batteries are not lasting as long as promised, and secondly because I don't think we know yet how battery recycling is going to work out when the numbers become massive. Also not yet familiar with the total environmental impact of manufacturing same.
Mind you, I still want an electric car or electric motorcycle (also in development) because it'd be really cool and practical for commuting. But I don't try to fool myself into believing I'm saving the planet. I don't know that.
There are times when I think we should be also concentrating on perhaps a different fuel (hydrogen? see recent article on new way to produce it) instead of putting all metaphorical eggs in one basket, when we don't know what the carrying capacity of said basket is, yet.
Me? I'm registered Democrat. I want Hillary to have the balls to run against Obama in the primary. I'm not sure what point you're trying to make. What I'm saying is that conservatives and liberals have common ground against the TSA. Let's do something with it. Or is whether there's a "D" or an "R" after someone's name more important to you than getting felt up at a train station? You know, it's going to be bus stations next. And then automobile checkpoints.
We're still on the steep part of the curve. What's left of DMC is working on an all-electric Delorian, which they say will have the same interior room but will be much faster than the original. (Except it won't do that time travel thing.) I think what's holding back development in general right now is the lack of charging stations and inordinate charge times. And (going back to the original thread) really cheap, plentiful electricity.
This is ignoring the whole "green" thing, because I strongly suspect that when total end-to-end footprint is considered, all-electrics will turn out, in practice, long term, to not be any more green than equivalent gasoline autos. But I'd sure enjoy driving one.
No, he brings up a good point and it was worth discussing. If there's a perception that you have to be Liberal to oppose the TSA, then people need to start talking to each other more.
I'm glad you got that. A lot of people don't. They think electricity is produced by magic.
You're absolutely right in theory, and in a perfect world we'd have remote, well-maintained, latest-technology, efficient, clean, central power sources that don't kill salmon or unduly dirty the air, or don't require strip-mining or chemical pollution in their construction, so that the best thing would be for everything to run on electricity. I'm sure you know the actual practice is quite a bit different from that. But I suppose it's a good goal to strive for.
But when we have electricity from nuclear fusion, the output will be massive and cheap, and the only waste will be heat and a few neutrinos... Oh wait, that's never going to happen. Too bad, really.
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That is, of course, correct.
According to TFA, the asteroid is mostly black and "aircraft carrier sized". The first thing that flashed into my mind was that it would be very interesting if radar images during the flyby revealed it was in fact a very, Very VERY old spacecraft.
Not vapor, Nokia will produce Windows 7 phones and I believe they will also do Windows 8 tablets. Let's face it, if your company were sinking, you'd clutch at anything, even if it didn't float.
M$ seems to genuinely believe that they will have some significant presence in the smartphone and tablet markets. Having a strong tie (or ownership depending on what rumors you believe) of a hardware company that makes those gadgets is a reasonable step for them to take. I can even imagine that M$ was having trouble shopping Windows Phone 7 to many of the other manufacturers, so basically has to buy the business to achieve market penetration.
Will any of this work? I don't think so. I don't believe M$ will ever achieve a significant portion of either markets. The advantage is, they still has their core business to keep them going when it's time to throw Nokia overboard.
Hey, if someone gave me billions of dollars, I'd make a Windows 7 phone too. And if they offered billions more, I'd make Windows 8 tablets.
You might look at it this way -- if the hardware is decent, you could always flash Android onto it.
The people behind Righthaven must have known this would have a high probability of happening, and prepared to cast off the company when they had gotten what mileage they could out of it. So we have the pleasure of seeing the name disappear and some rented furniture thrown out into the street, but they'll just try again elsewhere. This is but a small battle in a large war. On the other hand, we *did* win this one, and some celebration is probably in order.
'S a good point. The company is finished. Let's stop concentrating on that, and go after individuals for the rest of the funds. I know, incorporating is supposed to protect them from that, but there ought to be some way in egregious instances like this.
So, let's throw the cheap suits in jail and... wait, you meant clothes, didn't you?
I think the concept was always broken. It's why I no longer use a Blackberry, even though it's the best integrated device with the best keyboard. Our Enterprise server went down for a week and a half, for reasons I will not go into right now, and by the time it was up again many of us had switched to Android or iOS. BES provides some really great features, when it's running. A single point of failure is fine, until it fails. And then it's not funny anymore.
People can do something about this if they only band together. What citizens need to do is contest the ticket. If you get a few contests, it's just part of the cost of doing business. If you get hundreds, word will come down from the judge and things will change. I have seen this work for a speed trap a local town put up on a highway several miles north of the town. (It wasn't just a partially hidden limit sign, the first cop would pull someone over for speed, then the second cop would pull someone over for going too fast by a traffic stop, (which is a different, higher revenue offense) and then the first cop would pull someone over who's going too fast by the second cop, leapfrogging down the road.) Worked for awhile, then people started complaining en-masse. Judge looked into it, found the local department didn't have jurisdiction on that road, shut down the traffic stops and refunded a bunch of tickets.
If you lived in an area that has red light cameras (like mine) you might feel differently. In a perfect world where the police were angels who distributed perfect justice for free, it's probably a good idea. I might even go with the autocannons. Because the problem you describe is very real and very dangerous. And those guys are assholes.
But in real life, what happens is the local police department makes a deal with private companies, the private companies manage the equipment (putting them in the odd position of being non-LEOs dispensing traffic tickets) and then the goal becomes to maximize the number of tickets. The first thing they do is shorten the yellow, to make it more likely that you'd leave the intersection red. If you live in a state where you can leave red as long as you enter yellow, you have to prove your innocence in court.
In summary, the intent is good, but the moment you present a police department with an unattended way to generate revenue, corruption inevitably sets in. It's like leaving a stack of twenties on a bus seat.
> Whenever a car enters its range, the Cordon will automatically generate two images: one from wide-angle view and one closeup shot of the vehicle's license plate. It's also capable of instantly measuring a car's speed and mapping its position, and can easily be synced with other databases via WiFi, 3G or WiMAX."
That's why he's the CIO.
My personal experience is that Red Hat support doesn't buy one much except the warm feeling of having it. I've never known a corporation to go for CentOS on Production machines, but I've seen it all the time in Development environments.
As someone else suggested, you'd be wise not to try to be spending someone else's money. In your place, I'd make a case that outward facing system should have support, because we lose (whatever it is -- sometimes thousands of dollars a minute) when they're down, and under those circumstances, you don't want to be asking on Linux forums for a solution. Everything else, development, test, sandbox, can be CentOS if it's a comparable build to Prod.
But if he turns that down, well, he's the CIO. He gets paid to make those decisions, and to live or die by them.
> Weather != Climate
Right. They can't have it both ways. I keep hearing rather snootily that this inordinately cold weather we've been having is not an indication of the lack of global warming. And so, in my neck of the woods, we had the coldest year in a couple of decades and the temp has been trending down over the last few years, but that's just weather. Where whether meets expectations, it's called climate.
You're barking up the wrong tree. My daughter was homeschooled. Her tutor was as militantly atheist a person as you're likely to meet.
Not what I meant. I was considering the impact over time of construction of batteries, the real world (not ideal) disposal of same, when things ramp up to a significant fraction of cars on the road.
The "pollution" from electrical vehicles is not just the pollution from electricity providers, although I hasten to say it is intellectually honest of you to consider that and you seem to know something about it. Batteries are also consumables, and need to be considered into the equation. I am nervous about that. Firstly because we're hearing now that batteries are not lasting as long as promised, and secondly because I don't think we know yet how battery recycling is going to work out when the numbers become massive. Also not yet familiar with the total environmental impact of manufacturing same.
Mind you, I still want an electric car or electric motorcycle (also in development) because it'd be really cool and practical for commuting. But I don't try to fool myself into believing I'm saving the planet. I don't know that.
There are times when I think we should be also concentrating on perhaps a different fuel (hydrogen? see recent article on new way to produce it) instead of putting all metaphorical eggs in one basket, when we don't know what the carrying capacity of said basket is, yet.
Geeze... and this is the same administration that's running guns to Mexico?
Yeah, exactly like that. :-)
Me? I'm registered Democrat. I want Hillary to have the balls to run against Obama in the primary. I'm not sure what point you're trying to make. What I'm saying is that conservatives and liberals have common ground against the TSA. Let's do something with it. Or is whether there's a "D" or an "R" after someone's name more important to you than getting felt up at a train station? You know, it's going to be bus stations next. And then automobile checkpoints.
Ok. How does that change anything?
We're still on the steep part of the curve. What's left of DMC is working on an all-electric Delorian, which they say will have the same interior room but will be much faster than the original. (Except it won't do that time travel thing.) I think what's holding back development in general right now is the lack of charging stations and inordinate charge times. And (going back to the original thread) really cheap, plentiful electricity.
This is ignoring the whole "green" thing, because I strongly suspect that when total end-to-end footprint is considered, all-electrics will turn out, in practice, long term, to not be any more green than equivalent gasoline autos. But I'd sure enjoy driving one.
Wow, I hadn't thought of that. It *does* make sense.
No, he brings up a good point and it was worth discussing. If there's a perception that you have to be Liberal to oppose the TSA, then people need to start talking to each other more.
Bingo. Mod him up.
I'm glad you got that. A lot of people don't. They think electricity is produced by magic.
You're absolutely right in theory, and in a perfect world we'd have remote, well-maintained, latest-technology, efficient, clean, central power sources that don't kill salmon or unduly dirty the air, or don't require strip-mining or chemical pollution in their construction, so that the best thing would be for everything to run on electricity. I'm sure you know the actual practice is quite a bit different from that. But I suppose it's a good goal to strive for.
But when we have electricity from nuclear fusion, the output will be massive and cheap, and the only waste will be heat and a few neutrinos... Oh wait, that's never going to happen. Too bad, really.