But seriously, this seems like a random front page story. I almost think that I could make any article I wanted about kite photography and get it posted.
I think what is amazing about this story, is that in the day of enormously heavy cameras with pretty slow speed film, this guy was able to take very good ariel pictures. While not "news", I would call it a "public interest" story demonstrating the longevity of geek spirit - that's definitely "stuff that matters". I'm glad this was on today.
I love Linux, and so does everyone else here... Yes it runs faster, yes its more stable, but think of the target market! I don't think anyone will dare argue with me when I say that Windows is more user-friendly to someone who has never touched a computer in his or her life.
I won't argue with this (though the half dozen times I've touched WinXP I've been lost). But why lock down the BIOS as it seems they've done? Sure - supply windows for people who don't want to learn about the system and istead, plan only to surf the web. But there is no good reason to lock out linux - it isn't like linux will magically install itself and cause 3dworldwide mass confusion. If a person is not into linux - they won't ever try installing it. If a person is, why make it hard??
Monday was the first day the PIC was available in Anguilla and I bought the first one...The PIC is a very low power system... This is like 100 watts less than some other machines we have. At island electric rates this should save more than $200 each year, if the machine is on all the time.
Quit repeating yourself - we all know it is your opinion that this device is only for 3d world people and that you think that 3d world residents are too unsophisticated to use technology (support issue responses). Also, you believe people shouldn't put linux on this because that somehow hurts the 3d world users. Well, if you RTFA, you would note that the author lives in a 3d world country. It appears that 3d world residents have a good reason to put linux on the AMDPIC and make it a useful device. The electricity savings alone would make this machine almost pay for itself (it was about $250 after shipping/duty charges for the author of the original article). Apparently, even people in the 3d world would find it useful to able to use the AMDPIC as a computer.
So chill out - we all heard your opinion. Your point is made. Some of us disagree and repeating it ad nauseum is not going to change our minds.
I'd rather, however, get a nearly unintelligible email than a 5-minute long voice mail strung together with "uh" while managing to leave out every pertinent detail and end with "hey just call me back" without leaving me a phone number. That might just be me, though. I hate voice mail.
Whoever invented voicemail deserves to be shot - many times at close range in the head.
So I'm a whiner. But "offtopic"? Dabo has a spinning wheel, money bets, and odds in favor of the house. Seems pretty on topic to roulette to me. And those Dabo girls - you wonder how some of those outfits got on television. Sweet visions.
I dount you are in the minority with this fantasy. I clearly remember youthful days spending hours upon hours sitting on the back porch looking up at the sky and dreaming about floating off over the fields. This was around first grade, so that would be roughly 1975. I think the trigger was seeing an ad for giant baloons in a comic book. The flying/floating fantasy has been with me in one form or another since then. I have nothing but respect for this guy.
Well, I like many books, and definitely enjoyed Neuromancer. I put "Grendel" up higher because I've read it at least 8 or 9 times. Next in line would have to be The Trilogy - probably 5 or 6 times, followed by various books of Azimov and Ian M. Banks (Culture series - not read the fantasy stuff) which I've given multiple reads. I had to rank "Grendel" really high given the number of times I've read (and enjoyed/learned from) it. To get on my all-time-favorites list, a book has to be read at least twice.
Yeah, but then there would be no need to arrive by ship. In any event, John Gardner's book "Grendel", which tells the story from Grendel's perspective, is my favorite book of all time. Beowulf is a prick and deserves a cluster f.... ahem.
I'm very glad I use linux whenever I read things like this. I tried first around 97 - had a hard time and went back to windows. Tried again though - about 2000 I was using linux regularly, about 2001 I changed grub to default to linux. And now, although my system is still dual boot, I can't actually remember the last time I used windows (ME BTW). The only thing I use hda for anymore is a place to stick duplicates of important files. For purity sake though, I think it's time to replace that drive - it's only 20 gigs anyway. I have zero use for windows anymore and it I'd feel so much cleaner.
Aside from good things they've done, there seems to be a reasonable profit potential. Right after the Vioxx news, MRK lost about $20/share (high 40s to high 20s - about a 40% loss in value). It's P/E is just over 10 right now and the dividend is about 5.5%. Make of this what you will, but I see bargain - barring another Vioxx debacle.
I'm not really opposed to using them, but considering that you need to stop a life to get them, I feel that the ones gathering them at least should have an obligations to heavily support living siblings (financially or medically) of the embryos that get killed.
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Unfortunately, I think that many abortions today take place in very young mothers or mothers who just want no kids, so these conditions that I find fair are really hard to put into place. Especially since many of these mothers would keep their embryos if the money went to support them instead of into stem cell research.
Let's see, do something useful with the money like find cures for diseases? Or squander it on an ever expanding welfare model? The answer isn't difficult at all.
As for "stopping a life", is it your opinion that a brain dead person should be kept alive indefinitely? If it is your opinion... there's no point in this discussion at all. If it isn't, what's the big deal about an embryo without a fully functioning brain? And don't give me the "potential to grow one" argument. I have the potential to be dead, I just don't happen to be dead right now. But if potential is all it takes to get rights, then hell, as an undead corpse, I'll gladly stop paying taxes now.
The majority of people with a Bachelor's education voted for Bush, as well as the majority of people with a HS education.
Kerry did better amongst the non-educated (HS drop-out) and the highly-educated (graduate degree).
Plainly, the quality of an American college education is deteriorating.
It seems an excellent beginning to a general, national registry of persons.
Hmmmmm... maybe it is to keep tabs on the college educated populace. The article did mention this is being pushed by republicans and I've heard somewhere that republican leanings decrease with amount of education. Can't say if this is a valid statistic, but people often act on invalid statistics.
Here is a two step program to crater your economy:
I think there are few more steps involved, but this is a good start when coupled with research restrictions (e.g., stem cells). Making sure all the cool future tech (bio, mechanical, or otherwise) is imported into the US will do wonders for destroying the economy. And since the poor are much more attracted to religions, it's a solid win for those working toward our (USA) budding theocracy.
Spammers should have their CLIENTS sued. Get an ad for Viagra(, or PenileExtenders or whatever,) and whoever the RETAILER is should be the one to get smacked.
Although 110% correct, this solution is just a little too obvious for legislators (either that or they are 0wn3d by their contributors).
It is plain from the statistics that marketshare is not much of an issue.
Each PC was connected to the Internet via a broadband DSL connection and monitored for two weeks in September. Break-in attempts began immediately and continued at a constant and high level: an average of 341 per hour against the Windows XP machine with no firewall or recent security patches, 339 per hour against the Apple Macintosh and 61 per hour against the Windows Small Business Server. Each was sold without an activated firewall.
The Mac and WinXP systems received virtually the same number of attacks - it appears that these are targeted to the systems themselves (MS Business Server only got hit 61x/hr). How many Macs were infected?
While attempted break-ins never ceased, successful compromises were limited to nine instances on the minimally protected Windows XP computer and a single break-in of the Windows Small Business Server. There were no successful compromises of the Macintosh, the Linspire or the two Windows XPs using firewalls.
In fairness, perhaps the attackers writing for the Win OS are better than those writing for other systems. However, I'd bet money that the non-windows systems are just better.
There seems to be a problem with your system: Cookies are disabled Browser not Microsoft Internet Explorer Unsuported OS (only Windows and Mac supported)
Do you want to go ahead and try to test your bandwidth anyway
I click "ok" - "sorry, browser not compatible"
So let's try Knoqeror. No dice even though I fake being IE on both Mac and Windows. Warwick's page displays all my browser user agent info correctly but it apparently also checks for my version of WMP - it is indicated as version "0". I suppose I need to go google on whether faking that out is possible as well but honestly, why would I bother? This isn't some kind of world-changing quality research. So, I'll just forget about it, forever thinking U of Warwick is populated by sheep and idiots.
3) Yes, it's the moon. It's a big, cold, dead rock. We can mine to our heart's content and not destroy an ecosystem or create a health hazard for a small mining town. If we have to exploit something, I'd prefer it be the moon to the earth any day.
As a vegan wiccan spirtual guide, with a deep knowledge of naturopathic wisdom, a solid foundation in crystal theory and application, and strong belief that humans not part of the natural world (and should therefor leave it alone) - I implore you to leave the moon in peace. She is a sweet silver virgin - it would be the height of hubris to allow her rape by man. We should all return to nature, live in the forest, and let mother earth and her moon sister guide our life choices.
For the RTFA impaired, this about sums it up. I hope 150 words or so isn't too much.
In their 1988 paper, Kulcinski, et al. (see ref note below), estimate a total of 1,100,000 metric tonnes of He3 have been deposited by the solar wind in the lunar regolith..... That 1 million metric tonnes of He3, reacted with deuterium, would generate about 20,000 terrawatt-years of thermal energy..... That's about 10 times the energy we could get from mining all the fossil fuels on Earth, without the smog and acid rain. If we torched all our uranium in liquid metal fast breeder reactors, we could generate about half this much energy, and have some interesting times storing the waste..... About 25 tonnes of He3 would power the United States for 1 year.... the world-wide demand is 100 tonnes of the stuff a year, and people are happy to pay $3 billion per tonne. That gives us gross revenues of $300 billion a year..... To put that number in perspective: Ignoring the cost of money and taxes and whatnot, that rate of income would launch a moon shot like our reference mission every day for the next 10,000 years. (At which point, we will have used up all the helium-3 on the moon and had better start thinking about something else.)
...too bad this also wastes bandwidth across the net.
It's like investing in the future. If it works and makes it too expensive to run a spam destination site, spam destination sites will fade into history. This may be wishful thinking but the other option is to do nothing until 98% of internet traffic is spam related. I say "yeah" - if for no other reason than because it feels good. Of course, I'll have to wait for the linux equivalent - or maybe I'll go google for some ready made scripts - failing that, using this list and wget, I'll make my own. Sounds like a fun and righteously vindictive activity!
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I think what is amazing about this story, is that in the day of enormously heavy cameras with pretty slow speed film, this guy was able to take very good ariel pictures. While not "news", I would call it a "public interest" story demonstrating the longevity of geek spirit - that's definitely "stuff that matters". I'm glad this was on today.
I won't argue with this (though the half dozen times I've touched WinXP I've been lost). But why lock down the BIOS as it seems they've done? Sure - supply windows for people who don't want to learn about the system and istead, plan only to surf the web. But there is no good reason to lock out linux - it isn't like linux will magically install itself and cause 3dworldwide mass confusion. If a person is not into linux - they won't ever try installing it. If a person is, why make it hard??
Jeez Dave420 - smoke a bowl.
Quit repeating yourself - we all know it is your opinion that this device is only for 3d world people and that you think that 3d world residents are too unsophisticated to use technology (support issue responses). Also, you believe people shouldn't put linux on this because that somehow hurts the 3d world users. Well, if you RTFA, you would note that the author lives in a 3d world country. It appears that 3d world residents have a good reason to put linux on the AMDPIC and make it a useful device. The electricity savings alone would make this machine almost pay for itself (it was about $250 after shipping/duty charges for the author of the original article). Apparently, even people in the 3d world would find it useful to able to use the AMDPIC as a computer.
So chill out - we all heard your opinion. Your point is made. Some of us disagree and repeating it ad nauseum is not going to change our minds.
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Whoever invented voicemail deserves to be shot - many times at close range in the head.I'd rather, however, get a nearly unintelligible email than a 5-minute long voice mail strung together with "uh" while managing to leave out every pertinent detail and end with "hey just call me back" without leaving me a phone number. That might just be me, though. I hate voice mail.
Alright! Now there's two of us!
So I'm a whiner. But "offtopic"? Dabo has a spinning wheel, money bets, and odds in favor of the house. Seems pretty on topic to roulette to me. And those Dabo girls - you wonder how some of those outfits got on television. Sweet visions.
Dabo!!! Do I get a girl?
I dount you are in the minority with this fantasy. I clearly remember youthful days spending hours upon hours sitting on the back porch looking up at the sky and dreaming about floating off over the fields. This was around first grade, so that would be roughly 1975. I think the trigger was seeing an ad for giant baloons in a comic book. The flying/floating fantasy has been with me in one form or another since then. I have nothing but respect for this guy.
Well, I like many books, and definitely enjoyed Neuromancer. I put "Grendel" up higher because I've read it at least 8 or 9 times. Next in line would have to be The Trilogy - probably 5 or 6 times, followed by various books of Azimov and Ian M. Banks (Culture series - not read the fantasy stuff) which I've given multiple reads. I had to rank "Grendel" really high given the number of times I've read (and enjoyed/learned from) it. To get on my all-time-favorites list, a book has to be read at least twice.
Yeah - but just imagine how cool it would be walking down the sidewalk, towering over everyone, getting the looks from all the cute babes
Yeah, but then there would be no need to arrive by ship. In any event, John Gardner's book "Grendel", which tells the story from Grendel's perspective, is my favorite book of all time. Beowulf is a prick and deserves a cluster f .... ahem.
His dad was not advertising his law practice on Google.
I'm very glad I use linux whenever I read things like this. I tried first around 97 - had a hard time and went back to windows. Tried again though - about 2000 I was using linux regularly, about 2001 I changed grub to default to linux. And now, although my system is still dual boot, I can't actually remember the last time I used windows (ME BTW). The only thing I use hda for anymore is a place to stick duplicates of important files. For purity sake though, I think it's time to replace that drive - it's only 20 gigs anyway. I have zero use for windows anymore and it I'd feel so much cleaner.
Aside from good things they've done, there seems to be a reasonable profit potential. Right after the Vioxx news, MRK lost about $20/share (high 40s to high 20s - about a 40% loss in value). It's P/E is just over 10 right now and the dividend is about 5.5%. Make of this what you will, but I see bargain - barring another Vioxx debacle.
Unfortunately, I think that many abortions today take place in very young mothers or mothers who just want no kids, so these conditions that I find fair are really hard to put into place. Especially since many of these mothers would keep their embryos if the money went to support them instead of into stem cell research.
Let's see, do something useful with the money like find cures for diseases? Or squander it on an ever expanding welfare model? The answer isn't difficult at all.
As for "stopping a life", is it your opinion that a brain dead person should be kept alive indefinitely? If it is your opinion
Ahhh River
Plainly, the quality of an American college education is deteriorating.
Hmmmmm
I think there are few more steps involved, but this is a good start when coupled with research restrictions (e.g., stem cells). Making sure all the cool future tech (bio, mechanical, or otherwise) is imported into the US will do wonders for destroying the economy. And since the poor are much more attracted to religions, it's a solid win for those working toward our (USA) budding theocracy.
Although 110% correct, this solution is just a little too obvious for legislators (either that or they are 0wn3d by their contributors).
It is plain from the statistics that marketshare is not much of an issue.
The Mac and WinXP systems received virtually the same number of attacks - it appears that these are targeted to the systems themselves (MS Business Server only got hit 61x/hr). How many Macs were infected?
In fairness, perhaps the attackers writing for the Win OS are better than those writing for other systems. However, I'd bet money that the non-windows systems are just better.
- There seems to be a problem with your system:
I click "ok" - "sorry, browser not compatible"Cookies are disabled
Browser not Microsoft Internet Explorer
Unsuported OS (only Windows and Mac supported)
Do you want to go ahead and try to test your bandwidth anyway
So let's try Knoqeror. No dice even though I fake being IE on both Mac and Windows. Warwick's page displays all my browser user agent info correctly but it apparently also checks for my version of WMP - it is indicated as version "0". I suppose I need to go google on whether faking that out is possible as well but honestly, why would I bother? This isn't some kind of world-changing quality research. So, I'll just forget about it, forever thinking U of Warwick is populated by sheep and idiots.
As a vegan wiccan spirtual guide, with a deep knowledge of naturopathic wisdom, a solid foundation in crystal theory and application, and strong belief that humans not part of the natural world (and should therefor leave it alone) - I implore you to leave the moon in peace. She is a sweet silver virgin - it would be the height of hubris to allow her rape by man. We should all return to nature, live in the forest, and let mother earth and her moon sister guide our life choices.
For the RTFA impaired, this about sums it up. I hope 150 words or so isn't too much.
It's like investing in the future. If it works and makes it too expensive to run a spam destination site, spam destination sites will fade into history. This may be wishful thinking but the other option is to do nothing until 98% of internet traffic is spam related. I say "yeah" - if for no other reason than because it feels good. Of course, I'll have to wait for the linux equivalent - or maybe I'll go google for some ready made scripts - failing that, using this list and wget, I'll make my own. Sounds like a fun and righteously vindictive activity!