Just bring a big sum of money, and I think you'll find a lot of agreement.
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Just the fact that they can log all my in- and outgoing email, and use it against me or my friends if we were ever to cause any trouble in the future is bad enough.
Just imagine if you or someone you know were running for office at some point in the future.
I think most people use one or a set of very few passwords, as well as usernames. It's inevitable, but has it's problems.
I'm sure If the Slashdot crew wanted to, they could use the usernames and passwords from here to log in to thousands of peoples Ebay, Amazon and Paypal accounts. Anyone that puts up a site that requires a username and a password could do the same.
So how will it be possible to write software under this law? I can't imagine how you'd make a compiler compliant with this wacky law. Will I have to send my source code to an NSA computer in Washington for every recompile?
I know using the waste heat from a nuclear reactor was looked at for Stockholm, which already has a system of heating buildings with water. The idea died mainly because of the genreal superstition agains all things nuclear. Most people probably believed that their homes would become radioactive. So instead the warm water is just flushed into the Baltic and Stockholm heats it's water some other way.
The other cost is that, statistically, there will be other 3 Mile Island, Chernobyl, etc., incidents. The more plants you run, the higher the chances.
Not really. Each incident gives us new knowledge and makes new accidents less probable. Look at the airline industry for a comparision. In the early days, accidents were much more common than today. (I'd guess at least 100 times more, but I don't have any real facts available.) The accidents that happened in those early designs will not happen again.
Check some population statistics some time. You might be surprised to find that Africa is very sparsely populated compared to most of the planet.
What looks like over population is under production. Due to the abysmal state of the societies there, people hardly produce anything, and thus have very little sonsumption power.
You are suggesting that if some alien overlord race arrives at Earth with the intention to exterminate humankind, they will refrain when we point to how we let the tsetse fly live?
Can't argue with that.
It is enlightening to find that to a US environmentalist, Africans are worth less than insects.
A PVR costs a few hundred bucks. A PC with all the cards etc will cost far more, and won't have all the cool software features that makes these things really shine.
If you're thinking of using the PC you already have, consider what performance will be like when it's recording. And it will be recording 24/7 if it's to have any resemblance to the usefulness of a PVR.
Yes, the massive sorting and indexing is done by Tivo. But it's Tivo [b] the machine[/b] that I already own, not Tivo the company. The company performs no service for the $10/month you pay it.
You pay that because it's the only revenue model they could make work. And that's OK, but let's not kid ourselves about what we get for our money.
The first generation will of course be volunteers, so that should work well. But the second generation will have plenty of fuel for their teenage rebellion. "Who gave you the right to lock me up for life in a tin can without cable??". Once the old timers are out of the picture, there is no telling what the ship people will do. I doubt they'll feel bound by the original crews intentions.
I don't get the language development issues. Surely they'll have both every book and DVD ever made on the ship, and communication channels to earth. That puts a pretty big stabilizer on language development.
The Tivo has an Ethernet connection already, but extracting the MPEGs is hard. I've heard rumors that people have done it, but it's certainly not a widespread thing.
Unless you have pretty strong performance requirements, Java is your language.
I think it fills all the requrements, except for the somewhat misplaced "full support for operator and function overloading".
Why operator overloading would be a mission critical feature for a language beats me. It was excluded from Java for a reason! I assume the reason is how hopelessly confusing it can be to read code where + or && doesn't do what you'd expect them to do. It should be clear when a function is called and when it's not.
I also have Cingular in SF, and it sucks whatever phone you have. Verizon is also bad, but AT&T is actually real good. I'm switching to them as soon as my 1 year with Cingular is up.
I think the puny processor power would make that impossible. A Tivo runs on a 50MHz PowerPC, and I don't think it ever is involved in any audio or video processing. I think we'll just have to wait for the next generation MPEG chips.
Does anyone know here I can find a MacOS X programming job in the SF area? I'm very interested in getting one, but the regular job boards I look at never have any. Is there some place on the net where such things are posted? Or are there just not any such jobs??
Microsoft never broke down someones door and forced them to buy a product at gun point.
Guns are so last century. In the digital age violence takes other forms. What Microsoft have done is to destroy competing products by changing the underlying OS so they no longer work.
To me that is similar to Chrysler competing with Ford by bombing their factories. I realize there are also differences, but to my libertarian instincts, such sabotage must be wrong, even if Mill or Rand didn't have the foresight to figure out exactly how to treat software in a natural rights manner.
That's not to mention all the theft of intellectual property and contract violations that is standard practice in Redmond.
Of course, as you point out, the actual laws that Microsoft has been caught by are doubtful in many ways, but that doesn't mean that Gates and his gang are not a bunch of ruthless criminals.
One problem with that word (to Swedes) is that the Swedish conservative party is named the "Moderate Party". It's regarded by many as an extremist party, and not lagom at all.
To me moderate sounds like an OK translation, but it's before breakfast and my brain isn't really working. I may get back to you.
The field of risk management is perhaps where society is at it's stupidest. If you calculate the dollars spent per saved life for supposed life saving actions, there is a span of 9 magnitudes, IIRC.
It's next to impossible to put forward such arguments, especially in the very emotional times after great losses of lives when safety decisions are made. Still, it's an undisputable fact that there is a limited amount of resources, and if you choose to put it where you can save one life for $100M, rather than where it can be done for $1k, you're not really saving lifes, even if you think you do.
About 6500 people die every day in the US. I haven't done the math, but I feel pretty safe saying that if we spent as much per life saved on other dangers than mailed anthrax, we would be bankrupt many times over.
So why does this happen? Because of the intense media coverage, anthrax is on everybodys mind, and the government has to "do something". Thus, it's really not about "saving lifes", but about PR and saving face.
Your reasoning is remarkably similar to the Bin Laden line of thinking. "No, the US didn't attack palestinians directly, but the Israeli occupation and attacks are made possible by massive US support, etc..."
George W Bush, the US Commander in Chief, has gone out of his way to state that the campaign is not directed at the Afghan people, and that one of his goals is in fact to liberate them from their oppressors.
Your characterization of the Afghan people as "hostile non combatants" that should be killed by the hundreds when in doubt is very far removed from this official line.
There are two issues here. One is that when bombings go wrong, as they are bound to do when thousands of bombs are dropped, the Pentagon just denies that what happened happened. Sadly, the US media just takes it's word for it, so it can (within the US) get away with it. The other is how they treat the situations when they think there are 1-2 target people among, say. 10 or 100 civilians. It's a hard call to make, but I find the solution of just killing them all to get to those 1-2 people appaling. There are better ways, and they involve putting your own soldiers at risk.
Regarding Somalia, it's a fact that there is no government governing that country. That the UN is not equipped to deal with a country without a government is the UNs problem. According to many reports, Somalia is doing just fine without any central government.
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Just bring a big sum of money, and I think you'll find a lot of agreement.
Just the fact that they can log all my in- and outgoing email, and use it against me or my friends if we were ever to cause any trouble in the future is bad enough.
Just imagine if you or someone you know were running for office at some point in the future.
The *.co.uk address gives that away.
I think North American DVDs have so many French tracks due to Canada. There are only 2 main languages in region 1. In Europe there are dozens.
I think most people use one or a set of very few passwords, as well as usernames. It's inevitable, but has it's problems.
I'm sure If the Slashdot crew wanted to, they could use the usernames and passwords from here to log in to thousands of peoples Ebay, Amazon and Paypal accounts. Anyone that puts up a site that requires a username and a password could do the same.
So how will it be possible to write software under this law? I can't imagine how you'd make a compiler compliant with this wacky law. Will I have to send my source code to an NSA computer in Washington for every recompile?
I know using the waste heat from a nuclear reactor was looked at for Stockholm, which already has a system of heating buildings with water. The idea died mainly because of the genreal superstition agains all things nuclear. Most people probably believed that their homes would become radioactive. So instead the warm water is just flushed into the Baltic and Stockholm heats it's water some other way.
The other cost is that, statistically, there will be other 3 Mile Island, Chernobyl, etc., incidents. The more plants you run, the higher the chances.
Not really. Each incident gives us new knowledge and makes new accidents less probable. Look at the airline industry for a comparision. In the early days, accidents were much more common than today. (I'd guess at least 100 times more, but I don't have any real facts available.) The accidents that happened in those early designs will not happen again.
Check some population statistics some time. You might be surprised to find that Africa is very sparsely populated compared to most of the planet.
What looks like over population is under production. Due to the abysmal state of the societies there, people hardly produce anything, and thus have very little sonsumption power.
You are suggesting that if some alien overlord race arrives at Earth with the intention to exterminate humankind, they will refrain when we point to how we let the tsetse fly live?
Can't argue with that.
It is enlightening to find that to a US environmentalist, Africans are worth less than insects.
A PVR costs a few hundred bucks. A PC with all the cards etc will cost far more, and won't have all the cool software features that makes these things really shine.
If you're thinking of using the PC you already have, consider what performance will be like when it's recording. And it will be recording 24/7 if it's to have any resemblance to the usefulness of a PVR.
Yes, the massive sorting and indexing is done by Tivo. But it's Tivo [b] the machine[/b] that I already own, not Tivo the company. The company performs no service for the $10/month you pay it.
You pay that because it's the only revenue model they could make work. And that's OK, but let's not kid ourselves about what we get for our money.
The first generation will of course be volunteers, so that should work well. But the second generation will have plenty of fuel for their teenage rebellion. "Who gave you the right to lock me up for life in a tin can without cable??". Once the old timers are out of the picture, there is no telling what the ship people will do. I doubt they'll feel bound by the original crews intentions.
I don't get the language development issues. Surely they'll have both every book and DVD ever made on the ship, and communication channels to earth. That puts a pretty big stabilizer on language development.
1280x1024 doesn't sound at all like the aspect ratio of wide screen theatre movies.
Are the pixels not square, or are this not the right numbers?
You're right, but the reason for this practice is the short memory span of the Oscar voters.
The Tivo has an Ethernet connection already, but extracting the MPEGs is hard. I've heard rumors that people have done it, but it's certainly not a widespread thing.
Unless you have pretty strong performance requirements, Java is your language.
I think it fills all the requrements, except for the somewhat misplaced "full support for operator and function overloading".
Why operator overloading would be a mission critical feature for a language beats me. It was excluded from Java for a reason! I assume the reason is how hopelessly confusing it can be to read code where + or && doesn't do what you'd expect them to do. It should be clear when a function is called and when it's not.
Actually those of us with a DirecTivo record the digital signal coming from space perfectly, without ever passing analog.
Granted, the signal wa MPEG encoded at some point before getting beamed to the satellite in the first place, but it can be of very high quality.
I also have Cingular in SF, and it sucks whatever phone you have. Verizon is also bad, but AT&T is actually real good. I'm switching to them as soon as my 1 year with Cingular is up.
Just a consumer information apropos.
I think the puny processor power would make that impossible. A Tivo runs on a 50MHz PowerPC, and I don't think it ever is involved in any audio or video processing. I think we'll just have to wait for the next generation MPEG chips.
I've suggested this too, and been told that it's a hardware problem. The MPEG chips Tivo uses can't deliver sound in any other speed than normal.
Does anyone know here I can find a MacOS X programming job in the SF area? I'm very interested in getting one, but the regular job boards I look at never have any. Is there some place on the net where such things are posted? Or are there just not any such jobs??
My email address is in my profile.
Microsoft never broke down someones door and forced them to buy a product at gun point.
Guns are so last century. In the digital age violence takes other forms. What Microsoft have done is to destroy competing products by changing the underlying OS so they no longer work.
To me that is similar to Chrysler competing with Ford by bombing their factories. I realize there are also differences, but to my libertarian instincts, such sabotage must be wrong, even if Mill or Rand didn't have the foresight to figure out exactly how to treat software in a natural rights manner.
That's not to mention all the theft of intellectual property and contract violations that is standard practice in Redmond.
Of course, as you point out, the actual laws that Microsoft has been caught by are doubtful in many ways, but that doesn't mean that Gates and his gang are not a bunch of ruthless criminals.
One problem with that word (to Swedes) is that the Swedish conservative party is named the "Moderate Party". It's regarded by many as an extremist party, and not lagom at all.
To me moderate sounds like an OK translation, but it's before breakfast and my brain isn't really working. I may get back to you.
A bucket of water can drown a dozen people if adminstered properly as well. So which should we ban, buckets or water?
The field of risk management is perhaps where society is at it's stupidest. If you calculate the dollars spent per saved life for supposed life saving actions, there is a span of 9 magnitudes, IIRC.
It's next to impossible to put forward such arguments, especially in the very emotional times after great losses of lives when safety decisions are made. Still, it's an undisputable fact that there is a limited amount of resources, and if you choose to put it where you can save one life for $100M, rather than where it can be done for $1k, you're not really saving lifes, even if you think you do.
About 6500 people die every day in the US. I haven't done the math, but I feel pretty safe saying that if we spent as much per life saved on other dangers than mailed anthrax, we would be bankrupt many times over.
So why does this happen? Because of the intense media coverage, anthrax is on everybodys mind, and the government has to "do something". Thus, it's really not about "saving lifes", but about PR and saving face.
Your reasoning is remarkably similar to the Bin Laden line of thinking. "No, the US didn't attack palestinians directly, but the Israeli occupation and attacks are made possible by massive US support, etc..."
George W Bush, the US Commander in Chief, has gone out of his way to state that the campaign is not directed at the Afghan people, and that one of his goals is in fact to liberate them from their oppressors.
Your characterization of the Afghan people as "hostile non combatants" that should be killed by the hundreds when in doubt is very far removed from this official line.
There are two issues here. One is that when bombings go wrong, as they are bound to do when thousands of bombs are dropped, the Pentagon just denies that what happened happened. Sadly, the US media just takes it's word for it, so it can (within the US) get away with it. The other is how they treat the situations when they think there are 1-2 target people among, say. 10 or 100 civilians. It's a hard call to make, but I find the solution of just killing them all to get to those 1-2 people appaling. There are better ways, and they involve putting your own soldiers at risk.
Regarding Somalia, it's a fact that there is no government governing that country. That the UN is not equipped to deal with a country without a government is the UNs problem. According to many reports, Somalia is doing just fine without any central government.