NPR definitely has a slant. They are decidedly pro illegal immigration (They always refer to it with the usual euphamism of "undocumented"). They also seem to spend more time covering the suffering of the common man in other countries and pointing an accusatory finger back at US policy than they do outlining bad behavior of foreign governments and individuals.
It takes human effort to run these tools. I'm not saying that it's not empowering that this technology is now accessible, but it's just not the whole picture. I've seen too many Star Wars fan films with great effects and lousy acting and stories, for instance.
The source of the HD is the same as the original film negative. If the movie had decent makeup and lighting then you aren't going to see anything more than you did in the theaters.
Now, Brad Pitt looked terrible in Devil's Own. It's really up to the makeup and cinematographer to make these actors look good. Fearing HD because you don't want to see bad skin is being a luddite.
I haven't read all the comments, but I think some things are being missed here.
There is a technological difference between 1918 and today.
-We have instant global communication and the computing power to have a central outbreak database to coordinate a master quarantine plan. As long as countries are willing and able to impose travel restrictions, the technology is there to provide effective quarantining. Quarantines are the only effective solution to this problem. Drugs are not the magic bullet in the case of a virus that mutates so quickly. If this doesn't work then it is really a problem with incompetent coordination and diplomacy more than anything else. But the tools are there to do the job. We should be leveraging any work that has already been done to prepare for terrorist biological attacks.
-We have the internet which allows people in certain industries (like programmers) to telecommute. I expect an explosion in telecommuting in the case of an outbreak which will help blunt the spread of the disease and its effect on the economy. I think businesses should take the initiative to create and enhance the infrastructure necessary to have a telecommuting workforce to minimize the disruption. I also think there could be some great business opportunities for companies who try to enhance the utility and ease of telecommuting, which I think has stagnated for some time.
If you look at the PDA market, they are finally getting a return on their Windows CE investment after a late start there. Palm is on the ropes. Symbian might be next.
A refill is a lot faster than charging a battery. Imagine going on a camping trip with a backpack full of refills and having a week's worth of charge available. Sure, if your device has removable batteries you could take a lot of batteries with you but that would be expensive and a lot heavier.
It's not the features that take up the power. It's using all the features at once. If you have a phone that plays MP3s, when you aren't playing MP3s, it shouldn't have to draw any more power than a phone that can't play MP3s. It's all in the power management. If you decide to use all the features at once (assuming the device multitasks well enough for it) then yes, it will drain the battery. Otherwise the architecture should be smart enough to step down the power and disable devices not in use. I'm not convinced that portable devices do this effectively.
To me I think the ultimate would be to have private space probes that could go beyond the earth and the moon. Imagine hundreds of misc. probes going out in every different direction, some to Mars, some to Venus, some to the Asteroid belt. I don't think something like that could be privatized, but I think it would be a good idea to create a kind of VW Bug, a standard platform, for space probes. Maybe you could upgrade the computer core as the technology evolves, but standardize on the rest of it, the propulsion, the solar panels, the antennae. Once you can standardize the platform you can make a bunch of them and just launch them constantly. If one breaks down, the next one will take its place. Of course, the problem then becomes one of maintaining the deep space network so you don't have more communications to do with probes than you have available time on earth. That's where you might be able to set up a relay network so that the chain of probes act more as one unit.
There was no way for us to surgically go in there and take out Bin Laden while the entire country under Mullah Omar was defending him. I'd like to believe that a Rambo/Delta Force type operation could have taken out Bin Laden without having to topple the Taliban, but we just did not have the capability due to language/cultural barriers (which we still have great difficulty with).
The way I do this in a proc is to pass in a comma-delimited list which then gets converted into a table variable using a UDF. Then I use the table variable in a join. That way the only limitation is the length of the varchar with your list (8000 characters).
What I really don't like in SQL Server 2000 is not being able to use a parameter for order by and not being able to do automatic paging (LIMIT X Y). These are standard requirements for web apps and back-end consoles and reports.
Enterprise also seems to contradict a lot of canon (Robert April was supposed to be the first captain of the Enterprise, as shown on TAS, BTW). TNG+ series dispensed with TOS canon whenever they felt like it.
Parent's post is my main beef with Linux. Linux to this day is not a plug and play solution the way Windows or Mac OSX is. It takes more manual labor to get things set up right, and it's too easy to break a program and not know how you broke it. This provides the foundation from which the "support" part of the open-source movement comes from.
For instance, I have had a Windows PC since around 1998. I have never ever had to actually call a support line on software issues other than problems registering shareware.
Even on the server side, things like IIS are not that difficult to configure. SQLServer is more of a pain, but that's true of all database systems.
I install it, run it, learn it, end of story. No fiddling with config files or any of that BS.
These are issues that Microsoft are trying to use as ammo against the total-cost-of-ownership estimates between Linux and Windows.
Yes there is, but it's a bitter pill to swallow: reduce energy demand via reducing global population radically. We are a species that has completely overpopulated the planet and we fail to recognize this. Because we have the crutch of technology to support us, we think the laws of nature don't apply to us anymore. They do. Once our energy supply runs out or fouls the planet enough, we'll be out of luck just as much as any animal has been out of luck when it becomes a victim of its own evolutionary success and outstrips its local environment.
== "Fuck you all, I'm not listening." That's what he did in Iraq, and now he's doing it with the internet. Any good diplomat will tell you that you don't do that, ==
I am not a fan of Bush, but I think he's been singled out as an easy target too often.
You make it sound like Bush is the only one who behaves this way. How about Hugo Chavez? How diplomatic is it for a head of state to openly call another head of state an asshole in a speech? Should we lower the quality of discourse between our leaders to the level of the Osbornes?
What about Iran saying "fuck you, I'm not listening" and going back to Uranium enrichment. I never heard Bush say he wanted to wipe a country off the face of the map. Say what you want about Iraq, we are trying to rebuild the country while some losers are busy trying to do counterproductive things like cutting power, water, and oil lines.
In the grand scheme of things, countries like Syria, Venezuela, Iran, and North Korea pose a greater danger than the US.
But apparently all you have to do is convince the court of world public opinion that you are a victim and you can rationalize anything you want, which is especially easy when the UN security council is comprised of a lot of fellow muslim countries that knee-jerk defend their own and Russia and China who are too blinded by oil dependency from these dictatorships.
But no, all problems in the world are the the fault of the US and the US alone. Sorry, I don't buy such a simplistic assessment.
I'd argue with the validity of "Star Wars Syndrome". The quality of Star Wars really has gone down between the original trilogy and the prequels, with the tipping point being the Ewoks in Return of the Jedi which coincided with some of the brighter collaborators leaving the fold and Lucas assuming more autonomy.
Their hardware design was cool, but their business approach sucked.
They were selling computers at Rolls Royce pricepoints without delivering enough of a ROI to their corporate clients. How different is this from the old mainframe days when computer users were only found in big corporations, government, or higher education? Only when computing is released to the mainstream does it really have an important social impact.
They had the gall to market their O^2 as an entry level machine in the late 90s with a $5K pricepoint!
Companies that have pioneered in making computers more _affordable_ should be applauded, not SGI.
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Looks like Stitch from Lilo and Stitch.
Go ahead and let them, as far as I care.
NPR definitely has a slant. They are decidedly pro illegal immigration (They always refer to it with the usual euphamism of "undocumented"). They also seem to spend more time covering the suffering of the common man in other countries and pointing an accusatory finger back at US policy than they do outlining bad behavior of foreign governments and individuals.
It takes human effort to run these tools. I'm not saying that it's not empowering that this technology is now accessible, but it's just not the whole picture. I've seen too many Star Wars fan films with great effects and lousy acting and stories, for instance.
This is a stupid analogy. We went to the moon 36+ years ago already.
You aren't really providing a solution, here.
That's fine with me. Where is the list of international employers who want to employ americans?
Democrat Gray Davis and the Democratic state legislature ruined California's economy.
The source of the HD is the same as the original film negative. If the movie had decent makeup and lighting then you aren't going to see anything more than you did in the theaters.
Now, Brad Pitt looked terrible in Devil's Own. It's really up to the makeup and cinematographer to make these actors look good. Fearing HD because you don't want to see bad skin is being a luddite.
I haven't read all the comments, but I think some things are being missed here.
There is a technological difference between 1918 and today.
-We have instant global communication and the computing power to have a central outbreak database to coordinate a master quarantine plan. As long as countries are willing and able to impose travel restrictions, the technology is there to provide effective quarantining. Quarantines are the only effective solution to this problem. Drugs are not the magic bullet in the case of a virus that mutates so quickly. If this doesn't work then it is really a problem with incompetent coordination and diplomacy more than anything else. But the tools are there to do the job. We should be leveraging any work that has already been done to prepare for terrorist biological attacks.
-We have the internet which allows people in certain industries (like programmers) to telecommute. I expect an explosion in telecommuting in the case of an outbreak which will help blunt the spread of the disease and its effect on the economy. I think businesses should take the initiative to create and enhance the infrastructure necessary to have a telecommuting workforce to minimize the disruption. I also think there could be some great business opportunities for companies who try to enhance the utility and ease of telecommuting, which I think has stagnated for some time.
Enjoy concatenated generation loss from taking a lossy format, expanding it to uncompressed, then recompressing it to another lossy format.
If you look at the PDA market, they are finally getting a return on their Windows CE investment after a late start there. Palm is on the ropes. Symbian might be next.
A refill is a lot faster than charging a battery. Imagine going on a camping trip with a backpack full of refills and having a week's worth of charge available. Sure, if your device has removable batteries you could take a lot of batteries with you but that would be expensive and a lot heavier.
It's not the features that take up the power. It's using all the features at once. If you have a phone that plays MP3s, when you aren't playing MP3s, it shouldn't have to draw any more power than a phone that can't play MP3s. It's all in the power management. If you decide to use all the features at once (assuming the device multitasks well enough for it) then yes, it will drain the battery. Otherwise the architecture should be smart enough to step down the power and disable devices not in use. I'm not convinced that portable devices do this effectively.
Unlike the HP iPod and the Mac Clones, Apple ][ clones were never legal.
To me I think the ultimate would be to have private space probes that could go beyond the earth and the moon. Imagine hundreds of misc. probes going out in every different direction, some to Mars, some to Venus, some to the Asteroid belt. I don't think something like that could be privatized, but I think it would be a good idea to create a kind of VW Bug, a standard platform, for space probes. Maybe you could upgrade the computer core as the technology evolves, but standardize on the rest of it, the propulsion, the solar panels, the antennae. Once you can standardize the platform you can make a bunch of them and just launch them constantly. If one breaks down, the next one will take its place. Of course, the problem then becomes one of maintaining the deep space network so you don't have more communications to do with probes than you have available time on earth. That's where you might be able to set up a relay network so that the chain of probes act more as one unit.
There was no way for us to surgically go in there and take out Bin Laden while the entire country under Mullah Omar was defending him. I'd like to believe that a Rambo/Delta Force type operation could have taken out Bin Laden without having to topple the Taliban, but we just did not have the capability due to language/cultural barriers (which we still have great difficulty with).
The way I do this in a proc is to pass in a comma-delimited list which then gets converted into a table variable using a UDF. Then I use the table variable in a join. That way the only limitation is the length of the varchar with your list (8000 characters).
What I really don't like in SQL Server 2000 is not being able to use a parameter for order by and not being able to do automatic paging (LIMIT X Y). These are standard requirements for web apps and back-end consoles and reports.
Enterprise also seems to contradict a lot of canon (Robert April was supposed to be the first captain of the Enterprise, as shown on TAS, BTW). TNG+ series dispensed with TOS canon whenever they felt like it.
Parent's post is my main beef with Linux. Linux to this day is not a plug and play solution the way Windows or Mac OSX is. It takes more manual labor to get things set up right, and it's too easy to break a program and not know how you broke it. This provides the foundation from which the "support" part of the open-source movement comes from.
For instance, I have had a Windows PC since around 1998. I have never ever had to actually call a support line on software issues other than problems registering shareware.
Even on the server side, things like IIS are not that difficult to configure. SQLServer is more of a pain, but that's true of all database systems.
I install it, run it, learn it, end of story. No fiddling with config files or any of that BS.
These are issues that Microsoft are trying to use as ammo against the total-cost-of-ownership estimates between Linux and Windows.
==
There's got to be a better way
==
Yes there is, but it's a bitter pill to swallow: reduce energy demand via reducing global population radically. We are a species that has completely overpopulated the planet and we fail to recognize this. Because we have the crutch of technology to support us, we think the laws of nature don't apply to us anymore. They do. Once our energy supply runs out or fouls the planet enough, we'll be out of luck just as much as any animal has been out of luck when it becomes a victim of its own evolutionary success and outstrips its local environment.
==
"Fuck you all, I'm not listening." That's what he did in Iraq, and now he's doing it with the internet. Any good diplomat will tell you that you don't do that,
==
I am not a fan of Bush, but I think he's been singled out as an easy target too often.
You make it sound like Bush is the only one who behaves this way. How about Hugo Chavez? How diplomatic is it for a head of state to openly call another head of state an asshole in a speech? Should we lower the quality of discourse between our leaders to the level of the Osbornes?
What about Iran saying "fuck you, I'm not listening" and going back to Uranium enrichment. I never heard Bush say he wanted to wipe a country off the face of the map. Say what you want about Iraq, we are trying to rebuild the country while some losers are busy trying to do counterproductive things like cutting power, water, and oil lines.
In the grand scheme of things, countries like Syria, Venezuela, Iran, and North Korea pose a greater danger than the US.
But apparently all you have to do is convince the court of world public opinion that you are a victim and you can rationalize anything you want, which is especially easy when the UN security council is comprised of a lot of fellow muslim countries that knee-jerk defend their own and Russia and China who are too blinded by oil dependency from these dictatorships.
But no, all problems in the world are the the fault of the US and the US alone. Sorry, I don't buy such a simplistic assessment.
BTW, is there such a thing as a non-sovereign nation?
I'd argue with the validity of "Star Wars Syndrome". The quality of Star Wars really has gone down between the original trilogy and the prequels, with the tipping point being the Ewoks in Return of the Jedi which coincided with some of the brighter collaborators leaving the fold and Lucas assuming more autonomy.
Their hardware design was cool, but their business approach sucked.
They were selling computers at Rolls Royce pricepoints without delivering enough of a ROI to their corporate clients. How different is this from the old mainframe days when computer users were only found in big corporations, government, or higher education? Only when computing is released to the mainstream does it really have an important social impact.
They had the gall to market their O^2 as an entry level machine in the late 90s with a $5K pricepoint!
Companies that have pioneered in making computers more _affordable_ should be applauded, not SGI.