Actually I suspect that this thing would cost enough that it's cost couldn't be borne by one single nation. Ideally IMHO, this would be constructed by private interests. Ideally some combination of Russia's Energia, Airbus, and some American, Japanese, and other aerospace companies. Where I could see some government involvement is carving out a special zone for protecting the elevator. Paying the Host nation for the zone.
Typically the money is mostly spent on hiring more people. Universities tend to have very bloated headcounts. What always shocked me was how little a professor typically does. Most teach at best 2 classes a semester, and they have a TA to grade papers.
If you are refering to day dreams. I agree. Many where the day I spent dreaming (day type) in class. Sometimes I wonder if the droning monotone affected by many professors wasn't an attempt at mind control.:-)
Which is why it makes sense to give students a decent grant (allowance) so they can spend their time exctracting as much value as possible from their education and go on to become high-value members of the workforce instead of having them flipping burgers by night, catching up on their sleep during lectures in the day, dropping out then flipping burgers permanently.
Problem is then schools just make the cost of education even higher. "Don't worry about how much it costs, you can get a grant or a loan". So colleges are free to be inefficient.
It's worth citing another quote (or paraphrase) from the movie: When asked whether he thought non-violence could be used against someone like Hitler, Gandhi replied, "Not without deafeats and much pain. But are there no defeats in this war? No pain?" Don't mistake the fact that in a war of civil resitance,
Rest assured, that if my nation(US) faces a foe like Hitler the form of resistance I employee won't be civil.
If by Sovereign you mean the ability to interact with people in other nations and to do business across international boundaries, I agree.
If by Sovereign you mean we are a freer people, I think you are sadly deluded. In the US our complete existence is regulated. You want to opt out of Social Security, oh I'm sorry your Sovereignness doesn't extend that far. You want to be a car without an airbag, sorry can't do that either. You want to smoke some pot in your own house, yeah right. In the EU, I've read stories of how cheese makers in Italy are being forced to conform to the EU beauracrats in Brussels on how to make their cheese. I also heard about a shopkeeper in the UK they made put away an antique scale because in used imperial units. Doesn't sound freer to me.
In the past I used to enjoy watching the olympics. But now I just don't think I can anymore. I currently live in Utah, and I've been watching the whole mess around here.
What irks me is that the biggest outrage of all is ignored. Public funding of the games. A lot of people think that in the US the games don't have any public funding. But an example of this, there is an army installation where the olympic committee wanted to build part of the olympic village. So they tell the army, gives the land and put your reserve center somewhere else. The army in essence tells them to go hell. Fortunately for the SLOC Utah has congresscritters. They get this overruled eventually. The end result, $10+ million are spent to move the reserve center from a better location to a worse, all on the tab of uncle sam.
There are other examples of this. I'd much rather have corporate sponsership of the games than public funding of the games.
Let's think about the little guys for a change, eh? They're representing our countries, NOT a specific list of corporations.
Perhaps that's the way it should be but for a long time now the olympics have been much more about money than athletic excellence. Not that I'm opposed to it being about money. I just wish they would be a little more upfront about it. I enjoy professional sports all the time. But I'm fully aware the main motivation behind them is monetary. I think the olympics should be upfront about it. Tell everyone, "Hey we're trying to make some cash here, but we intend to put on a good show."
And it comes out later that they were away from their desk and someone else visited that site from their PC, or someone sets their PC to the victim's IP when the victim's PC is down, or..
I've seen this happen before. Of course browsers keep logs of accesses including the time. So some security guard who wasn't smart enough to clear the browser cache got fired for looking up porn at 3:30 AM
From what I've read in the media, I think if anything you are not worried enough. I personally would suggest that you write up an email policy for your company, and make it part of the employee handbook. I would include an acceptable use standard that limited what personal email was allowed.(who they could email ie family and how much person email they could send maybe a few a day). I would then add an enforcement policy that basically said that you would do spot checks and investigate complaints, and then say that the punishment could be anything up to termination. I would also come up with an email deletion policy. Basically saying email will be deleted if it is more than x monthes old.
Why this is a bit draconian, it would give you some protection in lawsuits. Basically what you've done for your employees is given them some guidelines. It helps them know what you will allow and won't, most employees will likely appreciate this. If you do develop a policy make sure you enforce it. At my former employer we had a few morons who liked to mail internal confidential documents to trade rags. For their effort they got fired. If you have a clear policy on this stuff it makes it easier for you to protect yourself. Oh btw, I am not a lawyer
It is the growth of the nanny state. Personal responsibility has become inconvienient. Why worry when the gov't will take care of it for you, of course never mind that in the process you lose your freedom.
Not to sound like bill clinton here. But it really depends on how this study defines an application. The way my company defines them. I've written almost 3 this year by myself. They are all web based apps. None of them are all that remarkable.
I suspect that the 70,000 figure Cato is talking about marketed horizontal applications for Cato. Otherwise 70,000 is ridiculously low.
I remember driving through West Virgina. In Virginia the highway I was on had only two-lanes. When you go into WV it went to four lanes. Then about twenty miles later or so it goes back to two-lanes driving into Maryland. There was virtualy no traffic on the highway anywhere. Just Sen. Byrd bringing home the bacon like no one else can.
Now we have a $75 million dollar radio telescope. Just what we need a radio telescopes when the gov't is already several trillion in debt. (And it will end up costing more than that. After all someone has to operate it and maintain it, just so some scientists can get their favorite station from alpha centauri)
In theory that sounds good, however in practice it doesn't work as well. OS development is a minor exercise in chaos theory. (You know because some butterfly flapped its wings in china, we have bad weather). The smallest changes can have a ripple effect through out the whole project. The more core the module. The greater the likely hood of difficultly. For me I want the whole package at once. Then you can test the whole thing and have a higher assurance of stability.
Of course they don't have to pay. You need to think like a big company. Big companies value stability. Let's say that Sun takes Helix code for it's Sparc stations, and as a result is able to redeploy it's engineers to different projects. Then Helix Code fails. Now Sun in up the proverbial waterway without a means of locomotion. Now they have to scramble to get a team together to pick up the pieces. Tossing a few million to Helix code is CHEAP for them. And in consideration they could get Helix to do a lot of development and testing on sparcs and solaris. (not to mention linux for sparcs). Now as a result they could redeploy a lot of thier engineers to other projects. And because of the licensing fee they are paying, they are reasonable sure that Helix Code won't go belly up, and in the end it likely would be cheaper, because development costs are shared by a larger group.
I think these guys are wildly optomistic if they think that they can get 30 mil a quarter by 2002. I went and looked at redhat and they only did 16 mil their last quarter. I think redhat will be doing good to reach the 30 mil target by 2002.
I certainly hope they succeed though. HelixCode Gnome sure has impressed me. Maybe with any luck these big guys will license Helix Gnome for thier boxs. (maybe that's how they might reach 30 mil)
The link seems to be broken, but this seems to fall under the category of just because we can do something isn't always a good reason to do so. Several considerations are
1. It gets taken over by some malicious group.
2. Do you really want to trust a robot with some sort of weapon? Be it a stun gun, or a fire arm.
3. Legal concerns. What happens if it shoots a pregnant woman?
4. How easily can it be fooled?
I certainly wouldn't like any of these in the neighborhood. I can see it now. "Hey Joe, would you turn off the robot so I can come over and borrow a cup of sugar" or "Dammit Joe, that's the fifth dog I've had to buy this week. Would you fix the robot so it will stop shooting my dogs"
The difference here is that gnome is controlled by the open-source community. With any luck these big companies will devote a couple million a year each to developing gnome. That would represent dozens to hundreds of full-time engineers adding a lot of value to gnome. And if you think about it these companies end up ahead. They no longer have develop their own desktop enviroment (eventually at least). The would save millions each and everyone would have a better desktop enviroment as well.
Strong limits on Personal Freedom are my biggest complaints.
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How computationally intensive would this be? Could it be done on an old 486 for each district? Or would it require some monster machine for each district?
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Actually I suspect that this thing would cost enough that it's cost couldn't be borne by one single nation. Ideally IMHO, this would be constructed by private interests. Ideally some combination of Russia's Energia, Airbus, and some American, Japanese, and other aerospace companies. Where I could see some government involvement is carving out a special zone for protecting the elevator. Paying the Host nation for the zone.
Where does that money go?
Typically the money is mostly spent on hiring more people. Universities tend to have very bloated headcounts. What always shocked me was how little a professor typically does. Most teach at best 2 classes a semester, and they have a TA to grade papers.
But college can help you expand your dreams
:-)
If you are refering to day dreams. I agree. Many where the day I spent dreaming (day type) in class. Sometimes I wonder if the droning monotone affected by many professors wasn't an attempt at mind control.
Which is why it makes sense to give students a decent grant (allowance) so they can spend their time exctracting as much value as possible from their education and go on to become high-value members of the workforce instead of having them flipping burgers by night, catching up on their sleep during lectures in the day, dropping out then flipping burgers permanently.
Problem is then schools just make the cost of education even higher. "Don't worry about how much it costs, you can get a grant or a loan". So colleges are free to be inefficient.
Part of the point of the book is that this information will be harder and harder for governments to get.
This is ludicrous. The ability of a government to gather information has never been greater or easier. We leave an electronic trail everywhere we go.
It's worth citing another quote (or paraphrase) from the movie: When asked whether he thought non-violence could be used against someone like Hitler, Gandhi replied, "Not without deafeats and much pain. But are there no defeats in this war? No pain?" Don't mistake the fact that in a war of civil resitance,
Rest assured, that if my nation(US) faces a foe like Hitler the form of resistance I employee won't be civil.
If by Sovereign you mean the ability to interact with people in other nations and to do business across international boundaries, I agree.
If by Sovereign you mean we are a freer people, I think you are sadly deluded. In the US our complete existence is regulated. You want to opt out of Social Security, oh I'm sorry your Sovereignness doesn't extend that far. You want to be a car without an airbag, sorry can't do that either. You want to smoke some pot in your own house, yeah right. In the EU, I've read stories of how cheese makers in Italy are being forced to conform to the EU beauracrats in Brussels on how to make their cheese. I also heard about a shopkeeper in the UK they made put away an antique scale because in used imperial units. Doesn't sound freer to me.
In the past I used to enjoy watching the olympics. But now I just don't think I can anymore. I currently live in Utah, and I've been watching the whole mess around here.
What irks me is that the biggest outrage of all is ignored. Public funding of the games. A lot of people think that in the US the games don't have any public funding. But an example of this, there is an army installation where the olympic committee wanted to build part of the olympic village. So they tell the army, gives the land and put your reserve center somewhere else. The army in essence tells them to go hell. Fortunately for the SLOC Utah has congresscritters. They get this overruled eventually. The end result, $10+ million are spent to move the reserve center from a better location to a worse, all on the tab of uncle sam.
There are other examples of this. I'd much rather have corporate sponsership of the games than public funding of the games.
I thought I'd never again after the primary school see someone taking pride in his ignorance, but I guess I was wrong.
If you are relying on "must see tv" to cure you of ignorance, you are doomed to disappointment.
Let's think about the little guys for a change, eh? They're representing our countries, NOT a specific list of corporations.
Perhaps that's the way it should be but for a long time now the olympics have been much more about money than athletic excellence. Not that I'm opposed to it being about money. I just wish they would be a little more upfront about it. I enjoy professional sports all the time. But I'm fully aware the main motivation behind them is monetary. I think the olympics should be upfront about it. Tell everyone, "Hey we're trying to make some cash here, but we intend to put on a good show."
And it comes out later that they were away from their desk and someone else visited that site from their PC, or someone sets their PC to the victim's IP when the victim's PC is down, or ..
I've seen this happen before. Of course browsers keep logs of accesses including the time. So some security guard who wasn't smart enough to clear the browser cache got fired for looking up porn at 3:30 AM
From what I've read in the media, I think if anything you are not worried enough. I personally would suggest that you write up an email policy for your company, and make it part of the employee handbook. I would include an acceptable use standard that limited what personal email was allowed.(who they could email ie family and how much person email they could send maybe a few a day). I would then add an enforcement policy that basically said that you would do spot checks and investigate complaints, and then say that the punishment could be anything up to termination. I would also come up with an email deletion policy. Basically saying email will be deleted if it is more than x monthes old.
Why this is a bit draconian, it would give you some protection in lawsuits. Basically what you've done for your employees is given them some guidelines. It helps them know what you will allow and won't, most employees will likely appreciate this. If you do develop a policy make sure you enforce it. At my former employer we had a few morons who liked to mail internal confidential documents to trade rags. For their effort they got fired. If you have a clear policy on this stuff it makes it easier for you to protect yourself. Oh btw, I am not a lawyer
It is the growth of the nanny state. Personal responsibility has become inconvienient. Why worry when the gov't will take care of it for you, of course never mind that in the process you lose your freedom.
Not to sound like bill clinton here. But it really depends on how this study defines an application. The way my company defines them. I've written almost 3 this year by myself. They are all web based apps. None of them are all that remarkable.
I suspect that the 70,000 figure Cato is talking about marketed horizontal applications for Cato. Otherwise 70,000 is ridiculously low.
I remember driving through West Virgina. In Virginia the highway I was on had only two-lanes. When you go into WV it went to four lanes. Then about twenty miles later or so it goes back to two-lanes driving into Maryland. There was virtualy no traffic on the highway anywhere. Just Sen. Byrd bringing home the bacon like no one else can.
Now we have a $75 million dollar radio telescope. Just what we need a radio telescopes when the gov't is already several trillion in debt. (And it will end up costing more than that. After all someone has to operate it and maintain it, just so some scientists can get their favorite station from alpha centauri)
In theory that sounds good, however in practice it doesn't work as well. OS development is a minor exercise in chaos theory. (You know because some butterfly flapped its wings in china, we have bad weather). The smallest changes can have a ripple effect through out the whole project. The more core the module. The greater the likely hood of difficultly. For me I want the whole package at once. Then you can test the whole thing and have a higher assurance of stability.
Of course they don't have to pay. You need to think like a big company. Big companies value stability. Let's say that Sun takes Helix code for it's Sparc stations, and as a result is able to redeploy it's engineers to different projects. Then Helix Code fails. Now Sun in up the proverbial waterway without a means of locomotion. Now they have to scramble to get a team together to pick up the pieces. Tossing a few million to Helix code is CHEAP for them. And in consideration they could get Helix to do a lot of development and testing on sparcs and solaris. (not to mention linux for sparcs). Now as a result they could redeploy a lot of thier engineers to other projects. And because of the licensing fee they are paying, they are reasonable sure that Helix Code won't go belly up, and in the end it likely would be cheaper, because development costs are shared by a larger group.
I think these guys are wildly optomistic if they think that they can get 30 mil a quarter by 2002. I went and looked at redhat and they only did 16 mil their last quarter. I think redhat will be doing good to reach the 30 mil target by 2002.
I certainly hope they succeed though. HelixCode Gnome sure has impressed me. Maybe with any luck these big guys will license Helix Gnome for thier boxs. (maybe that's how they might reach 30 mil)
The link seems to be broken, but this seems to fall under the category of just because we can do something isn't always a good reason to do so. Several considerations are
1. It gets taken over by some malicious group.
2. Do you really want to trust a robot with some sort of weapon? Be it a stun gun, or a fire arm.
3. Legal concerns. What happens if it shoots a pregnant woman?
4. How easily can it be fooled?
I certainly wouldn't like any of these in the neighborhood. I can see it now. "Hey Joe, would you turn off the robot so I can come over and borrow a cup of sugar" or "Dammit Joe, that's the fifth dog I've had to buy this week. Would you fix the robot so it will stop shooting my dogs"
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Well I would recommend building a lot of gallows. You got a HELL of a lot of traitors to hang.
That's not true. When NetWare crashes, typically it abends. Which means the whole server is hosed.
The difference here is that gnome is controlled by the open-source community. With any luck these big companies will devote a couple million a year each to developing gnome. That would represent dozens to hundreds of full-time engineers adding a lot of value to gnome. And if you think about it these companies end up ahead. They no longer have develop their own desktop enviroment (eventually at least). The would save millions each and everyone would have a better desktop enviroment as well.
Strong limits on Personal Freedom are my biggest complaints.
How computationally intensive would this be? Could it be done on an old 486 for each district? Or would it require some monster machine for each district?