Hence the reason I said "Only the most serious/violent need apply". You're not going to do this for someone on a 3-5 stretch for fraud. This is something for those with *very* extended sentences.
Freezing someone for life seems contradictory since once their frozen they technically aren't living and at that point it's more like freezing them for eternity which then amounts to a death sentence. Maybe they can be thawed in X years once we've come up with a better rehab program. Lifers aren't expected to be rehabilitated since they won't be re-entering society.
That being said, there are those in for life or on Death Row that have actually done some good for society and they have been rehabed as best possible. Whether it be providing scholarships, training and rehabbing pets, it is possible.
I'm willing to give people a second chance or to allow them to do some good to make some ammends, that doesn't mean letting them out if their offense was so insane that it warrented their long prison stay in the first place.
Some people can't be rehabbed and will never feel sorry for their crimes or their crime was so heinous that merely locking them in a cell for the rest of their life doesn't seem to do justice. While I'm a supporter of the death penalty, I agree with its detractors in that it's not the deterrent that people think it is. Those who will end up being considered for it most likely live their lives in constant fear of death (talking about the drug runners and gang bangers). Serial killers, child molesters, etc are just on a power trip and should be perfect fodder for these types of experiments.
...and when they wake up the first thing they ask:
"How's that damn 3 seashell thing work?"
...but seriously folks...could anyone see the whole Demolition Man cryo-prison thing coming to life? It would seriously reduce the space needed to house criminals. No longer would the vast wastelands of arctic tundra go to waste. No need to feed, heat, provide health care or vast amounts of security for problem prisoners. The most serious and violent offenders only need apply.
Most likely you'll need a license and insurance in order to operate these things. In fact, mandatory insurance makes even more sense for these things then it does for cars.
But it still doesn't stop people from driving around unlicensed and uninsured now. If these are going to be privately owned and operated, perhaps even in someone's backyard, who's going to make sure the "pilot" has a license and insurance?
I haven't read all responses, but you can bet that homeland security is going to have a cow over these. Granted, they have to worry about Cessna type aircraft now but potentially allowing "sky cars" in every driveway presents a whole new set of worries.
What would have been good was if/. would have goofed on itself a little bit by posting one story and then duping it 5 times, slightly altering the title/text so that 5 consecutive stories were all dupes.
Actually it's Riker waking up in bed next to Troi saying something to the affect that he had the strangest dream. He goes to the holodeck, loads program RikerCabinBeta. As Riker walks into a Vermont cabin he sees George, Larry, Darryl, and Darryl dressed in TOS Trek outfits preparing to go trick-or-treating at Shatner's house.
I hope you're using a 0-based array for that. People can code to their heart's content, but untested or poorly tested code is one of the main reasons why there are as many Critical Updates.
Now, granted, the amount of testing that any QA dept can do is limited by their resources, amount of time in the schedule, and the intelligence of the project managers not to cram untested/unstable items in at the last minute.
Actually it's not inconsistent.
The reason your submissions haven't been posted is due to the fact that they are, most likely, first run stories. Submit a dup of something that was posted the previous week, and you'll have your vindication.
Realize that you're speaking to the/. population. Which means you need to provide footnotes:
1) A Threesome is where 3 people engage in sexual activities with each other simultaneously. In Geek Terms it's like 3 processes each with it's own set of IO pipes thrashing the CPU while performing interprocess communication
Now, that being said. The concept of the 1 man 2 woman threesome is one of the biggest urban legends to ever be started. Why? Mostly because men don't want to opinions from 2 women at the same time let alone one.
Most of the people I know use iTunes for playing their mp3s. Doesn't seem to difficult to me.
At work there's usually at least a dozen people on iTunes so if you're in the mood for a little Ella, go play it from their shared list. Want some SRV, chances are someone's got it as well. In the workplace, iTunes rocks. Everyone has their own songs and shares them for everyone else listening pleasure. You're never short on genres to listen to.
I doubt it would be difficult to create a cross-platform version of something similar (call it gnuTunes) where you can share your playlists, allow other to listen to your songs w/o being able to download them (yeah you could hack something to download the stream, but you get the idea).
Software advances have mostly come from one basic precept:
I don't like what's out there. It doesn't do what I want. I think I'll write it myself.
Allow me to translate that last statement into something/.'ers can understand:
Become disenchanted with current software offerings
the price drops quickly enough for you to be left with a platform that's far overpriced in just a few months.
You'd have to be running a P2 or slow P3 with 32MB RAM for this to be over priced @ $100 and that isn't going to do much with today's bloatware anyway. Even with prices dropping the way they are, if the system is enough to run today's bloatware it'll be hard to be overpriced @ $100.
What you have to consider is the usage of the person that's buying this cheaPC (consider that term trademarked:P). The person who's buying this is going to want/need to do the following things:
Surf the 'Net/use Email
Listen to music
Simple word processing
Maybe share photos via a digital camera
Play timekiller games (i.e. ones that aren't gonna require the latest gfx card).
I don't know the economics/prices of putting together mass produced cheaPC's but I know that systems like this already exist for $200ish, especially if you don't care about primo performance. Most of you (I haven't read all posts) are concerned with mass cost of components, but you stop to consider what a cheaPC will be used for then your parameters to the cost discussion change considerably.
It's just Bill Gates and the SCO lawyers poking around trying to find out who to sue for patent infringement! A noble effort gentlemen, but your plan shall be foiled again!
Why not just buy the CD, RIP it, and return it claiming it doesn't work in your CD players (since most folks have computer, portable, stereo, etc). Make sure you make a point about the copy protection when you return it. Keep it in pristine condition.
For the $16-20 that you're spending on the CD, the band is probably seeing $1-2 *at the most*. The rest goes to the store, the record company, and of course, the RIAA. The band must then take their cut and payback the studio for recording costs, advertising agencies, etc.
Want to support the band?
Go to the show. Bands get a much greater precentage of the box office than from the CD.
Buy their stuff. T-shirts, Hats, Monkey Chow, Toilet Paper, etc. They get a HUGE percentage of the cash from this.
If you have to buy the CD, buy it at the show. It might be the same price as your local store, but chances are the band is getting a bigger cut (no store overhead).
What'd I'd love to see is a band with almost no record sales, with consistantly sold out shows, and people wearing their shit all over the place. If anything will send a signal to the record companies that there's a problem. This might just do it.
Folks will complains that CDs won't get produced under this method. What will happen is that bands will make enough money off their other income (shows, merch) to produce and distribute their own CD, thereby cutting out at least part of the middle-man and breaking away from the RIAA.
Here's the currency conversion so most of Google's current employees can more accurately relate to the amounts mentioned:
The Mountain View-based company earned 4.67 billion rupees, or 18 rupees per share, on revenue of 42.6 billion rupees last year. Google got off to a fast start this year, with a first-quarter profit of 2.83 billion rupees, or 10.6 rupees per share -- more than doubling its earnings of 1.14 billion rupees, or 4.4 rupees per share, at the same time last year.
I think the only "deliberate modification of personal behavior" will be that folks will start using cash to make purchases again. Cash transactions are wonderfully advantageous as they can't be traced (unless your buying something that has to be registered or proof of ID to buy, like, alcohol, handgun).
If Utah was really ahead of the curve, they'd take advantage of this technology to try match old-school Mormon men with their myriad number of wives so we don't have kids running around screwing their 1/2 siblings and winding giving birth to a new crop of kids w/9 heads. I remember the last crop of kids w/9 heads, and it wasn't pretty.
What's more likely is that they had a couple highschool kids lower the chips 2", crazy glue a spoiler on, install neon undercarriage lights, a fake pushbutton labeled "Nitrous", and stickers, LOTS of stickers.
New Codename: Ricer
You should read the press release...
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This isn't a merger, it's an acquisition.
http://www.vmware.com/news/releases/emc.html
VMware will still be run by Diane Green. EMC folks aren't going to be coming in to run the show. They don't want to disturb the team that's been assembled. Doing so would only be to the detriment of all parties involved. VMware will be able to leverage EMC's sales and marketing folks for more placement which will allow them to grow faster than they would have otherwise had they gone on the IPO themselves. More money will be able to be placed on R&D for better products.
I can only imagine that it will (in the end) add to EMC's bottom line, and help VMware to get better products to market faster with added resources.
Don't go firing the FUD guns until you have a real target to shoot at.
What scares me is that the US probably care less about the murders than the DMCA violators, and they will try to get him handed over...
That's because murderers (for the most part) aren't a threat to the corporate and legal environment that really controls the country. Sure, murderers need lawyers, but how many of them really have the funds to afford an expensive one.
I'm still wonder if, just if, the reason that CD sales are declining is because folks preview a song and decide not to buy the CD. Their reason for not buying the CD:
THE BAND SUCKS!
Could it be that if the record labels signed artists with actual talent we might be inclinded to buy their stuff as opposed to the overly produced pre-pubecent bubble-gum punk-wannabe ghetto street cred crap that gets marketed today?
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Freezing someone for life seems contradictory since once their frozen they technically aren't living and at that point it's more like freezing them for eternity which then amounts to a death sentence. Maybe they can be thawed in X years once we've come up with a better rehab program. Lifers aren't expected to be rehabilitated since they won't be re-entering society.
That being said, there are those in for life or on Death Row that have actually done some good for society and they have been rehabed as best possible. Whether it be providing scholarships, training and rehabbing pets, it is possible.
I'm willing to give people a second chance or to allow them to do some good to make some ammends, that doesn't mean letting them out if their offense was so insane that it warrented their long prison stay in the first place.
Some people can't be rehabbed and will never feel sorry for their crimes or their crime was so heinous that merely locking them in a cell for the rest of their life doesn't seem to do justice. While I'm a supporter of the death penalty, I agree with its detractors in that it's not the deterrent that people think it is. Those who will end up being considered for it most likely live their lives in constant fear of death (talking about the drug runners and gang bangers). Serial killers, child molesters, etc are just on a power trip and should be perfect fodder for these types of experiments.
"How's that damn 3 seashell thing work?"
But it still doesn't stop people from driving around unlicensed and uninsured now. If these are going to be privately owned and operated, perhaps even in someone's backyard, who's going to make sure the "pilot" has a license and insurance?
I haven't read all responses, but you can bet that homeland security is going to have a cow over these. Granted, they have to worry about Cessna type aircraft now but potentially allowing "sky cars" in every driveway presents a whole new set of worries.
It's pretty easy to keep a car on the road.
I'm sure they said the same thing about horses: http://www.carbuyingtips.com/pics/horsecart.jpg
And if you think it's easy to keep a car on the road then look no further: http://www.carbuyingtips.com/pics/crash51.jpg
Note to self: Change President Scroob's WEP key to something other than 1234567891011121314151617181920.
Oh, wait....that happend last week.
Actually it's Riker waking up in bed next to Troi saying something to the affect that he had the strangest dream. He goes to the holodeck, loads program RikerCabinBeta. As Riker walks into a Vermont cabin he sees George, Larry, Darryl, and Darryl dressed in TOS Trek outfits preparing to go trick-or-treating at Shatner's house.
Article's a few years old, but will give you a starting place for searching.0 0-08-11/xtra_feature2.html
http://www.austinchronicle.com/issues/dispatch/20
This one's only a year old:h tml
http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2004/01/277711.s
And something that looks like an essay on the subject:
http://www.sexuality.org/l/mscott/ssex01.html
I hope you're using a 0-based array for that. People can code to their heart's content, but untested or poorly tested code is one of the main reasons why there are as many Critical Updates.
Now, granted, the amount of testing that any QA dept can do is limited by their resources, amount of time in the schedule, and the intelligence of the project managers not to cram untested/unstable items in at the last minute.
Actually it's not inconsistent. The reason your submissions haven't been posted is due to the fact that they are, most likely, first run stories. Submit a dup of something that was posted the previous week, and you'll have your vindication.
Realize that you're speaking to the /. population. Which means you need to provide footnotes:
1) A Threesome is where 3 people engage in sexual activities with each other simultaneously. In Geek Terms it's like 3 processes each with it's own set of IO pipes thrashing the CPU while performing interprocess communication
Now, that being said. The concept of the 1 man 2 woman threesome is one of the biggest urban legends to ever be started. Why? Mostly because men don't want to opinions from 2 women at the same time let alone one.
Actually this is more applicable to the "free world". This is what's happening now. Who's watching the spys? We are.
At work there's usually at least a dozen people on iTunes so if you're in the mood for a little Ella, go play it from their shared list. Want some SRV,
chances are someone's got it as well. In the workplace, iTunes rocks. Everyone has their own songs and shares them for everyone else listening pleasure.
You're never short on genres to listen to.
I doubt it would be difficult to create a cross-platform version of something similar (call it gnuTunes) where you can share your playlists, allow other to
listen to your songs w/o being able to download them (yeah you could hack something to download the stream, but you get the idea).
Software advances have mostly come from one basic precept:
I don't like what's out there. It doesn't do what I want. I think I'll write it myself.
Allow me to translate that last statement into something /.'ers can understand:
You'd have to be running a P2 or slow P3 with 32MB RAM for this to be over priced @ $100 and that isn't going to do much with today's bloatware anyway. Even with prices dropping the way they are, if the system is enough to run today's bloatware it'll be hard to be overpriced @ $100.
What you have to consider is the usage of the person that's buying this cheaPC (consider that term trademarked
- Surf the 'Net/use Email
- Listen to music
- Simple word processing
- Maybe share photos via a digital camera
- Play timekiller games (i.e. ones that aren't gonna require the latest gfx card).
I don't know the economics/prices of putting together mass produced cheaPC's but I know that systems like this already exist for $200ish, especially if you don't care about primo performance. Most of you (I haven't read all posts) are concerned with mass cost of components, but you stop to consider what a cheaPC will be used for then your parameters to the cost discussion change considerably.In reality, it's a ploy to get us to take pity on the MPAA and trick us into buying tickets for Seed of Chucky.
Child's Play indeed!
Now where'd I put my foil hat....
For the $16-20 that you're spending on the CD, the band is probably seeing $1-2 *at the most*. The rest goes to the store, the record company, and of course, the RIAA. The band must then take their cut and payback the studio for recording costs, advertising agencies, etc.
Want to support the band?
What'd I'd love to see is a band with almost no record sales, with consistantly sold out shows, and people wearing their shit all over the place. If anything will send a signal to the record companies that there's a problem. This might just do it.
Folks will complains that CDs won't get produced under this method. What will happen is that bands will make enough money off their other income (shows, merch) to produce and distribute their own CD, thereby cutting out at least part of the middle-man and breaking away from the RIAA.
Dear Lord, Please don't let me fuck up.
The Mountain View-based company earned 4.67 billion rupees, or 18 rupees per share, on revenue of 42.6 billion rupees last year. Google got off to a fast start this year, with a first-quarter profit of 2.83 billion rupees, or 10.6 rupees per share -- more than doubling its earnings of 1.14 billion rupees, or 4.4 rupees per share, at the same time last year.
I think the only "deliberate modification of personal behavior" will be that folks will start using cash to make purchases again. Cash transactions are wonderfully advantageous as they can't be traced (unless your buying something that has to be registered or proof of ID to buy, like, alcohol, handgun).
If Utah was really ahead of the curve, they'd take advantage of this technology to try match old-school Mormon men with their myriad number of wives so we don't have kids running around screwing their 1/2 siblings and winding giving birth to a new crop of kids w/9 heads. I remember the last crop of kids w/9 heads, and it wasn't pretty.
Fairy Tales start off: "Once upon a time..."
Sea Stories start off: "No shit..."
IT Folklore starts off: "True story...."
New Codename: Ricer
This isn't a merger, it's an acquisition.
http://www.vmware.com/news/releases/emc.html
VMware will still be run by Diane Green. EMC folks aren't going to be coming in to run the show. They don't want to disturb the team that's been assembled. Doing so would only be to the detriment of all parties involved. VMware will be able to leverage EMC's sales and marketing folks for more placement which will allow them to grow faster than they would have otherwise had they gone on the IPO themselves. More money will be able to be placed on R&D for better products.
I can only imagine that it will (in the end) add to EMC's bottom line, and help VMware to get better products to market faster with added resources.
Don't go firing the FUD guns until you have a real target to shoot at.
That's because murderers (for the most part) aren't a threat to the corporate and legal environment that really controls the country. Sure, murderers need lawyers, but how many of them really have the funds to afford an expensive one.
THE BAND SUCKS!
Could it be that if the record labels signed artists with actual talent we might be inclinded to buy their stuff as opposed to the overly produced pre-pubecent bubble-gum punk-wannabe ghetto street cred crap that gets marketed today?