I would ride it on the road. It's be damn cool to ride my 50 MPH unicycle on the road to work, then pick the thing up and stick it in a corner of my cube for the day.
Or if it's self-balancing I could just use it like a chair.
I was disappointed that it wasn't a unicycle. Imagine a seat on a wheel that moves and swivels to keep directly underneath you. Sort of like a magic one legged stool.
And I was also disappointed that it didn't go faster. If it can balance, why not make it go 50 miles an hour?
As far as the government is concerned, I'm simply not old enough for any job that gets paid more than minimum wage and has actual job security.
That's about right. My grandpa needed to be 18 and just graduated from high school to get a good job that could support a family. My father needed to have a 4 year degree for the same thing. I needed a degree and a few years of experience before I found a decent job.
At this rate our grandchildren are going to have to be retired before they can get a decent job.
Maybe my grocery store will have an opt-in feature so that when I stand in front of the ice cream and start yelling "I SCREAM FOR ICE CREAM" for two hours they won't be able to hear me.
Are you saying that a grocery store - private property - has some kind of obligation to let me yell in the frozen foods section?
If they booted me out on my ass would that be censorship?
The customers have alternate means of getting the spam.
The ISP is private property. The owner of property can say who speaks on that property. An analogy: If you come to my house and stand on my lawn and start talking, it is NOT censorship for me to tell you to get off my lawn if you're going to talk. You're perfectly free to talk somewhere else.
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Nobody's stopping you from getting spam if you want it. Calling this censorship is completely and utterly misunderstanding what censorship is, and what a blocklist is.
A full cut-off streetlight can get away with half the wattage of a regular streetlight. The light fixtures themselves cost the same. The light level at the ground is the same.
You can identify a full cutoff light if you look at it directly from the side. When it's on, you won't be able to see the bulb.
Full cutoff lights are superior in that they don't produce glare. How much can a person see if a light is shining right in their eyes? Not a lot. Try it with a flashlight, and the hazard of shining a streetlight directly into a driver's eyes will become apparent. Harsh lights also create harsh shadows that are ironically EASIER for a prowler to hide in. A light going straight down doesn't cast a shadow, and minimizes those hiding places.
This situation is the ideal win-win situation. For everyone concerned, astronomers, drivers, taxpayers, bird lovers, and security conscious homeowners a full cutoff light is the best choice.
Why was the committee member offended? Because a written test might actually help you find a person who is competent?
I can't imagine why someone who you describe as a "committee member" would be offended at excellence. Committees are a primary component of a beaurocracy, and everyone knows that beaurocracies strive towards excellence.
OK, I'm being silly, but seriously: ONE committe member was offended. There's always ONE of those types around to cause a fuss. Maybe there's some other reason for this. Is there some kind of threat to this person's job or something? Is this person afraid of looking stupid because either they didn't come up with the idea themselves, or they are worried that a "rogue" department might start doing things without their permission? Are you dealing with a control freak?
Colleges big and small are full of politics. Half the time when someone gets their panties in a bunch it has nothing at all to do with getting work done and everything to do with sucking up to a higher level beaurocrat.
Remember the movie "Disclosure?" Work the problem. Perhaps there is some way to find out what the hiring guidelines actually are. Committees run by guidelines. Organizations that have a bunch of committees often have large rulebooks. See if the rulebooks specifically disallow what you are doing. If not, a proper recitation of the rulebook at a committee meeting might shut the critic up.
But the problem is that we've already got enough CO2 for plants to use. And the uptake of CO2 has a limit. Plants will slow down their use of CO2 when they run out of nitrogen in the soil. So throw that carbon in the ground! Use plastic!
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My DSL line from DirectTV lets me run my own webserver, and they don't care what I put on it. If I want to write pages with my unpopular or offensive view, I can do that.
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Oops. And unless you get their expensive account, you can't run your own server. Bummer!
My DirectTV DSL line costs $49 a month. For that I have 1.5 megabits down, 128 up. That's quite fast enough to run a small website. I'm not restricted in how much traffic I use in any way. I have a static IP address included in that at no extra charge. The service agreement explicitly states that they don't care what servers you run on your own computer and your own line.
The cost for Qt might seem high, but there's a couple things to consider:
1) You get a LOT for the few thousand dollars that you spend. What would it cost you to develop the same functionality and debug it in house? I'd bet it would be at least 100 times what they charge for a developer license.
2) The cost is low compared to what you will make from commercial software developed with Qt. Say you spend $20,000 on licenses for your entire team. That would be a fairly large team for most things - not everyone on the team will need a development license. If you've got a dozen developers and you're worried about not making back enough to cover the license cost, the the market is probably too small to cover the salaries of the programmers.
3) You get portability. New platforms, new markets. If you're making an enterprise application with a GUI, you don't want to restrict yourself to just Windows. UNIX is huge in enterprise applications, and your product should run on Windows or whatever UNIX your prospective customers want to run.
4) Shareware might benefit from another library. Qt isn't for everyone, and I don't think that Trolltech is really marketing their product for people who want to sell a few copies that run only on Windows. If you're in that situation, you'd be better going with something like wxWindows or any other library that supports just the platforms you want, and don't cost so much.
In a nutshell, this market has a number of tiers. Qt has targeted the high end of the market. There are other products that might be better suited for projects that don't fit into the categories of GPL software, high-cost/low volume, or low-cost/high volume commercial software that would justify choosing Qt. Ain't freedom of choice wonderful?
He was on NPR a while back talking about how he fell in love with two border collies. Apparently he moved to Utah and married them both. The happy trio is expecting over 30 puppies by Christmas. Trouble is, they won't know if they are katz or dogs.
Seems like the sales tax would be preferable to an income tax, at least if you're not poor. You only get taxed on what you spend. The rest is yours, until you spend it. And the richer you are, the less percentagewise of your income you spend, hence the lower your tax rate as a percentage of your income.
That's how they'll get him. Al Capone was brought down by the IRS for tax evasion. The MPAA will take down Osama for ripping off the idea that they ripped off first.
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I would ride it on the road. It's be damn cool to ride my 50 MPH unicycle on the road to work, then pick the thing up and stick it in a corner of my cube for the day.
Or if it's self-balancing I could just use it like a chair.
Any relation to the ZX80?
I was disappointed that it wasn't a unicycle. Imagine a seat on a wheel that moves and swivels to keep directly underneath you. Sort of like a magic one legged stool.
And I was also disappointed that it didn't go faster. If it can balance, why not make it go 50 miles an hour?
As far as the government is concerned, I'm simply not old enough for any job that gets paid more than minimum wage and has actual job security.
That's about right. My grandpa needed to be 18 and just graduated from high school to get a good job that could support a family. My father needed to have a 4 year degree for the same thing. I needed a degree and a few years of experience before I found a decent job.
At this rate our grandchildren are going to have to be retired before they can get a decent job.
Unlimited Internet: Put as much ketchup on it as you want!
Frickin deceptive morons.
Has it occurred to anyone that when Osama bin Laden vowed to destroy America, that this is what he was talking about? Anyone? Anyone?
Maybe my grocery store will have an opt-in feature so that when I stand in front of the ice cream and start yelling "I SCREAM FOR ICE CREAM" for two hours they won't be able to hear me.
Are you saying that a grocery store - private property - has some kind of obligation to let me yell in the frozen foods section?
If they booted me out on my ass would that be censorship?
Animals treat each other like animals. Are you trying to make a point?
I want to know if you ever forgave those Klingon bastards for what they did to your boy? It sure seemed like a big deal to you at the time.
Ummm. That would be Jeffrey Hunter, not Shatner. The green alien chick was one of the ways that Vena appeared to Capt. Pike.
The customers have alternate means of getting the spam.
The ISP is private property. The owner of property can say who speaks on that property. An analogy: If you come to my house and stand on my lawn and start talking, it is NOT censorship for me to tell you to get off my lawn if you're going to talk. You're perfectly free to talk somewhere else.
Nobody's stopping you from getting spam if you want it. Calling this censorship is completely and utterly misunderstanding what censorship is, and what a blocklist is.
Human 2 hits Human 1 with beer bottle.
That proves that the conversants were human. Only humans treat each other as if they were NOT human.
A full cut-off streetlight can get away with half the wattage of a regular streetlight. The light fixtures themselves cost the same. The light level at the ground is the same.
You can identify a full cutoff light if you look at it directly from the side. When it's on, you won't be able to see the bulb.
Full cutoff lights are superior in that they don't produce glare. How much can a person see if a light is shining right in their eyes? Not a lot. Try it with a flashlight, and the hazard of shining a streetlight directly into a driver's eyes will become apparent. Harsh lights also create harsh shadows that are ironically EASIER for a prowler to hide in. A light going straight down doesn't cast a shadow, and minimizes those hiding places.
This situation is the ideal win-win situation. For everyone concerned, astronomers, drivers, taxpayers, bird lovers, and security conscious homeowners a full cutoff light is the best choice.
Why was the committee member offended? Because a written test might actually help you find a person who is competent?
I can't imagine why someone who you describe as a "committee member" would be offended at excellence. Committees are a primary component of a beaurocracy, and everyone knows that beaurocracies strive towards excellence.
OK, I'm being silly, but seriously: ONE committe member was offended. There's always ONE of those types around to cause a fuss. Maybe there's some other reason for this. Is there some kind of threat to this person's job or something? Is this person afraid of looking stupid because either they didn't come up with the idea themselves, or they are worried that a "rogue" department might start doing things without their permission? Are you dealing with a control freak?
Colleges big and small are full of politics. Half the time when someone gets their panties in a bunch it has nothing at all to do with getting work done and everything to do with sucking up to a higher level beaurocrat.
Remember the movie "Disclosure?" Work the problem. Perhaps there is some way to find out what the hiring guidelines actually are. Committees run by guidelines. Organizations that have a bunch of committees often have large rulebooks. See if the rulebooks specifically disallow what you are doing. If not, a proper recitation of the rulebook at a committee meeting might shut the critic up.
But the problem is that we've already got enough CO2 for plants to use. And the uptake of CO2 has a limit. Plants will slow down their use of CO2 when they run out of nitrogen in the soil. So throw that carbon in the ground! Use plastic!
You also have to figure in the benefit of using some petroleum to make CD's instead of burning it. If you make a CD and throw it in a dump, you're OK.
Carbon comes out of the ground, carbon goes back into the ground.
From their subscriber agreement:
Comcast reserves the right, but not the obligation, to refuse to post or to remove or block any information or materials, in whole or in part, that it, in its sole discretion, deems to be offensive, indecent, or otherwise inappropriate, regardless of whether such material or its dissemination is unlawful.
My DSL line from DirectTV lets me run my own webserver, and they don't care what I put on it. If I want to write pages with my unpopular or offensive view, I can do that.
You may not run a server in connection with the Service, nor may you provide network services to others via the Service unless you are subject to a Service plan that permits otherwise. Examples of prohibited uses include, but are not limited to, running servers for mail, http, ftp, irc, wifi, and dhcp, and multi-user interactive forums.
Oops. And unless you get their expensive account, you can't run your own server. Bummer!
My DirectTV DSL line costs $49 a month. For that I have 1.5 megabits down, 128 up. That's quite fast enough to run a small website. I'm not restricted in how much traffic I use in any way. I have a static IP address included in that at no extra charge. The service agreement explicitly states that they don't care what servers you run on your own computer and your own line.
The article says that Sharp will invest $3 million into their US plant, and with that they expect to corner the market.
I'm a little stunned. With that PUNY amount of money they can do that? It seems to me like everyone else must be completely oblivious to that market.
The cost for Qt might seem high, but there's a couple things to consider:
1) You get a LOT for the few thousand dollars that you spend. What would it cost you to develop the same functionality and debug it in house? I'd bet it would be at least 100 times what they charge for a developer license.
2) The cost is low compared to what you will make from commercial software developed with Qt. Say you spend $20,000 on licenses for your entire team. That would be a fairly large team for most things - not everyone on the team will need a development license. If you've got a dozen developers and you're worried about not making back enough to cover the license cost, the the market is probably too small to cover the salaries of the programmers.
3) You get portability. New platforms, new markets. If you're making an enterprise application with a GUI, you don't want to restrict yourself to just Windows. UNIX is huge in enterprise applications, and your product should run on Windows or whatever UNIX your prospective customers want to run.
4) Shareware might benefit from another library. Qt isn't for everyone, and I don't think that Trolltech is really marketing their product for people who want to sell a few copies that run only on Windows. If you're in that situation, you'd be better going with something like wxWindows or any other library that supports just the platforms you want, and don't cost so much.
In a nutshell, this market has a number of tiers. Qt has targeted the high end of the market. There are other products that might be better suited for projects that don't fit into the categories of GPL software, high-cost/low volume, or low-cost/high volume commercial software that would justify choosing Qt. Ain't freedom of choice wonderful?
He was on NPR a while back talking about how he fell in love with two border collies. Apparently he moved to Utah and married them both. The happy trio is expecting over 30 puppies by Christmas. Trouble is, they won't know if they are katz or dogs.
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There's a couple slashdot stories buried in there somewhere.
At least submit one on the MP3 Player kit. That's sweet!
Seems like the sales tax would be preferable to an income tax, at least if you're not poor. You only get taxed on what you spend. The rest is yours, until you spend it. And the richer you are, the less percentagewise of your income you spend, hence the lower your tax rate as a percentage of your income.
That's the "Declaration of Independence" and also "Common Sense".
That's how they'll get him. Al Capone was brought down by the IRS for tax evasion. The MPAA will take down Osama for ripping off the idea that they ripped off first.